Last Comment Wins just ended and I have a new idea. Rules are simple again:
Be the last comment that gets a timestamp with .000Z and you win 10k sats + any zaps on this post!
So this means your reply needs to be inserted into the database at exactly the start of a second.
On desktop, you can check your timestamp after you replied by hovering over the relative time with your cursor like this:
The timestamp is not viewable on mobile yet unfortunately.
I consider this to be harder so I raised the bounty to 10k. I actually think no one will be able to achieve this within 3 days and after that, surely everyone will have given up ...
10,000 sats bounty
@MiddleWay correctly pointed out that I mentioned last comment but I wanted to write first comment. So the rules are actually:
Thanks for the clarification.
What if one of your replies is the first, though?
Then I'll ignore it
Lame.
You should have put in some fine print that we all have to zap you 10k if you're first.
Btw, do you know how to do this, or is it just going to be random?
One could collect measurements of the time you hit reply vs the timestamp that shows up to find out how early you need to be but there is jitter, clock skew and drift so I think it would still be mostly random.
That’s what I figured from MiddleWay’s comment.
Still, someone should be able to greatly improve their odds compared to my 1/1,000 if they put some thought into it.
Being off by 1ms is going to hurt
Fortunately it's just 10k sats... for now...
what? This is going to be impossible...
Unless someone writes a program for it..
I imagine even with a program it's going to be hard due to network latency etc.
But I'm going to write a script to verify timestamps!
hhhmm...interesting.
I guess we have to wait and see if someone wins.
Want to bet?
What kind of bet are we talking about?
I think no one will win within 3 days. We can bet 1k sats and you say if you think it's going to be before or after that. I'm going to take the opposite side.
There is 1k.
I think someone will get it within 3 days.
COME ONE SLACKERS, DONT LET ME DOWN!
lol, you didn't had to proof you own 1k sats by giving them to me already
But I'll simply give you 2k sats if you win now
The bet is on!
Is there an API that can be used to post comments from a script? I think I might be able to swing it.
There is stacker.news/api/graphql which shows you the schema of our GraphQL API but that's all documentation we provide. You have to add your cookie to the request headers to get authenticated API access.
Off the bat, you have a 1/1000 chance of winning unassisted.
With a program you could have it post 30ish times, and get the difference between the submission time and server time to find out network latency. Get the 95% confidence interval of all those trial latencies and start posting that much time before the beginning of the next second. Should take about 20 tries after that depending on the variance.
This is futile. I made a macro in AHK to click a mouse button at a given ms, but the delay to the database still seems random. Besides, the rules are clear that there will be no winner, because last .000Z has no time limit.
Oh, sorry, I wanted to say first comment that gets a timestamp with
.000Zhence the title. Will create a pinned comment to mention thisI still haven't figured out how to use the timestamp function
lol
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Are you guys even trying or are you just randomly hitting reply? lol
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Thanks for injecting fun into the mundanity of the sub!
That's fun
Is that sarcasm?
No, I made that comment really early, when this seemed like it might be fun.
Fourth try!
fun
Not bad attempts, both were within 100ms
I didn't meme it enough :(
You know, I just had a random thought. I love SN, what about you guys?
First attempt
Second attempt
Third
IV
has it really been over a year since I tried, wow
ONE HUNDRED Z
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
do we have the winner then! Or can anyone else do better?
Only 0ms counts
Also, 8ms was and still is the best so far
so will the nearest to 000Z win then?
no
there is no time limit on this bounty
37ms!
T_T
did I win?
lol, I honestly got scared for a second that the second comment already proved me wrong because I saw
+00:00at the end. But no, you didn't win. Your reply is off by 311 milliseconds.how to see the timestamp?
is this paid out yet?
No, it would say paid like here then
Ha ha that’s funny!
I think this is the closest so far!
.992
Almost!!
I like that
shazam!
Still trying!
Let´s go for another try!
884Z
Third try!
it is like a bingo, do say 'bingo'?
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This is my second try ! Will see!!
Anyone want to read my post about cows?
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/rHp6LnyOsErKpjsLRYtZxXldUd0yLokMiJw0TaPRRtE/rs:fit:1920:1080/aHR0cHM6Ly9tLnN0YWNrZXIubmV3cy8zMzI3OQ
The Economy Explained With Cows
#557285
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I noted the time to enter in the previous bounty. I even put a reminder with alarm set in my mobile. But, I forgot and that's what I was thinking about 'how interesting was that post' for someone who is a lazy lad.
Gosh yesterday I forgot.. let's see today.. 😅
why not set the bounty at 10,000 BTC because it has no time limit, so you don't ever expect to pay it?
What's your life expectancy? Because the last .000Z comment may arrive very very far in the future....
That's impossible!
Hi
just arrived from the saloon to see this
first comment? How to play?
What's the probability for a hit? 1/60? How does it compare with... let's say, dying of covid?
If I edit and save a second time, do I get another chance of winning?
Edit:
Oh I now realise this takes ms into account, making it even more unlikely... 1/60000?
I understand it’s still running. Let’s see this time
https://m.stacker.news/33297
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no bad! you were near with
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Yes, closest is still 8ms: https://stacker.news/items/556470
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