[theneb]

I presume the context of this post is that it's Ada's birthday? Is this a new HN trend? Karma for dead programmer birthdays? I don't dispute Ada's great contributions and example for women but I have to jump on the non-news bandwagon.

[cstuder]

Google has an Ada-doodle which increases the visibility of her birthday: https://www.google.ch/

[sublimit]

OP could at least have linked to an article about her, with some timely reason for why Lovelace should be mentioned on the front page of Hacker News. A Wikipedia page with no context is on par with "TIL about Ada Lovelace".