[Atheros]

It's novel. Bitcoin hasn't had a persistent fork before. Exchanges are trading assets that represent coin futures. That's very new.

Look at all the other stuff on the front page of HN right now:

* Dell made a new monitor. Yay. * An article about salaries in Norway * Emacs compared to alternatives * A map of Ulysses’ journey * People in the UK must register their drones now.

Everyone has different interests but something new is happening with a large, expensive, distributed piece of software that allows anyone to hack on. That's HN's raison d'être.