I've personally chosen to go for style rather than discretion and set it to #99cc33. It's been almost two years I think now and I really like it this way. You

I've personally chosen to go for style rather than discretion and set it to #99cc33. It's been almost two years I think now and I really like it this way. You can see what colors people are using here: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors. I don't know how they are sorted. Also, if you want to remove the "Hacker News" text from the topbar and keep the rest of the text readable, it's easy to do with some CSS. For instance in Firefox's userContent.css you can add: @-moz-document domain(news.ycombinator.com) { .pagetop b { display: none; } }