I agree very much. I didn't find this interesting, nor did it gratify my intellectual curiosity. Glad it's off the front page. Would be terrible if HN devolved

I agree very much. I didn't find this interesting, nor did it gratify my intellectual curiosity. Glad it's off the front page. Would be terrible if HN devolved into a mess of posts about how dumb and hateful random comments are on the internet and turned into another outrage generating machine (just like the TV news you mentioned). BTW, here's a nice HN alternative that someone pointed me to recently (for those of us that are sad to see what HN is devolving into): https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs