Tell HN: Hacker News add a black bar on top

Posted by Sea-n on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:42PM
from the self-post dept.

Hacker News has had the same layout since 2007 Aug.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070830/http://news.ycombinator.com/

After 16 years, the layout has finally been updated. They added a black bar on the top today.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230821/https://news.ycombinator.com/

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News add a black bar on top by mdwalters on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:26AM (#37205490)

Your statement sounds like you're joking, but either way, it means someone died. It'll be back to normal after 2 days, assuming the story stays on the front page for 2 days.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News add a black bar on top by breckenedge on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:43PM (#37205216)

Tell me you don’t visit HN often without telling me you don’t visit HN often.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News add a black bar on top by Ariarule on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:56PM (#37205288)

"Occasionally, there will be a thin black bar at the top of the top bar, in memoriam of a significant figure in the tech/science community dying." -- https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#thin-b...

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News add a black bar on top by ClassyJacket on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:16AM (#37205415)

They do this temporarily when someone dies.

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Re:Tell HN: Hacker News add a black bar on top by cratermoon on Sunday August 20, 2023 @11:46PM (#37205227)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobes-co-founder-john-wa...

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