As far as I'm concerned, that's a perfect example of a story unsuitable for HN. There's nothing there to satisfy anyone's intellectual curiosity. It's just a volatile mixture of rubbernecking, outrage, gender issues, schadenfreude over a controversial company, and having it be about a tech startup to give it just a tiny bit of supposed HN relevance.
(I flagged the one copy of this I saw on the front page, and it's certainly not because of liking Uber).
(I flagged the one copy of this I saw on the front page, and it's certainly not because of liking Uber).