I use it as an obvious visual indication of whether or not I'm logged in. Usually it’s because I’m not using my primary browser, which means I should be testing something but instead ended up on hacker news… somehow. Good reminder to get back to work.

Is this an April's fool joke? I can't find this setting.

You need 250 karma. Some history here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13498128

Damn karma limits. So close, yet so far.

Same, I feel so close and I didn't even know this was a thing! My wife always changes the color on the iPhone app to whatever holiday/season it is. The current color is the Cadbury egg purple.

Well, maybe 35 more generous people will donate their upvote to you this April Fools Holiday so, you too, can pick whatever damn header color you like.

Happy Holidays! (I already donated my upvote to The Cause.)

Hahaha, this made me laugh.. My good deed for the day has been upvoting a comment to allow someone to change their hackernews header colour.

It's taking me a while to parse this event.. I'm going to turn off the laptop and go get a drink now. Maybe two.

Damn you internets! What have I become!

I have finally found a good use for April Fools: Advocating silly behavior on HN of a sort that normally gets frowned upon.

That actually does square the circle.

Every other time I have suggested upvoting someone past a karma threshold so they could do a thing, I got downvoted into the negatives. Because, clearly, someone hitting 250 karma and getting to pick their own header color is an enormous threat to the social pecking order and quality of discussion by completely destroying the signal value of karma ranking.

I shall be back next year to repeat this experiment and see if it works again (assuming I remember).

Only if HN had RemindMe! 365 days "April Fools upvotes".

Well, I assume you will have your 250 by then. Just comment and/or post articles. You aren't too far from it.

Thank you for your contribution to The Cause!

Did it work?

What a tease

What do you expect on April 1st?

No? The option is under "minaway".

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/EmO0gz1.png

It should be called "topcolor"

There's a karma threshold for it to appear, for some reason.

My favorite is #F6F6EF. It's so classy! http://i.imgur.com/El12iud.png

I'm #6698FF. Never tried anything else. http://i.imgur.com/wpvvd0p.png

I went for #00ff00 myself.

I have mine set to grey so people can't spot what I'm up to from the other side of the office ;)

I set mine to #cc3300 - a darker shade of orange - because otherwise when Flux kicks in at night the bright orange seems to become super-bright orange!

http://imgur.com/m9PNYfw

Mine is some shade of lavender. Because lavender is the bestest.