[gue5t]

Yep. I think the site is in a tragic place, but it's not for a lack of technical articles (or I'd submit them) but instead for cultural reasons (the majority of the userbase doesn't want HN to be a purely technical forum). Changing the culture has to be done via concerted effort in that direction, not by simply voting for the things I want to see in the end. Second-order effects and so on.

[dang]

HN has never been a purely technical forum. Its DNA is in the overlap between "anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity" and "anything that good hackers would find interesting": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The word 'anything' appears twice in the 'On-Topic' section. HN's early years amounted to "anything that pg would find interesting", and he finds a lot of things interesting. So when I read your comment, what I hear is that HN is staying true to its original mission. That doesn't seem like a tragic place for the site, nor a new one.

For example, people sometimes have the perception that HN has grown more political over time. The opposite is true, as I tried to show here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869. Such perceptions are externalities that exist for other reasons.