It made a lot more sense back in 2010.

Add some faith (belief without proof, we all do it, and can't recognize it in ourselves or other ingroup members) and you are good to go...provided current planetary results are okay in your books I suppose.

1. Is it the worst thing if the top level headlines for those cases aren’t here?

2. We have more than on heuristic. Those are specifically about tech.

It is not that difficult to identify a hot politcal topic that has nothing to do with tech, unless your judgement is motivated.

To be fair I would think a story about a huge corporate exec talking to stuffy congress would be the exact opposite of hacker news. Hackers don’t care about policy or stiffs in suits. Post open source software and projects involving actual hacking instead.