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Nickb 20k

60 points by pg ↗ HN
Congrats to nickb on passing 20,000 points, and thanks.

31 comments

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yan
Congrats and thanks for the contributions!
ph0rque
He's catching up to the bug fixer guy...
icey
Next milestone: 32,768?
yan
I don't want one of my only sources of news to break :(
[dead] pleasehelp
I am at a power of 2 forever. Completely unchangeable, I'm practically invincible. Bow before me.
IsaacSchlueter
Yeah, but then you fall off the leader board, because your score is -1. :P
icey
Chuckle I had originally posted 32,767; but I figured getting to 32768 should really be the milestone.
willchang
I think you mean -32768.
jmatt
If it rolls over due to 2s complement then it'll be -32768.

What the -1 comment is refering to is a casting problem. Or int into byte, etc. Versus unsigned to signed.

IsaacSchlueter
Oh, duh. Brainfart. -1 would be 11111111 not 10000000.

While I doubt that HN's scoring would suffer from signedness bugs, if it did, getting your score down/up to -1 would be the ultimate. It would be an interesting easter egg to build into the system, tho :)

icey
It shouldn't do that; AFAIK it's using PLT Scheme's numeric stack.
zacharye
Congrats indeed. Tons of great submissions = well-deserved.
andreyf
This is not hacker news!
babul
We should always take a bit of time to thank the people that make this place what it is.
andreyf
Agreed. I meant it tongue-in-cheek...
pius
@nickb Very impressive, congrats!
simplegeek
Thank you and please reveal yourself now :)
nickb
Hah! My identity is not actually secret at all :) But you're right, I'll put up a link to my bio/blog soon enough.
rms
Congrats Nick!
kajecounterhack
Congrats to Paul Graham's evil twin, sock puppet...whatever you wanna call it, haha