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Andreas Varotsis
Personal blog · andreasthinks.me/posts · on HN as crimsoneeraidata
Andreas Varotsis's personal blog at andreasthinks.me covers ai and data. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “AI at Play – Lessons from a silly benchmark”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- AI at Play – Lessons from a silly benchmark2 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-08-06
What Hacker News says?
I did this for Risk. Was good fun (in a token hungry kind of way). https://andreasthinks.me/posts/ai-at-play/
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on “Poker Tournament for LLMs”Submitted Why I'm Contributing to OpenStreetMap for Christmas, and maybe you should too as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you're using Quarto, I've got a plugin that adds bsky and masto comments https://andreasthinks.me/posts/quarto_comments/open-social.h...
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on “Adding Mastodon Comments to Your Blog”Submitted AI at Play – Lessons from a silly benchmark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI did something similar with Risk, in case of interest https://andreasthinks.me/posts/ai-at-play/
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on “I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI”Submitted AI Plays Risk – Lessons from a silly benchmark as a story · 2 points
HN discussionQuarto can do this really well (eg, my blog here: https://andreasthinks.me/posts/burglary_attendance/ ). It also does Rmarkdown.
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on “Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes”Submitted Hackers aren’t excited about AI (and other bits from CCCamp23) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI did something similar with Risk, which was also good fun https://andreasthinks.me/posts/ai-at-play/
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on “Which AI Lies Best? LLMs play a 1950s betrayal game by John Nash”Submitted When fewer commits don't mean less work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo I briefly touched on this in the blog post, but to expand a little... ATProto provides significantly more "batteries included" than ActivityPub in my view - if you use ATProto, it can handle both authentication and identity management, and effectively act as your back-end and CRUD operations (eg, oauth with your PDS, and then write/read from the network for your object creation based on your Lexicon). ActivityPub…
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on “Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing”Submitted What I want from the UK National Data Library (it's vibe coding) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYes! I spent ages watches them play Risk. It was fun and deeply silly: https://andreasthinks.me/posts/ai-at-play/ I've now got them playing Blood Bown(ish), and they're bad: https://ai-at-play.online/
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on “Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?”Submitted Teaching OpenAI to assess risk, with CopBot as a story · 1 points
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