Nothing, but someone will pull up some community guideline saying that we're allowed to post anything that is "of interest to hackers." (This could mean anything you want it to mean so I think it's a terrible way of choosing what you can and cannot post.) That guideline seems to contradict the other community guideline that if your local news station would cover the story then it's not meant for HN. Personally I think we should stick to programming stories and be done with it.

I consider HN as 'news for hackers' rather 'news on hacking'.