This kind of thing really should not be reposted (have duplicate posts I mean). I assumed a second nuclear scientist was murdered when I saw the headline.

c.f. MIT News obituary https://news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-loureiro-professor-director-p...

I found those two sets of threads very demoralizing when they happened.

I like to think HN is better than the level of conspiracy theory adoption and 4chan-like haha dude died let me make jokes about it posts in those pages.