Sorry I'm answering this so late, but if you take a look at these links you will find lots of past explanation about this:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

Are you suggesting that politics has no influence on the tech world?

Especially considering that Peter Thiel, who was a partner at Y Combinator, was fairly involved in the Republican Ticket. This is very on topic for HN and rightfully so, even if the comments are a mess.

I just want to emphasise - JD Vance, from what I have read is a direct proxy for Thiel.

Without Thiel - there is no Vance.

HN is mainly American audience. So it's something rest of the world has to bear.

This affects the whole world though.

The USA is the economic and military hegemon and by a large margin too.

As someone in a small but wealthy western nation, the US elections are far more important than our own. We can't destroy the world, they can.

hear hear

HN is simply following the trend of sacrificing institutional capital for political goals. Trust in media is at an all-time low because they too decided to sacrifice institutional capital for political goals, and now they have neither institutional capital nor their political goals, and that's a good thing.

How is it not relevant? The US election has wide-reaching effects for technology workers across the US and the world.