I don&#x27;t think the mix of stories has changed much. Drawing conclusions about HN based on limited sample sizes is usually fallacious, because there&#x27;s a lot of fluctuation. A thread about Bowie dying is an outlier; when Michael Jackson died the reaction was similar.<p>Comparing the stories about Bowie, Naur, and Amdahl isn&#x27;t valid. Their fame is of different orders of magnitude, even among a sophisticated technical audience.