Probably because groups of hackers and anime nerds have a fairly large overlap, esp for those who grew up in the 90s/00s. I spent many nights as a teen watching

Probably because groups of hackers and anime nerds have a fairly large overlap, esp for those who grew up in the 90s/00s. I spent many nights as a teen watching classic anime (Robotech aka macross, etc) on kqed (bay areas pbs station).