Well this is closer to the original meaning of "hacking" I guess :-)

As someone who is more than happy to complain about (and flag!) political articles, this seems to qualify as something people just find 'interesting'. It's probably not flame bait, and isn't likely to retread tired old political or economic arguments. I don't happen to find this one particularly interesting, but am happy to just ignore it and vote other stuff up.

Yes, I come here to read up on programming, ICT, and the information society, but one of the things I like most about aggregation-type sites like hackernews, reddit, and slashdot is to be surprised about intriguing thing I had no idea existed.

If I imagine the internet usage of the visitors of hackernews as a enormous Venn diagram with each visitor his own circle, these type of articles allow me to look beyond the border of my own circle into the circles overlapping mine most, allowing me to expand my circle.

> I've got no idea why I keep coming to HN looking for hacker news.

By "Hacker News" I presume you mean news that hackers find interesting? In which case, that is your answer.

Just for interest: why isn't this hacker news? What would you prefer to see on HN?