Bob Cringely, early Apple employee and 'Triumph of the Nerds' creator, has died
paveworld · hn · 2026-10-04
Bob Cringely, whose real name was Mark Stevens, passed away in his sleep early Saturday, according to a family friend.
An early Apple employee, he was best known for his PBS documentaries — most famously Triumph of the Nerds, which chronicled the rise of the personal computer industry. The news sparked tributes on Hacker News.
More from Companies & People
- Jensen Huang recalls night out in Seoul: 10 rounds of somaek with Samsung's Jay Lee — alexmacgregor__ · 2026-10-04
- Cerebras CEO: architecture choices sidestep HBM, CoWoS and TSMC 3nm bottlenecks — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-10-04
- Tesla FSD drives chest-pain victim to hospital after son remotely reroutes the car — XFreeze · 2026-10-04
- Ex-Amazon Annapurna Engineer Joins Prime Intellect to Build Open Superintelligence Stack — willcb · 2026-10-04
- Mistral CEO says US lead over Europe 'not extremely large', next model to close the gap — burny_tech · 2026-10-04
- Blogger mocks Anthropic's "shepherding the world" metaphor that casts humanity as sheep — morqon · 2026-10-04