Huh, I joined the day MegaUpload went down. I don't remember, but I expect that those are probably related.
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#42Doesn't work for me: Sorry, your username was not found. Maybe you have never submitted or commented anything. user: edw519 created: 3070 days ago karma: 72254 about: Free ebook, "The Best of edw519": hn.my/edw519 twitter: @edw519 http://twitter.com/edw519 e d w 5 1 9 a t g m a i l https://hn.algolia.com/?query=edw519&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment 5,008 results
Besides what DanBC suggested, it doesn't work (gives username not found error) if you're blocking JS.
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#43View page source. $(function () { var 火 = new Firebase("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/"); var ໆ = "http://news.ycombinator.com/"; $("#誤").hide(); $("form").submit(function () { 火.child("v0/user/" + $("#username").val()).on("value", function(結果) { var 人 = 結果.val(); if (人 && 人.created) { var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3); var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(/[-T:]/g,""); var ꜛ = "https://web.a…
ໆ = Lao repetition indicator, named 'ko la' (probably pronounced more like 'koh-laa' than 'cola', but quaint anyway. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%BB%86
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#44"Google reader is dead"
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#45Wow. I knew it's been a long time, I didn't realize I joined so near the beginning. Mine has "Why we made this site" submitted by pg.
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#47First link of mine seemed interesting at the time, but I guess it was one of those YC duds: https://web.archive.org/web/20070405032412/http://news.ycomb...
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#48I haven't commented on anything :( :D
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#49View page source. $(function () { var 火 = new Firebase("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/"); var ໆ = "http://news.ycombinator.com/"; $("#誤").hide(); $("form").submit(function () { 火.child("v0/user/" + $("#username").val()).on("value", function(結果) { var 人 = 結果.val(); if (人 && 人.created) { var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3); var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(/[-T:]/g,""); var ꜛ = "https://web.a…
I heard about http://recursivecharacters.com last week at a lisp meetup. Just an art project, doesn't actually have an evaluator, but the author went to some detail to describe how an evaluator might work.
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#50Doesn't work for me: Sorry, your username was not found. Maybe you have never submitted or commented anything. user: edw519 created: 3070 days ago karma: 72254 about: Free ebook, "The Best of edw519": hn.my/edw519 twitter: @edw519 http://twitter.com/edw519 e d w 5 1 9 a t g m a i l https://hn.algolia.com/?query=edw519&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=comment 5,008 results
It worked when I tried it: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...