There is a bet on Predyx about SN reaching 1.4M items in 2025 or not:
@denlillaapan is creating regular posts about how bad this bet is going for me:
- Stacker is DEAD—As Dead as Bitcoin!
- Bet Update—No Funny Title or Numerology Today
- The Dying Death Spasms of a Dead SN! Bet Update
- Bet Update: The "Yes" Men Are So Fucked
This is the latest chart:
I agree, it doesn't look good. But It's So Early, right?!
But it won't be so early forever. Therefore, I have decided that I can't sit back anymore and pretend like I don't feel like this:
But on the other hand, I haven't even started to do something about it. But today we will reclaim our homeworld like in this opening cinematic of Legacy of the Void:
Let's make @denlillaapan cry and the next chart look like this!
But @ek, you have just posted a bunch of memes and haven't explained at all what the bounty is about???
You are right! I got carried away. But the title already explains most of it:
- whoever has the most comments in this post wins
- deadline is on Monday, April 28, 0:00 UTC (timezone converter)
But wait! This isn't a winner takes all:
🥇 1st place gets 25k sats
🥈 2nd place gets 12.5k sats
🥉 3rd place gets 7.5k sats
4th place gets 5k sats
5th place gets 2.5k sats
everyone above 100 comments gets 1k sats
btw, we're also engaged since today, see #948336.
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Previous leaderboard: #957155
It's cool to see all the SN celebrities together in one post.
800 comments coming up.
You can do it.
Just start typing 1 to 800 and you will only find out that you need 400 more, AT LEAST.
I missed the timing to do this.
Y'all are stacking free sats here on "most comment wins" and I wonder when I'm ever come out as the grand prize winner... hehehe
Well well, fun while it lasted
still going?
I think it's over, so hold your horses.
Yeah! So much fun it was
yeah, real fun
@ek, If we could get an update, that be great..
mmmkkay
Who won?
I think @Roll
congrats roll!
That we all wonder — ouh, so excited
Hope it wasn't you. Lol
I gave up the last couple of days
I realized late what @grayruby was trying to say. I think I killed the fun for so many. Spamming definitely can make me win this, but what about others? I'm sure @ek wanted equal participation, but it turned out that spamming made newcomers scared, seeing that there was no way they could win this, and as a result, they left. I feel really bad rn. It's just four or five of us who are a big part of these 9.4k comments (right now as I write). I saw the first two or three leaderboards when this started, and I see that those who were ruling #1, #2, #3, and #4 respectively now don't hang around here because they cannot spam like I dk. I'll say they're the true winners. I'm sure they want to see SN having 1.4 million items in 2025, but not with "Moar," "same," and the stupid comments I made. I thought what I was doing was fun, but no, it ruined the fun for everyone else. I'm feeling a lot of guilt and dilemma now, like I spent time here to boost my count, but would it be wise to leave now because of this guilt? Also, this is near the end as well. CC: @denlillaapan, @OT
Totally.
This is a bit what i predicted, too. There's just no way efforts like these make SN better... or that ek, ostensibly in the game to grow SN and make it better, would keep supporting it.
It was the incentive, though, so can't really blame anyone
You're right I think. I should not think too much?
IDK, it was a bit of fun. Fun because it was essentially trying to manipulate a bet and pretty much all rules had been thrown out the window.
I ended up having better things to do and so lost my place.
I also think newcomers could have ignored the whole thing pretty easily too.
I think you're right OT. I'm just thinking to much! Thanks
TO ALL WHO WILL NOT WIN THIS!
It’s important to remember that not winning is a part of the process. Stay focused on the lessons you learn and the growth you experience. Success isn't solely defined by victory; it's about the effort you put in and how you respond to challenges. Keep pushing forward!
well said :)
😭 I won't win this. But push forward I will.
