Ask HN: Why has a black line appeared along the top?

2 points by antihero 10y ago ↗ HN

It's irritating as I had a background colour of white, because it was nice and minimal, and now there's a harsh black line there, which doesn't appear to serve any purpose. Could we have a control panel switch to make the line optional?

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longwave 10y ago ↗

HN puts a black bar up for a while when someone notable dies, in this case Seymour Papert: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12201810

azeirah 10y ago ↗

The black line appears whenever someone notable has died, please feel free to remove Seymour Papert's legacy with a line of css.

ishener 10y ago ↗

something should be clickable so we can find out who died... like google doodle...

f_allwein 10y ago ↗

Usually, there is an article on who died on the front page, so you just have to look for it...