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by epeterson19 4456 days ago
Because the only reason it was posted on HN in the first place is that the company is a tech company. In that way the story is only tangentially related to hacking and startups, so it doesn't need to be on the front page.
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daturkel 4456 days ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think the sheer number of comments indicates that the community certainly finds this "interesting." It's just a matter of keeping the comments civil and high-quality.

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epeterson19 4455 days ago
Right, but this is an issue that everyone is talking about; it's interesting to everyone including good hackers. I don't need to come to HN to see this. This story is/was on every news website.
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