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I highly doubt anyone in any HN-related community is living their life hoping to get a black bar for a day.

• krapp 11y ago
  It's not much of a prize, but the fact that it goes up for some tech-related deaths and not others makes it a de facto posthumous award, whether it's intended to be or not. People inevitably talk about how someone "deserves" the black bar, as if it should be something earned and not given.