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Comment by ivanech | Hacker News Reader

I think it would be interesting to do an art project with this data - some of these passwords are funny and/or revealing. Some examples:

  pooplasagna - 3 times
  eggsarebad - 3 times
  eggsaregood - 25 times
  myhusbandcheats - 4 times
  icheatonmywife - 1 time
  ihatemyneighbors - 2 times
  iamanalcoholic - 6 times
  1yearsober - 31 times
  imissmykids - 51 times
  imissmyparents - 6 times

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6618 people love life, 1367 want to die.

893 people like turtles, 170 love turtles, 155 love everyone (363 people hate everyone though and 428 hate us all).

4301 people love their dog, 3 fuck their dog, 3 killed their dog (only one person killed their cat)

110 people are killers, 4 kill for money, 1 is a murderer. 68 want to kill, 24 kill for fun :-/

2781 love their wife, 552 love their husband. 68 people hate their wife, 38 hate their husband. 3823 people love their son, 17 hate their son. 212 love their daughter, 3 hate their daughter. 11 siblings are having sex with one another. 3 have sex with their dad, 5 have sex with their mom.

6 people save the cheerleader, 11 people save the world. 1 person is the president. 4 people are obama, only one person is trump. The password donaldtrump is almost 5 times more popular than barrackobama.

339 people love sun, 559 love rain.

114 people are healthy, 216 are sick. 108 people are old, 3 people are too old. 15 people sleep well. 80 people run fast, 6 people run faster. 1 person is the fastest (obviously).

All this is quite facinating and fun .. and partly disquieting.

jesus - 123279 times, lordjesus - 8187, satan - 11662 times, iamgod - 8834, iamjesus - 345 times, jesussucks - 100 times

> 1 person is the president

Don't tell me he actually made that his password...

i just checked, at least not his twitter password..

> The password donaldtrump is almost 5 times more popular than barrackobama.

This is a little late, but...

Right, but "donaldtrump" is only seen 40% as often as "barackobama". "donnaldtrump" is apparently perfectly safe though.

    ilovemymom 20141
    ilovemydad  7850

moms are loved almost 3 times more.

Or people who love their moms are 3 times more likely to choose a bad password.

People who love their moms are less intelligent than those who love their dads? There is a dissertation in psychoanalytics just waiting to be written.

I think it lines up well with existing theories, that of the oedipal complex combined with the idea that women are smarter.

> There is a dissertation in psychoanalytics just waiting to be written.

Just don't wear a Hawaiian shirt while giving interview about it on TV.

What's wrong with them? I love those shirts! O.o

Some actual expert was on TV talking about space, a European space probe I think, wearing his Hawaiian shirt with ludicrous SciFi babes on it, and a certain type of person kicked off declaring that somehow SciFi babe Hawaiian shirt is misogyny incarnate or something.

The main outcome for me was that now two different friends own sofa cushions with the identical fabric pattern, they're a bit... garish? Both these friends are women, one of them is a bona fide scientist with a PhD and everything, so evidently the "No to SciFi babes on Hawaiian shirts" misogyny claims were less "mainstream feminism" and more "I'm just looking for reasons to be angry", but whatever, that's culture for you.

I remember that story. The shirt was actually made for the guy by a female friend as a gift

The number is under-represented because US English is not used worldwide:

ilovemymum: 7928 ilovemymam: 926

Mam..?

Mammogram. Radiographic procedure that is painful and potentially life saving.

Northern English

And Northern Irish.

Personally I hear 'ma' more in Northern Ireland, never heard 'mam' (although maybe I am mishearing).

mam - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mam#English

ma - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ma#English

I heard `mammy` on Derry Girls which is supposed to be an Irish show.

Yeah, my Irish family say 'mammy'.

Ah, cool

Pa, Pop, Dada, Daddy, Mommy, etc. There's work to be done here, folks!

correcthorsebatterystaple - 103 times

Good god.

Also I wonder if Randall Monroe knows this somewhat ironic fact? It would make a nice addendum to the alt text on https://xkcd.com/936/ (which BTW is the origin of correcthorsebatterystaple for those wondering).

this one is quite amazing, I expected it to be one of the weakest around today, I certainly would include it in one of my first attempts if I tried to brute force any password.

There’s no guarantee those accounts hold any value, though. A throwaway account is the perfect chance for such a password — you won’t forget it and won’t care if you lose it.

  hackernews - 3 times
  forgotmypassword - 155 times
  letmein - 184.274 times

>184.274

How is it a real number? Shouldn't it be a whole number?

In Europe, 184.274 means 184,274.

In _parts_ of Europe.

Which parts specifically and why?

All europe except england.

[1,0] http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-s...

hunter7 - 7935 times

Wasn't it "hunter2"? The search turns up 16,092 hits so if I am mistaken I'm not the only one.

People are choosing "*" as a password?

How did you make that "reply" italic?

markup bug in HN, not closing the tag properly so it leaks past the post content if there is an asterix at the end of a post.

"*"

I'm doing. I'll update here soon

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