Hello, I submitted this. Thanks for your concern. I've been lurking on Hacker News since ~2014 when I was in college. I made an account and started posting because people on the board have something of an interest in biology and genetics (for example this story on cancer detection from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035147 ) and I wanted to contribute. I posted this because the NIH funds a lot of research related to that and this story reports on a massive change to the NIH, which seemed worthy of discussion.

General normal politics was really never posted to HN since it wasn’t interesting. DOGE/etc very much interesting new phenomenon though and so a valid topic. Wouldn’t mind a discussion topic posted by dang to discuss it, maybe a hn.com/pol/ (only half joking)

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I didn't submit this article, but I did vouch for it. I wouldn't normally do either for a political article.

The lay-offs are apparently not just affecting health agencies but are across the entire range of US government agencies, and are extensive. This will affect a great many people, and I feel very sad for their predicament - but it will also affect the regulatory, economic, and public policy environment in the US, as well as US government funded technology and research. Many people who use this site will be affected, directly or indirectly. As will many of the companies that they work for.

So, apart from the awful human cost, I believe the article is HN-relevant.

How is this a "partisan" article? Looks like a regular news piece to me.