Why “government” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Well the EU's own government websites are all polluted with the cookie banners too so it's obvious that they can't even resist collecting visitor tracking data themselves. The w…
by petcat · Sep 11, 2026
Makes me think of my boy John Adams; "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Moral relativism…
by mrngld · Sep 11, 2026
Shame is an internalised negative emotion that is a negative anticipation of social stigma. In general, it is a usefulness in thing. If you can’t look back at your behaviour a f…
by K0balt · Sep 11, 2026
Yeah if was in the US i would be very careful about talking to a us based llm about reproductive health or immigration stuff. no way they arent storing stuff about you that the…
by polytely · Sep 11, 2026
Building this functionality into an operating system is an extremely slippery slope to even further centralized corporate and government authoritarian control of people doing wh…
by walrus01 · Sep 11, 2026
It's not dehumanization, they just dread a future where kids can learn from 24/7 tutoring from an entity smart enough to solve Millenium problems instead of from some B stu…
by logicchains · Sep 11, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "government" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "government" over time.
A government is the system or group of people which lead a state. As such, it is responsible for directing the only entity whose use of force is socially acceptable. Governments have come in many forms, whether dominated by one person (autocracy) a small ruling class (oligarchy), or the masses (democracy). Read more on Wikipedia