Who am I? (news.ycombinator.com)

I kinda knew that, but thnx :)

LOL, this is a fun post. +1 for fun

Now I know :) +1

Thank you! All my doubts are in the past!

eastern egg?

This concerns me more

https://news.ycombinator.com/whoareyou

Now try WhoIsThat?user=

Did anyone else get a brief surge of adrenaline thinking your username was for some reason on the front page of HN?

See also https://www.google.co.uk/webhp#q=google%20what%20is%20my%20i...

It says I'm unknown!

Heh. Is this actually being used somewhere? I wrote something to piggyback on Google App Engine's IP geolocation a while ago http://blip.runway7.net/

  X-AppEngine-Country
  X-AppEngine-Region
  X-AppEngine-City
  X-AppEngine-CityLatLong

Interestingly, trying most *nix commands in place of "whoami" returns a page that says "Unknown.", like with seemingly any invalid URL.

However, trying https://news.ycombinator.com/ps returns a completely blank page. Implying it may be a valid URL for some reason.

First thing I thought of was `24601!`

I was a bit confused until I realized what account I was logged in as...

"Certified at 123.123.123.123"

I wonder if this is looking at the local machine for a cookie, or the news.ycombinator.com machine for login information, or if it is a coordination between a private cookie storing an index that makes sense when combined with the database on the server.

Does anyone know the cookie format for ycombinator?

Where am I? https://news.ycombinator.com/pwd