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News circulating on Hacker News says technology writer Bob Cringely has died. Cringely was best known for his long-running column in InfoWorld, his book 'Accidental Empires' and the 1996 PBS documentary series 'Triumph of the Nerds', which chronicled the rise of the personal computer industry. Readers in the discussion are sharing memories of his decades of reporting on Silicon Valley. Details about his death have not been confirmed in the thread.