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

3 points_bxg13 comments

Anybody noticed that new black bar at the top of HN? Here's its HTML:

  <tr>
    <td bgcolor="#000000">
      <img src="s.gif" height="5" width="0">
    </td>
  </tr>

s.gif is a single (1x1) white pixel

It's used to pay respect to a recently deceased tech person. In this case, Larry Tesler: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282

In the past, we've had it for Steve Jobs and Aaron Swartz, among others.

and Bert Sutherland:

Dunno why this afternoon, and that story, rather than the 4 or more other links that cycled through since yesterday.