He's stumbled on the stupid keyword algorithm gravy train, that's why they're mad at him. I think as well given exactly what pops up and what is being advertised there are brands involved in this for sure, you look up generic terms like 'free online dating' for example and it's all the same shit. You have articles that aren't necessarily generated but they're utter gibberish that have clearly been spammed to the top of google search to make sure you only see certain brand websites like match and okcupid. It's an absolute cancer and it doesn't even have to be about political leanings because it can get in the way of you searching for really basic things as well. As another example with regards to my work when I looked for software alternatives to the industry standards if you but 'free' software in and so on it's just crap advertisement, but you put in open source then it gives you better results generally because there don't seem to be big brands or whatever making money off the clicks. This shit is everywhere and I wouldn't be surprised if at some point it all comes tumbling down, possibly due to all these scummy companies getting sued by advertisers who finally crunch the numbers and realise what's going on.

is this a sign that hacker news isn't so great or that this AI was so good