Michael Rabin has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by myth_drannon » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

redwood wrote: post #27

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

What a small world. But the entire extended family are professors. Too bad one became a politician.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by zozbot234 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

harel wrote: post #35

AlecBG wrote: post #7

First sentence starts with horrible antisemitism. Can someone fix it? (on my phone with kids so not in a position to)

I used to regularly donate to the wikimedia foundation every year. I stopped doing that as I find the whole project is now a political tool and cannot be relied on. Even ignoring vandalism like here, sometimtes the same articles get different meanings depending on the language you view them in.

Different language editions of Wikipedia are completely different projects, with distinct user bases. You're never looking at the "same" article across languages.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by keybored » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:37 PM UTC

apical_dendrite wrote: post #46

ajewhere wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The Wikipedia edit that this thread is discussing was as follows. I think it's worth printing it here to make the point that the commenter above you is completely right about the prevalence of anti-semitism in online discourse today: > Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; September 1, 1931 – April 14, 2026) was a Jew (a.k.a. kike) rat computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the 1976…

Who the heck sets it as their antisemitism campaign to edit “vile X” and “X (aka rat)” on Jewish biographies. Normalizing slurs? I thought the goal of antisemites was to spread propaganda about how Jews are bad. Writing “X (aka BAD)” seems like the weakest possible attempt at that.

I don’t know what people elsewhere in this thread are going on about Israel for.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by keybored » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC

myth_drannon wrote: post #61

redwood wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What a small world. But the entire extended family are professors. Too bad one became a politician.

Benzion?

> Benzion Netanyahu ... A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by beagle3 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:10 PM UTC

keybored wrote: post #64

myth_drannon wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a small world. But the entire extended family are professors. Too bad one became a politician.

Benzion? > Benzion Netanyahu ... A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state.

Benzion’s son (and Elisha’s nephew) Benjamin Netanyahu is the Israeli prime minister.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by keybored » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:11 PM UTC

beagle3 wrote: post #65

keybored wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Benzion? > Benzion Netanyahu ... A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state.

Benzion’s son (and Elisha’s nephew) Benjamin Netanyahu is the Israeli prime minister.

Then there are at least two.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by k4rli » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

AlecBG wrote: post #7

First sentence starts with horrible antisemitism. Can someone fix it? (on my phone with kids so not in a position to)

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Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by k4rli » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC

moralestapia wrote: post #37

redwood wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah. Everything is intertwined at some level. Interesting.

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Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by eranation » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

wk_end wrote: post #57

puttycat wrote: post #5

@dang this deserves a black ribbon

"@dang" doesn't do anything last I heard (though at this point it's used often enough that maybe the HN folks should consider it). If you want to reach the mods you can contact hn@ycombinator.com I believe.

I did.

Re: Michael Rabin has died

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Post by WarOnPrivacy » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 5:51 PM UTC

k4rli wrote: post #67

AlecBG wrote: post #7

First sentence starts with horrible antisemitism. Can someone fix it? (on my phone with kids so not in a position to)

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In the article's edit history there are a number of vandalism edits. There is some objectively awful text that was getting inserted.

It got reverted soon after and I suspect you kept missing the worst of it.