Hacker News with Generative AI: Death

Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died (engadget.com)
One of Samsung's CEOs, Jong-hee Han, has died due to a heart attack, according to Reuters and CNBC.
Samsung, Business, Death, Technology
258 points by ksec 9 days ago | 156 comments
Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death (newsweek.com)
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica Aber, who was found dead at the age of 43 by Virginia authorities on Saturday, was at the helm of high-profile investigations into intelligence leaks, allegations of war crimes against Russian-linked individuals and people suspected of providing sensitive U.S. technology to Moscow before she stepped down at the start of the year.
Law Enforcement, Intelligence, Russia, Espionage, Death
34 points by doener 10 days ago | 2 comments
Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death (newsweek.com)
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica Aber, who was found dead at the age of 43 by Virginia authorities on Saturday, was at the helm of high-profile investigations into intelligence leaks, allegations of war crimes against Russian-linked individuals and people suspected of providing sensitive U.S. technology to Moscow before she stepped down at the start of the year.
Law Enforcement, Russia, Intelligence, Death
8 points by throwaway5752 10 days ago | 1 comments
Dead People Database: DOGE deletes names of 3.2M individuals aged 120+ (indiatimes.com)
Data, Privacy, Technology, Death, Cryptocurrency
9 points by teleforce 14 days ago | 0 comments
Daniel Kahneman died last year by assisted suicide (jpost.com)
Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman, who died last year, used doctor-assisted suicide to end his life, a Wall Street Journal essay revealed on Friday.
Death, Assisted Suicide, Psychology, Nobel Prize
16 points by wslh 18 days ago | 1 comments
My pet rat is dying. I can't stop thinking about all the things he taught me (theguardian.com)
But here’s the thing: Bob is my son. He is kind, cuddly, stubborn and wilful. Even people who don’t like rats are moved by him.
Pets, Animals, Relationships, Death
7 points by arp242 20 days ago | 1 comments
Swedish Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström dies in plane crash (thelocal.se)
Swedish businessman Carl Lundström, co-founder of illegal file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has died in an aeroplane crash in Slovenia, according to the far-right party he was linked to.
Death, Business, Piracy, Sweden, Aviation
40 points by Jerry2 21 days ago | 12 comments
Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus 1 week earlier (wfsb.com)
Authorities revealed Friday that actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and showed severe signs of Alzheimer’s disease a full week after his wife died of hantavirus in their home.
Celebrities, Health, News, Death
12 points by howard941 26 days ago | 9 comments
A 'Third State' Between Life and Death That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious (popularmechanics.com)
A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected.
Biology, Consciousness, Death, Science
13 points by rolph 28 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: My father passed away. How do deal with the grief? (ycombinator.com)
It has been one month since he passed and i have been continuously crying. I am writing this with tears in my eye.
Grief, Personal Experiences, Advice, Support Groups, Death
37 points by gogo61 37 days ago | 26 comments
Death of OpenAI whistleblower deemed suicide in new autopsy report (techcrunch.com)
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled widespread speculation online.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Technology, Death, Suicide
3 points by SanjayMehta 46 days ago | 1 comments
The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind (nautil.us)
Delirium exposes the gap between the ideal and the reality
Death, Consciousness, Neuroscience, Psychology
25 points by dnetesn 49 days ago | 2 comments
The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind (mitpress.mit.edu)
Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.
Death, Neuroscience, Psychology, Medicine, Cultural Studies
179 points by anarbadalov 52 days ago | 131 comments
What happens to your online accounts when you die? (digitalseams.com)
A few months ago, I heard of a work acquaintance's death via his company's social media. Shocking and abrupt - I had just met up with him (let’s call him George) for the first time. We joked over beers in a cozy little alleyway cafe, me and a coworker and George.
Death, Online Accounts, Digital Legacy
154 points by bobbiechen 52 days ago | 65 comments
An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment (fortune.com)
A few months before his death, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji spoke out against his former employer, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Whistleblowers, Death
38 points by trymas 52 days ago | 2 comments
Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019) (newsweek.com)
Human corpses move around significantly as they decompose, according to an Australian researcher who observed a dead body over a 17-month period.
Science, Death, Decomposition
101 points by andrewaylett 66 days ago | 72 comments
John McAfee 'returns from the dead' to promote a memecoin on Elon Musk's X (mashable.com)
If enough hasn't already happened this week – John McAfee is apparently back from the dead.
Cryptocurrency, Elon Musk, Social Media, Death, Memecoins
8 points by raybb 69 days ago | 2 comments
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78 (theguardian.com)
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while also probing the bizarre, the radical and the experimental, has died aged 78.
Film, Death, Obituaries, Director, American
158 points by helsinkiandrew 76 days ago | 2 comments
David Lynch has died (variety.com)
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.
Film, Death, Television, American Cinema, Surrealism
1190 points by wut42 76 days ago | 378 comments
An Illustrator Dies, His Last Book Unfinished. In Steps His Son (nytimes.com)
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak.
Family, Death, Art, Books, Children's Literature
7 points by prismatic 79 days ago | 1 comments
Killing Orson Welles at Midnight (2011) (nybooks.com)
It’s two in the afternoon. No one is groaning; no one turns over in bed or hits an alarm clock—it’s much too late for that. Love set you going like a fat gold watch.… But by two o’clock the morning song is just a memory. We are no longer speculating as to what set us going, we just know we are going. We are less sentimental in the afternoon. We watch the minute hand go round: 2:01 becoming 2:02 becoming 2:03.
Time, Literature, Death
19 points by bookofjoe 88 days ago | 4 comments
Do You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It (nytimes.com)
Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.
Science, Death, Reincarnation
18 points by jbegley 89 days ago | 4 comments
Human composting is rising in popularity as an earth-friendly life after death (cnn.com)
Human Composting, Environment, Death, Sustainability
9 points by mooreds 94 days ago | 2 comments
Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death (theguardian.com)
Poornima Ramarao greeted everyone with a smile as they offered condolences for the death of her son, Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Law Enforcement, Death
288 points by c420 95 days ago | 123 comments
Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy (sfist.com)
There is a bit more intrigue around the tragic death late last month of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment of an apparent suicide.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Death, Suicide, Investigations
230 points by miles 96 days ago | 151 comments
Voices from the Dead Letter Office (harpers.org)
Who can deny that the letter—pen, paper, envelope, stamp—is dead, incontrovertibly, relentlessly, unforgivably, unmistakably dead?
Writing, Death, Communication, Technology
8 points by tintinnabula 102 days ago | 0 comments
Ukraine says it killed senior Russian general who died in scooter blast (bbc.com)
A senior Russian general, Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, and his assistant, have been killed in a bomb blast in Moscow
Ukraine, Russia, Military, War, Death
12 points by FridayoLeary 107 days ago | 3 comments
How a young Dutch woman's life began when she was allowed to die (theguardian.com)
At the last minute, Zoë decided to call off her euthanasia. But how do you start over after you’ve said all of your goodbyes?
Euthanasia, Life Choices, Personal Stories, Death, Netherlands
8 points by kawera 107 days ago | 4 comments
OpenAI whistleblower S.Balaji found dead in his apartment (bbc.com)
An OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower has been found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, authorities said.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, News, Death
7 points by ptrrrrrrppr 108 days ago | 1 comments
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment (reddit.com)
OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment (siliconvalley.com)
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Whistleblower, Death, San Francisco
125 points by hobo_in_library 110 days ago | 10 comments