Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#1

Post by MovingTheLimit » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 7:16 PM UTC

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.

Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame
hngitblame.com

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#2

Post by ShamelessC » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:45 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#3

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:46 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#4

Post by MovingTheLimit » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:46 PM UTC

ShamelessC wrote: post #2

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.

Yup! It's a game.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#5

Post by orng » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:56 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#6

Post by zamadatix » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:58 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#7

Post by MovingTheLimit » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 10:59 PM UTC

orng wrote: post #5

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.

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 :)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#8

Post by MovingTheLimit » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 11:00 PM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #6

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.

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

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#9

Post by toomuchtodo » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 11:06 PM UTC

This is very cool! Thank you for sharing!

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Git Blame

#10

Post by MovingTheLimit » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 11:14 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #9

This is very cool! Thank you for sharing!

thanks! based on your karma, will add you to the game as well :) please LMK if you have other recommendations