Wider issues in society always affect what we do in our work lives, for a number of reasons.
Very few of us work purely in the technology industry. That is, our customers or market are not technical in nature, technology is usually used in support of other goals.
More pertinent to this case, Alan Turing’s life and death shows us how issues such as sexuality affect technical work. Who knows what Alan may have done had he lived longer, or what he would have achieved if he wasn't side-lined when he was alive.
In particular terms of why it is newsworthy on HN, as per the guidelines "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
For me as a hacker, it falls right within this definition.
Very few of us work purely in the technology industry. That is, our customers or market are not technical in nature, technology is usually used in support of other goals.
More pertinent to this case, Alan Turing’s life and death shows us how issues such as sexuality affect technical work. Who knows what Alan may have done had he lived longer, or what he would have achieved if he wasn't side-lined when he was alive.
In particular terms of why it is newsworthy on HN, as per the guidelines "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." For me as a hacker, it falls right within this definition.