Per ardua ad astra.
next time you will
lol this reminds me about a random thread that i started on a local forum in 2004 and it went on for a bit less than 10years and got to 58k comments
lol
how long did it take to arrive to 58k ? and how many users ?
as i said the thread was open for almost 10years before it got locked. as for how many users I don't really remember. it was a tech forum in a country with less than 2million people in mid 2000s so not big by any standard :)
Sleep literally cleanses your brain.
When we sleep, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away the day’s worth of harmful, excess proteins and toxins. Think about that on your next Netflix binge.
I will
Sudan has the most pyramids out of any country.
One of the mind-boggling fun facts: The plentiest pyramids in the world is not in Egypt! Instead, the record belongs to Sudan with 255 pyramids – which is twice the amount of the pyramids in Egypt.
That's legit crazy
Where fun?
The tongue is the only muscle in the body attached from one end.
All other muscles are fully attached to bones and skin.
The human tongue has a unique surface pattern, much like fingerprints, which can be used for biometric identification. This "tongue print" is distinct for each individual and remains stable over time, making it a potential tool in security and healthcare applications. Additionally, the common belief that specific taste zones exist on the tongue (e.g., sweet at the tip) is a debunked myth—the entire tongue detects all basic tastes, though certain areas may have slight variations in sensitivity.
Noooooo @Aardvark
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The oldest living land animal on earth is a 192-year-old tortoise named Jonathan.
a Seychelles giant tortoise
k, what about the other planets?
Other planets? I don't think we've found any traces of life on other planets except Mars
It's a game for spammers!
Sorry but temporarily muting one or two.
it was my 1st participation for this kind of post and probably the last.
Sorry Man
Me? On list?
Unbelievable
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Hundreds of rare animals and plants thrive in the North Korea-South Korea border.
The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is 155 miles of untouched land that separates North and South Korea. In these heavily fortified fences, several endangered animal and plant species thrive. Ecologists identified around 2,900 plant species, 70 mammal species, and 320 bird species in this narrow buffer zone.
@Roll is in a roll.
What a literal shitshow this has become
We broke SN
lol same! I thought we got a Roll bug
The entire account is a bug
Pathetic
Too pathetic.
Roll is on a Roll
Rolling
Rolling Rolling Rolling
He's the kid from Jerry Maguire with all of these useless facts
Size and Shape: Earth is the fifth largest planet in the solar system, with a radius of about 3,959 miles (6,371 kilometers). Its shape is not a perfect sphere but an ellipsoid, slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator.
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Yess
Surface: About 70% of Earth's surface is covered by water, mainly in the form of oceans, making it unique among the solar system's planets. The remaining 29% is land, which includes continents and islands.
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Give a discount for a territory and I will bring Russian Bitcoin channel from telegram.
Moon Trees are a thing.
No, it’s not another edgy underground indie band, but one of the endless fun facts about plants: Moon trees were sprouted from tree seeds that were flown to the moon, then planted in the Earth. 500 seeds were taken from 5 different seed types to orbit around the moon. They were later planted around the U.S. and a few other countries.
Wha?
Nice
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In a conversation, each speaker’s “turn” is 2 seconds, with intervals between turns only 200 milliseconds.
According to experts, this model is nearly universal in terms of conversations.
Love it
A filmmaker once created a 10-hour “film” of paint drying.
One of the pettiest yet wittiest fun facts: To protest high tariffs, filmmaker Charlie Lyne submitted a 10-hour “movie” of drying white paint to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The board had to watch Paint Drying in its entirety – all 10 hours and 7 minutes of it.
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Despite the name, Thomas’ Breads English Muffins aren’t British; the product was invented in the U.S.
During the first 5 months of Pokémon Go, gaming-related accidents increased by 26.5%.
People may joke about Pokemon Go bringing world peace, but the game was actually doing quite the opposite. Upon the first few months of its release, Pokemon Go-related casualties included 2 deaths and $25.5 million in property damages.
