Someone should do a GPT analysis of HN submissions to find and catalogue the HN-Meta. The meta being, the general rise and fall of sentiments / curiosities.
I've been on here for 15 years and definitely feel phases when it seems like a lull because I am personally not interested in the current hype.
Side note: A few months ago, I swear I saw about 150 different databases I had never heard of on here.