Taking your question at face value ... The community here on HN has, at its core, a common interest in technology and startups. That then implies that many ha

Taking your question at face value ... The community here on HN has, at its core, a common interest in technology and startups. That then implies that many have an interest in programming and business. But not all. So people here do have a wide range of interests, and others will share those non-core interests. Sometimes they strike a chord, sometimes they don't. But that's the way communities work. There's potentially a lot to discuss about Maradona. The exquisite talent, marred by the personal life and "The Incident" with the "Hand of God", and there are parallels there with programmers who are amazingly skilled, and yet complete jerks to the people they work with. So there are reasons why this is not entirely out of place. Finally, if this wasn't an honest question, and you actually believe that the submission does not belong here, then I give you this from the guidelines[0]: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. ... If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html