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sorry guys, this morning i woke up and wanted to check the number and @Coinsreporter worked very hard during my night time. So , the only solution, i found was a spam attitude. (i m again sorry for the trouble, latence, disturbing, anoying, useless and so on .... )
node nreplies.js roll
fetching all comments of last week for user roll ... 1595
filtering by root.id = 948515 ... 1553
roll has 1553 replies in item 948515
node nreplies.js Coinsreporter
fetching all comments of last week for user Coinsreporter ... 1594
filtering by root.id = 948515 ... 1435
Coinsreporter has 1435 replies in item 948515
Youhooo messages were worst
Pathetic
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The hardest bone in the human body is the femur.
According to Pollstar’s 40th anniversary edition in 2022, the top three touring acts by number of tickets sold in those 40 years of charting the live entertainment industry are U2, the Dave Matthews Band and The Rolling Stones, in that order.
SPAM, usually rendered as Spam, was introduced to the market in 1937, its name a portmanteau for spiced ham.
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Yum
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We broke SN notifications, @ek.
So, first three posts here by @NovaRift are in a bigger font and I can't click on them. Last one is normal, and clicking it takes me to the post.
The hardest bone in the human body is the femur.
False
Thanks for the report!
He's using Markdown to create a bigger font and we interpret it as a chapter title which are clickable itself, so it overrides the click to go to the comment.
Example:
# This will render like thisThis will render like thisThis will render like this
If you click on the time, you should be able to visit the comment.
cheers
Oh man, I just realized that it would've been fun to bet on who wins this, but too late for that now.
no need
Yeah.. or maybe not? You can still start.
indeed ha can
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@ek, If we could get an update, that be great..
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Since we're just posting random shit, I might as well post ref links to my own shit
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Good idea spemmer
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I'm ret..
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” —Josh Billings
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the best part is I'm only ever spending shitcoin-credits: paying shit to post shit, on absolute shit. What a shitfest
OH
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In the mid-1990s, the mailing list became a tool for prank mailbombing. Trolls would subscribe unsuspecting victims to the list, flooding their inboxes with hundreds of daily messages debating encryption algorithms, libertarian politics, and abstract rants about digital privacy. One sysop joked that the deluge of messages-often including heated arguments about PGP keys or rants against the NSA-was so overwhelming that recipients would beg to be unsubscribed. The chaos forced the list’s administrators to implement a "reply-to-subscribe" system to deter mischief-makers.
:)
The list’s name itself was a playful jab-coined by Jude Milhon during an early meeting by mashing "cipher" with "cyberpunk." Members embraced the term, even as outsiders often misheard it as "cyberpunks" or "cipher punks" (leading to confused questions about whether they were hacking gangs or punk bands).
The absurdity peaked when debates about anonymous remailers or digital cash would spiral into Shakespearean flame wars, with members using encryption jargon as verbal weaponry. One archived thread shows a user sarcastically proposing to "encrypt my cat" to prove a point about privacy-a nod to the list’s blend of tech idealism and chaotic humor.
It was digital rebellion meets inbox terrorism, proving even privacy activists couldn’t escape internet trolls.
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Air is the mixture of gases that makes up Earth's atmosphere, surrounding the planet's surface and held by gravity. It consists primarily of:
Nitrogen (N₂): about 78.08% by volume
Oxygen (O₂): about 20.95% by volume
Argon (Ar): approximately 0.93%
Carbon dioxide (CO₂): around 0.04%
Trace amounts of other gases such as neon, helium, methane, krypton, and hydrogen.
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What
In addition to these permanent gases, air contains variable amounts of water vapor, averaging about 1% at sea level but ranging from nearly 0% to over 3% depending on humidity and temperature. Water vapor plays a crucial role in weather and climate by forming clouds and precipitation and acting as a greenhouse gas.
