I have an animated SVG on my README that is rebuilt once a day to include the weather and day of the week. Built during jury duty a few years ago :P https://github.com/jasonlong
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blackant
Product designer at PlanetScale. Previously GitHub. https://jasonlong.me
mdo mentions this in his recent talk: http://jqueryuk.com/2015/videos.php?s=mdo-ular-css
tl;dr; It makes for cleaner grep results.
FWIW, there are 360 possible hues, 20 possible saturation values, and 20 possible luminosity values.
Meta-question: should Ask HN questions (the primary piece of content on the page) be greyed out?
I was excited to read that Iconfactory did the latest icon, but quite frankly, I think the new icon is worse.
My favorite replacement is still this beauty by Daniel Matarazo: https://github.com/dmatarazzo/Sublime-Text-2-Icon
I know they've shut things down for now, but I'd love an invite for when they open back up. jason at blackantmedia dot com
I can't speak for everyone else, but in this case we were hoping to create something that could stand on its own and (hopefully) grow over time as more datasets are added. The domain wasn't registered just to get on HN - the idea lent itself to a simple site of its own, so why not use a fitting domain name?