Telling that, submitted at the same time, this story has one sarcastic comment, thile the story of a police officer selling information on the dark web has an actual discussion.
My inner cynic believes OP meant to imply that HN values technology over human lives or something similarly disingenuous, but that might be uncharitable. It could just as easily be a reflexion on the frequency of stories in this vein, that they've become commonplace, or similar.
Yet this story now has more comments (though it's about the same if you exclude this meta subthread).