Different people are interested in different things; personally, I'm mostly here for the sci-tech, but I also find other things interesting, and here on HN I often see unique takes, approaches and opinion for such topics.

I'm glad HN is bigger than sci-tech.

> How do we ensure that HN stays more of this type of content rather than the social warfare content?

Who is "we"? There are people on HN who do find that content interesting. HN is not a monolith that happens to reflect your desires.

I mean, subreddits offer that, to a degree. So do some forums.

A topic tagging system could potentialy help people filter stuff.

"Hacking" is a mindset that can still be applied in interesting ways to social problems and assumptions. The standard political discourse does not generally operate with such a mindset (ideally intelligent, thoughtful, humble regarding uncertainties or alternative views etc.)

The audience here and moderation structure creates somewhat different takes on things even if comments are too limiting to have "debates".

These are fuzzy topics where it is difficult to objectively prove arguments, difficult to agree on philosophical scoring/ranking of various social states or end goals. The academic background is lacking in rigor and apparently ignores or suppresses large swathes of potential investigative topics.

There should be more attention given to the meta level of these topics. Having a more precise language and names for concepts would help have higher-level discussion without repeating basics all the time, and without the "appeal to emotion" type of anecdotal/moral/rage-filled discussion.

Your comment reads as some form of social/class warfare propaganda, instead of discussing the technical merits of the post.

You can at least flag the most egregious shit for deletion...

And visit https://news.ycombinator.com/newest regularly, to vote on content you find interesting. It's community service.

Which reminds me, I need to do that more often too.

Maybe if voting on newest earned karma (or some other points system), more people would be inclined to do it?

The problem is, things keep getting worse outside of your bubble

I am aware of things outside of HN, as I do read other sites. But when I open this one, I hope for a certain kind of content. If it's the same as all the other sites, it becomes kind of pointless.

So no, that's not "the problem". One problem I see, is that all places now get innundated with a great number of posts about the "problem du jour". Many times supported by opinions like yours "that's important!". It may well be, but specialization still has a role.

Maybe for a short time I want to not think about the "things getting worse", you know?

Ignore the doomsayers, they purposefully want us to pause progress in the name of “everything is wrong.”

It’s been that way for centuries. There’s always things “getting worse outside your bubble” but there’s also a lot going well.

Never apologize for saying this is the kind of content you come to hacker news for, it is EXACTLY the content that should be here.

People can go to Twitter or something if they want to doomscroll.