Downmodders are really out of control here lately. Obviously I'm not saying that nobody cares about x86 anymore. It just very quickly went from the years of being only game in town to a sideshow for me when I started doing mobile.
What server software I do write is in very HLL like Ruby but I actually find myself looking at ARM disassembly sometimes now for apps.
Maybe the feeling is that your personal statement of discontent with x86 is not really relevant to the story that new instructions have been added to x86. This is probably why you were downvoted. If you want to leave a comment with a similar essence, perhaps you should try commenting on one or two new instructions that are [interesting|upsetting|repetitive] to you ahead of your statement that you don't care about ARM anymore.
Would HN be a good place if everyone who didn't care about something posted on the story and said, "Ha, I don't care about this, ha ha"?
Since I started writing software professionally over ten years ago x86 was the only instruction set that mattered outside of a few niche domains. Now it's all but irrelevant in the fastest growing market. For those of us that have lived in the shadow of Wintel our entire professional lives the last few years have seen some dizzying changes.
So the big picture for me is that developments in x86 are now minor news.
What server software I do write is in very HLL like Ruby but I actually find myself looking at ARM disassembly sometimes now for apps.