Ask HN: Who Died? 1 points by MasterScrat 3y ago ↗ HN I see HN is showing the "half mast" (black top border) which traditionally means someone close to the hacker community passed. But I have heard of no such news. What happened?
[–] jacquesm 3y ago ↗ Bram Moolenaar, the Dutch author of Vim aged 62, see #4 on the homepage right now.
[–] mtmail 3y ago ↗ The story "Bram Moolenaar has died" on position 4 on the frontpage with 3000 upvotes. When Queen Elisabeth died the story had only 2800 upvotes.
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