It’s 250. There’s also a list of all colors in use, sorted by frequency: https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

Nice. I did not know this. I have set mine to #fff2af. I used to manually edit each character and see if it fits for me. It is 480 of 2923 in that list!

Some funny ones:

c0ffee, dadb0d, badcab, deface, deadbf, baddad, daddad, debeef, beefed, adbeef, beeeef, efface, faceb0, deeded, facade, 2faced, decafe, dabeef

#debeef is a lovely lavender actually!

I love that chrome offers to translate this page from Welsh.

#abcabc is second on HN... "soft foam". Because people like foam, or easy to remember?

I was so happy when I reached that number (or whatever it was) and didn't have to look at the orange bar any more.

For anyone looking for a more tasteful topcolor, try d0c8b5. It's just a darker version of the main HN background color, so it's easy on the eyes.

And here I thought it was released for everyone at the point where I apparently hit that number. Is it just me, or is the fact that it's based on karma not clear?

I mean, Hackernews isn't known for its good UX. What does "showdead", "noprocrast", "maxvisit", "minaway", "delay" do in the profile? I've been using HN for a while and I have no clue

There's a FAQ that covers the profile settings: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html