Hacker News with Generative AI: Obituaries

George Wendt, best known for playing Norm on Cheers, dies aged 76 (theguardian.com)
George Wendt, the actor best known for playing Norm in long-running sitcom Cheers, has died at 76.

Celebrities, Television, Obituaries

7 points by mellosouls 3 days ago | 0 comments

Gail Wellington, former Commodore executive, has died (legacy.com)
Gail P. Wellington, 85, of Limerick, PA, passed away on May 14, 2025.

Obituaries, Technology, Business

106 points by erickhill 6 days ago | 50 comments

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder (eff.org)
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know.

Obituaries, Cryptography, Online Libraries

269 points by coloneltcb 8 days ago | 33 comments

In Memoriam: SF and Fine Artist David Schleinkofer (downthetubes.net)
We’re sorry to report the passing of American SF and fine artist David Schleinkofer, who died earlier this week, of Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Art, Obituaries, Science Fiction

13 points by omnibrain 26 days ago | 1 comments

Read the Obits (mitpress.mit.edu)
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

Creativity, Reading, Obituaries

279 points by EA-3167 26 days ago | 123 comments

Joe Nickell, Paranormal Investigator and 'Real-Life Scully,' Dies at 80 (nytimes.com)
Joe Nickell, Paranormal Investigator and ‘Real-Life Scully,’ Dies at 80

Obituaries, Paranormal, Skepticism

7 points by bookofjoe 31 days ago | 3 comments

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com)
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual liberty in Latin America, while also writing essays that made him one of the most influential political commentators in the Spanish-speaking world, died on Sunday in Lima. He was 89.

Literature, Peru, Nobel Prize, Obituaries

12 points by wslh 40 days ago | 1 comments

Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (raganwald.com)
On April 8, 2020, John Horton Conway developed symptoms of COVID-19. On April 11, 2020, he succumbed to the disease.

Programming Languages, Mathematics, Obituaries

25 points by iamwil 46 days ago | 4 comments

Val Kilmer: Top Gun, Batman and The Doors actor dies aged 65 (bbc.com)
Actor Val Kilmer, who starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, including Top Gun and Batman Forever, has died at the age of 65.

Celebrities, Obituaries, Film, Entertainment, Music

11 points by marban 51 days ago | 2 comments

Val Kilmer has died (nytimes.com)
Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts and elusive personality also made him a high-profile supporting player, died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 65.

Obituaries, Actors, Hollywood

151 points by handfuloflight 52 days ago | 59 comments

Dave Täht has died (libreqos.io)
We’re devastated to announce that Dave Täht has passed away.

Obituaries, Technology, Open Source

245 points by mhandley 52 days ago | 53 comments

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 (bbc.com)
A decorated World War Two code breaker who spent her youth deciphering enemy messages at Bletchley Park has died at the age of 101.

History, Code Breaking, Obituaries

504 points by danso 52 days ago | 101 comments

Richard Chamberlain dies aged 90 (theguardian.com)
Richard Chamberlain, the hero of the 1960s television series Dr Kildare who found a second career as an award-winning “king of the miniseries,” has died. He was 90.

Obituaries, Television, Actors, Entertainment

15 points by sandebert 54 days ago | 4 comments

Gene Winfield, One of History's Greatest Hot-Rodders, Dies at 97 (thedrive.com)
Not many people get the chance to live 97 years, but Gene Winfield did. The creator of hot rod and Kustom icons born in 1927, passed away Tuesday after spending time in a professional care facility. He leaves behind cars and innovations, of course, though more valuable than that are the impressions he left on the generations of builders who followed him.

Automotive, History, Obituaries, Design

19 points by PaulHoule 68 days ago | 3 comments

Chris Moore, illustrator for classic sci-fi books, has died (nytimes.com)
Chris Moore, a British artist who conjured fantastical worlds with high-sheen covers for books by science-fiction masters like Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Alfred Bester, and who lent his artistry to albums by Rod Stewart and Fleetwood Mac, died on Feb. 7 at his home in Charmouth, on the southwestern coast of England. He was 77.

