Charitable take: Finding what we might call an HN-quality current article on a specific topic - in English - can take some real work. And if a good discussion

Charitable take: Finding what we might call an HN-quality current article on a specific topic - in English - can take some real work. And if a good discussion gets going on HN, it's going to be better than 90% of such articles anyway. So - if someone is hoping for a good discussion of a specific topic on HN, but not too interested in working to find a great article, then it's easy to hit [submit], and cross their fingers.