Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top or HN right now?

4 pointschrisshroba5 comments

It's a td element with a bg color of #000000. Inside of it is an image tag of height 5 and width 0. The image source is "s.gif".

Apparently, the element appears when someone notable has passed away

Maybe Paul Allen?

Yup

Running low on orange toner.