Yeah I agree. It's frustrating to see HN become less of a tech echo chamber. Can't we just get back to blog posts about how technical debt is bad and why managers with MBAs are clueless?
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
The article generated 90 posts of discussion, I would say plenty of users found it interesting, even if you did not.