If you do not like the criteria that he uses to run his site, then possibly you would be happier using a site with different criteria, or forming your own site?
In the many years I've been reading and posting here this criterion has been interpreted to imply subjects that have some intrinsic interest to hackers. It's symptomatic of the decline of HN that this focus is increasingly diluted but the dearth of worthwhile comments on this thread suggests I'm far from the only one that doesn't care.
If you do not like the criteria that he uses to run his site, then possibly you would be happier using a site with different criteria, or forming your own site?