[wyldfire]

> I'm just confused as to why it's being posted here.

It's more topical than many articles posted here imo. But topical is in the eye of the beholder.

[amjoshuamichael]

My understanding is that the only qualifier for something on hackernews is that it has to be "deeply interesting":

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Deeply interesting tech, or otherwise.