Why do not I see DeFi related posts on HN?

Well, they're here. I think the general consensus on HN is not favorable to DeFi or other crypto projects. The bad smell from innumerable ponzi schemes and outright technical falsehoods is a real turn-off to the crowd that stalks these halls.

In the absolute best case a DeFi platform is a giant forever-unfixable security risk. And many of them aren't the best case but are outright scams.

I read HN a lot but had to look up DeFi - decentralized finance - eg Bitcoin etc for all those who also didn’t know.

They do pop up on the front page now and again.

Check out https://orangesite.sneak.cloud/ for the last 24h front page entries, and the IRC channel #hntop on Libera.chat for real-time info on when a post hits the front page.

Collapse of IRON was discussed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27539368

Unfortunately, HN is a highly censored and moderated platform that uses tools such as shadow banning posts, banning users, power downvoting posts, etc to control what content is displayed. Moderators then apply their arbitrary and subjective rules to defend their actions with no community transparency.

For example, I posted a highly relevant article and was shadow banned because a moderator felt it was “too similar” to a previous post. This means it did not appear in the new section and was hidden from the HN community, even though my previous post received thousands of upvotes.

When I emailed the moderator and tried to appeal his decision, he provided more subjective rules to defend his position, claiming the content was self promotional because it was related to my own company’s struggle against Amazon.

People should realize HN supports only the moderators views with zero tolerance for all other content.