Good thing there's no such rule.
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
Most of what I've been seeing since November 2024 is not at all what I'd call insightful. It generally reads like complaining about how the usual suspects did some outrageous (read: not to the ideological taste of the submitter or commenter; sometimes there is at least an implied argument about social or environmental impact of a policy) thing.
The basic point is that not all political stories are off topic. Most are, but having some stories with political overlap is in keeping with HN's mandate as long as there aren't too many of them.
Here are a couple posts, one recent and one older, where I tried to explain how we approach this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614703 (Jan 2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 (Nov 2019)
I've been writing a lot of these lately - here's a few more:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130700
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43111620
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093299
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051836
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978389
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011
There should be more than enough information at those links to answer everyone's questions about this, but if anyone has a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.