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Partisan? I saw no mention of any political party.

Hate-filled? Are you sure you don't just disagree?

Not arguing that it deserves to be on top or anything, but I thought HN encourages substantive commentary over complaints about the algorithm.

Personally I think it's obscene for any individual to be a trillionaire, and in my experience, that's not necessarily partisan; there are many people across the political spectrum(s) who would agree.

Was that guy a billionaire? Sounds like a billionaire comment.

I agree that a system in which we reward one man for building a vast loss-making empire is fundamentally broken and will eventually need to correct course. Elon Musk is not the problem, the irrational valuations of his (and his team's) work are. This said, the article is not terribly articulate in it's arguments and clings to an anachronistic view of how capital markets currently allocate wealth (and I am deliberately avoiding saying "how capital markets work" because I can't see this model working too long past this current wave of massive hyped up IPOs). Also, just to throw spice into the conversation, I bought into the IPO and cashed out above $160. So thanks for that.

Sometimes it's hard to distinguish "hate-filled" from "spot-lighting the immorality of people or systems from which I benefit or with which I ideologically concur".

If you think it's a "partisan, hate-filled/inducing rant" maybe you should rtfa, because it's not.

It’s been 28 minutes since it was submitted. Chill. The algorithm needs time to work. It’s a feature, not a flaw, that posts can skyrocket to the top of the front page. It’s why HN has fresher news.

Recency matters. If this post stops getting points it will drop off very fast. The 273 point post is 9 hours old.

It will get flagged and die, read the guidelines or contact hn directly if you have issues with this. There's no comments for the reasons you've described.

Wealth inequality is not a partisan issue. And how Silicon Valley should morally use it’s wealth and technical power seems highly relevant to this crowd where CEO worship is common. But looks like you got this flagged

I mean, 30 points in 30 minutes at the time of writing, seems like reason enough to be high up on the front-page, even if it's botted that's little time for admins to review

Did you read TFA? It is neither hate filled nor a rant.

> A completely partisan, hate-filled/inducing rant

Those of us who live in reality might or might not find it a bit over the top, but fully understand that if a relatively accurate description of reality, hyperbolic or not, appears to induce hate, then it is, in fact, reality itself that induces the hate.

Your take on this is not at all surprising, given your risible description of the modern conservative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508905

> A completely partisan, hate-filled/inducing rant, posted by an account which effectively makes this type of thing 50% of the type of content they submit. Yet the algorithm has it at the very top of HN.

You realize you're making a political statement in and of itself? There's no such thing as enlightened centrism.

He's not a centrist in any case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508905

Yep, this is tiresome. Antirez (Redis author) was going to write an alternative to HN, I'm looking forward to that. To this point, I think that a simple Bayesian span detector could help a lot.

I upvoted it and I don’t usually vote up stories but this is exactly what we need to see.

As reference my article that said more or less the same as this article, was #1 on the front page for almost a whole day in 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39569747

I’m excited to see the sea change in political sentiment and how people are talking, so I’m 100% here for it.

Have to say, the headline alone had me reaching for the pointy hat. Wonder if it was the statistical anomalie or the content that got the parent comment to post?

I think people are starting to actually realize that they have been scammed and what Zinn, Chomsky, Bookchin, Sagan et al have been shouting about was always right

This is a technical site (or was at one point in time), I for one would be happy with zero of this shit.

You can’t separate the two, technology accumulates productivity, but the more important point is how the productivity is distributed

This technical site for years had a large contingent of users fellating every action Musk did (just look at the cyber truck thread here all those years ago). Now criticism of Musk and his immense amounts of often ill-gotten wealth is tantamount to partisanship.

Likely due to fairly low traffic this time of day, so easy to get momentum. Also, maybe marxists hang out in HN on Sunday night?

But yeah a quick skim shows it's not really worth reading. If you want Marxism, read Marx. It's odd to me that the "excess value theory of labor" still has so many adherents, but at least get it from the source.

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