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Re:What's with the black bar? by budu3 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @09:56AM (#14552703)
There's a long standing tradition on Hacker News to put up the black bar when a Computer Science/Engineering/Tech pioneer passes away.
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Re:What's with the black bar? by yellowapple on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:58AM (#14553207)
I think the implied follow up question there is "who died?".

The answer is apparently Chuck Thacker.

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Re:What's with the black bar? by kzisme on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:08AM (#14553289)
This is also one of the top posts currently.
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Re:What's with the black bar? by vertex-four on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:19AM (#14553361)
It's currently number 20 - below this post even.
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Re:What's with the black bar? by kzisme on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @12:13PM (#14553724)
Also for what it's worth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14549574
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Re:What's with the black bar? by kzisme on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:34AM (#14553471)
Ah last I saw the acm post it was around 14ish - meh
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