Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top of HN?

Today, it's for Joe Armstong ( author of Erlang and computer scientist ).

https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html

Sort of like a black armband, for the website.

Discussion of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19710288

An earlier discussion of Joe Armstrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19706514

Ah, that makes sense.

I appreciate it!

It's there when an eminent person in the field has died, for about a day.

> 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.

It would be nice if the bar could link to the main discussion thread or a page with a short description.