to be fair ive used hcknrews exclusively for years and if anything it helps reinforce the perspective of HN moderation being fair and well balanced. stuff gets removed sometimes but its entirely bc its rage bait/bad content and appropriately user flagged, or its content already massively discussed elsewhere and the posts are merged

there was only a single time i can recall there being something completely nuked and me raising an eyebrow being like "uhhhh that's pretty sus" but couldnt even tell you what it was about, it was years ago. and i can chalk that up to me having my own biases too