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A comment on Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now?.

Re:Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now? by admay on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:11PM (#18224875)
It's a td element with a bg color of #000000. Inside of it is an image tag of height 5 and width 0. The image source is "s.gif".
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Re:Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now? by admay on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:12PM (#18224887)
Apparently, the element appears when someone notable has passed away

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14119021

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Re:Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now? by admay on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:13PM (#18224896)
Maybe Paul Allen?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now? by epiddy on Monday October 15, 2018 @07:14PM (#18224906)
Yup
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Re:Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now? by masonic on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:37PM (#18225958)
Running low on orange toner.
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