I don't think it's even that anymore. Hacker News is now pretty much, "Interesting things, plus a lot of programmers use the site." Which is good for everybody

I don't think it's even that anymore. Hacker News is now pretty much, "Interesting things, plus a lot of programmers use the site." Which is good for everybody who uses HN as something other than a place to get tips about programming, which I expect is the vast majority of the HN user population.