5 ms·
Ask HN: How to check who the black bar is honoring?
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.
- mtmail 2y agoI agree, that would be a good feature. Thomas E. Kurtz has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761
- metadat 2y agoI checked a few pages of https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2024-11-14 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.
- DaOne256 2y agoI had the same Problem. Had to check all the headlines until I found it one page back. I would also like this feature.
- brudgers 2y agoI 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.
- grumple 2y agoThis 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.
- andrewl 2y agoI believe it is for Thomas Kurtz, one of the two people who created the BASIC language. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761
- whamlastxmas 2y agoMy very first programming language was Liberty BASIC from a “for dummies” book. He’s had such a big influence on so many developers. Rip in peace
- gabbssqayy 2y agoNot a bug lol, I see it too!
- laksmanv 2y agoAgree, did the same.
- vdvsvwvwvwvwv 2y agoOr pin the thread to top 5 articles while the bar is in effect.
- mekoka 2y agoOnce in a while I try to click on the black band, hoping that my long awaited feature has been implemented. That it will point to a page that lists the memorials.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoAbout the black bar unchanging: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39064497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39064497
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- jerrygenser 2y agoI didn't know either. I searched has died and limited the search to 24 hours and figured it that way.
- robgibbons 2y agoA simple title attribute would be an easy addition.
- johnisgood 2y agoExactly, this is what I was expecting upon hovering over it.
- aspenmayer 2y agoThis is a great idea. A log of moderator actions on HN generally would be a good idea, imo.
- johnisgood 2y agoThat would be great for transparency indeed, the question is whether or not they want to be transparent. The feature requests mentioned are pretty easy to implement.
- _yb2s 2y agoI think that would be exploited by bad actors- they could e.g. figure out what time of day mods are inactive to best circumvent rules, and know when things were removed in order to re-add them immediately.
- aspenmayer 2y agoI would posit that bad actors already know these all of these things in the status quo absence of desired transparency, with none of the upside or insights that transparency would bring.
- kingkongjaffa 2y agoI just did this search to figure it out: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=died&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
- joshestroud 2y ago:)
- stefanos82 2y agoWe have already suggested this below my original comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305018 Still waiting... :(
- runjake 2y agoI typically run this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=%22has%20died%22&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...