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I apparently said fuck 33 (34 now) times. But when I click on that badge I get a weird popup instead of a link to the comments. Similarly I apparently mentioned Rick Astley. I'm curious when I did that, but I can't find out from this site.

Neat idea but engaging with the site is a total deadend.

Yeah, I came to post that too, since I found some of the motivation for the badges dubious, and expected to be able to drill down to see the comments that awarded various badges.

This reminded me of the South Park episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Hits_the_Fan

> Throughout the episode, the profanity "shit" or "shitty" are exclaimed uncensored a total of 162 separate times; in syndicated or re-aired versions of this episode, a counter in the bottom left corner of the screen counts the number of times the word has been uttered

A similar segment from The Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSMOVeE9YBI (NSFW, depending on your W)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22722071

Apparently I said it 18 times, which doesn't seem right to me. A Google search didn't return a single example, though there were some instances in replies. Wonder if those are included.

Same here. It's not a word I'd generally use when posting something here. I assume it's in a reply or something.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I gave that a go on my comments, as I suspected I mostly use the F-word indirectly (quoting from sources, paraphrasing reactions of others, etc) .. but it's interesting the algolia search fuzzy matches to "luck" and "Fukishima" etc.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Try using quotes: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Cheers.

Quotes restricted it to exact whole word matches; no fuzzy matches (Fukishima) nor any "as root word" matches, F-ed, F-ing, F-ery, F-ers, etc.

As an Australian I'm not sure how I feel about one of our more expressive words being described as a bomb and singled out, but I'll take the badge with pride.

This shows up as zero for me but the badge site says I've used it twice. It's pretty easy to manually check since I haven't made too many comments. I suspect the badge site is fuzzy matching since "luck" or some variation has appeared twice (now three times)

Yes, probably.

Uh there's a Rick Astley badge? Now I have to find a way to rickroll someone on HN.

The "f word" detection is not accurate at all.

> Has used the F word in at least 2 comments and more than 0.1% of comments. ydant has 4 such comments.

My comments:

      1 DuckDuckGo
      3 Luckily
      1 duckdb
      1 luckily
      1 lucks

Replies to me:

      2 Luckily
      1 bucket
      1 bucks
      1 fucking

It is regularly updating, though, as now my count is up to "5 such comments".

For me it shows the "F Word!" and "Rick Roller" badges but I'm pretty sure I'm neither. It would be helpful that at least for the negative badges it would show the source.

A quick search showed that I once posted a story that has the f-word in the URL. I don't feel that justifies to be branded as an f-word user.

EDIT: Otherwise I quite like it. The idea as well as the execution!

EDIT: This reminds me of when procmail was new and shiny (a long time ago). The smart-alec I was created a rule that threw away all mails the contained the string "viagra". Of course the bytes that comprise the string were coincidentally in an important binary attachment.

Oops, now I probably gained the "Viagra User" HN badge;-) You hopefully see where the issue with a simple keyword based approach is.

The first time was 8 years ago. The most recent was less than two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35723773

Both times you were quoting someone else :)

How did you find all of them? Searching for "f-word username" turns up the one in the URL or lots of comments with the word "luck" in them.

See other comments here; eg:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35884630

Brilliant. Thanks a lot!

The F word badge is a negative one?

This taught me that it's possible to change the colour of the header, and that I had enough Karma to do so! Now enjoying my very pink version of hacker news.

For me it is a flavor of chartreuse (d9e86d).

mine's ff4400 :D

Or #f40 in CSS.

I see here there's no 420, so I'm gonna give 420420 a shot. :D https://news.ycombinator.com/topcolors

Make that #cbd420 - it doesn't add a light foreground for a dark background.

Somehow, for reasons I can’t explain, I know that’s hn-orange without even looking.

Edit: I figured it out. The user settings page shows the color - mine is set to ff6600 which was close enough to trigger parts of my brain.

Wow!

Yeah it's just a bit off the standard one. I seem to remember getting it from an HN redesigned site or something.

Previous thread from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389773

I have submitted one topic with 250+ comments and do not have a badge about it, I surprised it does not have 100 upvotes. For me a number of comments in the topics I submit is way more exciting, they are a real people telling a real things and not just some +1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8WbLU958Lg

Great idea! I was looking for something like that.

A legend on badges would be great :)

I don't understand what will happen if I add that link to my bio?

It will notice and the next time you look at your badges, you'll have another one.

When the website retrieves your bio, if it finds that link, it will give you a new badge.

This is cool; a UI suggestion would be to show what the badges are when you hover, and not click-to-alert.

It already does, if you hover over the text label of the achievement (not the graphical icon)

Needs a Startup News badge for people here before the rename.

What rename?

> Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on August 14, 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#History

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