These are computationally-heavy workloads. Do most HN programmers really do work in those domains? Is most computational work done today even in those domains

These are computationally-heavy workloads. Do most HN programmers really do work in those domains? Is most computational work done today even in those domains (possibly, due to the amount of streaming videos, but also most of us are not coding video streamers)? Maybe a more interesting to test workload would be parsing medium-large random JSONs issued by concurrently-connecting entities. And also comparing the same setup under a low-workload scenario with a high workload scenario, possibly also comparing orchestration engines (e.g. kubernetes autoscaling). I'd also be curious to probe "worst case" scenarios. Can you cause kubernetes to thrash spinning up and killing containers really badly, and how much of an effect does that have on energy consumption?