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Re:A Year of Tech Solidarity by ak_yo on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @01:24AM (#15701820)
This is an interesting perspective but it doesn't really mesh with my experience. If I had to describe the typical political sympathies of HN, it would be "somewhat right of center on everything, except far left on tech policy" (e.g. strongly pro net neutrality [1], lukewarm on race/gender disparities in hiring [2]). Can you think of a big thread that drew a solidly left-leaning reaction on a social issue?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754772

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=diversity&sort=byPopularity&pr...

Re:A Year of Tech Solidarity by alexandercrohde on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @11:22AM (#15704868)
Not really right.

Anti-surveillance, anti-war, mildly anti-consumerist, mildly pro-immigration, mildly anti-religion, anti-nationalism, anti-monopoly, anti-drug-war, anti-1%

Right-wing politicians campaign on the exact opposite of all of these positions. It's not too different than libertarian, but right has almost nothing in common with libertarian anymore.

Re:A Year of Tech Solidarity by peoplewindow on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:50AM (#15703664)
Anything related to universal basic income? UBI is a hard left policy - it's essentially welfare+++
Re:A Year of Tech Solidarity by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @08:56AM (#15703703)
Much of the support for UBI comes from a segment of the libertarian right which sees it as a way to eliminate welfare bureaucracy and regulation (not just regulation in the public benefit space, but also minimum wages and some others.)

It's not really a “hard left” policy, it's more a policy of pragmatic libertarians on both left and right, opposed by both dogmatic libertarians (because it remains a public intervention, if lighter-touch than the status quo policies it would displace immediately or over time) and those on the left and right with a stronger preference for government control and direction.