Pleading with YC: Enough with the political & financial news. More Hacker News please.
A continued focus on political articles will attract people who enjoy endless and mostly pointless arguments about politics.  It is a path to HN becoming another reddit.Political articles are like junk food.  Tempting while they're right in front of you.  A little bit of indulgence is OK.  Not good as a steady diet.PG has said that he thinks he can prevent deterioration of content on HN.  I think this problem is actually very difficult.  It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few months.