And the Gold Rush! I like original stuff like this. Sometimes, if I feel like pulling off my head when I have to read about another App. Yes, I know this is a Programers site, so I expect to read about New Apps, and Websites, but there seems to be a plethora of Developers just looking for the next big payday? It seems like the only people getting rich are the one's who market to developer masses, or if you get lucky Mark might buy your App for 3 Billion dollars.(I still haven't recovered from that transaction. I believe they only had one vague patent?)

I went back into the archive and tried to run into a hardware hacking post before a framework post. It went, startup, startup, Google buys YouTube, startup, startup, then this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1981 (2694 days ago). I couldn't find evidence that this site cut its teeth on hardware hacking.

It not specific on hardware, it's general about all things not about programing and new products. Also it's not about new posts, at the new section I keep finding them. It's that they hit the front page less frequently and when they make it the fall to the second or third page in a mater of one hour, compared to the framework or product posts that stay very high with relatively less points. Maybe it's not the case, maybe it's just the habituation to HN contents after three years of daily reading. If it happens I don't know if it's due to the new curation team (for example now I find that conversations are not growing so much into long rants about small details as before) or to more people flaging non "programmer" stuff more than before.