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		Aachen on Aug 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: People who've received a black bar on Hacker News Was surprised Steve Jobs wasn't in there, I thought that was like 6k votes https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Turns out he's rocking the passed away list rather than the has died list. Find your niche and own it, fitting It's 4.3k actually btw, would be second to Stephen Hawking unless Bram gets a few hundred more votes and takes second place. I'd never have guessed the vim author would get close to the apple founder. Probably the wrong morbid thing to speculate on, but this surprise makes me wonder what legends like Carmack or Gates will get

krn on Aug 6, 2023 [–]

> I'd never have guessed the vim author would get close to the apple founder.

We would need to see the "inflation adjusted" numbers here, because Hacker News has certainly had a lot of growth since 2011.

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