Ask HN: Why is the top bar red?

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Christmas. They&#x27;re being festive!

The ranking numbers also alternate red and green.<p>Probably for the holidays.

Red represents the blood of a famous man who was supposedly killed many years ago for spreading some controversial ideas.

Because it&#x27;s the day that we celebrate the birth of a man who was nailed to a tree over 2000 years ago for saying how wonderful it would be if we could be nice to people for a change. Even though today isn&#x27;t his birthday.

Is this really a mystery to you? It is clearly a Christmas thing along with the red&#x2F;green alternating colors for posts.