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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by dang on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:35PM (#23087432)
HN is definitely not just for technical articles. You're on stronger ground with a "they'd cover it on TV news" argument (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Then again, note that word probably (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922426). In this case, the story is just so...uncorrelated that it manages to wrest on-topicness back from TV news. That's how I see it anyway, and of course many people disagree.

I think you're wrong about the article not being technical though. In a deeper sense it is.

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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by tvb12 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:47PM (#23087475)
One of the funniest things I've read on HN is Gluten Free Antarctica (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18729224), which didn't have much to do with tech. I was glad to have come across it.
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Re:Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to... by dang on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:51PM (#23087494)
That one was correlated by author, though, because Maciej's a tech person and his articles have been prominent on HN for years—rightly so, because he's such a good writer, but not an example of the "you can't predict it from any sequence" test.
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