The blood moon rises once again.
Ask HN: Did the HN top bar turn red?
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#12375 years ago on this day, Isaac Newton was born. We don’t know whether the apple that inspired him to his theory of gravitation was green or red, so I guess the admins play it safe.
Isn't Newton's birthday January 4th, but was December 25th in their calendar back in the day? Or is it the other way around?
You are correct. He was born December 25th, 1642 as per the Julian calendar and January 4th, 1643 as per the Gregorian calendar that almost everyone uses today.
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#13Haven't seen this, maybe because I use a custom color (the default one seems "too orange" for me)
How do you set a custom color?
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#15Yuletide. Even if that merry feast in many parts of the world is heavily overshadowed by so-called Christmas these days.
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#17You must be new here ;-)
I've been here for years, and I forgot literally every year why this happens and have to remind myself.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hah! As a deuteranomalous person I wouldn't have noticed without someone telling, and then inspecting very carefully :(
They have glasses to correct that. Called Enchroma.
Well, normally that's not an issue at all.
But those glasses are interesting. Never heard about this before. I'll check out - thanks a lot!