Have you tried discussing your non-technical pet topics on a non-technical forum?
I mean, there's a high-ranking thread about a huge oak table on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36912861. As there should be.
(You probably already know this but for anyone who doesn't: HN is explicitly not just a technical forum - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.)
Your comment history mostly shows comments on non-technical stories. Why is that?
Some people will use HN for job postings. I would certainly expect that anyone with two brain cells to rub together uses a throwaway account for anything but the most boring opinions about C++ proposals. All it takes is a single throwaway sentence 7 years ago that pisses off the Church, and you could end up not getting hired.