If curious, small past threads:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19360165 - March 2019 (19 comments)

Salton Sea Notes: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s California Travel Journals (1961) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240296 - Sept 2015 (3 comments)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Recounts More Than Six Decades of Life in San Francisco - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9184856 - March 2015 (5 comments)

There's also these obits from today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lawrence-fer...

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/375206219/lawrence-ferlinghet...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26241243 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26243128, but no comments there)