Stephen Wolfram's Memorial for His Wife Elise Cawley Tops Hacker News at 1,610 Points
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Wolfram published a tribute to Elise Cawley (1961–2026), a pure mathematician he met in September 1990 and was with for 36 years, who died instantly of a cardiovascular event while recovering from heart surgery, shortly after virtually attending a celebration for one of their four children. The post became the highest-scoring item on Hacker News this week with 93 comments — a notably restrained comment-to-point ratio for a site that argues about everything. Worth noting only because it is a reminder of what the technical community still reads as unambiguously worth its attention.