That's not true at all. Significant shifts in governments and broadly related to that (Breit etc) are always discussed and some of the most discussed topics in the history of HN.
I think the results are probably flooding most mainstream news and anyone here is probably invested enough to have already got news as to what percentage of America had voted for ...
From [1]
>What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
The news about the elections in the US is all over other media. It's not needed here.
One of the things here at HN taken as general rule of thumb is avoid posting article topics which are probably overwhelming current mainstream news.
That's not true at all. Significant shifts in governments and broadly related to that (Breit etc) are always discussed and some of the most discussed topics in the history of HN.
I think the results are probably flooding most mainstream news and anyone here is probably invested enough to have already got news as to what percentage of America had voted for ...
From [1] >What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Its more like bikeshedding subjects.
It would be reasonable, if the moderators decide to allow it, to wait until America is awake.