> Does anybody else have the feeling HN somehow became "programmer news" along the way? I think it's clear from Paul Graham's essays that he always basically d

> Does anybody else have the feeling HN somehow became "programmer news" along the way? I think it's clear from Paul Graham's essays that he always basically defined "hacking" as just programming. He then created Hacker News. > Then it became "Hacker News" and about "Anything that good hackers would find interesting". Well, yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html *What to Submit* On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. > But somehow I would expect more outlandish topics then all the discussions about corporate software jobs and tools we see. Well, I don't know, if you're interested in that you can submit such things and upvote them. But I wouldn't necessarily expect founders to post more off the wall stuff. > Is there a smaller communitiy somewhere, where less "normies" with normal jobs hang out and more founders and makers? Yes, https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/