Even though he may not be as notable as some of the others, Aaron Swartz's legacy is a very big part of HN in every way.
Let's black bar HN
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#2I imagine it'll get black barred in the morning (california time). Apart from everything else Aaron Schwartz was also a YC alumni from YC's very first class in summer 2005.
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#3I'm sure the black bar isn't there because PG happens to be asleep. Its unfortunate that he'll wake up to such bad news.
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#4Any relative lack of notability vs. the others HN has black-barred was because he died so young.
Think of all the things he likely would have done over the next 60 years if he slowed down even 50%.
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#5Can't agree more.
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#6I imagine it'll get black barred in the morning (california time). Apart from everything else Aaron Schwartz was also a YC alumni from YC's very first class in summer 2005.
Does anyone know the full background story on this? Every time I hear the story, it was mostly Alexis and Steve including the retelling of how they pitched PG. Where did Aaron fit in and how does that story go?
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#7I imagine it'll get black barred in the morning (california time). Apart from everything else Aaron Schwartz was also a YC alumni from YC's very first class in summer 2005.
Does anyone know the full background story on this? Every time I hear the story, it was mostly Alexis and Steve including the retelling of how they pitched PG. Where did Aaron fit in and how does that story go?
There are more than one version of this story. Aaron's version is there: https://aaronsw.jottit.com/reddit, here is Alexis' version: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexisOhanian/posts/HJz9Vd58Wtb and here is what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History.
Re: Let's black bar HN
#8I imagine it'll get black barred in the morning (california time). Apart from everything else Aaron Schwartz was also a YC alumni from YC's very first class in summer 2005.
Does anyone know the full background story on this? Every time I hear the story, it was mostly Alexis and Steve including the retelling of how they pitched PG. Where did Aaron fit in and how does that story go?
I believe he was a part of Infogami (also funded by YC) and only later on joined reddit.
Re: Let's black bar HN
#9I imagine it'll get black barred in the morning (california time). Apart from everything else Aaron Schwartz was also a YC alumni from YC's very first class in summer 2005.
Does anyone know the full background story on this? Every time I hear the story, it was mostly Alexis and Steve including the retelling of how they pitched PG. Where did Aaron fit in and how does that story go?
PG himself clarifies the situation here: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...
(Not a 100% sure if that's the real Paul Graham though..)
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#10Any relative lack of notability vs. the others HN has black-barred was because he died so young. Think of all the things he likely would have done over the next 60 years if he slowed down even 50%.
He co-authored the RSS 1.0 spec at the age of 14. The mind boggles at what the tech world has lost out on.