Agreed, as I can’t see what this has to do with “hacking”. It fits the “news” part, but I am not here for this type of news.
The point of hacker news, stated in the guidelines: "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."
Hacker News isn't, and has never been, a strictly technology oriented forum.
edit: I just posted article about death of pope Benedict to prove my point, I'm sure one of the threads about his death will have tons of upvotes while it has nothing to do with technology and it's not even relevant since he was not pope anymore