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At 400 you get to downvote. At 401 you get to apologize for accidentally downvoting someone. At 419 you get lucrative business opportunities. At 420 you get

by GHFigs 13y ago

At 400 you get to downvote. At 401 you get to apologize for accidentally downvoting someone. At 419 you get lucrative business opportunities. At 420 you get baked. At 451 you get [deleted]. At 777 you get lucky. At 1337 "they" teach you the Secret Handshake Deal Protocol. At 1999 you have to update a million lines of COBOL in order to advance. At 2010 you get to complain that Hacker News is turning into Reddit. At 2600 you get to make free long distance calls. At 3003 you get your TI-83 taken away and returned to you at the end of class. At 4352 you get to get to post a jokey self-referential comment without anybody complaining that Hacker News is turning into Reddit.

StavrosK 13y ago
This is inaccurate, and just the sort of post you would expect nowadays on HN. It's turning into reddit.
- TillE 13y ago
  While I strongly object to jokes and mindless comments on serious topics, there's really not a lot to say or any interesting discussion to be had on this particular subject. Lightly mocking that doesn't really detract from anything, not on this post.
  - StavrosK 13y ago
    That was my thinking as well, this post is light enough that we can all unwind and joke around.
    - JDGM 13y ago
      Completely agreed. Tenuously on topic, if Hacker News had - shudder - badges, then today I would have earned something like "Lightweight: posted something of sufficient triviality to attract a joker".
- milkshakes 13y ago
  To be fair, it's not exactly a new trend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439129 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439129
- randallsquared 13y ago
  Apparently the final level was recently increased.
michaelochurch 13y ago
At 404 you get Not Found. At 501 you get to go home. At 666 you get a calibration score. (As in Evil, Google Being? Ok, I tried.) At 1024 you get a non-reserved port number. At 32768 any 16-bit hardware you have is personally signed by Paul Graham.
georgemcbay 13y ago
"At 4352 you get to get to post a jokey self-referential comment without anybody complaining that Hacker News is turning into Reddit." [url=dwight.jpg]FALSE[/url] I'm at 7595 and I got called out for this just recently [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5542609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5542609 ].

by GHFigs 13y ago

StavrosK 13y ago

This is inaccurate, and just the sort of post you would expect nowadays on HN. It's turning into reddit.

TillE 13y ago
While I strongly object to jokes and mindless comments on serious topics, there's really not a lot to say or any interesting discussion to be had on this particular subject. Lightly mocking that doesn't really detract from anything, not on this post.
- StavrosK 13y ago
  That was my thinking as well, this post is light enough that we can all unwind and joke around.
  - JDGM 13y ago
    Completely agreed. Tenuously on topic, if Hacker News had - shudder - badges, then today I would have earned something like "Lightweight: posted something of sufficient triviality to attract a joker".
milkshakes 13y ago
To be fair, it's not exactly a new trend: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439129 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439129
randallsquared 13y ago
Apparently the final level was recently increased.

michaelochurch 13y ago

At 404 you get Not Found. At 501 you get to go home. At 666 you get a calibration score. (As in Evil, Google Being? Ok, I tried.) At 1024 you get a non-reserved port number. At 32768 any 16-bit hardware you have is personally signed by Paul Graham.

georgemcbay 13y ago

"At 4352 you get to get to post a jokey self-referential comment without anybody complaining that Hacker News is turning into Reddit." [url=dwight.jpg]FALSE[/url] I'm at 7595 and I got called out for this just recently [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5542609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5542609 ].