From the guidelines:

> 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.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'd add to the other responses that this footage was the result of technical progress and wouldn't have been possible to achieve otherwise.

It's a great inspiration for linux wallpapers and memes. ; )

The innovative use of drones to capture a never-before-seen moment in nature?

Nature/science meets technology/science.

I found this fascinating.

You never had to YOLO code into production? Pretty much the same thing.

Because eventually it becomes your turn to jump first.

It's a metaphor.