This doesn't belong to hacker news
False, if that were the case this place would turn into Reddit within a week. This is a purposely curated community. The guidelines state "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
There's no interesting new phenomenon here to make this worth discussing. It's just a celebrity obituary generating mediocre pop-culture nostalgia and member-berries.