> 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.
> 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.