Samantha Harvey's 'beautiful and ambitious' Orbital wins Booker prize(theguardian.com)

27 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 9 comments

Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years(theguardian.com)

30 points by mitchbob 1 month ago | 13 comments

Gloria Steinem has died(theguardian.com)

132 points by mellosouls 1 month ago | 56 comments

Frederick Forsyth has died(theguardian.com)

46 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 15 comments

RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies(theguardian.com)

105 points by KnuthIsGod 1 year ago | 41 comments

US court upholds Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's conviction(theguardian.com)

54 points by stevekemp 1 year ago | 65 comments

Jane Goodall has died(latimes.com)

1188 points by jaredwiener 1 year ago | 161 comments

Los Angeles Times obituary reporting that primatologist Jane Goodall, known for her chimpanzee research, has died at 91.

Lynn Conway has died(en.wikipedia.org)

1600 points by kevvok 2 years ago | 308 comments

Wikipedia biography of Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer behind the Mead–Conway VLSI revolution, who died June 9, 2024.

Maggie Smith has died(variety.com)

322 points by asix66 2 years ago | 35 comments

Variety obituary reporting that actress Maggie Smith, known for Downton Abbey and Harry Potter, has died at 89.

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101(bbc.com)

482 points by danso 1 year ago | 90 comments

BBC News obituary reporting that Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb has died at the age of 101.

The revolt of the reader(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

554 points by chmaynard 1 month ago | 269 comments

Bryan Cantrill blog post arguing, as a reader, against people publishing LLM-authored writing under their own names.

Jimmy Carter has died(washingtonpost.com)

1081 points by gkolli 1 year ago | 633 comments

Washington Post obituary reporting the death of former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter.