Doesn't look like to be a "hacker" news, except if I'm missing an important fact about him? For me it is just a regular news like the one I will probably also see in any news aggregator like Google news and in newspaper.

Sadly it takes spot for more interesting "hacker news" that I might like to discover.

In addition, this person doesn't really look like to be worthy of hommages or being regretted from what I see that he has done.