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Ask HN: Black bar added to top of page?
It appears a new <tr> with a black image as background has been added to the top of HN, above the main table. Is that intentional?
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoHappens when someone dies.
- jansan 6y agoI would be nice to get some kind of hint about who passed away if you hover the mouse pointer over the black bar.
- sethammons 6y agoyeah, turning the black bar to a link to the person's wiki would be really, really nice
- justinclift 6y agoThat's a good idea. Just flagged your post (!) in order to get an Admin's attention. Hopefully it's do-able. :)
- cpach 6y agoIf you have any feature ideas it’s better to just email hn@ycombinator.com
- calmconviction 6y agoThe black bar either just coincidentally timed out or went away after I clicked Fran's topic. That's a nice subtle hint
- 0xdeadb00f 6y agoShouldn't it be there every day then since surely at least one person dies every day? /s
- JadeNB 6y agoThis is often used to memorialise important figures. I wish there were some set-up where one could click on it to find out whom it's memorialising. Usually there's an accompanying front-page story, but I don't see it today.
- runjake 6y agoI presume because of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066832
- Shatnerz 6y agoHow long does the black bar usually remain. I thought it was 24 hours, but it feels like it was less than 12 this time. People were asking for it midday when I checked HN and I didn't notice it until the evening. It is already gone in the early morning here.
- iso8859-1 6y agoMost likely because Bill English died: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24032820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24032820 He was at Xerox PARC, where he helped midwife PARC’s invention of the personal computer and other innovations.
- borplk 6y agoHN needs to put a little tooltip description on the black bar. Every time it happens there's an "Ask HN" about it.