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Posted by tkhattra 3 days ago

Michael Rabin has died(en.wikipedia.org)
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XCSme 15 hours ago|
I loved implementing the Rabin-Karp algoritm, such a fun and celever solution.
BrianneLee011 5 hours ago||
A founding father of computer science has passed away. Thank you for building the foundations that made modern AI possible.
moralestapia 14 hours ago||
"As a young boy, he was very interested in mathematics and his father sent him to the best high school in Haifa, where he studied under mathematician Elisha Netanyahu, who was then a high school teacher."

Interesting. Some people are lucky enough to find their vocation quite early in life.

nephihaha 7 hours ago||
That's Benjamin Netanyahu's brother apparently.

Sad that the only thing that shows up nowadays in searches tends to be Wikipedia. I miss the democratic internet with lots of quirky sites you could find with ease.

jojomodding 5 hours ago||
actually his uncle.
redwood 14 hours ago||
Wow hadn't heard of him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Netanyahu
moralestapia 13 hours ago|||
Yeah.

Everything is intertwined at some level.

Interesting.

k4rli 9 hours ago||
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myth_drannon 10 hours ago|||
What a small world. But the entire extended family are professors. Too bad one became a politician.
keybored 10 hours ago||
Benzion?

> Benzion Netanyahu ... A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state.

beagle3 10 hours ago||
Benzion’s son (and Elisha’s nephew) Benjamin Netanyahu is the Israeli prime minister.
keybored 10 hours ago||
Then there are at least two.
AlecBG 15 hours ago||
First sentence starts with horrible antisemitism. Can someone fix it? (on my phone with kids so not in a position to)
codingrightnow 15 hours ago||
It's been fixed.
welldoneator 14 hours ago|||
Thank you! I’m a casual user of Wikipedia but after this thread I went through the history of edits on the article and...oh my.

I have a greater appreciation for folks like you and the other editors who seem to be constantly removing this type of stuf. Some truly horrendous slurs there.

fakedang 15 hours ago|||
Still up. Looks like this is going to be another game of hit the hedgehog.
metmac 14 hours ago|||
People keep adding different slurs. Awful and disgraceful.
riddlemethat 14 hours ago|||
Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.
dbwkdofpqndjflf 13 hours ago|||
Yeah, I come into contact with some form of Jewish hate on a literal daily basis now. It’s been this way for months.
nothrabannosir 13 hours ago||||
*It’s the old normal :(
frig57 12 hours ago||||
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herodotus 12 hours ago|||
I don't know what country your ancestors came from, but I assume you are not held responsible for any horrible thing that government does.
hheyeuehe 11 hours ago|||
But every surrounding country driving out the Jews over the last eighty years so they have nowhere else to go was fine I guess?
ajewhere 13 hours ago|||
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apical_dendrite 12 hours ago|||
The Wikipedia edit that this thread is discussing was as follows. I think it's worth printing it here to make the point that the commenter above you is completely right about the prevalence of anti-semitism in online discourse today:

> Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; September 1, 1931 – April 14, 2026) was a Jew (a.k.a. kike) rat computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their military research on efficiently culling goycattle in "Greater Israel".

Nothing about this edit is legitimate criticism of Israeli policy. It is pure anti-semitism. Rabin spent most of his career in the United States and worked in abstract mathematics.

I generally agree that legitimate criticism of Israel is often unfairly criticized as anti-semitic. I would like you to also acknowledge that many people on the left summarily dismiss blatant and rank anti-semitism, as you did here.

welldoneator 12 hours ago|||
I commend you for the attempt, even if it’s clear that it’s falling on deaf ears to who you’re replying to.

The rest of us Jews appreciate that you didn’t let it slide.

It’s hard not to wonder why they even bothered clicking into this thread other than “oh the name sounds Jewish, I can push my narrative” especially with respect to their comment history.

ajewhere 11 hours ago||
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welldoneator 9 hours ago||
That’s quite a take to assume willful blindness to widespread suffering.

What is pretty clear though: your obsession with constantly minimizing the lived experience of a minority with “no ackshually they deserve it because they really are this way” warrants a look in the mirror.

ajewhere 5 hours ago|||
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keybored 10 hours ago||||
Who the heck sets it as their antisemitism campaign to edit “vile X” and “X (aka rat)” on Jewish biographies. Normalizing slurs? I thought the goal of antisemites was to spread propaganda about how Jews are bad. Writing “X (aka BAD)” seems like the weakest possible attempt at that.

