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Just a single example of Russia, hundreds of votes and more than a thousand comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30458277
Edit; just search for Russia, China or Iran on https://hn.algolia.com/ and you’ll find plenty of non tech stories.
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After seeing this article flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47273698 I assumed there was no hope for this one.