> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. Now, there have been quite a few mains

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. Now, there have been quite a few mainstream news articles lately that makes sense for HN (like Kofi Anan's comments about drug prohibition, for example) because there have been a lot of mainstream news articles that are "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." This, however, doesn't seem to be one of them.