Significant geopolitical events have become a mainstay of HN, for better or worse. This one is a landmark example because it falls outside of the pattern people

Significant geopolitical events have become a mainstay of HN, for better or worse. This one is a landmark example because it falls outside of the pattern people have (sadly) grown accustomed to. Edit: The second sentence was referring to the significance of the event (and why it would therefore be interesting to people on HN); I didn't mean to say the HN post itself was an outlier in some way.