[DanBC]

On HN the top orange[1] bar is sometimes changed to black when someone significant[2] to computing dies.

[1] orange unless you've got enough karma to set it to some other value

[2] significant to computing is not the right phrase here, sorry for clumsiness.

[nathannecro]

Perhaps just: "someone significant to the community".

[mreiland]

got it, thanks for the explanation. I figured it was something like that, but wanted to be sure :)