A slightly meta discussion: I noticed that some "typical headline news" are gathering a lot of votes and getting to the top of front page. This seems to be wor

A slightly meta discussion: I noticed that some "typical headline news" are gathering a lot of votes and getting to the top of front page. This seems to be working against the HN guidelines: If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. I know political news get some kind of penalties. Would that apply to a more generic headline news like this? Personally, I upvote stories like this purely because of its significance. And I am not sure if that was the intended use case.