As I write, 4 out of the top 10 stories on "active" appear related to Musk, Trump, or both (numbers 4, 5, 8, 10):
1. Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
2. Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
3. Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
4. A German court rules: X must provide researchers access to data
5. Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
6. The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency
7. Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis
8. Announcing the data.gov archive
9. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts
10. Feds Halt the National Electric Vehicle Charging Program
If you prefer what you see on "active", you can bookmark that as your standard entry point to HN. I flag stories when they appear to be getting repetitive. I haven't actually done that with any of these stories, but I have previously done it with submissions about COVID, OpenAI, and Matt Mullenweg when they come in waves.
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You can see an alternate ranking of front-page stories that ignores flags here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/active
As I write, 4 out of the top 10 stories on "active" appear related to Musk, Trump, or both (numbers 4, 5, 8, 10):
1. Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
2. Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor
3. Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel
4. A German court rules: X must provide researchers access to data
5. Elon Musk's Demolition Crew
6. The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency
7. Stop Using Zip Codes for Geospatial Analysis
8. Announcing the data.gov archive
9. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts
10. Feds Halt the National Electric Vehicle Charging Program
If you prefer what you see on "active", you can bookmark that as your standard entry point to HN. I flag stories when they appear to be getting repetitive. I haven't actually done that with any of these stories, but I have previously done it with submissions about COVID, OpenAI, and Matt Mullenweg when they come in waves.
If you go on the further pages of /active you'll find a lot of flagged posts. An epidemic of flagging by the looks of it.