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Bertrand Fan
Personal blog · bert.orghardwareculture
Bertrand Fan writes bertrand fan, a personal blog at bert.org about hardware and culture. Since 2018, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “The best starting word in Wordle”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal blog of playful technical projects: a Wordle starting-word analysis, a remote-controlled finger for pressing YubiKeys, ChatGPT in Dr. Sbaitso, and a Terminator 2 ATM PIN-cracking program.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The best starting word in Wordle6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-24
- Installing a payphone in my house4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-02
- Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 23 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04
- ChatGPT in DR Sbaitso3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-06
- Vaccination Paywalls – Bertrand Fan2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-23
- Pressing YubiKeys2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-10-02
- Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-27
- Building a Zoom Mute Button2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
- Slack on a SNES2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-19
- Flying for Thanksgiving2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-19
What Hacker News says?
Somebody actually integrated ChatGPT with Dr.Sbaitso: https://bert.org/2023/01/06/chatgpt-in-dr-sbaitso/
Comment linking /2023/01/06/chatgpt-in-dr-sbaitso/
on “Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC”Submitted Installing a payphone in my house as a story · 1129 points
HN discussionSomeone recently tried to work out what starting word would give you the best head start with this game: https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle...
Comment linking /2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle/
on “Wordle”Submitted Pressing YubiKeys as a story · 505 points
HN discussionI liked this deconstruction of Wordle a lot: https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle...
Comment linking /2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle/
on “Reverse engineering Wordle”Submitted Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2 as a story · 435 points
HN discussionWhat you need is a remote controlled finger for pressing YubiKeys: https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/
Comment linking /2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/
on “Python-FIDO2”Submitted Flying for Thanksgiving as a story · 323 points
HN discussionThere have been a few attempts to answer this. One approach is to look at which guess, averaging across all answer words, gets the most hits. You'd expect a word that uses several of the most common letters ETAOIN etc. This helps you quickly discover letters that appear in the answer. Using this strategy, a common first guess is SOARE, explained here: https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle... M…
Comment linking /2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle/
on “Show HN: A Wordle for the command line (Spanish and English)”Submitted Slack on a SNES as a story · 164 points
HN discussionThe exactly-five-letter word guesser that includes virtual keyboard that paints keys as hints as the game progresses? After explicitly mentioning in a comment that the game was derived from Wordle - " I came across https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle ... on HN the other day ". The OP now added "About", with weasel-worded reference to Wordle. Jesus. How hard is it to just acknowledge other pe…
Comment linking /2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle
on “Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game”Submitted IoT Nixie Tubes as a story · 161 points
HN discussionI came across https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle... on HN the other day, and decided to do my own take on the concept as a little weekend project.
Comment linking /2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle/
on “Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game”Submitted The best starting word in Wordle as a story · 29 points
HN discussionI've written this comment before bu what you need is a remotely controlled finger for pressing YubiKeys: https://bert.org/2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/
Comment linking /2020/10/01/pressing-yubikeys/
on “What are some interesting uses of WebUSB you have come across?”Submitted Building a Zoom Mute Button as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIt's not from the VFX team but someone wrote a clone of the ATM hacking program https://bert.org/2021/01/04/t2-pin-cracking/
Comment linking /2021/01/04/t2-pin-cracking/
on “The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)”Submitted Vaccination Paywalls – Bertrand Fan as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing a payphone in my house (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing a payphone in my house (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Starting Word in Wordle as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vaccination Paywalls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vaccination Paywalls as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Installing a Payphone at My House as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT in DR Sbaitso as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT in Dr. Sbaitso as a story · 1 points
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