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Aaron did impressive things, and it sucks that he killed himself. If talking about his suicide prevents others from doing the same thing, then that's a positive
by monochromatic 14y ago
Aaron did impressive things, and it sucks that he killed himself. If talking about his suicide prevents others from doing the same thing, then that's a positive thing.
That doesn't make it a non-creepy thing to do for an entire community to trawl through his website and post everything he ever wrote.
- nitrogen 14y agoWhen people die, their friends (or in this case, never-met Internet supporters) share their fond memories of the dead, go through old photos, etc. Posting old things from Aaron's web site is a natural extension of this.
- monochromatic 14y agoOver 90% of the HN front page was aaronsw stuff. It seemed a little excessive.
- nitrogen 14y agoFar less than when Steve Jobs died, and for a shorter duration.