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Ask HN: What is the new black horizontal line at the top of HN?
21 points by lsr_ssri on Oct 16, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



Perhaps time to add it to the FAQ.


It certainly is a frequently asked question. But spelling everything out is against the spirit of the site.

On HN it's good for readers to have to work a little, and the audience is smart enough to figure things out.


It's equivalent to the flag at half mast:

> When someone important to the community dies, a thin black bar is added to the top of HN as a mark of respect


Welcome to HN! I love this question every time I see it.


Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has died.


It's for the late Paul Allen RIP. Should've known, sorry all.


I'm relatively new to HN, and as such I hadn't encountered the black line before. Thanks for asking the question so that noobs like me can find out the answer.




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