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From the Hacker News Guidelines[1]:

>What to Submit

>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.

I found the story intellectually stimulating, and thought others might too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>>Kapura+(OP)
And yet posts on Kobe Bryant’s death were all flagged.

>>throw5+tf
Perhaps individuals should have contributed posts that discuss interesting and lesser known aspects of the man's life and accomplishments.

60 posts of "Extremely Famous Person Dies in Accident" is boring. But learning that said person had a little-know passion for bird conservation or something is interesting.