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ax0n
I missed two. I typically interface HN via RSS, not the main "news" web UI, and never bothered to count the number of items on the first page. I really had no clue what language it was written in. Not too bad, I suppose, for signing up considerably less than a year ago.

Good quiz, though.

python123
8/10. I thought the last question was a trick, but the top bar IS orange so whatever.
whatusername
When you have enough karma there is a setting to change it.

Thus: "Whatever I want it to be"

python123
Well then I did answer it correctly for me, so the question is bad. I thought there was just some way to change it that I was aware of.
samh
yeah probably a bad question then. Apologies.
JacobAldridge
Patting myself on the back for 8/10. I figured this submission would receive "Enough" votes, and obviously never took in the Green certification note.
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robryan
Mmm, a better quiz would be how much do you read hacker news and include answering questions about a heap of the bigger threads.
jrockway
I adblocked that "Green Certified Site" nonsense a while ago. Did you know that it sends information about your machine back to their servers whenever HN is open in any tab... every five minutes or so?

It is also really invasive; your pointer goes anywhere near it, and it starts pulsing like crazy. That thing is the epitome of annoying malware.

blasdel
pg thinks it's cool because he paid them a bunch of money
plinkplonk
"I adblocked that "Green Certified Site" nonsense a while ago. Did you know that it sends information about your machine back to their servers whenever HN is open in any tab... every five minutes or so?"

Whoa thanks. Just adblocked the sucker.

CoreDumpling
I had to make some lucky guesses on #7 and #8, but I'm a bit embarrassed by my perfect score. It's a sign that I'm succumbing to the hive mind :(

Probably time to turn on noprocrast.