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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (21 children)

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

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago (9 children)

fucking christ. it takes a lot to fuck up my day, but a quick scroll through that thread seeing how quick these vultures (including one notable person who’s the reason why I’m ashamed to talk about my lambda calculus projects) are trying to capitalize on Vernor’s legacy is absolutely doing it

HN wanted a black bar[1] but were denied.

why in the fuck? is the famous sci-fi author with a heavy CS background not notable enough for the standards of the site whose creator is a much less notable self-help author whose CS background is failing to make a working Lisp 3 times and writing programming textbooks nobody reads?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What made me mad was them referring to the Deep* books as "hard SF". Arguable A Deepness... could be as it's set in the Slow Zone so FTL travel is impossible, but A Fire... is classic space opera.

[–] self@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

right? it’s a weird combination of these folks never engaging with the work they pretend to celebrate and trying to pretend that their AI fantasy will turn real life into a space opera. it’s fucking awful

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