Yes: This is the sort of random cool article I visit HN to see. I honestly couldnt give a shit about so called startup culture and the latest trendy javascript library or whatever. I am not web-app developer. I (like many other HN visitors it seems judging on the comments) am just interested in tech/science/computers/interesting miscellanea, and HN is a great quickly updating source of this sort of thing. Also I really appreciate the sites magnificent design.
Also stuff gets on the main page here via upvoting, so obviously enough HN viewers liked this particular article.
Agree. Startup and Silicon Valley culture pieces as well as anything relating to web development are easily the least interesting pieces on HN in my view.
Just in case you haven't seen yet, this is what the guidelines say about "good" vs "bad" posts:
What to Submit
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.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
