Indeed, I think there are also quite a few engineers who have backgrounds in other sciences outside of comp sci / EE -- also I would think people would be interested in inspiration from other sources.
Crocs are like horseshoe crabs and other organisms that are extremely efficient and "[crocs] are an ancient lineage, and are believed to have changed little since the time of the dinosaurs. They are believed to be 200 million years old whereas dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago; crocodiles survived great extinction events" from wikipedia...
I'd think we should be spending an awful lot of time studying the croc imho.
It depends on what about politics. Many readers here are highly interested in business, and, unfortunately, except for a few niche products, politics strongly affects business.
There are a few very directly related things that are worth looking at, but even those tend to not be some of "HN's finer moments". Other stuff is tangential and really degrades rapidly.
