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is OP a mod? how did he know what his postid would be before he submitted it? spraying [sequential] submissions all at once? [edit]

• GreekOphion 15y ago
  I was trying to figure that out too.
  • deleted 15y ago
    [deleted]
  • citricsquid 15y ago
    an ID can refer to a comment or a link, you can find the latest comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments latest links: http://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://news.ycombinator.com/newest The easiest way to do it would be to pick an ID in the future (say 20 ahead of the latest one) then type the title and link out, then just keep refreshing the page for your selected ID minus one (for example, if your chosen ID is 3743040 refresh news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3743039) until you get a result then hit submit, if you're not too slow you'll get the ID 3743040.
• citricsquid 15y ago
  IDs are sequential, you can predict them with ease. For example (without editing) I can tell you my comment ID (for this comment) will be: 3743005 (edit: nope, I was 3 off, you get the point though, apparently a lot of people are commenting at the moment, ha)
  • youareincorrect 15y ago
    Confirmed.
  • olalonde 15y ago
    Yes, that's how I did it. Took me about 3 attempts.
• icebraining 15y ago
  Aren't they sequential? Isn't it just a matter of using the ID of the latest post + 1?
• SeoxyS 15y ago
  Couldn't he have edited the url after posting it?
  • GreekOphion 15y ago
    No, that's impossible.
    • kenneth 15y ago
      Link it to a php file on your server, and edit the php file to header('Location: the_actual_url') after the fact.
      • d3ad1ysp0rk 15y ago
        That isn't what is happening though, hover over the link and its a direct link to HN.