There's an option in the HN settings to change the color of the topbar. When I first signed up I didn't know why it was there (I still don't) but I changed it to a fetching shade of green[1].
I've had it that way for so long that HN always looks odd to me when I log out and it goes back to orange.
Well, maybe 35 more generous people will donate their upvote to you this April Fools Holiday so, you too, can pick whatever damn header color you like.
Happy Holidays! (I already donated my upvote to The Cause.)
Every other time I have suggested upvoting someone past a karma threshold so they could do a thing, I got downvoted into the negatives. Because, clearly, someone hitting 250 karma and getting to pick their own header color is an enormous threat to the social pecking order and quality of discussion by completely destroying the signal value of karma ranking.
I shall be back next year to repeat this experiment and see if it works again (assuming I remember).
Same, I feel so close and I didn't even know this was a thing! My wife always changes the color on the iPhone app to whatever holiday/season it is. The current color is the Cadbury egg purple.
I use it as an obvious visual indication of whether or not I'm logged in. Usually it’s because I’m not using my primary browser, which means I should be testing something but instead ended up on hacker news… somehow. Good reminder to get back to work.
I set mine to #cc3300 - a darker shade of orange - because otherwise when Flux kicks in at night the bright orange seems to become super-bright orange!
saw the design and though "if I wanted only titles I'd be at HN". then I looked for a "old design" link. when I found none I actually deleted the site bookmark from my phone! the worst part is that I've been there long enough to know even the less obvious than pony April fools pranks.
The best April Fools event this year is reddits drawing canvas. I am already watching it the whole day and it's very interesting to see how the different "groups" interact, e.g. the current "war" between the German and French flag.
> Someone should seriously do a PhD thesis on this thing. Such a wealth of human interaction.
Yes, all the subreddits/factions/projects created for this subs and their interaction between each other is highly fascinating. If I were in social/behavioral science I would be very tempted to do research and write about it.
I guess you could at least write one paper just about the blue corner in the bottom left. It started very strong but then somehow it lost steam and people left for other projects.
The bad thing is I thought this was part of the April Fool's joke:
"An anonymous reader writes:
A "spaceshot" company that emerged from Y Combinator three summers ago and is targeting a revolutionary change in the way computers work has landed $64 million to help it in the race against much bigger tech giants. Rigetti Computing, which operates out of Berkeley and Fremont, is tackling quantum computing and going up against research being done by the likes of IBM, Intel, Microsoft and others... Rigetti is building a cloud quantum computing platform for artificial intelligence and computational chemistry. It recently opened up private beta testing of 'Forest', its API for quantum computing in the cloud. It integrates directly with existing cloud infrastructure and treats the quantum computer as an accelerator."
Then the link said March 28. Well, good luck to them on their quest to disrupt quantum computing, cloud computing, AI, and chemistry all at once. :)
After many years, HN pretty much replaced Slashdot as my technews drug of choice. I think they noticed at Slashdot that quite a bunch of their loyal following left for the orange stuff. Fun joke though.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 95.5 ms ] threadI've had it that way for so long that HN always looks odd to me when I log out and it goes back to orange.
[1]: http://i.imgur.com/r6tbAt4.png
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/EmO0gz1.png
Happy Holidays! (I already donated my upvote to The Cause.)
It's taking me a while to parse this event.. I'm going to turn off the laptop and go get a drink now. Maybe two.
Damn you internets! What have I become!
I shall be back next year to repeat this experiment and see if it works again (assuming I remember).
http://imgur.com/m9PNYfw
Edit: over a decade ago, actually! https://www.cnet.com/news/good-one-slashdot/
saw the design and though "if I wanted only titles I'd be at HN". then I looked for a "old design" link. when I found none I actually deleted the site bookmark from my phone! the worst part is that I've been there long enough to know even the less obvious than pony April fools pranks.
/slow clap, Slashdot.
You can see a timelapse here: http://spacescience.tech/place/
Someone should seriously do a PhD thesis on this thing. Such a wealth of human interaction.
Yes, all the subreddits/factions/projects created for this subs and their interaction between each other is highly fascinating. If I were in social/behavioral science I would be very tempted to do research and write about it.
I guess you could at least write one paper just about the blue corner in the bottom left. It started very strong but then somehow it lost steam and people left for other projects.
"An anonymous reader writes: A "spaceshot" company that emerged from Y Combinator three summers ago and is targeting a revolutionary change in the way computers work has landed $64 million to help it in the race against much bigger tech giants. Rigetti Computing, which operates out of Berkeley and Fremont, is tackling quantum computing and going up against research being done by the likes of IBM, Intel, Microsoft and others... Rigetti is building a cloud quantum computing platform for artificial intelligence and computational chemistry. It recently opened up private beta testing of 'Forest', its API for quantum computing in the cloud. It integrates directly with existing cloud infrastructure and treats the quantum computer as an accelerator."
Then the link said March 28. Well, good luck to them on their quest to disrupt quantum computing, cloud computing, AI, and chemistry all at once. :)
It was very silly, the top headline was "Linux Possibly Defamed Somewhere"
[1] http://www.suck.com/daily/99/12/13/daily.html (the layout has not aged well on this one, sorry. pre-CSS days)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14010978