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Black bar is an empty gesture. Who does it serve? He died, his ideas didn't.

>>kzhaho+(OP)
Well humans mourn their dead, but also there is a more practical reason if you'd like:

When I see a black bar on Hacker News, it serves as an alert to me to scan the news more carefully. Although I knew who McCarthy was, Jobs, etc, I didn't know this person. The black bar alerted me that someone in this community that is considered quite an influence died. Now I'm reading all about the person in various articles. The black bar helped to alert me to that.