I'll give you the "party line" (i.e. best-effort understanding of HN-moderators perspective) for why articles like this are frequently flagged:

1) The entire discussion is a rehashing of the exact same points every time the topic is posted, and not very insightful

2) The participation rate for experts (or even authors) in the discussed field/topic is very low (compared to programming topics)

3) The discussion rarely stays civil and requires excessive moderation

An observation (have no verbatim quote, but believe from dang) is that there is a significant base of "anti-political", otherwise "known-good" HN participants, that flag topics like this preemptively pretty much regardless of perspective and exact topic (presumably for above reasons). You can certainly still blame the flagging on bots or Zionists, but it's almost certainly not only those.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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@dang any explanation for this being flagged?

Am I still allowed to ask why the moderators don't want people to read and discuss this particular technology story?