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Late to the party but I want to do my part.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
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There’s a planet mostly made from diamond. Called 55 Cancri e, it's around twice the size of Earth and some 40 light-years away from us within the Cancer constellation.
thks
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The 1993 Cypherpunk Manifesto by Eric Hughes also offers a snapshot of the movement’s ethos. Hughes famously declared:
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age… We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy… We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any."
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Didn't read
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What Is Fire?
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a fuel in an exothermic chemical process known as combustion, which releases heat, light, and various reaction products. The visible effect of this process-the flame-is produced when the fuel reaches its ignition point and combusts with oxygen in the air.
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Noooo
The Fire Triangle
Three elements are essential for fire to occur, often referred to as the "fire triangle":
Fuel: Any combustible material (solid, liquid, or gas)
Oxygen: Usually from the air
Heat: Sufficient to reach the fuel’s ignition temperature
If any one of these elements is removed, the fire will extinguish.
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What Is the Universe?
The universe is everything that exists: all of space and time, and everything contained within them. This includes all matter and energy, from the smallest subatomic particles to the largest galactic structures, as well as the physical laws that govern them.
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Galaxies and Stars: The universe contains billions of galaxies, each with millions or billions of stars. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one among at least 100 billion in the observable universe.
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In 1992, May read his "Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" at the founding meeting of the Cypherpunks, a group of privacy activists who believed cryptography could dismantle state power. The manifesto, written in 1988, predicted anonymous digital markets and untraceable currencies-ideas that seemed outlandish at the time but later materialized in Bitcoin and Silk Road.
A telling moment occurred during the "BlackNet" thought experiment May proposed: an anonymous, encrypted marketplace for trading secrets (e.g., corporate data, government leaks). He joked that even the plans for BlackNet itself could be sold on BlackNet-a self-referential paradox highlighting crypto-anarchy’s potential for chaotic, self-sustaining systems.
Years later, May grew disillusioned with the "crypto hype" of the 2010s, quipping that Bitcoin enthusiasts had strayed from the original anti-state vision. He once compared modern crypto projects to "barbed wire"-a metaphor from his manifesto for systems that restrict freedom-ironic, since he’d initially used "barbed wire" to represent government control that cryptography would cut through.
Another lighthearted story involves a neighbor playing loud music late at night, so a friend plugged his device into their shared wall outlet and hit the button to briefly cut the power, effectively silencing the music without confrontation.
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In 1892, steel workers at Carnegie’s Homestead plant clashed with Henry Clay Frick, who was determined to break their union. Goldman and Berkman, radical anarchists running an ice cream shop in Massachusetts, saw the strike as a catalyst for revolution. Berkman attempted to assassinate Frick, shooting him twice in the neck. Frick survived, and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. The botched attack backfired spectacularly: public sympathy shifted against the strikers, and the union was crushed. Goldman later wrote that Berkman’s act of “propaganda by the deed” became a cautionary tale about the risks of isolated violence.
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For a darker example: Luigi Galleani’s followers in the early 1900s were notorious for bombings. After one failed plot, bomb-maker Carlo Buda quipped, “You heard Galleani speak, and you were ready to shoot the first policeman you saw.” This zeal led to the 1920 Wall Street bombing, which killed 38 people and marked the peak of anarchist violence in the U.S..
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Urgh.
yes i know
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Another striking anecdote involves David Graeber, an anarchist anthropologist and Occupy Wall Street organizer. During early planning meetings in 2011, Graeber and fellow activists rejected traditional protest structures. Instead of marching with banners, they sat in a circle at Bowling Green Park, debating leaderless organizing. This informal group-composed of anarchists, Zapatista sympathizers, and squatters-became the nucleus of Occupy, which popularized the slogan “We Are the 99%.” Graeber later reflected on the irony of journalists turning to him (a theorist) to explain the “leaderless” movement.
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JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE IN CASE I LOSE!
https://www.youtube.com/live/9bpB6w8zl9c?si=UzzHenFzu23-AWC7&t=5224
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