I've taken lots of downvotes lately to say that HN is becoming less hacker and far more generalist. That happened to virtually every other site: Slashdot, Digg

I've taken lots of downvotes lately to say that HN is becoming less hacker and far more generalist. That happened to virtually every other site: Slashdot, Digg, Reddit. As the site gets attention (because of its core strength of great hacker content) it starts drawing in a non-core audience. Because it's a voting system the non-core articles will start to grow in influence. It loses what drew people in in the first place. Ah well. It's the circle of sites.