News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:HN Badges by psnehanshu on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:03AM (#35884168)
I don't understand what will happen if I add that link to my bio?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by bombcar on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:53AM (#35884458)
It will notice and the next time you look at your badges, you'll have another one.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by Andugal on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:53AM (#35884459)
When the website retrieves your bio, if it finds that link, it will give you a new badge.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by mulmen on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:48AM (#35884419)
I apparently said fuck 33 (34 now) times. But when I click on that badge I get a weird popup instead of a link to the comments. Similarly I apparently mentioned Rick Astley. I'm curious when I did that, but I can't find out from this site.

Neat idea but engaging with the site is a total deadend.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by rahimnathwani on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:17AM (#35884630)
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by defrost on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:22AM (#35884664)
I gave that a go on my comments, as I suspected I mostly use the F-word indirectly (quoting from sources, paraphrasing reactions of others, etc) .. but it's interesting the algolia search fuzzy matches to "luck" and "Fukishima" etc.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by rahimnathwani on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:31AM (#35884716)
Try using quotes: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by defrost on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:52AM (#35884823)
Cheers.

Quotes restricted it to exact whole word matches; no fuzzy matches (Fukishima) nor any "as root word" matches, F-ed, F-ing, F-ery, F-ers, etc.

As an Australian I'm not sure how I feel about one of our more expressive words being described as a bomb and singled out, but I'll take the badge with pride.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by b_mc2 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:22AM (#35886311)
This shows up as zero for me but the badge site says I've used it twice. It's pretty easy to manually check since I haven't made too many comments. I suspect the badge site is fuzzy matching since "luck" or some variation has appeared twice (now three times)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by rahimnathwani on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @10:01AM (#35887498)
Yes, probably.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by egeozcan on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:01AM (#35884521)
This reminded me of the South Park episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Hits_the_Fan

> Throughout the episode, the profanity "shit" or "shitty" are exclaimed uncensored a total of 162 separate times; in syndicated or re-aired versions of this episode, a counter in the bottom left corner of the screen counts the number of times the word has been uttered

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by prawn on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:14AM (#35884614)
A similar segment from The Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSMOVeE9YBI (NSFW, depending on your W)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by unwind on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:51AM (#35884441)
Yeah, I came to post that too, since I found some of the motivation for the badges dubious, and expected to be able to drill down to see the comments that awarded various badges.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by romanhn on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:07AM (#35884563)
Apparently I said it 18 times, which doesn't seem right to me. A Google search didn't return a single example, though there were some instances in replies. Wonder if those are included.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by fatnoah on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:17AM (#35886254)
Same here. It's not a word I'd generally use when posting something here. I assume it's in a reply or something.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by DANmode on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:02AM (#35884530)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22722071
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by sph on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:49AM (#35884812)
Uh there's a Rick Astley badge? Now I have to find a way to rickroll someone on HN.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by ydant on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:46AM (#35887284)
The "f word" detection is not accurate at all.

> Has used the F word in at least 2 comments and more than 0.1% of comments. ydant has 4 such comments.

My comments:

      1 DuckDuckGo
      3 Luckily
      1 duckdb
      1 luckily
      1 lucks
Replies to me:

      2 Luckily
      1 bucket
      1 bucks
      1 fucking
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by ydant on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:42PM (#35889860)
It is regularly updating, though, as now my count is up to "5 such comments".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by samwillis on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:58AM (#35884485)
Previous thread from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389773
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by jwhiles on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:58AM (#35884493)
This taught me that it's possible to change the colour of the header, and that I had enough Karma to do so! Now enjoying my very pink version of hacker news.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by mulmen on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:00AM (#35884509)
For me it is a flavor of chartreuse (d9e86d).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by benatkin on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:02AM (#35884525)
mine's ff4400 :D

Or #f40 in CSS.

I see here there's no 420, so I'm gonna give 420420 a shot. :D https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

Make that #cbd420 - it doesn't add a light foreground for a dark background.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by beaker52 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:07AM (#35884559)
Somehow, for reasons I can’t explain, I know that’s hn-orange without even looking.

Edit: I figured it out. The user settings page shows the color - mine is set to ff6600 which was close enough to trigger parts of my brain.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by benatkin on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:13AM (#35884604)
Wow!

Yeah it's just a bit off the standard one. I seem to remember getting it from an HN redesigned site or something.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by nailer on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:02AM (#35884532)
Needs a Startup News badge for people here before the rename.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by thunderbong on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:46AM (#35885716)
What rename?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by grzm on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:48AM (#35885727)
> Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on August 14, 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#History

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by weinzierl on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:04AM (#35884545)
For me it shows the "F Word!" and "Rick Roller" badges but I'm pretty sure I'm neither. It would be helpful that at least for the negative badges it would show the source.

A quick search showed that I once posted a story that has the f-word in the URL. I don't feel that justifies to be branded as an f-word user.

EDIT: Otherwise I quite like it. The idea as well as the execution!

EDIT: This reminds me of when procmail was new and shiny (a long time ago). The smart-alec I was created a rule that threw away all mails the contained the string "viagra". Of course the bytes that comprise the string were coincidentally in an important binary attachment.

Oops, now I probably gained the "Viagra User" HN badge;-) You hopefully see where the issue with a simple keyword based approach is.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by rahimnathwani on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:11AM (#35884587)
The first time was 8 years ago. The most recent was less than two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35723773

Both times you were quoting someone else :)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by weinzierl on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:05AM (#35885817)
How did you find all of them? Searching for "f-word username" turns up the one in the URL or lots of comments with the word "luck" in them.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by defrost on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:11AM (#35885856)
See other comments here; eg:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35884630

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by weinzierl on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:13AM (#35886221)
Brilliant. Thanks a lot!
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by Hamuko on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @04:21AM (#35885006)
The F word badge is a negative one?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by avindroth on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:35AM (#35885666)
This is cool; a UI suggestion would be to show what the badges are when you hover, and not click-to-alert.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by enlyth on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:57AM (#35885777)
It already does, if you hover over the text label of the achievement (not the graphical icon)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by andreacavagna on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @06:57AM (#35885775)
Great idea! I was looking for something like that.

A legend on badges would be great :)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:HN Badges by eimrine on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:18AM (#35885908)
I have submitted one topic with 250+ comments and do not have a badge about it, I surprised it does not have 100 upvotes. For me a number of comments in the topics I submit is way more exciting, they are a real people telling a real things and not just some +1.
[ Parent | on HN ]