> 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.
It's not that I can't find this news elsewhere, and how does it gratify my curiosity? It's the most discussed news item today.
It doesn't gratify your curiosity but it does for others. They're curious about how this game is going to be, is it going to live up to their expectations, what do other people feel about it. If you need every conversation to revolve around software engineering, there's even a sub-thread about how they manage to keep this series so high quality.
Demanding that things should justify their existence to you is a symptom of main character syndrome.
It's not that I can't find this news elsewhere, and how does it gratify my curiosity? It's the most discussed news item today.