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> HN has an influx of new users who [...] not have enough domain expertise to engage on discussion of technical subjects.

I think that a simpler explanation is that politics is universal while technical topics will only be interesting to the subset of people that are affected by said technologies. Not everyone uses AngularJS/Python/Haskell/etc.

>>ufo+(OP)
pg addresses this in his essay "Keep Your Identity Small". I think this is the root of the problem.

http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html