Human Rights Observatory, Hacker News Edition
Every story on Hacker News is evaluated against the 30 articles and Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What does tech content say about rights — and does the platform match?
779 stories evaluated says +0.18 does +0.13 3 provisions show says ≠ does tension weakest: No Slavery strongest: Freedom of Expression
UDHR Rights Heatmap content scores · says ≠ does
Foundation
P Preamble
+0.27
489
1 Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood
+0.23
363
2 Non-Discrimination
+0.17
271
Security
3 Life, Liberty, Security
+0.25
269
4 No Slavery
+0.07
95
5 No Torture
+0.12
129
Legal
6 Legal Personhood
+0.14
163
7 Equality Before Law
+0.18
227
8 Right to Remedy
+0.18
186
9 No Arbitrary Detention
+0.12
128
10 Fair Hearing
+0.15
151
11 Presumption of Innocence
+0.08
127
Privacy & Movement
12 Privacy
+0.19
424
13 Freedom of Movement
+0.19
213
14 Asylum
+0.11
120
15 Nationality
+0.08
111
Personal
16 Marriage & Family
+0.09
118
17 Property
+0.20
266
18 Freedom of Thought
+0.22
223
Expression
19 Freedom of Expression
+0.38
710
20 Assembly & Association
+0.25
287
21 Political Participation
+0.22
263
Economic & Social
22 Social Security
+0.18
254
23 Work & Equal Pay
+0.16
327
24 Rest & Leisure
+0.09
141
25 Standard of Living
+0.20
297
Cultural
26 Education
+0.26
463
27 Cultural Participation
+0.32
527
Order & Duties
28 Social & International Order
+0.23
331
29 Duties to Community
+0.20
366
30 No Destruction of Rights
+0.18
216
Evidence Transparency — Weakest Fair Witness Ratios
FW Ratio = High-evidence signals / total evidence signals. Lower = more inference-heavy.
Article Ratio %
Asylum
2%
Marriage & Family
4%
Rest & Leisure
5%
No Slavery
5%
Nationality
5%
Presumption of Innocence
5%
Duties to Community
5%
Legal Personhood
5%
No Torture
6%
Social & International Order
7%
Propaganda Landscape
Technique Distribution
loaded_language
190
appeal_to_fear
96
appeal_to_authority
72
causal_oversimplification
47
exaggeration
37
bandwagon
28
repetition
26
flag_waving
23
name_calling
12
false_dilemma
8
Top Flagged Stories
Title Domain Flags HRCB
Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage www.idc.com 7 0.00
Ask HN: Why People Support Anthropic? -- 5 -0.05
An Open Letter Opposing Android Developer Verification f-droid.org 5 +0.13
The Epstein Tax www.profgalloway.com 5 +0.23
Cards Against Humanity Statement and Form for Tariff Refunds www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com 5 +0.11
Diamonds Suck (2006) diamondssuck.com 6 +0.19
A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator larslofgren.com 5 +0.16
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 blogs.windows.com 5 +0.28
Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Degradation of Human Requirements in the LLM Era -- 4 +0.01
The Hater's Guide to Anthropic www.wheresyoured.at 4 +0.23
The Prompt Injection Problem: A Guide to Defense-in-Depth for AI Agents manveerc.substack.com 3 +0.14
The Slow Death of the Power User fireborn.mataroa.blog 4 +0.58
F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree f-droid.org 4 +0.49
War Is a Racket (Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC) archive.org 4 +0.00
Don't trust AI agents nanoclaw.dev 4 +0.23
Who Speaks
["individuals"]
194
["individuals"
117
["institution"]
102
["corporation"]
98
"institution"]
92
["institution"
92
"individuals"]
85
["corporation"
54
"corporation"]
45
"community"]
38
Who Is Spoken About
["corporation"
138
[]
137
["individuals"
133
"institution"]
80
"individuals"]
79
["individuals"]
71
["government"
70
"marginalized"]
63
"corporation"]
57
"community"]
52
Scope Distribution
global
488
national
159
unspecified
97
regional
22
local
13
Region Distribution
United States
221
United Kingdom
37
Europe
29
China
26
California
18
Japan
18
Germany
16
European Union
15
Canada
14
France
14
Australia
13
San Francisco
12
Israel
11
New York
10
Netherlands
10
Temporal Trends — 60-Day HRCB
2026-02-25
avg HRCB eval count
2026-03-02
Domain Rights Profiles — Top 10
Domain HRCB Stories Fingerprint
github.com +0.18 895
www.youtube.com +0.07 142
twitter.com -0.16 113
www.nytimes.com ND 88 --
www.theguardian.com +0.31 66
en.wikipedia.org +0.47 55
www.reuters.com ND 53 --
www.wsj.com -0.15 53
arxiv.org +0.25 48
arstechnica.com +0.25 45