06 Aug, 2023
I’m not sure when Hacker News started adorning a black bar on top of the website after a significant person passed, but I compiled a list of people who’ve received it starting from 2016.
Bram Moolenaar
Bob Lee
Fred Brooks
Kathleen Booth
Roger Hui
Sir Clive Sinclair
Dan Kaminsky
Tony Hsieh
John Conway
Larry Tesler
Joe Armstrong
Larry Roberts
Paul Allen
Stephen Hawking
Seymour Papert
How I got this list
This list was compiled using a simple Python script that recursively requested HN’s Algolia search API for posts containing “has died”. For each relevant hit, I pulled in snapshots from the Wayback Machine to see if the HTML document contained the black bar element at the end of the day the post was created. It’s possible there are names missing.
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