Around the election there was a ban on political topics because the front page was almost entirely politics and flame-wars. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 for details.

Now that politics is an open topic again and Trump is President of the United States, people seem even more charged. What dang originally called out during the politics detox week was this:

> A community like HN deteriorates when new developments dilute or poison what it originally stood for. We don't want that to happen, so let's all get clear on what this site is for. What Hacker News is: a place for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive comments. What it is not: a political, ideological, national, racial, or religious battlefield.

I agree with dang; I think a few political articles on the front page a day is okay, but It can easily turn into around the clock flame-war.

The sorts of stories that marry politics and intellectual curiosity are what I want to see on HN: anything about the technology behind fake news, research on fighting populism, using the internet as a tool against fascism, etc. Maybe less of "tech company takes stand X against Trump policy Y".