Hacker News with Generative AI: Death

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

156 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day 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

1146 points by wut42 1 day ago | 372 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 4 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 13 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 14 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 19 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 20 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 21 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 27 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 32 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 32 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 33 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 35 days ago | 10 comments

Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths (bbc.co.uk)
Medically-assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – accounted for 4.7% of deaths in Canada in 2023, new government data shows.

Canada, Healthcare, Death, Assisted Suicide, Statistics

4 points by n1b0m 36 days ago | 1 comments

Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths (bbc.com)
Medically-assisted dying – also known as voluntary euthanasia – accounted for 4.7% of deaths in Canada in 2023, new government data shows.

Canada, Healthcare, Death, Euthanasia

505 points by vinni2 37 days ago | 823 comments

Moderators Delete Reddit Thread as Doctors Torch Dead UnitedHealthcare CEO (thedailybeast.com)
Doctors in one of the Internet’s top medical communities have turned on the murdered UnitedHealthcare (UHC) CEO Brian Thompson in such brutal fashion that Reddit moderators deleted a thread on the killing.

Reddit, Medical Communities, Healthcare, Violence, Death

69 points by truegoric 43 days ago | 71 comments

Bury me on the moon, preferably on the far side (scientificamerican.com)
I want to be buried on the moon.

Space Exploration, Death, Moon

22 points by mr_tyzic 50 days ago | 133 comments

Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State (technicianonline.com)
Questions are surrounding the death of a popular NC State faculty member, whom NC State police found dead in his office on Nov. 20.

Death, Allegations, Higher Education, NC State, Faculty

214 points by HappyKasper 52 days ago | 148 comments

TTECK Has Passed (github.com/community-scripts)
Good afternoon! I am tteckster's wife. I don't have a clue if anyone will even see this because I'm not the computer savvy person that my husband was, but I wanted to try. I know that he posted an update regarding his health the other week, and I wanted to let you all know that he passed away a few days ago. If anyone sees this, maybe you could make a better post. Thank you for all that supported him.

Health, Death, Community

54 points by codeslave13 65 days ago | 5 comments

A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending (newyorker.com)
If Glenn Horowitz comes calling, should you be flattered or alarmed? It means that you have an exceptional literary reputation. It also means that your time on earth is nearly up.

Books, Literature, Controversies, Death

81 points by acabal 88 days ago | 34 comments

Over 40% of foreigner deaths in Korea have unknown causes (koreatimes.co.kr)
The government has failed to establish the causes of more than 40 percent of deaths of foreign nationals who died in Korea in recent years, a Ministry of Justice report shows.

Korea, Foreigners, Government, Statistics, Death

45 points by type0 89 days ago | 30 comments

Australian Death Notification Service (deathnotification.gov.au)

Australia, Government Services, Death

18 points by teractiveodular 89 days ago | 8 comments

Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal' (elpais.com)
The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, in an image provided by the publisher Pinolia.Joerg SteinmetzRaúl LimónOct 06, 2024 - 16:15CEST<p>Is there anything after death? What is the meaning of life? Are we just a bag of atoms? The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, born in Frankfurt (Germany) 48 years ago, is convinced that if there is a branch of science capable of finding answers to humanity’s existential questions, it is physics.

Physics, Immortality, Death, Existentialism

18 points by bookofjoe 98 days ago | 3 comments

Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal' (elpais.com)
The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, in an image provided by the publisher Pinolia.Joerg SteinmetzRaúl LimónOct 06, 2024 - 16:15CEST<p>Is there anything after death? What is the meaning of life? Are we just a bag of atoms? The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, born in Frankfurt (Germany) 48 years ago, is convinced that if there is a branch of science capable of finding answers to humanity’s existential questions, it is physics.

Physics, Death, Immortality, Philosophy

9 points by geox 102 days ago | 5 comments

Switzerland Police investigate first use of 'suicide capsule' (dw.com)
Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the "Sarco" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances.

Switzerland, Assisted Dying, Crime, Death, Technology

3 points by gmays 105 days ago | 1 comments

Life, death, and retirement (wordpress.com)
I haven’t been blogging much lately, and it turns out there is a very good reason.

Life, Death, Retirement, Blogging

319 points by david2ndaccount 108 days ago | 165 comments

Sex and birth are big business – suicide pods show death is next (thetimes.com)

Business, Death, Ethics, Technology

9 points by bookofjoe 110 days ago | 5 comments

Official documents confirm Navalny was poisoned in prison (theins.press)
The Insider has obtained access to hundreds of official documents related to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in the Polar Wolf penal colony in the Russian Far North on Feb. 16, 2024.

Russia, Politics, Human Rights, Journalism, Death

47 points by acqbu 110 days ago | 36 comments

Woman meant to be first in 'suicide pod' said company tried to get her savings (msn.com)

Ethics, Death, Business, Lawsuits

14 points by impish9208 114 days ago | 1 comments

Swiss police make arrests over suspected death in 'suicide capsule' (theguardian.com)
Swiss police say they have opened a criminal investigation and arrested several people after the suspected death of a woman in a so-called suicide capsule.

Switzerland, Crime, Death, Suicide, Assisted Suicide

6 points by bookofjoe 116 days ago | 1 comments