I noticed the black bar is up today and I don't see any death posts. Is there an easy way to see who this is honoring? It would be nice to have a feature that on hover said who it was or something of the like.
Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
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Re: Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
#2I agree, that would be a good feature.
Thomas E. Kurtz has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761
Re: Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
#3I checked a few pages of https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2024-11-14
And didn't see anything stand out.
It would be a nice feature. If you feel strongly, email dang: hn@ycombinator.com
p.s. thanks @mtmail for sharing the submission for this case.
Re: Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
#4I had the same Problem. Had to check all the headlines until I found it one page back.
I would also like this feature.
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#5This is usually added when there's been a significant death relevant to the HN crowd. However, I don't see a related post, so it's possible that it's a mistake this time.
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#6I believe it is for Thomas Kurtz, one of the two people who created the BASIC language.
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#7Not a bug lol, I see it too!
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#8Agree, did the same.
Re: Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
#9Or pin the thread to top 5 articles while the bar is in effect.
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#10I had the same Problem. Had to check all the headlines until I found it one page back. I would also like this feature.
I could be wrong (and probably am) but I think the black bar stays up for 24 hours.
So it is not surprising if the article moved to the second page when the person does not have instant name recognition.
Like a lot of things on HN, despite being enough effort that someone might complain, going to the second page is not a terrible inconvenience for the minimally curious.