> maybe because a significant subset of HN audience consists of outliers like Robbe himself and empathize with folks like him easily. I am one of those people.

> maybe because a significant subset of HN audience consists of outliers like Robbe himself and empathize with folks like him easily. I am one of those people. I knew YUI as a kid, I logged into those KPN computers too. I'd always thought he'd moved on, I never found out about his death until now, or perhaps someone told me and I assumed they were kidding. Now, I can't help but wonder how many other friends who I thought to be retired are actually dead? Despite - or perhaps because of - my experiences I couldn't help but agree with you more. I found it deeply disturbing to see all the comments here berating his grieving family for wondering if they'd made a mistake letting him on the computer. I know my parents must have thought the same every time the cops came to our home, they would've been entirely justified in that. I turned out okay, but as far as I can tell most of us didn't.