People make these claims about HN based on their own political passions, which lead to false feelings of generality. If you had the opposite politics, you'd notice opposite things and derive opposite conclusions [1]. Plenty of people do:

"leftist totalitarianism prevalent on HN" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202305

"any opinion that's not 100% politically correct && strictly SJW standard compliant is suppressed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17197581

"anti-western and extremely anti-capitalist" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20384662

"biased to the left" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325122

"quickly turning into a leftist SJW and socialist haven" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23351311

"always politically left" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23396632

"Obviously this website is rigged for the liberal agenda" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23429442

"skews quite left" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661802

"a liberal echo chamber" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23658461

"They purge anything that doesn't trend left leaning" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808107

"Marxism and thought police are rampant here" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23986096

"HN is ran by radical leftists, so no surprise" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037475

"if you say anything that doesn't align with the mainstream liberal consensus you'll be flagged and a mod will reprimand you for flaimbait" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353254

"You aren't allowed to go against the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party here" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24782327

"anything critical of the Democratic party is instantly flagged [...] And the moderators don't give a fuck either because they're also in the main HN demographic of SV white liberal trash" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990311

"They purge anything that doesn't trend left leaning" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808107

[1] I think it's simply because we're more likely to remember those: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Sure, not everyone agrees on where HN leans politically. There is no all-encompassing autoritative data, and plenty of room for interpretation and debate. Everyone is entitled to their opinion on the topic and I have mine.

> Hacker News leans right-wing politically

News to me. I guess I haven’t been paying attention, because HN always seemed fairly left.

Tells you of the strength of the bubble if op thinks that a hub this enriched for Californian techies swings right.

See my user name. I was being polite, what I was thinking was, imagine how fucking far left you have to be to think hackernews is right wing. ;) You’re right, it’s a matter of perspective and bubble.

> Their rethorical device for holding the moral high ground is to frame their political views as neutral and apolitical, while framing views they disagree with as divisive and “political”.

This I wish more people called out. There is a lot of going on this post. There is a lot of, whats called on reddit "enlightened centrism", they definitely come out in full force here to attempt to be clever. This fake argument needs a name and a better description.

similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning