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Had the same idea yesterday (see my failed attempts at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=capableweb https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=capableweb

Had the same idea yesterday (see my failed attempts at https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=capableweb https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=capableweb, unable to delete them after a few tries) but both the website + API were too slow to update for me to be able to guess the right idea. When the website showed that one ID existed, there were already multiple ones created afterwards... Any clues to how you did this?

tomschwiha 4y ago
I was basically just checking the latest ids (you can estimate it based on the /newest submissions and then increase until you hit the "No such item."-response. In my case I guess I was lucky that there was not much traffic. However I was on mobile when I started observing the ids but finally switched to PC as I felt on PC I can react much quicker.