HN isn't a tech news board - the site guidelines explicitly differentiate from that in the first paragraph: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

This article suffers from a baity title and sensational opening but then gets pretty substantive and, I think many readers would say, interesting.

Topics like this have always appeared on HN and as long as (1) they don't come up so often as to feel repetitive and (b) the article is substantive, I think it's ok.