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Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top of HN?
I've noticed this bar above the orange header of HN, but it's only there about once a month or so (maybe less?).
It seems to contain an image (s.gif, served from this domain), is it some sort of local analytics tracker?
- olefoo 7y agoToday, it's for Joe Armstong ( author of Erlang and computer scientist ). https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html Sort of like a black armband, for the website.
- bdibs 7y agoAh, that makes sense. I appreciate it!
- greenyoda 7y agoDiscussion of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19710288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19710288 An earlier discussion of Joe Armstrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19706514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19706514
- Tomte 7y agoIt's there when an eminent person in the field has died, for about a day.
- r3bl 7y ago> for about a day. I'm going to take a wild guess that it's not time-limited. Instead, I believe that the mods put a special tag on the story that makes the bar visible for as long as that story remains on the home page.
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- efiecho 7y agoIt would be nice if the bar could link to the main discussion thread or a page with a short description.