Tributes continue to pour in for dead iPhone factory worker (newsthump.com)

Is this supposed to be the UK's unfunny version of the Onion?

No humor. Less funny than the Onion. Lame.

I wish articles allowed downvotes. I suppose on some level it's technically satire (the timeless "value of a life" discussion), but it's in poor taste and poorly executed. Clearly this is targeted at gaining a few pageviews and doesn't strike me as interesting or entertaining to the HN community.