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TL;DR: This is about a hiker who went by the name Mostly Harmless who was found dead in his tent. No one knows how he died. That's it. But for the unusual na
by lisper 6y ago
TL;DR: This is about a hiker who went by the name Mostly Harmless who was found dead in his tent. No one knows how he died. That's it. But for the unusual name, it seems safe to say that this would not be on the front page of HN.
- edmundsauto 6y agoFor fans of the hitch hikers guide series, the name isn’t unusual. It’s the name of one of the books.
- Dig1t 6y ago(and the entire entry for the planet Earth inside the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book) ;)
- c22 6y agoIt's an unusual name for a person.
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- NikolaeVarius 6y agoMany communities have nicknames that are unusual
- guerrilla 6y agoMuch like c22. It was just a trail name.
- 542458 6y agoI think the way they ID’ed this John Doe (trawling forum posts, DNA testing and advertising) is pretty interesting and I upvoted on that basis. It’s also a partial answer to a mystery that was pretty widely shared around the internet, so is interesting on that basis as well.
- notfbi 6y agoThe mystery was well covered on HN before due to him being a programmer and plausibly active in coding/gaming online communities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24981786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24981786
- robbyt 6y agoHis photo gets posted to /r/brooklyn every few months. I really don't know what this story resonates so well with people. Every day there are reports of many new missing/homeless/dead people, why is this man more important than all the others?
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