Language choice and thusly features of given languages are pretty pertinent to hackers trying to start startups.

Just don't upmod it. If you're lucky it will go away.

It seems to me that these are separate pursuits. I suppose that if the community is smart, they will pick reasonable programming articles as well, and the two can overlap harmlessly; my worry is that smart programming communities if not given an explicit focus (e.g. Lisp, Haskell) quickly deteriorate into non-smart programming communities (witness programming reddit). This may be true for startup news communities as well, but I haven't witnessed it yet.

This page is for the community of entrepreneurs -- or more specifically, hackers with startup ambitions.

That said, there are many who are interested in the topic (me included) as demonstrated by the comments.

Relax and upmod the submissions that you like. News is only as relevant as the community decides. :)

Definitely a valid opinion but I think it's a submission that many of the readers here will enjoy. Remember that this forum caters to a largely technical audience, and an audience that enjoys hearing about different ways of developing their products.

True, its not startup news, but it is a moderately interesting article, and obviously the community loved it. Well, that or they were trying to suck up to pg. ;)