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psnehanshu• 3 years ago

I don't understand what will happen if I add that link to my bio?

bombcar• 3 years ago

It will notice and the next time you look at your badges, you'll have another one.

Andugal• 3 years ago

When the website retrieves your bio, if it finds that link, it will give you a new badge.

mulmen2• 3 years ago

I apparently said fuck 33 (34 now) times. But when I click on that badge I get a weird popup instead of a link to the comments. Similarly I apparently mentioned Rick Astley. I'm curious when I did that, but I can't find out from this site.

Neat idea but engaging with the site is a total deadend.

unwind• 3 years ago

Yeah, I came to post that too, since I found some of the motivation for the badges dubious, and expected to be able to drill down to see the comments that awarded various badges.

egeozcan• 3 years ago

This reminded me of the South Park episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Hits_the_Fan

Throughout the episode, the profanity "shit" or "shitty" are exclaimed uncensored a total of 162 separate times; in syndicated or re-aired versions of this episode, a counter in the bottom left corner of the screen counts the number of times the word has been uttered

prawn• 3 years ago

A similar segment from The Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSMOVeE9YBI (NSFW, depending on your W)

DANmode• 3 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22722071

romanhn• 3 years ago

Apparently I said it 18 times, which doesn't seem right to me. A Google search didn't return a single example, though there were some instances in replies. Wonder if those are included.

fatnoah• 3 years ago

Same here. It's not a word I'd generally use when posting something here. I assume it's in a reply or something.

rahimnathwani4• 3 years ago

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

defrost3• 3 years ago

I gave that a go on my comments, as I suspected I mostly use the F-word indirectly (quoting from sources, paraphrasing reactions of others, etc) .. but it's interesting the algolia search fuzzy matches to "luck" and "Fukishima" etc.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

sph• 3 years ago

Uh there's a Rick Astley badge? Now I have to find a way to rickroll someone on HN.

ydant2• 3 years ago

The "f word" detection is not accurate at all.

Has used the F word in at least 2 comments and more than 0.1% of comments. ydant has 4 such comments.

My comments:

      1 DuckDuckGo
      3 Luckily
      1 duckdb
      1 luckily
      1 lucks

Replies to me:

      2 Luckily
      1 bucket
      1 bucks
      1 fucking

ydant2• 3 years ago

It is regularly updating, though, as now my count is up to "5 such comments".

samwillis• 3 years ago

Previous thread from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389773

jwhiles• 3 years ago

This taught me that it's possible to change the colour of the header, and that I had enough Karma to do so! Now enjoying my very pink version of hacker news.

mulmen2• 3 years ago

For me it is a flavor of chartreuse (d9e86d).

benatkin2• 3 years ago

mine's ff4400 :D

Or #f40 in CSS.

I see here there's no 420, so I'm gonna give 420420 a shot. :D https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

Make that #cbd420 - it doesn't add a light foreground for a dark background.

nailer• 3 years ago

Needs a Startup News badge for people here before the rename.

thunderbong• 3 years ago

What rename?

grzm• 3 years ago

Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on August 14, 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#History

weinzierl3• 3 years ago

For me it shows the "F Word!" and "Rick Roller" badges but I'm pretty sure I'm neither. It would be helpful that at least for the negative badges it would show the source.

A quick search showed that I once posted a story that has the f-word in the URL. I don't feel that justifies to be branded as an f-word user.

EDIT: Otherwise I quite like it. The idea as well as the execution!

EDIT: This reminds me of when procmail was new and shiny (a long time ago). The smart-alec I was created a rule that threw away all mails the contained the string "viagra". Of course the bytes that comprise the string were coincidentally in an important binary attachment.

Oops, now I probably gained the "Viagra User" HN badge;-) You hopefully see where the issue with a simple keyword based approach is.

rahimnathwani4• 3 years ago

The first time was 8 years ago. The most recent was less than two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35723773

Both times you were quoting someone else :)

weinzierl3• 3 years ago

How did you find all of them? Searching for "f-word username" turns up the one in the URL or lots of comments with the word "luck" in them.

Hamuko• 3 years ago

The F word badge is a negative one?

aww_dang• 3 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8WbLU958Lg

avindroth• 3 years ago

This is cool; a UI suggestion would be to show what the badges are when you hover, and not click-to-alert.

enlyth• 3 years ago

It already does, if you hover over the text label of the achievement (not the graphical icon)

andreacavagna• 3 years ago

Great idea! I was looking for something like that.

A legend on badges would be great :)

eimrine• 3 years ago

I have submitted one topic with 250+ comments and do not have a badge about it, I surprised it does not have 100 upvotes. For me a number of comments in the topics I submit is way more exciting, they are a real people telling a real things and not just some +1.

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