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HN does this when a prominent tech person dies. The story will be on the front page. In this case, it was Chuck Thacker.

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It's a sign of mourning for a prominent tech personality's death (in this case Chuck Thacker, a prominent computer scientist that worked at Xerox Park and Microsoft).

May be it should include a message so that more people empathize with the purpose.

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