"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."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Some of the members upvoted it, so I guess it's interesting enough.

I have a hard time connecting "good hackers would find interesting" with "opinions about gymnastics on television".

Gender bias is a huge topic in tech, here's an article about arguably gender bias in a different area.

I upvoted it. One of its points is that the coverage itself is mediocre because it assumes disinterest in the actual thing being covered from its audience. It would be better if it assumed more from its audience. I think that is interesting, and applicable elsewhere.