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codingthewheel.com
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codingthewheel.com is a personal blog at codingthewheel.com about programming and games. Since 2008, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “How I built a poker-bot”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link codingthewheel.com for its multi-part series on building an online poker bot, which commenters call fantastic and technical, and for its hand evaluator algorithms post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How I built a poker-bot5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-05-09
- The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? - Coding the Wheel3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-08-24
- More updates on how to build a poker bot3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-07-17
- The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-10-13
- A Radioactive, Search-Hardened User Name for Online Poker2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-06-17
- How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 4: The Poker Botting Erector Set2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-06-28
What Hacker News says?
I like reading Scott Hanselman: http://www.hanselman.com/blog I also like this one with his series (back in 2008) on coding poker bots but he hasn't posted in a while: http://www.codingthewheel.com/
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on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”Submitted John Carmack: Script Interpreters Considered Harmful as a story · 131 points
HN discussionCounterpoint: http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/radioactive-search-ha... Describes how a certain player "ROB CASHFLOW" made himself "unsearchable" by including 0x001F between the B and C of his name.
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on “Your last name contains invalid characters”Submitted StackOverflow Considered Harmful? as a story · 99 points
HN discussionThe people who I work with whom I regard as great hackers work almost exclusively in the real time embedded space (industrial automation systems) and don't have web notoriety. Slightly more prominent individuals could include Ted Neward ( http://blogs.tedneward.com ), Joe Duffy ( http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/default.aspx ), James Devlin( http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working... ), and…
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on “Core competencies of great hackers”Submitted How I built a poker-bot as a story · 77 points
HN discussionYay. I would really like to see Digg take a swing at this and said as much a couple weeks ago. http://www.codingthewheel.com/internet/could-digg-replace-go... Digg is the dark horse in this race. It will be interesting to see how well they can execute.
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on “Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader”Submitted Of Gravatars and Robohashes as a story · 75 points
HN discussionFinally... this has been blogged about for at least a year. http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/online-gambling-priva...
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on “You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again”Submitted Are Commercial Databases Worth It? as a story · 63 points
HN discussionReminds me of http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working...
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on “Memoirs of a Poker Bot Developer”Submitted Stranger than Fiction: The story of PostgreSQL and Online Poker as a story · 53 points
HN discussionThere was a fantastic series of technical articles written a couple of years ago on building a poker bot: http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working... The series of articles goes into detail on how to write a successful bot - Statistics, OCR, hooking dlls, etc. There is a ton of information that lays a solid ground work for doing this yourself (if you have the time.)
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on “Robot wars break out on poker sites”Submitted Building a Poker Bot: Part 2 as a story · 38 points
HN discussionI'm reading the Codingthewheel blog pretty regulalry. While I don't find this article on Postgre particularly intriguing, some others are good, for instance the one on hand evaluator algorithms: http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/poker-hand-evaluator-... . All this talk is often making me wonder whether good (and improving bots) will take over the world of online poker someday, to the point where it is just a pu…
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on “Stranger than Fiction: The story of PostgreSQL and Online Poker”Submitted Building a Poker Bot: Part 3 as a story · 27 points
HN discussionCurrently in my RSS reader: * Coding the Wheel - http://www.codingthewheel.com/ * Good Math, Bad Math - http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/ * Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP - http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/ * Polymath Programmer - http://polymathprogrammer.com/ * The Endeavor - http://www.johndcook.com/blog/ * Programming Praxis - http://programmingpraxis.com/ * Pragmatic Bookshelf News - http://www.pragprog.com/news/ *…
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on “Ask HN: What are the best developer/hacker focused blogs?”Submitted The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White as a story · 24 points
HN discussionHi, We created this site after trying to learn the theory found in most Poker Math books. Rote memorization of equations didn't cut it -- so we created this interactive site instead, thinking it might be useful to others. Let us know your thoughts! Thanks P.S. The site's name is PokerGym -- the HN spam-killing bot didn't seem to like stories with "Poker" in the title. P.P.S. We use poker-eval (through its Python bin…
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on “Show HN: Learn Texas Hold'em Math, Master the Game”Submitted How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 4: The Poker Botting Erector Set as a story · 15 points
HN discussionI'm really surprised no one has yet to mention this: codingthewheel.com is currently going through an explanation on how to build a winning poker bot online. Here's the latest post. http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working...
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on “ AI beats human poker champions”Submitted "Don't be evil, except..." -- the new Google as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI'm an online professional poker player and I'm a bit stunned by this article. I had never seen anyone talk so openly about the existance and programming of online poker bots. Thumps up to the writer. I'm going back and reading the first article of the series at the moment. http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/how-i-built-a-working...
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on “How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 5”Submitted Learning To Drive a Stick Shift: Why Programmers Should Know C/C++ as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted CardsFall: A 3D Programming Visualization in C#, OpenGL, OpenTK, and iTunes as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can't PDF Your Way to Good Software as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diagramming the PokerTracker 3 Database as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? - Coding the Wheel as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dartboard-Driven Design as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 7 as a story · 7 points
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