Sadly, HN top becomes more and more occupied with general news instead of content relevant to the hacker mind.

I guess that people give like to mainstream news when they support the background topic instead of liking what is worth a read on topic or what is an unusual curious gem.

Here is probably the sad effect of not having a general news equivalent or that good news reader and aggregators have quite disappeared. Maybe also because Google news sucks more and more everyday relying on AI to "feed" us content.