Not sure how unique this is (there are probably dozens of these), but it was fun for learning to deal with submitting forms and handling session cookies.
Feedback welcome.
Edit: I should say, the reason I wrote this -- I wanted to track my upward progression of karma (and hopefully, average karma) over time. I have a script that runs daily and stores those two values in a CSV file.
Nice work. I built the Hacker News iPhone app and just pushed login/reply/voting/ last week. Reverse engineering a site like HN is fun, especially dealing with FNIDs.
I'm hoping to open-source some of my stuff too, once I clean it up. I think it would be great to see apps built on top of HN.
Seriously? Why? Why do you care about your points on here?
It's cool that you built this. Kudos for figuring out the code part.
Negative kudos for having a purpose that won't lead to building a kick-ass company or technology.
I know I'm probably going to loose karma due to this comment. I really don't care about karma. Karma should be the side-effect of your activity/comments here, not the driver of your activities/comments.
Your comment is trollish. Who are you to judge how the poster wants to spend his time? How do you know the code he wrote for this didn't teach him something that will some day lead to him building a kick-ass company or technology? That might not be his goal. Even if it was, everyone needs some time to unwind. Some people happen to do that by writing code.
The point of karma is to ensure quality in your contribution to the community. For me, figuring out which things I say and submit people find value in has been a very interesting exercise.
Feedback welcome.
Edit: I should say, the reason I wrote this -- I wanted to track my upward progression of karma (and hopefully, average karma) over time. I have a script that runs daily and stores those two values in a CSV file.