I'd agree with you if this article were more about hacking education, or one of the many education startups around. But it's not, really. <Edit> Obviously the

I'd agree with you if this article were more about hacking education, or one of the many education startups around. But it's not, really. <Edit> Obviously the guidelines can be used to justify any posting. "...anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" would seem to include anything. But as a community, we don't discuss the intellectually stimulating points of Victorian literature. That's not really what HN is about. If you read further in the guidelines, you'll see the point that makes this post off-topic: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." This is exactly the type of story the local news channels run. </Edit> It's fine to agree to disagree on this point. I believe Hacker News can and should be different from Reddit. It's certainly easy enough to find articles like this on Reddit or Huffington Post; why crowd out articles about gdb in favor of general news? Maybe the HN community would rather read general news here, which is fine as I only have one vote.