Comment by puredemo

The technology world has grown so much in the last few years that any niche technology articles simply don't generate a widespread enough appeal, so what we see on YC today is highly generalized -- frequently to the point of sheer stupidity -- bullshit.

>Why is the top of the list this morning?

If anything, HN is basically more like "vaguely technical startup gossip" nowadays. Pretty useless, compared to something like /r/programming.