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Interesting, I wondered if the same can be done on hn. Likely easier since the IDs appear to be sequential. But one can simply edit their post to point to the U
by clashmeifyoucan 6y ago
Interesting, I wondered if the same can be done on hn. Likely easier since the IDs appear to be sequential. But one can simply edit their post to point to the URL too if they wanted, so it defeats the fun of the exercise.
- wolfgang42 6y agoOn a related note, from 2012: “Show HN: This up votes itself” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
- olalonde 6y agoUnfortunately, I wasn't allowed to keep the karma :(
- quickthrower2 6y agoThat surprising to me. I think you should keep it as you did something novel. At the very least as a 'bug bounty'.
- kemitche 6y agoIn a similar vein, Reddit's "self" posts were originally formed by users submitting posts linking to themselves, by guessing the URL for the next submitted post.