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What happened to the other post on Hal, that was at the top of the page with nearly 200 votes? Did people actually flag that off the site?
by jnbiche 12y ago
What happened to the other post on Hal, that was at the top of the page with nearly 200 votes? Did people actually flag that off the site?
- daddykotex 12y agoI found this, I don't know of it's what was posted earlier: http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2014-August/082585.html http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2014-August/...
- jnbiche 12y agoYes, that's it, but I'm more concerned with what happened to what was basically an eloquent tribute to Hal that was upvoted by 200 people, and included comments by several people who knew Hal.
- jacquesm 12y agoIt looks like it got severely penalized and is now somewhere around page 7. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=7 https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=7
- jnbiche 12y agoOh, one thread degenerated into a ridiculous cryogenics debate. That's sad, I wish people on both sides of that debate had chosen to show Hal the same respect that other software pioneers were given when they passed away and were featured on HN. Especially considering how much he and other early cypherpunks pioneered privacy-enhancing software that so many of us have benefited from (PGP and Bitcoin, to name two).
- dang 12y agoWe buried it because it turned into a flamewar about cryogenics instead of being about Hal Finney, and there was another post about Hal (this one) on the front page at the time.
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