But seriously, this is a story that's been around for ages and has -zero- to do with HN. This is "news for nerds" content, not "hacker news". Can we get some divine intervention here?
~Hacker News Guidelines.
Seriously, calm down. It might be old, but I still found it interesting to reread. Don't like it, don't read it.
By your logic, anything that's upvoted would 'count', though that's been explicitly verboten.
Compare and contrast -this- post with the recent post about car detailing. Neither are "about" hacking. But in one, an individual's using all the tools available to do something sublime. In the other, we have a long-circulated e-mail about non-productive slacking. Gee.