It isn't true at all that 0 GOP people read Hacker News. A lot of people here have a strong interest in reduced taxes, deregulation, and privatization (included in 'small government').
This is what I hate about political messaging. All of those vague terms are nice and all, but the different ways to implement/achieve them are all over the political spectrum.
That is not a refutation of the idea 0 repubs are on HN. I know they're here, but you're merely saying some people on HN happen to agree with some of the vaguest of vague messaging ideals also used by the R's.
Ramesh Ponnuru is surprised when I tweet at him with articles that I found here. I doubt anyone that works at National Review reads Ars Technica.
(...and making it up with increased capital gains, wealth transfer, and real estate taxes. Tax the money that people didn't work for.)