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Kevin Wang
Personal blog · kevinwang.usgamesai
Kevin Wang's personal blog at kevinwang.us covers games and ai. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Show HN: How I Won Facebook Games Without Hard Work”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a guide to achieving high scores in web games by modifying requests in flight, using the Tamper Chrome extension. Other linked material is about Pluribus, the poker AI.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kevin Wang's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: How I Won Facebook Games Without Hard Work2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-12-02
What Hacker News says?
Have to say, Pluribus beating top humans for 10,000 hands isn't the same thing as being super human. It's just too small of a sample to make that claim. Further, thousands of the hands that Pluribus played against the human pros are available online in an easy to parse format [0]. I've analyzed them. Pluribus has multiple obvious deficiencies in its play that I can describe in detail. It seems like it's very difficu…
Comment linking /lets-analyze-pluribuss-hands/
on “How A.I. Conquered Poker”Submitted Show HN: How I Won Facebook Games Without Hard Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've used this before to modify the leaderboard scores of small web games[0] I was amazed at how simple it was to use. Pretty full-featured, as well. [0]: http://kevinwang.us/cheating-a-guide-to-achieving-high-score...
Comment linking /cheating-a-guide-to-achieving-high-scores-without-hard-work/
on “Tamper Chrome extension to modify requests in flight”Submitted How I Won Facebook Games Without Hard Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Won Facebook Games Without Hard Work as a story · 1 points
HN discussion