Looks like a dot means "most recent post for user". For those with only a single post, these users will have dots. For those with multiple posts, only the latest ones retain the dot.
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Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
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Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the name of the effect that when you click on something random you still end up on something related to you and you think "it's not that random". Because I got that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge
Apophenia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
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Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#43Looks like a dot means "most recent post for user". For those with only a single post, these users will have dots. For those with multiple posts, only the latest ones retain the dot.
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Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#44Looks like a dot means "most recent post for user". For those with only a single post, these users will have dots. For those with multiple posts, only the latest ones retain the dot.
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That random wikipedia link is awesome. Didn’t know you could do that.
What's the name of the effect that when you click on something random you still end up on something related to you and you think "it's not that random". Because I got that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#46Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
That random wikipedia link is awesome. Didn’t know you could do that.
What's the name of the effect that when you click on something random you still end up on something related to you and you think "it's not that random". Because I got that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge
Hmm. I'm having a hard time relating the '1990 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team' to anything in my life though.
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#48Well done! You have discovered part 1 of The Secret! Congratulations!! Clues to Part 2 of The Secret can be found in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Stakes are high! At the end of the trail of clues, the Council of Immortal Wizards will ask you to join their ranks, at which time they will confer immortality upon you. There are only 10E100-1 steps to go! Good luck!
Off topic: is it new for HN to elide urls this way? I’ve never noticed it before but it really annoys me. I like that HN is just text, and preprocessing it this way adds no usability. It makes it harder to copy a URL, if anything, and it certainly isn’t prettier.
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#49Well done! You have discovered part 1 of The Secret! Congratulations!! Clues to Part 2 of The Secret can be found in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random Stakes are high! At the end of the trail of clues, the Council of Immortal Wizards will ask you to join their ranks, at which time they will confer immortality upon you. There are only 10E100-1 steps to go! Good luck!
That random wikipedia link is awesome. Didn’t know you could do that.
I once saw a solo improv performance that was started off by using that to get a prompt for a story
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#50Looks like a dot means "most recent post for user". For those with only a single post, these users will have dots. For those with multiple posts, only the latest ones retain the dot.
I think you are correct. That's something I failed to notice when I referenced your post.