Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas?

Yes. It happens every year.

Someone should make a compendium of all the "Tell HN: Merry Christmas" and corresponding "Ask HN: Why did the colors change?" threads over the years. It would be fun, and is probably be a good fit for semantic search.

The Christmas color scheme is a bit off for me. The title bar is too light to read.

I turned off my dark theme and the page became high-contrast chromatic in my browser. It is readable like that, if brutally so.

and green

Wrong answers only! It's a secret feature of HN, like the black bar, but for when someone has made Dan angry.

12/25 https://diehard.fandom.com/wiki/Nakatomi_Plaza never forget, at Midnight, Hans Gruber falls off the tower. :)