Fiscally conservative, socially liberal (in that order) probably best describes HN.

Economically liberal (as in Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell) and socially liberal.

Trumps tends to be economically liberal internally and a conservative for international economics.

I feel like that's a story HN and a lot of tech likes to tell itself, but the truth is that when push comes to shove they support candidates who are neither, but _are_ deeply right wing.

Concrete actions tell the real story.

fiscal conservatives that nevertheless don't want their mil contractor jobs to disappear.

The actual lib-left side of tech evaporated. ACLU, EFF, even fedora-core atheists etc are a shell/joke of their former selves. The remaining ones (i.e. Stallman) back Bernie, Yang, or still buy into the green party.

I got mass downvoted earlier and a "talking to" from Dang in regards to me pointing out that a certain Ron Wyden having one bad vote about BDS/isreal isn't a good enough reason to throw the baby out with the bath water and turn against one of the only reliable techno-libertarians. This site is done with its purported liberalism.

>fedora-core atheists

What, exactly, is a "fedora-core atheist?"

How might such an atheist differ from an atheist who runs Debian or OpenBSD?

So... Right Wing?

Entrepreneurs are kind of by definition neoliberals, aka libright.

Of 5 years ago, maybe.

I agree there are a lot of right wing, libertarian types, but I'm guessing just voting by the HN crowd would be a Harris landslide over Trump. For example, donations for Alphabet employees was supposedly 89% to democrats, 11% to republicans.

I mean considering the degree to which people on this site style themselves as intellectuals, it would be pretty astounding to me to hear that most of them voted for Trump this time around given his fairly disastrous economic agenda. Mostly tariffs—I don't really believe HN is that protectionist

It skews techno-libertarian, which is more right than left. Always has done, at least as long as I’ve been here. Makes sense considering the audience.

There are certainly vocal and well spoken conservatives here, but by and large this site skews massively liberal. I mean just read this threads comments, ffs.