I looked in the FAQ and it says nothing, but I just noticed that some user names are green (both in the home page and in the comments inside links)<p>(for example, http://puu.sh/1C0y)<p>Is it that said users are new? (both the users I saw in green have created < 24 hours, so maybe that's it, but if anyone knows for sure… great :))
Green Accounts are for users who are under 5 days old. You can see all their submissions at - <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories</a>