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There's a long standing tradition on Hacker News to put up the black bar when a Computer Science/Engineering/Tech pioneer passes away.

• yellowapple 9y ago
  I think the implied follow up question there is "who died?". The answer is apparently Chuck Thacker.
  • kzisme 9y ago
    This is also one of the top posts currently.
    • vertex-four 9y ago
      It's currently number 20 - below this post even.
      • kzisme 9y ago
        Also for what it's worth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14549574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14549574
      • kzisme 9y ago
        Ah last I saw the acm post it was around 14ish - meh