You took what I wrote out of context. I wrote "if Tiobe is at all believed, Python is declining...". I wasn't postulating that I have evidence of it other than to say Tiobe has indicated that.
Though, it'd be interesting to write some code to pull language interests off HN. It would be an interesting experiment. Granted, HN is a tiny subset of the programming community, but it would be interesting nevertheless.
Maybe it is only me, but I feel the number of Python-related articles is higher than ever on HN.