It's thanks to this kind of guidance that HN survives as a focused technical hivemind.

At the same time, issues of this kind of revolutionary scope are important for users to process. We can learn a lot from each other.

Irrespective of politics, it's necessary to hedge systemic risk that's appearing due to destabilization of the US. That affects so many of us that it's hard to ignore.

Keeping some persistent outlet (front page post) for discussion of this major topic is important to give people a politically agnostic and technically proficient space to integrate what's happening.

Thank you for filtering the noise and fear with the posts.