What makes nautil.us a religious organisation? And their submission history looks to me to be full of whiffs, rather than getting the frontpage with "unlikely

What makes nautil.us a religious organisation? And their submission history looks to me to be full of whiffs, rather than getting the frontpage with "unlikely regularity". The user could be a bot, but both of those sources are well in the curiosity-gratifying wheelhouse of the average HN reader.