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Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by rms on Friday January 22, 2010 @05:43AM (#1069443)
Oh, come on people, let's play along. Remember, it's not the number of your epenis that is important, it's how you use it.

I'm #140.

Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by jgrahamc on Friday January 22, 2010 @05:50AM (#1069453)
I'm #1910, but I have excellent Slashdot Karma, my own (four-digit) assigned port number and a three character domain name.

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by dmd on Friday January 22, 2010 @07:17AM (#1069539)
I'm too new to be in the database.

But, my Slashdot UID is # 404 (though I haven't posted or even visited in years).

And I have a 2 character domain name. (3e.org)

And I'm in enterprise-numbers, but I have no idea why or how I got there.

Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by CWuestefeld on Friday January 22, 2010 @11:36AM (#1069950)
My webcam site, which existed only to let me make sure my puppy didn't get into trouble while I'm at work, got listed in WebSense as "adult content". That makes me sorta famous, right? (It was true that my puppy was naked)
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by cabalamat on Friday January 22, 2010 @06:33AM (#1069503)
I once had the #1 Google hit for a common English word. Interestingly, I didn't do any conscious SEO to achieve this.
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by sant0sk1 on Friday January 22, 2010 @09:54AM (#1069746)
Yah, but how many digits is your ICQ number?
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by sshconnection on Friday January 22, 2010 @04:33PM (#1070736)
It's funny that I still remember my icq number without hesitation. I haven't used it in years, but I think it's like your first phone number or something that you just don't forget.

Edit: 19662##

Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by Dauntless on Friday January 22, 2010 @06:53AM (#1069520)
I'm #45... quite a proudful number :) It's kind-of nice to compare two id numbers with the number of days ago that the accounts were created in, to see how many registered during that period.
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by mixmax on Friday January 22, 2010 @08:13AM (#1069610)
If you had been #42 I would have had a question for you.
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by nostrademons on Friday January 22, 2010 @05:58AM (#1069461)
#77. I wonder how many before that were YCombinator founders who had early access.
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by iamelgringo on Friday January 22, 2010 @08:06AM (#1069600)
#80. Was it a link from PG's essays or a link on Reddit that brought us over here?
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by rms on Friday January 22, 2010 @08:33AM (#1069635)
http://www.reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_news_ycombinato..., but I was a few days late so I'm not sure.
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by staunch on Friday January 22, 2010 @11:41AM (#1069962)
#54, not a YC founder.
Re:Hey psst, wanna know your HN #userid ? by davidw on Friday January 22, 2010 @06:38AM (#1069507)
I must have read pg's posting/link a few hours/days after you: #195