Stan Lippman has died (2022)(en.wikipedia.org)

94 points by subharmonicon 3 years ago | 14 comments

Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website(bell-labs.com)

202 points by massimosgrelli 3 years ago | 48 comments

Dennis Ritchie Home Page(cm.bell-labs.co)

87 points by colinprince 3 years ago | 11 comments

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

1521 points by jdcampolargo 2 months ago | 90 comments

Stephen Wolfram's memorial blog post for his wife Elise Cawley (1961–2026), reflecting on their 36 years together.

Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World(joshuakennon.com)

98 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 46 comments

Om Malik has died(om.co)

1286 points by minimaxir 4 months ago | 159 comments

Death announcement on Om Malik's blog stating he passed away June 24, 2026 at Stanford Hospital after a long heart illness, inviting remembrances.

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)

597 points by skwee357 9 months ago | 638 comments

A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died(pgdp.net)

572 points by ron_k 1 year ago | 86 comments

A Distributed Proofreaders wiki memorial page announcing the death of Dr. Gregory B. Newby, longtime CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.

Mike Mageek is dead(fudzilla.com)

318 points by dannyobrien 2 years ago | 58 comments

Fudzilla news post by Nick Farrell reporting the death of tech journalist Mike Magee ("Mageek"), co-founder of The Register and The Inquirer.

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years(mtlynch.io)

351 points by eichin 6 months ago | 226 comments

Blog post by Michael Lynch describing how Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini used Claude Code to find remotely exploitable Linux kernel bugs, including one hidden for 23 years.

Dave Mills has died(elists.isoc.org)

635 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 62 comments

Vint Cerf's post to the ISOC Internet-history mailing list announcing that Dave Mills, creator of NTP and the Fuzzball routers, died on January 17, 2024.