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10 sats \ 15 replies \ @ek OP 30 May freebie \ parent \ on: First Comment Wins (Almost) meta

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!

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.

0 sats \ 13 replies \ @Satosora 30 May

hhhmm...interesting. I guess we have to wait and see if someone wins.

10 sats \ 12 replies \ @ek OP 30 May

Want to bet?

10 sats \ 11 replies \ @Satosora 30 May

What kind of bet are we talking about?

1000 sats \ 10 replies \ @ek OP 30 May

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.

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Satosora 30 May

There is 1k. I think someone will get it within 3 days. COME ONE SLACKERS, DONT LET ME DOWN!

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 30 May freebie

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!

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @MarsIronPI 30 May

Is there an API that can be used to post comments from a script? I think I might be able to swing it.

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 30 May

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.