Hacker news is popular among "tech people", such as programmers, web developers, system administrators, and CS academics. This follows from YCombinator mostly focusing on software startups like Dropbox, Gitlab, and Pagerduty. HN isn't really like 4chan because its well moderated, not all accounts are anonymous, and content related to YC people or companies gets automatically promoted.
Politically, HN is all over the place, but almost universally bad. Almost all of the board is made up of men who make a lot of money with computers. I wouldn't call most of the /r/neoliberal types, there are many libertarians and other sorts. It's full of gems because most of the users are sociopathic, nerds, and very liberal.
Hacker news is popular among "tech people", such as programmers, web developers, system administrators, and CS academics. This follows from YCombinator mostly focusing on software startups like Dropbox, Gitlab, and Pagerduty. HN isn't really like 4chan because its well moderated, not all accounts are anonymous, and content related to YC people or companies gets automatically promoted.
Politically, HN is all over the place, but almost universally bad. Almost all of the board is made up of men who make a lot of money with computers. I wouldn't call most of the /r/neoliberal types, there are many libertarians and other sorts. It's full of gems because most of the users are sociopathic, nerds, and very liberal.