Same with MySQL, btw. "Dead" according to this site, risen from the dead under Oracle for those who actually know it.
In fact, much of the software industry, which writes the software that matters to our lives the most and holds most of the value delivered by software in general - the software that processes your credit-card transactions, runs your bank, sorts your mail, routes your phone calls, manages the manufacturing of your car and the shipping of your packages, holds your healthcare information, schedules and tracks your flights, and manages your law enforcement and your government - is barely represented here because the organisations that write most software aren't software companies, and they don't tend to publish technical blogs.
People come to HN because they want to hear or talk about things that most people don't usually do; it's more interesting because it's different! I'm not saying they always say positive things, but positive or negative, this is what we like talking about online. This is why people buy GQ or Vogue. If you want to talk about boring work stuff, talk to people at work :)