[HN Gopher] Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame One night I was deep in a rabbit hole, reading old HN comments. I eventually ended up scraping a bunch of usernames and building a game! Please suggest any other users who you'd want to see/upstanding members of the community who deserve to be featured. Author : MovingTheLimit Score : 8 points Date : 2023-12-14 19:16 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.hngitblame.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.hngitblame.com) | ShamelessC wrote: | Is this just a guessing game basically? | | edit: Oh, I see it loads the comment. On first viewing it just | showed the url of the comment. | MovingTheLimit wrote: | Yup! It's a game. | orng wrote: | I got 10/10 without having any idea who any of the people (except | pg) were. The comments always made it possible to link to the | companies of the posters somehow. Interesting experiment to try | to figure that out but I'm left wondering if I should be familiar | with all those people and what they do. | MovingTheLimit wrote: | You might've gotten a lucky roll haha, I'm currently adding | more prominent community members (thanks, dang!) that should | make it harder to guess. Thanks for playing though :) | zamadatix wrote: | Fun! It runs into a bit of a problem that a lot of of these | comments are in threads where they feel the need to disclose who | the are so the comment starts "Cruise CEO here" and the answers | list only has one option for someone from Cruise. | MovingTheLimit wrote: | Hahaha yes for sure, but you can count those as free points for | now. If people end up loving this project I'll think about | adding obfuscation ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-14 23:00 UTC)