The page itself says This list was compiled using a simple Python script that recursively requested HN's Algolia search API for posts containing "has died". Fo

The page itself says This list was compiled using a simple Python script that recursively requested HN's Algolia search API for posts containing "has died". For each relevant hit, I pulled in snapshots from the Wayback Machine to see if the HTML document contained the black bar element at the end of the day the post was created. It's possible there are names missing.