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Btw, generalizations like "HN has always had a libertarian/right leaning nature" are in the eye of the beholder. I could give you a long, long, long list of the other side saying that the site is dominated by left/etc. views. In both cases it's a cognitive bias, basically a variation of sample bias: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....