Sure. I skimmed the article about the British police and the Olympics in 2012. It did not mention anything that seemed to me like hacker news: not programming, not computers, not electronics, but also not anything clever, like new kind of bicycle or solar panel.

However, it was near the top of the HN front page, and the ~10 comments on the article all discussed the the article as if it was interesting (which I presume it was for the commenters). This made me feel sad, because I don't know of another place that I can find thoughtful discussion of news that appeals to people like me. I generally find it sort of irritating when people post comments saying "This is not hacker news," because it's just a complaint.

Instead, I thought that pretending to praise the story for its valuable content (I chose to pretend it mentioned Ruby, a popular programming language) would be a funny way to lament the situation while also amusing the other folks who were reading the comments and thinking, "What the hell is going on here? Is mainstream media coverage of future British law enforcement policies interesting for some reason that I don't see?"

But, I wanted it still to seem like a plausible comment to the readers who were having a great time discussing the 2012 Olympics, Britain, and media projections of the state of their civil liberties (particularly in regard to posters) in the future. For this reason, I added the "edit."