I actually bookmarked this and some other HN posts with this news to see what the commenters have to say regarding this type of news on HN. I completely agree w

I actually bookmarked this and some other HN posts with this news to see what the commenters have to say regarding this type of news on HN. I completely agree with you that this is the wrong place and HN should focus primarily on tech with some exceptions that might not be directly related to technology but might be of interest to technologically minded people, and it is a thin line but HN users should be vigilant with moderating its contents. When a major event such as Prince's death happens, you just can't escape from such news because they are everywhere on the web anyway. Posting it on HN like in this case looks like a simple Reddit-like karmawhoring.