I guess you're not familiar with the BBC's tech journalism?
TLDR: It's interesting to HN readers only on the meta level (how does a non-technical readership consume tech news in 2015).
BBC tech news makes very strange reading for someone in the tech world. All the technical terms we use to be precise about things are replaced with broad, ostensibly more understandable, terms that do often sound very childish in comparison - sometimes so much so that they do actually obscure the meaning and even the truthfulness of the message.
As such it can make for frustrating reading, only because you wish there was a better way to communicate these ideas that doesn't mislead people or dumb down the information so much that it's basically without value.
There almost certainly is, to be honest, but it's very difficult, and so probably an unwise investment of effort for the likes of the BBC, whose readers are mainly there to read 'general' news stories and might skim a couple of tech stories as an aside.
It's probably much like a Physics PhD going back to science classes in school - "I see what you're trying to say here, and I perhaps can see why you're saying it in the way you are, to introduce a concept in a way you think is most accessible, but what you're saying isn't actually fully correct, and I find it irritating that you're implying it is".
TLDR: It's interesting to HN readers only on the meta level (how does a non-technical readership consume tech news in 2015).
BBC tech news makes very strange reading for someone in the tech world. All the technical terms we use to be precise about things are replaced with broad, ostensibly more understandable, terms that do often sound very childish in comparison - sometimes so much so that they do actually obscure the meaning and even the truthfulness of the message.
As such it can make for frustrating reading, only because you wish there was a better way to communicate these ideas that doesn't mislead people or dumb down the information so much that it's basically without value.
There almost certainly is, to be honest, but it's very difficult, and so probably an unwise investment of effort for the likes of the BBC, whose readers are mainly there to read 'general' news stories and might skim a couple of tech stories as an aside.
It's probably much like a Physics PhD going back to science classes in school - "I see what you're trying to say here, and I perhaps can see why you're saying it in the way you are, to introduce a concept in a way you think is most accessible, but what you're saying isn't actually fully correct, and I find it irritating that you're implying it is".