How to Fast for Ramadan in the Arctic, Where the Sun Doesn't Set

An arbitrary solution to an arbitrary problem, neither interesting or innovative.

I've actually always wondered about this, and genuinely found the article interesting, especially for the 5 minutes it took me to read it. Now I'm more educated when talking to friends about Ramadan.

Seriously, what does this have to do with HN?

There is precisely nothing in here to do with software or computer science, startup culture, civil liberties (which is naturally relevant to the internet), mathematics, problem solving, or design.

I agree that there isn't anything particularly interesting in this article. However, where does it state that HN should only have articles about "software or computer science, startup culture, civil liberties (which is naturally relevant to the internet), mathematics, problem solving, or design"...?

No problem solving? How to fast from sunrise to sunset, when there is no sunset, seems like a pretty major problem if that sort of thing is important to you. And the solution was more elegant than I expected. Religions generally don't take the logical route to solving a problem.