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What's with the black bar?
Did someone die?
- theandrewbailey 9y agoChuck Thacker https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548030 Worked at Xerox PARC, and project leader on the Alto.
- budu3 9y agoThere's a long standing tradition on Hacker News to put up the black bar when a Computer Science/Engineering/Tech pioneer passes away.
- yellowapple 9y agoI think the implied follow up question there is "who died?". The answer is apparently Chuck Thacker.
- kzisme 9y agoThis is also one of the top posts currently.
- vertex-four 9y agoIt's currently number 20 - below this post even.
- coppolaemilio 9y ago[meta] They should add something else to avoid having this question everytime there is a black bar at the top. It happened to me, it happened to many others and now to Grangar. Is there a repo where to contribute to HN's code? Maybe an admin?
- zitterbewegung 9y agoThey should have hover over text or a sticky post on the top.
- accountyaccount 9y agoJust sticky the post inside of the black bar like so http://imgur.com/a/Mceqq http://imgur.com/a/Mceqq
- milesokeefe 9y agoOr even just an alt tag.
- nailer 9y agoNow what alt tags are for and won't work on mobile.
- candu 9y ago+1. title and aria-label attributes would go a long way here.
- steven777400 9y agoI even went into the view-source figuring there would at least be an html comment and suggestive css class. I guess in retrospect now it's obvious what the bar is for but I agree a hover or similar would be nice.
- spookyuser 9y agoExactly, if people don't know what it's for then what's the point of doing it in the first place.
- coldtea 9y agoHmm, the black bar could be a link to the person's wikipedia page or something...
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThe suggestion that it be a link or something similar has come up... almost every single time there's a black bar. Hasn't happened since I've been here, doubt it's gonna happen anytime soon either. I just scroll through page one until I see the word "died".
- Fej 9y agoFlag at half-staff.
- egwynn 9y agoThese threads wouldn’t happen if there were enough information carried in the bar itself (e.g. text, linking, hovering, etc.). I feel weird that this thread is marked "[flagged]”. I’d read the post about Chuck’s passing yesterday, noticed the bar today, and still didn’t realize that’s what it was for. This thread is what answered that question for me.