I agree with you, especially about the fact that it's hard to find something now that used to happen at every turn, I'm also scrolling through Hacker News in search of at least something unrelated with AI, startups. For example, I would like to see posts like: Show HN: I made a tool in C ...

But alas, that was in the past, so I'm aimlessly looking for something similar now so that I can at least discuss it with the author himself.