To be fair, HN's scope has never been exclusive to IT and startups, it's always been satisfying intellectual curiosity.
It just happens that as the userbase grows, the variance of interests people have grows with it. The demographic that only wants to read about technical content or only finds intellectual gratification in it no longer represents the mainstream here, if it ever did.
It just happens that as the userbase grows, the variance of interests people have grows with it. The demographic that only wants to read about technical content or only finds intellectual gratification in it no longer represents the mainstream here, if it ever did.