Hacker News Headlines (game)

[codechicago277]

I think you need to adjust the variation of scores, I got 1650 actually guessing, then realized most of the scores were low and got 1800 by just always guessing 239

[greenwallnorway]

Ah! Good idea. Hurts replayability though, since we probably get not more than one 1000 pointer each week.

[unsnap_biceps]

I got 2038 by just going with the default 373 for all 5

[anonymousiam]

First try:

Hacker News Headlines

Score: 2,003 / 2,500 pts

R1: 684 (guessed 429) - 0.63x - 333 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722639

R2: 298 (guessed 239) - 0.80x - 413 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45783074

R3: 273 (guessed 239) - 0.88x - 445 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736461

R4: 288 (guessed 479) - 1.66x - 321 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589715

R5: 244 (guessed 249) - 1.02x - 491 pts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602124

Play at: https://nbanmp.github.io/claude-web/projects/hn-oracle/

[jtrn]

Anchoring!!! If the range has nothing to do with the items in question, just have simple number input. Tested multiple times and all items were below default / midpoint.

[greenwallnorway]

ui idea: show the distribution over the slider

[greenwallnorway]

I average a score in the range 1500-2000 (out of 2500).

I imagine those who spend more time on hn will ace it.

[tptacek]

It helps a lot just to have an intuition for what a big article is here. The slider starts at ~1500 votes, which is an insanely successful story. You can get a strong score just by guessing 400 for everything, nudging up +100 for things you remember being popular and down -100 for things that seem obscure.

[ivanjermakov]

I got 2000ish, but I remember seeing 3/5 headlines. Perhaps I should spend less time there...

[BrenBarn]

Why is the score range 239-1000?