Yup, exactly so. To quote a slightly different bit of it:

    ... banal comments, old material being recycled,
    and general lack of interesting stuff.

In short, the vast majority of repeated material is drivel. Fluff. Content-free. I'm trying to restore the balance a little with more technical, challenging and deep material.

This is probably controversial, but it's my last ditch effort to actually get some technical material back into Hacker News.

I honestly don't expect it will succeed, but then I can finally depart with a completely clear conscience that I tried my best and found that the so-called "Hacker News" no longer contains much I care about.

I hope I'm wrong, but I had to try the experiment.

PS: And FWIW - I've upvoted you.

random (drivel) hack idea ... create hybrid pages with iframes that combine a meaty technical article (e.g., a russ cox blog post) with a fluffy tech gossip article, and post these hybrid articles to HN. e.g., "Fast string matching with DFAs / new music social network for your pets launch party pics!"