alt Hacker NewsHow is this hacker news worthy? Never heard of her or the song. Is from a time when people carried boomboxes on their shoulders?
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Death notices of famous artists are regularly on HN. If people upvote it, it should be worthy.
Nah, occassional non tech stuff is very welcome. It’s interesting to see HN’s perspective on other things
Next total eclipse, 2026-08-12.
Total: Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Northeastern Portugal
Partial: Northern North America, Europe, West Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_...
Maybe it's not.
Guidelines:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, (...) If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
It's not even "geek music", to add to your perplexity.
Indeed - blocking space for the 600th OpenAI press release
Very famous singer, multiple very famous songs, 40 yo song topped the carts during the 2024 Eclipse, was pretty much the theme song for a very small indie movie called Shrek 2.
Well, historically, 1983 is:
- 19 Years after the first superscalar CPU, the CDC-6600
- 10 Years after RFC-675, the first TCP version.
- 14 years after the first ARPANET nodes where connected.
- 1 year after Hopfield Networks, paving the way to Boltzman Networks around two years laters, demonstrating how neural networks could learn to solve complex problems.
- The same year Kunihiko Fukushima developed his work on the Neocognitron for visual pattern recognition, a percursor for future work on Convolutional Neural Networks.
- 3 years before first papers on Backpropagation in neural nets.
- First paper on Reinforcement Learning with reward signals (Baron, Sutton and Anderson)
- 3 years after first smalltalk release.
- 2 years after IBM launched the PC.
- 1 year after 3Com launches the first Ethernet board for the PC.
- 1 Year after Sun Microsystems foundation.
- Unix and C 15th anniversary.
- 6 years after the first commercial relational database.
- 11 years after the first vector processor (Cray-1), arguably the great-grandfather of all modern GPUs
- The same year Borland released Turbo Pascal.
- The same year Apple launched Lisa, and one year before the first macintosh.
- 2 years before Intel launched the 80386 cpu.
- 2 years before C++ first commercial release.
Yeah, hardly a relevant year for us to discuss its culture on HN.
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Before that. Her breakthrough album was 1977 and Total Eclipse of the Heart came out in 1982, so it was more the 8-track era. It remained a staple of radio plays (remember those?) through the 80s and 90s though, and was remade by Nikki French into a chart-topping dance version in 1995.
A lot of HN is folks in their late 30s, 40s, and early 50s (and sometimes even older!), so many folks here would've overlapped with the radio era. A lot of folks here were involved in making YouTube/Instagram/TikTok, not listening to it.