Far too often people ask whether a submission is suitible for HN just because it isn't directly tech-related, which (usually) annoys me as much as anyone. But

Far too often people ask whether a submission is suitible for HN just because it isn't directly tech-related, which (usually) annoys me as much as anyone. But in this case, I don't see that this should fit under HN guidelines. "On-Topic: [...] If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." I don't see that this does, and I can't imagine any comments that will be written here that would be interesting enough to do so. "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Fits pretty flatly in off-topic, and is, for me, a perfect example of a story that, while I might want to read it on the BBC site, I don't need to show up on HN's front page, and about which I don't need to read the opinions/discussion of the HN community.