[Invertigrate]

I don't think this is needed as it's very obvious who it's dedicated to. If you don't know about the event, then all you need to do is to literally just go through the first two pages (probably just as you would when you're visiting the site which is why you cam in the first place) and you will see it mentioned.

I personally don't think there's a need for this as this is not Reddit and the average user should be able to figure this out on their own.

RIP Dave Mills!

[chfalck]

Why disparage a useful feature by saying people should just settle for an inconvenient solution and search pages of HN titles?

A more intelligent solution would be providing the information which was deemed important enough to make the effort in the first place.

This is a news site. Why would you expect the people arriving to already know the news they came to learn?

[Invertigrate]

>Why disparage a useful feature by saying people should just settle for an inconvenient solution and search pages of HN titles?

The reason being that I'm against oversimplification and I believe it dumbs the community down. The beauty of HN for me is how primitive and free from clutter it is so that I can focus on the content.

>This is a news site. Why would you expect the people arriving to already know the news they came to learn?

I'm not, you can simply find the answer by going through the first few pages, I just don't believe an effort needs to be made to make it easier than that.

[LinAGKar]

You need to go to page 3 before you find any mention of him

[gojomo]

That's currently false - no mention is on the 1st 2 pages. So another suggestion: keep the death news on the front page for as long as the black bar is up.

Otherwise the bar becomes a kind of unfriendly cryptic ingroup signal – "sheesh, don't you already know?".