I've noticed this bar above the orange header of HN, but it's only there about once a month or so (maybe less?).<p>It seems to contain an image (s.gif, served from this domain), is it some sort of local analytics tracker?
Today, it's for Joe Armstong ( author of Erlang and computer scientist ).<p><a href="https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html" rel="nofollow">https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html</a><p>Sort of like a black armband, for the website.