Ask HN: Why did HN add a black strip on top?

[ilya_m]

Is this in acknowledgement of Kevin Mitnick's untimely passing?

[slater]

Yes. It gets added when someone in the computing world passes.

[legrande → slater]

> someone in the computing world

Notable / Prominent people. Many hackers die every day, but some are so privacy/security conscious that nobody notices.

[skilled]

> 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.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

[simonblack]

Kevin Mitnick Died.