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I think it might be a relevance or score of some kind.

The reason it might look weird (like a strange progress bar or something) is because it's an img link to "s.gif", but s.gif is actually a 404.

The td cell (yup it's a table structure) the img link is in is named "ind".

No idea what these two things put together mean.

EDIT: Then I noticed a thing between "Hacker News" and "new" at the top. s.gif yet again.

> "It's a spacer gif...! The img tag has an explicit width= set....

Wow, that takes me back a bit, and I'm not even a real webdev or anything (and I don't mind tables to boot). Blinks