Hacker News with Generative AI: Alan Turing

'A camp environment': why Alan Turing fatefully told police he was gay (theguardian.com)
For decades, it has puzzled historians. Why, in the course of reporting a burglary to the police in 1952, did the maths genius Alan Turing volunteer that he was in an illegal homosexual relationship?
History, LGBTQ+, Alan Turing, Crime
12 points by ndsipa_pomu 25 days ago | 7 comments
Turing and the Primes (2016) [pdf] (bris.ac.uk)
Mathematics, History, Computer Science, Alan Turing
25 points by pncnmnp 165 days ago | 4 comments
Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf] (computerhistory.org)
Computer History, Alan Turing, Computing, History, Technology
234 points by lisper 192 days ago | 57 comments
Don't disrespect Alan Turing by reanimating him with AI (newscientist.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, History, Alan Turing
18 points by Brajeshwar 231 days ago | 9 comments