[bengillies]

While the untimely death Aaron is tragic, the constant fawning over celebrities on Hacker News is frequently depressing. Both in the sense that we, as a community, are not able to rise above it and, rather more selfishly, that I am not one of them.

While, to a large extent, I already knew everything that you'd written, I'd like to thank you for reiterating it.

[danso]

I don't know if I'd call the posthumous interest in Aaron as fawning. He did a lot of great work and had admirable ideals. He no longer has the capacity to be an agent of change. And while you can say his spirit "will live on", part of that passing on the torch comes from a thorough examination and celebration of his life. It doesn't just happen sometime down the road.

[toyg]

I actually feel the opposite: HN is one rare forum, giving space to lots of side-projects and experiments, the overall motto being "stop talking and build it". Of course YC people get more space (hey, it's not a newspaper), but that's hardly "fawning over celebrities", or at least nothing compared to what you'll see on most other sites.