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Sorry if this sounds bad, but without having to read the article, what exactly does the bar signify?

• asadhaider 11y ago
  It's added as a mark of respect when someone important to the community dies, in this case it's Gene Amdahl.
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• 27182818284 11y ago
  It is done from time to time on Hacker News during a significant death in the computer/hacker world. There was similarly one done for John McCarthy years ago http://web.archive.org/web/20111025011711/http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20111025011711/http://news.ycombi...
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  • alain94040 11y ago
    Possibly because your started your comment with "without having to read the article". If someone answers a question with a link to an article, you could skim the article at least, rather than post that you didn't bother to check the article out, and would rather have someone else explain it to you in the comments section.
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