No, but the guidelines do say that political news stories are generally considered off topic and I'm not sure there's any interesting discussion to be had or new insight to be gained from this article. It just seems to have invited mostly vitriolic, off-topic debate.

Oh my mistake. Maybe it should be renamed to "News, commented on by hackers"

That's a great idea, but it's kind of wordy. Maybe something short and pithy like "Hacker News" would work?