Ask HN: Does anyone else see a black band on top of the HN page ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5989936

by nns • 13 years ago

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senic• 13 years ago

I suppose it's because of Doug Engelbart's death.

lmm2• 13 years ago

Urgh. Are we going to do this every time someone dies? HN already has a tendency to get spammed up with fifty copies of approximately the same article with the same comments when this happens, this is only going to make it worse.

eatmyshorts• 13 years ago

Engelbart was not just "someone". As the other comments in this thread have pointed out, he didn't just invent the mouse. He conceived of hypertext 25 years before the world wide web. He conceived of object-oriented programming. Graphical user interfaces. Watch The Demo ( http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html )if you want to see a man that was truly ahead of his time.

I think he had a greater influence on the current state of computing than Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie, or perhaps anyone in the computing world than anyone except for Alan Turing.

I think it is quite appropriate to morn his death.

shock• 13 years ago

Why is the black bar bothering you so much?

thesmileyone• 13 years ago

Don't be so disrespectful.

jaachan• 13 years ago

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5986307

lujaw• 13 years ago

yes, I do.. and the hacker news UI extension on the chrome is also different..

shklnrj• 13 years ago

Yes I do. I am not sure why it is here though.

antonio-R• 13 years ago

Yes. It mus be a new feature!

Ask HN: Does anyone else see a black band on top of the HN page ?

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