I think the stuff that surfaces on places like HN is mostly out of the ordinary.
I've worked in enterprise shops churning out staid Java code on weblogic servers in the past, if anything HN was kind of an escape hatch for me to see what else is going on in the tech world, even if sometimes it's driven by fads.
Most enterprise software engineering is either very complex due to over engineering, complex business rules or organisational structure or very mundane CRUD development. Not to say it isn't challenging because often it is, with the usual scaling, managing data models problems that need to meet the needs of the corporate hierarchy, but a lot of it is very bespoke.
The only commonality is maybe the frameworks and tooling (C#, Java, Spring etc) and maybe some industry level patterns that map to business processes (shopping carts, reporting systems, invoice processing etc) but the web has endless resources around these that take a while to dig through but usually you find something to solve your problem.
I've worked in enterprise shops churning out staid Java code on weblogic servers in the past, if anything HN was kind of an escape hatch for me to see what else is going on in the tech world, even if sometimes it's driven by fads.
Most enterprise software engineering is either very complex due to over engineering, complex business rules or organisational structure or very mundane CRUD development. Not to say it isn't challenging because often it is, with the usual scaling, managing data models problems that need to meet the needs of the corporate hierarchy, but a lot of it is very bespoke.
The only commonality is maybe the frameworks and tooling (C#, Java, Spring etc) and maybe some industry level patterns that map to business processes (shopping carts, reporting systems, invoice processing etc) but the web has endless resources around these that take a while to dig through but usually you find something to solve your problem.