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"I also found out that you could change your topcolor and immediately set it to #000000 so people would stop pestering me when they saw I was reading a hacker w

• vinothgopi 14y ago
  What does that mean?
  • html5web 14y ago
    It means if you change header colors of HN website nobody can guess that's actually HN.
  • SoftwareMaven 14y ago
    #000000 is black in HTML. setting your top color black would make the text in the top nav invisible.
    • chromedude 14y ago
      That is exactly the point. They don't want people seeing that they are on HN.
      • SoftwareMaven 14y ago
        Right, I got that. I was explaining it to my parent. :)
  • spatulon 14y ago
    Once you reach a certain karma threshold, you gain the ability to change the colour of the orange bar at the top of HN pages. The setting is labelled 'topcolor'.
    • comex 14y ago
      Off topic, but why the heck does this require karma?
      • p4bl0 14y ago
        The required karma threshold is not much (500 if I remember), so it may be a way to say "thanks and keep going" to people who start investing some time to participate to HN.
• kami8845 14y ago
  :) I've actually just changed it to #333333 so I can still kind of make out the shapes of [threads] and [myusername] when I want to click on them.
• georgemcbay 14y ago
  If anyone who frequents hacker news shoulder-surfs you, they'll wonder who died.