Who am I?

[ionwake]

This concerns me more

https://news.ycombinator.com/whoareyou

[Lord_DeathMatch]

Eh, it just returns that for any invalid URL.

[snlacks]

Yours is funnier than mine.

[mathgorges]

Interestingly, trying most *nix commands in place of "whoami" returns a page that says "Unknown.", like with seemingly any invalid URL.

However, trying https://news.ycombinator.com/ps returns a completely blank page. Implying it may be a valid URL for some reason.

[Certified]

I was a bit confused until I realized what account I was logged in as...

"Certified at 123.123.123.123"

[sudhirj]

Heh. Is this actually being used somewhere? I wrote something to piggyback on Google App Engine's IP geolocation a while ago http://blip.runway7.net/

[Artemis2]

Awesome! Would the source code for this be available somewhere?

[sudhirj]

https://github.com/runway7/blip

[nezaj]

Very cool -- would love to see the source as well if it's available

[whitten]

I wonder if this is looking at the local machine for a cookie, or the news.ycombinator.com machine for login information, or if it is a coordination between a private cookie storing an index that makes sense when combined with the database on the server.

Does anyone know the cookie format for ycombinator?

[wmil]

It looks the cookie format is just user={hash}, and looking at an older version of the code it matches that up to data loaded from a file called arc/cooks

https://github.com/wting/hackernews/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=...

[resdirector]

Did anyone else get a brief surge of adrenaline thinking your username was for some reason on the front page of HN?

[prawn]

I expected to receive an algorithmic psych profile of myself based on my HN comments.

Instead, I needed to work out if it was an IP address, or a count of how many hours I've spent on here...

[S4M]

I expected it to be some random user here who was revealing to be actually pg/Zuck or someone famous.

[alexvr]

Exactly what happened to me

[icco]

See also https://www.google.co.uk/webhp#q=google%20what%20is%20my%20i...

[html5web]

Where am I? https://news.ycombinator.com/pwd

[joshdance]

First thing I thought of was `24601!`

[tomwilde]

looks Caucasian to me

[snlacks]

Now try WhoIsThat?user=