Political and other front-page-news posts with little "hacker" content, blogs by irrelevant magazine columnists, posts about how X product/market/phenomenon is

Political and other front-page-news posts with little "hacker" content, blogs by irrelevant magazine columnists, posts about how X product/market/phenomenon is dooooomed, random questions about how the site works because the FAQ is a tiny link in the footer...and lots of posts by people horribly concerned that those damn noobs will stink the place up. I really haven't noticed HN get any worse in the two years I've been around.