Show HN: O's URL Lengthener • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: O's URL Lengthener

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Post by kloch » Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 10:36 PM UTC

Funny. Reminds me of "Thank you for calling A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Auto repair" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1UzSn1LSro

Re: Show HN: O's URL Lengthener

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Post by klyrs » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 12:38 AM UTC

yrds96 wrote: post #9

Besides the joke this lengthener is very useful tu generate url that people will click just because curiosity

Eh, this is definitely one of those "wait for another sucker to describe their experience in the comments" situations. Whatever the dual of "wisdom of the crowd" is called.

Re: Show HN: O's URL Lengthener

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Post by gus_massa » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 12:54 AM UTC

Somewhat related:

"A URL Lengthener" https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27156106 (1204 points | 4 months ago | 302 comments)

But don't confuse it with

"The World's Longest URL “Shortener”" http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19511735 (45 points | March 28, 2019 | 32 comments)

Re: Show HN: O's URL Lengthener

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Post by aufhebung » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 2:07 AM UTC

After three iterations I get a 414 Request-URI Too Large. Good job.

Re: Show HN: O's URL Lengthener

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Post by quickthrower2 » Wed, Sep 29, 2021, 5:35 AM UTC

perihelions wrote: post #6

enc = ["o", "ο", "о", "ᴏ"] // 006f 03bf 043e 1d0f оh. (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and "extra small capitals" from phonetic alphabet extensions -- if you were wondering). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_symbols_in_Unicode#Ph...