[vonskippy]

Why is this on HN? Trolling the Wikipedia site might be an interesting hobby, but I don't see in any way how it fits HN.

[chockablock]

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[10098]

He's not complaining, he's asking. I also do not understand what on earth this tradition has to do with hacking. Or news.

[oneandoneis2]

It's on HN because somebody submitted it, and it's on the front page because enough people up-voted it to get it there.

That really is about as good an explanation as you're going to get :)

[hoektoe]

The cat's have finally made a through. D-Day for cats on HN :) Interesting, albeit nothing to do with HN

[andrewtbham]

using a cat to kill mice on a ship is a hack. i would argue this is much more relevant than the political stories that make the front page.

[jasoncartwright]

It was posted to Twitter by Jeff Atwood - https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/440356834545647616

[serf]

It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature. -esr