Michael Rabin has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by sidcool » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:03 PM UTC

Doctoral advisor - Alonzo Church

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by moralestapia » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:05 PM UTC

"As a young boy, he was very interested in mathematics and his father sent him to the best high school in Haifa, where he studied under mathematician Elisha Netanyahu, who was then a high school teacher."

Interesting. Some people are lucky enough to find their vocation quite early in life.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by tclancy » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:06 PM UTC

opem wrote: post #4

It's hard to imagine how a single person managed to accomplish so much. RIP to the great soul :|

Seriously. After reading, I scrolled through his Known For section and thought, “Alright already, leave something for everybody else to work on.”

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by d-cc » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:07 PM UTC

blondie9x wrote: post #12

adrian_b wrote: post #2

Michael O. Rabin had important contributions in many domains, but from a practical point of view the most important are his contributions to cryptography. After Ralph Merkle, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Michael O. Rabin is the most important of the creators of public-key cryptography. The RSA team (Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman) is better known than Michael O. Rabin, but that is entirely due to…

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I wouldn’t really call that AI slop. Some people just write longer posts because they’ve got a lot they want to get across, and you can usually tell it reflects their own opinions and what they think matters in the discussion. Actual AI-generated stuff tends to come off more generic and lacks that personal angle.

I really enjoyed reading it.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by d-cc » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:08 PM UTC

puttycat wrote: post #5

@dang this deserves a black ribbon

What is a black ribbon?

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by riddlemethat » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:16 PM UTC

metmac wrote: post #15

fakedang wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still up. Looks like this is going to be another game of hit the hedgehog.

People keep adding different slurs. Awful and disgraceful.

Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by redwood » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:18 PM UTC

moralestapia wrote: post #22

"As a young boy, he was very interested in mathematics and his father sent him to the best high school in Haifa, where he studied under mathematician Elisha Netanyahu, who was then a high school teacher." Interesting. Some people are lucky enough to find their vocation quite early in life.

Wow hadn't heard of him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Netanyahu

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by ontouchstart » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC

Michael Rabin, 1976 ACM Turing Award Recipient

https://youtu.be/L3FZzGU3n14

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by lambda » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:20 PM UTC

metmac wrote: post #15

fakedang wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still up. Looks like this is going to be another game of hit the hedgehog.

People keep adding different slurs. Awful and disgraceful.

The article has now been been semi-protected to prevent vandalism by anonymous users.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by redwood » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

prmoustache wrote: post #19

fakedang wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still up. Looks like this is going to be another game of hit the hedgehog.

I had a look at the history of todays edits and it is appalling.

Indeed I just figured out how to view them. Wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_O._Rabin&...