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How well do you know HackerNews ? a Quiz

10 points by samh 17y ago

petercooper 17y ago
I got 3 wrong - I'm ashamed <g>
ax0n 17y ago
I missed two. I typically interface HN via RSS, not the main "news" web UI, and never bothered to count the number of items on the first page. I really had no clue what language it was written in. Not too bad, I suppose, for signing up considerably less than a year ago. Good quiz, though.
juvenn 17y ago
6/10
python123 17y ago
8/10. I thought the last question was a trick, but the top bar IS orange so whatever.
- whatusername 17y ago
  When you have enough karma there is a setting to change it. Thus: "Whatever I want it to be"
  - python123 17y ago
    Well then I did answer it correctly for me, so the question is bad. I thought there was just some way to change it that I was aware of.
    - samh 17y ago
      yeah probably a bad question then. Apologies.
JacobAldridge 17y ago
Patting myself on the back for 8/10. I figured this submission would receive "Enough" votes, and obviously never took in the Green certification note.
- deleted 17y ago
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robryan 17y ago
Mmm, a better quiz would be how much do you read hacker news and include answering questions about a heap of the bigger threads.
jrockway 17y ago
I adblocked that "Green Certified Site" nonsense a while ago. Did you know that it sends information about your machine back to their servers whenever HN is open in any tab... every five minutes or so? It is also really invasive; your pointer goes anywhere near it, and it starts pulsing like crazy. That thing is the epitome of annoying malware.
- blasdel 17y ago
  pg thinks it's cool because he paid them a bunch of money
- plinkplonk 17y ago
  "I adblocked that "Green Certified Site" nonsense a while ago. Did you know that it sends information about your machine back to their servers whenever HN is open in any tab... every five minutes or so?" Whoa thanks. Just adblocked the sucker.
CoreDumpling 17y ago
I had to make some lucky guesses on #7 and #8, but I'm a bit embarrassed by my perfect score. It's a sign that I'm succumbing to the hive mind :( Probably time to turn on noprocrast.
techiferous 17y ago
pi*sqrt(5) out of 1010

10 points by samh 17y ago

I got 3 wrong - I'm ashamed <g>

ax0n 17y ago

I missed two. I typically interface HN via RSS, not the main "news" web UI, and never bothered to count the number of items on the first page. I really had no clue what language it was written in. Not too bad, I suppose, for signing up considerably less than a year ago. Good quiz, though.

juvenn 17y ago

6/10

python123 17y ago

8/10. I thought the last question was a trick, but the top bar IS orange so whatever.

whatusername 17y ago
When you have enough karma there is a setting to change it. Thus: "Whatever I want it to be"
- python123 17y ago
  Well then I did answer it correctly for me, so the question is bad. I thought there was just some way to change it that I was aware of.
  - samh 17y ago
    yeah probably a bad question then. Apologies.

JacobAldridge 17y ago

Patting myself on the back for 8/10. I figured this submission would receive "Enough" votes, and obviously never took in the Green certification note.

deleted 17y ago
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robryan 17y ago

Mmm, a better quiz would be how much do you read hacker news and include answering questions about a heap of the bigger threads.

jrockway 17y ago

I adblocked that "Green Certified Site" nonsense a while ago. Did you know that it sends information about your machine back to their servers whenever HN is open in any tab... every five minutes or so? It is also really invasive; your pointer goes anywhere near it, and it starts pulsing like crazy. That thing is the epitome of annoying malware.

blasdel 17y ago
pg thinks it's cool because he paid them a bunch of money
plinkplonk 17y ago
"I adblocked that "Green Certified Site" nonsense a while ago. Did you know that it sends information about your machine back to their servers whenever HN is open in any tab... every five minutes or so?" Whoa thanks. Just adblocked the sucker.

CoreDumpling 17y ago

I had to make some lucky guesses on #7 and #8, but I'm a bit embarrassed by my perfect score. It's a sign that I'm succumbing to the hive mind :( Probably time to turn on noprocrast.

techiferous 17y ago

pi*sqrt(5) out of 1010