That's true but the HN algorithm for deciding what articles make it to the front page has itself become very political.

For example, the amount of articles about programming languages like Rust or Elixir is disproportionate compared to their actual relevance in the industry.

HN has a very strong bias for functional programming.

You almost never hear about Go or Node.js anymore except when there is a major release but these languages are extremely widespread and proven and there is a lot of very interesting stuff happening in these communities that HN seems to ignore.