All these young tech people dieing lately is a bit unsettling. It's a big world. There are thousands of people (many of whom most of us haven't heard of, but a

All these young tech people dieing lately is a bit unsettling. It's a big world. There are thousands of people (many of whom most of us haven't heard of, but a few have) who would get an HN mention if they died, and 20- to 40-year-old people still have a ~0.1% per year death rate. It's nothing unusual. The Internet just makes people more attuned to it. If you went to a 1000-person high school, you probably only lost two classmates in your whole time and it was a big deal. Now, however, there are so many interesting people in the (amorphously defined) tech community that, yes, interesting young people are going to die all the time.