Ask HN: Does anyone else like purely numeric shorthashes?

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a year ago

they're not Particularly Rare, But I think they're more pleasing to See.

For instance This "2822302" Makes me Especially Happy: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox/commit/2822302387c4cb7ff71c4239da3dc5fa4c07e165

It Even Extends up to 10 digits! That's Not Particularly rare - Roughly 1% chance (10^10/16^10 i think) - But i just think they look nice.

Are there any other people out there who are particularly pleased when they hit that? sorta like hitting 7777 on the odometer, or whatever.

I'm also a fan of the purely Numeric Identifiers Twitter/X Uses (and has for ages).

This all reminds Me of That "commit Fuzzing tool" That Can Make Your log have whatever Commit You Want. asked AI, turns out it's: https://github.com/not-an-aardvark/lucky-commit

Lucky Commit! what a perfect name. i guess this ask hN should be: does anyone else like lucky commits?

BTW the sHA has of this message starts with: 20250327

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