In the last few years I think the amount of "pure" programming related posts on HN has dipped. Out of 30 items on the front page right now, only 4 are explicitly about programming (I'm not including ops/networking).

(This is only gut feeling from being here a long time, no data to back it up.)

Well, except Go and Rust.

The 2nd and 3rd top "Go" posts weren't even about Go the language. They were just posts with the word go in the title.

And C# interestingly