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speaking of templates, I built Hacker News Git Blame https://www.hngitblame.com/ with Zero Gravity Factory https://www.zerogravityfactory.com/


The accounts all should be either a prominent tech company founder, or among the top HN posters of all time! https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders


Hmm it definitely linked me to a temp account with a green username. Unfortunately I don’t quite remember what the post was :(


You're totally right. Naming this was a bit difficult — was afraid of calling it something like Guess Who? in case I got sued.


hahaha that would be insane


thanks! based on your karma, will add you to the game as well :) please LMK if you have other recommendations


That was quick. I just played and one of my last questions had your parent commenter, toomuchtodo (who I hadn't heard of, sorry) as an answer.

Personally, I can't say I spend much time looking at commenters names.

One of the answers for me was someone called Daniel G... (can't recall). Is that "dang", the moderator? Might be useful to have their real names: ie their HN usernames!!

The name suggested to me something like unedit-reddit, fwiw.


Ah good point, will make it more clear that it's dang, the moderator. And will add an "HN: " tag to everyone's usernames (if available).



legendary, ty


> based on your karma

Haha I guess I might get in there too then. How embarrassing would it be to guess my own comments wrong!


You're in the game! dang recommended you earlier


Hahaha yes for sure, but you can count those as free points for now. If people end up loving this project I'll think about adding obfuscation


You might've gotten a lucky roll haha, I'm currently adding more prominent community members (thanks, dang!) that should make it harder to guess. Thanks for playing though :)


Yup! It's a game.


Thanks for the kind words! :)


Comments have brought up great points: that the commonly accepted definition of cargo-cult thinking is different from "holding unfalsifiable beliefs".

They are correct! But the reason I talk about cargo-cults is because people know what they are, and for the same reasons as Feynman in this speech: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

He brought up cargo cults as a way to illustrate improper scientific thinking — because the core driver of cargo-cult thinking is unfalsifiable beliefs. I appreciate the sharp reading and will be more explicit next time.


Just update it to say cognitive dissonance instead of cargo culting and you’re good =D

It’s not a bad article, you’re just talking about something that isn’t cargo culting


updated with a opening paragraph to reduce confusion, thanks! :)


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