Comment by Permit
3 days ago
Many (probably not most, but close to it) death announcements on Hacker News are not tech related: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
In recent posts I see Brian Wilson (musician), Sly Stone (musician), Frederick Forsyth (author) and Michael Madsen (actor) all with over 50 points.
Just because the moderators don't follow their own rules, doesn't make it right to spam obituaries about random celebrities