Science Fiction, Illustration, Art, Obituaries

51 points by donohoe 72 days ago | 8 comments

The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, has died (ip4only.me)
Notice: The owner of ip4.me/ip6.me, Kevin Loch, passed away.

Obituaries, Internet, Domain Names

284 points by lieuwex 80 days ago | 91 comments

Remembering Duane Blehm (engineersneedart.com)

Obituaries, Engineering, Art

9 points by chmaynard 81 days ago | 2 comments

Boris Spassky: 1937–2025 (chessbase.com)
Boris Spassky, the tenth World Chess Champion, was a chess prodigy who became a grandmaster at the young age of 18. He won the World Chess Championship in 1969, and held the title until 1972, when he lost to Bobby Fischer in the famous "Match of the Century". Boris passed on Thursday at the age of 88. He was a decades-long personal friend of the author. | Photo Frederic Friedel, taken in June 2007

Chess, Obituaries

299 points by throwaway81523 84 days ago | 66 comments

Gene Hackman has died (nytimes.com)
Gene Hackman, who never fit the mold of a Hollywood movie star but became one all the same, playing seemingly ordinary characters with deceptive subtlety, intensity and often charm in some of the most noted films of the 1970s and ’80s, has died, the authorities in New Mexico said on Thursday.

Obituaries, Actors, Film, Hollywood

154 points by romaniitedomum 85 days ago | 163 comments

Martin Pilkington, Stalwart of the Mac and Apple Dev Community, Dies from Cancer (daringfireball.net)
Sad news, posted to his Mastodon account:

Mac, Apple Development, Obituaries

14 points by tosh 96 days ago | 1 comments

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died (eurogamer.net)
Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52.

Video Games, Gaming, Art, Design, Obituaries

602 points by Trasmatta 96 days ago | 128 comments

The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup (worksinprogress.news)
Professor Donald Shoup died on February 6th. M. Nolan Gray explains how his mentor changed political economy of parking, and cities themselves, forever.

Urban Planning, Cities, Economics, Obituaries

321 points by herbertl 100 days ago | 303 comments

Harry Stewart, Jr., one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen, dies at 100 (apnews.com)
Retired Lt. Col. Harry Stewart Jr, a decorated World War II pilot who broke racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airmen and earned honors for his combat heroism, has died. He was 100.

Military History, Obituaries

22 points by cf100clunk 101 days ago | 7 comments

Streetsblog Mourns the Passing of Donald Shoup (streetsblog.org)
Donald Shoup, the author of the groundbreaking High Cost of Free Parking and UCLA Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA, passed away last Thursday evening, February 6, 2025.

Urban Planning, Transportation, Obituaries

8 points by riffic 104 days ago | 1 comments

Michael Foord Has Died (python.org)

Python, Programming, Community, Obituaries

25 points by samanator 117 days ago | 1 comments

David Lynch, Visionary Director of 'Twin Peaks' and 'Blue Velvet,' Dies at 78 (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, Television, Obituaries

16 points by magoghm 127 days ago | 1 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 127 days ago | 2 comments

Steve Langasek, one of Ubuntu Linux's leading lights, has died (thenewstack.io)

Linux, Ubuntu, Open Source, Technology, Obituaries

311 points by CrankyBear 135 days ago | 26 comments

Hermit guardian of Budelli dies after three decades on paradise island (theguardian.com)
Mauro Morandi, an Italian man nicknamed “Robinson Crusoe” by the media after living alone on a paradise island for more than three decades, has died at the age of 85.

Nature, Italy, Human Interest, Obituaries

12 points by n1b0m 136 days ago | 0 comments

Team 17 Co-Founder Martyn Brown Has Passed Away Aged 57 (timeextension.com)
We're sad to report that Team17 co-founder Martyn Brown has passed away. He was 57.

Gaming, Obituaries, Video Games

39 points by AndrejXY 146 days ago | 7 comments