I value hacker news for the diverse range of articles that are posted every day. However, recently it feels like a lot of submissions go to the websites of major news outlets.

Is this really a representation what authentic users of some kind of hacker culture find interesting? Or is it that major news outlets have identified hacker news as a great place for targeted advertising of their articles?

I noticed because I recently encountered paywalled content; and more and more stuff is interesting, yet only peripherally related to technology and information.

How do you feel about this? Am I imagining things?