Tell HN: DanBC has died

petercooper

RIP. I note that he had a Twitter thread a month ago where he shared some broad observations about healthcare and ended it with a goodbye: https://x.com/DanBealeCocks/status/1819712155941228853

throwanem

I'll miss his commentary here, and I'm glad to hear he is celebrated among those who knew him.

May flights of angels sing him to his rest.

Theodores

I am from Gloucestershire myself and I never realised that DanBC was from my manor. I could have walked past him in the High Street to never know that he was the owner of a HN handle I recognised and read.

May Dan rest in peace, and in Gloucestershire. There are worse places to spend an indefinite period of time.

saagarjha

There are always people that stop posting on this site and I wonder where they’ve gone. Found a better place to spend their time, perhaps? At least, that’s what I hope for them. I am sure the same is for Dan :( I wish the best to those who knew him well.

eru

Makes you wonder whether anyone outside of your immediate friends and family will miss you.

RIP Dan.

jdorfman

RIP Dan. Thanks for your contributions to HN and mental health communities.

serf

that's too bad.

I enjoyed his commentary, even if often it seemed that he didn't enjoy mine -- I'll miss the perspectives.

danssister

Dan’s sister here. Came to see what people were saying. Thank you to those who shared true feelings, memories and condolences.

To those of you who took the discussion in your self-serving tangential rants, wow! “Know your audience” might be advice you could take to heart.

pabs3

More links:

https://q.health.org.uk/community/directory/dan-beale-cocks/ https://www.instagram.com/dan.bealecocks/ https://www.threads.net/@dan.bealecocks https://mastodon.social/@DanBC https://www.youtube.com/@danbealecocks4344 https://www.pinterest.co.uk/danbc/ https://www.quora.com/profile/Dan-Beale-Cocks https://soundcloud.com/dan-beale-cocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DanBealeCocks https://spoutible.com/DanBC https://tildes.net/user/DanBC

toomuchtodo

Terrible news. If it’s important to you, reminder to let someone know to let HN know if you pass away.

chris_wot

I'm so sorry to hear about this.

TeMPOraL

Rest in peace, Dan. Like many other, more important ones, this place too will feel different, lesser, knowing you aren't around anymore.

CassyJH

To some extent, a person continues to live in his affairs, intellectual work and the memory of people.

brador

His last post here “ Be interesting to see if climbers like it - I'd love to see Wide Boys testing it out.”

Makes you think what your last will be.

Whatever it is it’ll live on in some legacy database till bit rot finally takes it.

renewiltord

Oh no. Man I had so many arguments with this guy. I didn’t know he was dying.

thinkingemote

Rest in peace Dan.

skybrian

Also Tildes, I believe: https://tildes.net/user/DanBC

RIP.

shadowdang

Honestly shocked (bamboozled) that he wasn't living in SV and a former Yahoo senior eng or whatever by how he wrote. Some people just have strong opinions I suppose. Welp RIP.

xupybd

I hate and fear cancer so much.

Why does it seem like so many are dying of cancer :(

jasonvorhe

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balls187

Fuck Cancer. RIP.

tivert

Totally off topic HN implementation observation, as of this writing:

This post:

in_memoriam's karma (just this post, no comments):

> karma: 83

Apparently the karma credit for posts is points/5.