I don’t know what people elsewhere in this thread are going on about Israel for.

wk_end 9 hours ago|||
I think racists, sexists, homophobes, transphobes, etc. who do that sort of thing aren’t doing it to convince anyone - it’s partially for shock value, partially to help normalize their attitudes and make other bigots feel more comfortable expressing their views, and partially to make the members of the group that they hate upset and feel unsafe.
eranation 7 hours ago|||
Some people are actively trying to shift the Overton Window, and sadly some attempts are more successful than others.
ajewhere 12 hours ago|||
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dbwkdofpqndjflf 12 hours ago||||
One can oppose Israel and the virulent Jewish hate that has exploded in the last few years. It’s not as if massive violence against Jews has never happened.

I don’t believe for a second you’re a Jew.

bluecheese452 12 hours ago|||
Dude just look at the edits on the wiki page.
lambda 14 hours ago||||
The article has now been been semi-protected to prevent vandalism by anonymous users.
bdangubic 11 hours ago|||
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prmoustache 14 hours ago||||
I had a look at the history of todays edits and it is appalling.
redwood 14 hours ago||
Indeed I just figured out how to view them. Wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_O._Rabin&...
zerocrates 11 hours ago|||
An admin has now semi-protected the article.
harel 13 hours ago|||
I used to regularly donate to the wikimedia foundation every year. I stopped doing that as I find the whole project is now a political tool and cannot be relied on. Even ignoring vandalism like here, sometimtes the same articles get different meanings depending on the language you view them in.
zozbot234 10 hours ago||
Different language editions of Wikipedia are completely different projects, with distinct user bases. You're never looking at the "same" article across languages.
harel 8 hours ago||
In that case, Wikipedia should not link to them (and even distance themselves from the edition) if they purposefully change the content of the article to suit a political agenda. The whole thing became a death match arena of factions as mature as 12 year old kids playing an actual death match arena game... This example here just demonstrates my point.
blovescoffee 9 hours ago|||
Wikipedia has demonstrably been ravaged by anti-semitism. Feel free to ignore any of the notes here about Israel / anti-Israeli sentiment which I understand is not clear cut. There's demonstrably antisemitic coalitions editing wikipedia en-masse.

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/editing-hate-how-anti-i...

ogogmad 8 hours ago|||
The ADL labels all opponents of Israel as anti-semitic. They don't speak for Jewish people. Their smears help Israel by hurting Jews, so that Zionists can point to Israel as their only refuge. Helping Israel in turn hurts countless other people who are not Jewish, which Zionists mostly don't care about because Zionists are mostly ethno-centric, full of self-pity, regurgitate predictable lies about Israel's history without doing any critical investigation of their own, and have absolutely no principles. You are amplifying this.

I know this because I've grown up around them. I used to be on their side until I found out that they lied to me about certain events - and to such a degree that they swapped around victim and perpetrator. They told me that the Gazans blew up greenhouses when the Israeli settlers left, because of their insane hatred of Jews. Then I found out that the only people who blew up any greenhouses were the Israeli settlers - and that there was even a website set up solely to rebut the claim that the Gazans did it. Then I found out that Zionists didn't care, because of a long litany of grievances that had nothing to do with Palestinians. Then most of them voted for a government that put Ben Gvir in charge of the police force and prisons. Then they passed on a chance to use diplomatic pressure to get Hamas to step down after the 07/10 attack, without launching a vengeful massacre in Gaza.

Tomte 9 hours ago|||
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tptacek 9 hours ago|||
The moderators of HN aren't Wikipedia administrators.
YZF 9 hours ago|||
Parent is talking about HN not Wikipedia.
Tomte 8 hours ago|||
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ogogmad 8 hours ago|||
What do you mean? Stop beating round the bush.
k4rli 9 hours ago||
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eranation 9 hours ago|||
This is the page history. Using the K word for Jewish people is antisemitic. There was no mention of his affiliation of IDF, in fact the page mentions he was released from service in order to pursue his academics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_O._Rabin&...

WarOnPrivacy 9 hours ago|||
In the article's edit history there are a number of vandalism edits. There is some objectively awful text that was getting inserted.

It got reverted soon after and I suspect you kept missing the worst of it.

puttycat 15 hours ago||
@dang this deserves a black ribbon
wk_end 11 hours ago||
"@dang" doesn't do anything last I heard (though at this point it's used often enough that maybe the HN folks should consider it). If you want to reach the mods you can contact hn@ycombinator.com I believe.
eranation 9 hours ago||
I did.
d-cc 14 hours ago||
What is a black ribbon?
vardump 13 hours ago|||
Probably meant black HN top bar.
dredmorbius 8 hours ago|||
An HN website tweak as a sign of respect on the passing of notable contributors to the tech world:

<https://blog.willmeye.rs/whos-received-a-black-bar/>

LePetitPrince 4 hours ago||
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mclightning 12 hours ago|
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