It feels like most of the Founder-type people are taking a break from what they usually do at work -- which probably includes checking hacker news. So it's left room for the more interesting things to surface over the "What happened to <javascript framework>" or "How to raise your yearly gains by five dollars" or whatever.
edit: Interesting is a personal taste, and while I have noticed articles on hacker news becoming more repetitive lately, it's probably not fair to put it entirely down to "Founder-type people".
We had a new hire who was huge into HN a while back. Was very hard to rein him in from suggestions of haskell, random frameworks, etc. I've dealt with the "shiny things" mentality many a time, but this was something else. Made the "academic do it right" approach look liberal in terms of risk.
Haskell is cool, but yeah sorry keep that out of my prod stack.
