Google stop supporting a product that not many people used, and it jumps to a thousand upvotes and remains on top for over a day, attracting hundreds of comment

Google stop supporting a product that not many people used, and it jumps to a thousand upvotes and remains on top for over a day, attracting hundreds of comments. The CEO of a top 5 IT firm resigns after admitting to inproprietaries and sexual harrasment, dropping almost 10% of the stock price (around 10B of market cap) and the story struggles to make the front page and doesn't attract many comments. This is really big news, and I am surprised that it isn't being covered more and more in-depth. I think it is fair to say that a large portion of HN readers, and the general tech/startup blogosphere, have no idea how the IT world works, who this guy really was, what his job was etc. If this was Apple, the story wouldn't die for weeks. Enterprise and hardware make up a huge part of IT, it is just covered poorly. (Edit: there was a lot of hype around wave, granted, I could probably find a better example of less-significant events that attract a lot of attention)