From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html we have:
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
That fits this story.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922380
PG himself has chimed in to point out the words "most" and "probably".
I'm with you, but we seem notto be in accord with the site owner.