You have impending tariffs on chips on the way to wreck tech businesses, and incoming xenophobic immigration policies coming to kick out the talent pipeline.
But sure, let's flag any posts that might hint at everything not being totally awesome. Did you hear that some build tool got open sourced?
Great! Maybe folks could discuss that in any of the hundreds of other social forums all over the internet? One of the absolute worst things to have happened as traditional forums and such have gone away and been replaced with "feeds" and "feeding trough" front pages is that every single place seems to eventually devolve into a death spiral of US Team Sports Politics. Does anyone really believe that the relative dearth of political discussion on HN is actually preventing anyone interested in that discussion from finding it? Or keeping anyone interested in being informed on the relevant issues from being so informed? Maybe it's possible to have places in your life where you talk to other people and don't have to talk about politics.
Real discussion on there is not possible. This place seems to be more civilized.
I know I am now going to be voted down, but it's the truth.
There's no 'used to be,' the tech scene is not down with authoritarians today and never will be.