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Ask HN: Point thresholds?

8 pointsjmtame17 comments

I noticed there is a karma point threshold for flagging, and one of my friends said that he can't change the color of his top nav bar but I can. Are there any other cool tricks that get unlocked as your karma grows?

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After 20,000 you gain skills to host your own copy of HN. So far that's only two people - pg himself and nickb. nickb's site is here: http://www.newmogul.com/

Sometimes I wonder how did pg get his 20,000 points before there even was HN. It's kind of recursive, right? I think some sort of leveraged borrowing was involved.

Does http://www.nonhackernews.com/ also use the hacker news code base?

No as it states it uses Slinkset.

Check it out you could create your own in two seconds.

Is that really true? You get a copy of the source code and license at 20,000 points?

He's joking. Anyone can have the source code. http://www.arclanguage.org/install

sigh. you could have played along! :)

You can find some here: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html

you can make polls at around 200 or so(I think)

Humm... I've never figured out how these work.

you have to go here to make one http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

At 50 points you can downvote.

250 to change top bar color

Man! I want 250 points now. Just 233 points away . . . Of course I pretty much associate the orange and gray with HN, so I'll probably get 250, and say "YES! I can change my top bar color!" and then try to decide what color to use for 10 minutes and leave it the same.

I think that HN looks 'wrong' now when I'm not logged in. (I use f6f6ef for a more tasteful look.)

chances are you'll stick to the original look...nothing really looks better

As a real hacker, you could use greasemonkey...

Yeah, I thought about that as an option. I actually used Firefox Web Developer Toolbar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 it does everything!) to see what it looked like w/ #f6f6ef as parenthesis says he uses.

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