What? I have the black bar on every HN Page... Dont think this is what he thinks
1. How do you track which day had a black bar? By web.archive?
2. How do you associate the day to a specific post? I guess this should be fairly easy, albeit kinda manual.
This list was compiled using a simple Python script that recursively requested HN's Algolia search API for posts containing "has died". For each relevant hit, I pulled in snapshots from the Wayback Machine to see if the HTML document contained the black bar element at the end of the day the post was created. It's possible there are names missing.
> Occasionally, there will be a thin black bar at the top of the top bar, in memoriam of a significant figure in the tech/science community dying. A Hacker News submission about the death will usually be on the front page at that time.