Hacker News is a case study in what inevitably happens to “apolitical” spaces. Politics and society are bifurcating, and Hacker News is taking the fork on the right. “Apolitical” is an excuse to favor the status quo, a resistance to change, and therefore a re-enforcement of the existing biases and power structures of society. It’s no surprise that Hacker News favors capitalism, opposes labor, and objects to questioning the privileges of its largely white, male, middle-class audience. It’s “political” and “ideological” for it to do anything else.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Pulling forward the first paragraph of the article, as we are far from universally reading articles these days.

    Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers” gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y Combinator, projects soft power, promotes startups it funds, and feeds people with ideas into its incubation program. Hacker News is one of the most popular forums for discussing technology online today – perhaps the biggest.

    Does any know of a pro-union or pro-cooperative startup incubator?

  • 0xtero@beehaw.org
    13·
    4 hours ago

    It’s mentioned at the end of the blog post, but reading “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy”, by Gil Durán is a great book if anyone wants to understand the fucked up minds of these tech billionaires.

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Like all your dad’s friends you don’t like are hanging with him in the garage and you have to pass through and get hazed if you want a soda from the fridge. “Just here for the content, thanks.”

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 hours ago

    The rare occasions when I visit Hacker News I do it because IT information all other themes there don’t bother me, apart in this themes there are better publications out there. For general and policy news there are other not biased sources.