The article doesn’t belong on hn at all, but if people are going to upvote it, then I think it’s fair game to trash it. I mean it’s got nothing to do with technology and it’s not news.
The first paragraph says "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."
The second half is an extended plea not to engage in "trashing" on this site.
And I don't think even big companies like Google do. The backlash against drones and that China SE were telling.
I don't have any answers to those problems, and these sorts of articles are interesting as background to what it all is.