Because at least 203 people, as of this counting, thought it was interesting enough to either submit the link or click the up arrow.
Hacker News is a forum for anything of interest to nerds. It doesn't have to be technical or scientific or academic.
The death of a royal may be of interest to nerds.
The criterion is “intellectually interesting.”
Because even nerds get bored of compilers and deepfakes.
Because libertarian technologists are attracted to power and rules. Vote me down, but the comments bear me out.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments.
Prince Phillip invented the Internet
And co-founded Tesla.
Prince Philips owned the rigs that pre-mined the shitcoin that john2602 will sell you on signal.
Because HN is going yellow press ... I mean there are all the time debates about what belongs here and what not. Bottom up - if something reaches the front page it belongs here. Top down - this definitely does not belong here. It's simply irrelevant. You say because he did something with computers once - great - then we'll have obituaries about every body soon on here.