Bonnie Tyler has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by burkaman » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

japhyr wrote: post #46

Growing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today: https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart... I believe that's the original source, but it looks cut off. Here's a full version: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c98...

Reminds me of when she was on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and they played a "finish the lyrics" game: https://youtu.be/vl7UfjtLzcQ?t=260

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by madcaptenor » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:52 PM UTC

heresie-dabord wrote: post #68

cramer4next wrote: post #11

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Next total eclipse, 2026-08-12. Total: Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Northeastern Portugal Partial: Northern North America, Europe, West Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_...

IIRC her best-known song saw a spike in popularity around the 2024 solar eclipse. (I know I played it a few times.)

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by madcaptenor » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

swader999 wrote: post #21

cramer4next wrote: post #11

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Every now and then an article like this is fine.

Every now and then HN falls apart

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by sdoering » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

slowin wrote: post #54

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #5

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

Absolute classic. If anyone is interested, the Footloose soundtrack (which has Holding Out For a Hero on it) is probably one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. The movie sucks but damn, this soundtrack is incredible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footloose_(1984_soundtrack)

Agree and disagree. Love the movie. Hate the remake. But the OST is really great. We can agree on that.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by auto » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

Just as good a time as ever to post one of my favorite classic deep YouTube video's, Hurra Torpedo's cover of Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Slightly NSFW, some plumber's crack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by CamperBob2 » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

vardump wrote: post #24

Little by little, memories of the 1980s fade.

Tears in rain, etc.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by shevy-java » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

That's sad. She had such a distinct, unique voice.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by elzbardico » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

cramer4next wrote: post #11

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Well, historically, 1983 is:

- 19 Years after the first superscalar CPU, the CDC-6600

- 10 Years after RFC-675, the first TCP version.

- 14 years after the first ARPANET nodes where connected.

- 1 year after Hopfield Networks, paving the way to Boltzman Networks around two years laters, demonstrating how neural networks could learn to solve complex problems.

- The same year Kunihiko Fukushima developed his work on the Neocognitron for visual pattern recognition, a percursor for future work on Convolutional Neural Networks.

- 3 years before first papers on Backpropagation in neural nets.

- First paper on Reinforcement Learning with reward signals (Baron, Sutton and Anderson)

- 3 years after first smalltalk release.

- 2 years after IBM launched the PC.

- 1 year after 3Com launches the first Ethernet board for the PC.

- 1 Year after Sun Microsystems foundation.

- Unix and C 15th anniversary.

- 6 years after the first commercial relational database.

- 11 years after the first vector processor (Cray-1), arguably the great-grandfather of all modern GPUs

- The same year Borland released Turbo Pascal.

- The same year Apple launched Lisa, and one year before the first macintosh.

- 2 years before Intel launched the 80386 cpu.

- 2 years before C++ first commercial release.

Yeah, hardly a relevant year for us to discuss its culture on HN.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by CamperBob2 » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #4

auslegung wrote: post #2

Literal music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed

There’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”. “Haaaand comes out…”

Safety Dance is up there with the better ones, too.

Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by paulirwin » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC

My two-year-old son had started saying "turn around" in a sing-song kind of way several months back, and thus my wife and I, both babies of the 80s, had to start singing the song whenever he would do it. It became a fun thing that my son enjoys more than we do. That turned into regularly playing this song (and its covers) in the living room. We just did this again a few nights ago because he loves the song so much and requests it now.

RIP Bonnie.