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.
Please notice the words “most” and “probably”.
I don't see anything about Paul Buchheit on CNN.
It's topical to people in California, who care about drugs. Not really hackery is it.