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There's a long standing tradition on Hacker News to put up the black bar when a Computer Science/Engineering/Tech pioneer passes away.

I think the implied follow up question there is "who died?".

The answer is apparently Chuck Thacker.

This is also one of the top posts currently.

It's currently number 20 - below this post even.

Ah last I saw the acm post it was around 14ish - meh