It's a black line 1px high at the top of the page above the orange bar. Here's a snapshot of it from 2011:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111006184954/http://news.ycomb...

Correction: it's 5px high

Blacking out the orange bar at the top of the site. Traditionally done in mourning.

You know, I was wondering what site. Perhaps, it's some sort of an orange thing on the launch site (of rockets). The sudden context switch of parent comments talking about astronauts got me :-)

I've never seen the orange bar being blacked out recently (since I've been a member).

Glenn does seem like a swell guy!

Edit: fix typos

Thanks.