gerikson , 3 months ago Vernor Vinge, patron saint of the singularity and noted winner of a couple of libertarian fiction awards, has passed. HN wanted a black bar[1] but were denied. They compensated by posting a lot of bad takes. Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775304 'jart (aka Justine) has this to say about the impending Singularity (feat. Trump and Twitter!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777929 This hackernews wishes he has been frozen, to be thawed in the future (for some reason, no-one expects the future to be Idiocracy): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776217 [1] when a notable person in CS dies there's sometimes a black bar under the HN header
Vernor Vinge, patron saint of the singularity and noted winner of a couple of libertarian fiction awards, has passed. HN wanted a black bar[1] but were denied. They compensated by posting a lot of bad takes.
Submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39775304
'jart (aka Justine) has this to say about the impending Singularity (feat. Trump and Twitter!):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39777929
This hackernews wishes he has been frozen, to be thawed in the future (for some reason, no-one expects the future to be Idiocracy):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39776217
[1] when a notable person in CS dies there's sometimes a black bar under the HN header