If you open Google and type in “netflix recommendation system lawsuit” you’ll find many results on the first page explaining it. You can use this method for a lot of topics that people here on hacker news mentions.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
People naturally respond to such things and use them to segue into another topic as part of conversation, and sometimes it is nice to have someone tell their recollection of a story instead of getting the wikipedia version.
I encourage you to stop doing this.