I hate to say it but I garnered no intellectual intrigue from this story. At the time of commenting it has 38 points. Should this kind of thing be on HN? And y

I hate to say it but I garnered no intellectual intrigue from this story. At the time of commenting it has 38 points. Should this kind of thing be on HN? And yes, I'll be that guy who quotes the guidelines: "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. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."