[qez]

> Does anybody else have the feeling HN somehow became "programmer news" along the way?

I think it's clear from Paul Graham's essays that he always basically defined "hacking" as just programming. He then created Hacker News.

> Then it became "Hacker News" and about "Anything that good hackers would find interesting".

Well, yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

*What to Submit*

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.

> But somehow I would expect more outlandish topics then all the discussions about corporate software jobs and tools we see.

Well, I don't know, if you're interested in that you can submit such things and upvote them. But I wouldn't necessarily expect founders to post more off the wall stuff.

> Is there a smaller communitiy somewhere, where less "normies" with normal jobs hang out and more founders and makers?

Yes, https://lobste.rs/

[gerikson]

Uh, I'm a user at lobste.rs and believe me, "founders and makers" are not very welcome there.