[patio11]

Largely as a function of demographics, HN tends to discuss technologies which are either big with the Cool Kids in Silicon Valley (e.g. Docker), the publicly-discussable inventions of AppAmaGooBookSoft (e.g. Kubernetes), and things that small tech-forward businesses worldwide would reasonably choose to adopt (e.g. PHP/MySQL).

The significant parts of technology which the userbase doesn't cover nearly so much are Big Freaking Enterprises (Oracle databases, SAP, etc) and technologies primarily used in non-tech-forward companies (e.g. some parts of the Microsoft stack).

If you think the view might be a little lopsided, my best advice is "be the change you want to see in it."

[NikolaNovak]

Agreed; by design and by emergence, there is a self-reinforcing audience on Hacker News with occasionally fairly homogenous set of interests and preferences.

I've spent my entire career working with Big Freaking Enterprises, but understand and accept that likes of IBM, HP, Oracle, SAP, etc will never be perceived as anything but uncool useless dinosaurs on HN. VMWare is being commoditized, and either entering or entered firmly into that category.

[I find it somewhat amusing to occasionally dig out one of the "Big Cool Kids" still uses "Big Ol' Dinosaurs" for HCM, Financials, etc - any back-office work:]