Bill Atkinson Dies from Cancer at 74

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zahlman · 6h ago

Thanks, I much prefer this to the original Facebook link (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210606), since it doesn't require messing with Facebook (and in fact displays without JavaScript).

morninglight · 5h ago

Bill Atkinson, Jef Raskin, Steve Jobs Maybe we should be funding a cure for pancreatic cancer before plowing our wealth into a trip to Mars.

k_roy · 3h ago

I mean, Steve Jobs had basically the only type of pancreatic cancer that people walk away from, and he’s dead because he was into alternative medicine

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Bill Atkinson Dies from Cancer at 74

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