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Re:The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in No... by next_xibalba on Friday November 21, 2025 @11:19PM (#46012076)
My pet conspiracy theory is there is a fair amount of coordinated manipulation to get political posts on the HN front page. Fortunately, they are often quickly flagged to the abyss.
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Re:The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in No... by GOD_Over_Djinn on Friday November 21, 2025 @11:38PM (#46012148)
That’s not a conspiracy theory. Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube.
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Re:The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in No... by next_xibalba on Saturday November 22, 2025 @08:37AM (#46014699)
I think many like to think HN is excepted.
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Re:The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in No... by flag_fagger on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:59PM (#46026784)
> Anyone who doesn’t realize at this point that online discourse is heavily engineered and manipulated is an unthinking rube.

We call that “the voting populace”

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