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chrisofspadeson Poker Tournament for LLMs

From the about page [0]:

> Tournament format > Texas Hold'em cash game, $10/$20

So, not a tournament at all, but a cash game.

[0] https://pokerbattle.ai/about

chrisofspadeson Tags to make HTML work like you expect

If your IDE supports Emmet (supported by VS Code out of the box) then you can use "!"-tab to get the same tags.

chrisofspadeson How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me

My first programming was also Java. That was...27 years ago! That's some lag.

chrisofspadeson Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?

You've just described FriendFeed. RIP. :(

chrisofspadeson Ask HN: Who wants to help promote RSS?

That's what FeedBurner [1] was for. Google put that into maintenance mode last July.

[1] https://feedburner.google.com/

chrisofspadeson Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)

Looks like that's a byproduct of Notion's keyboard shortcuts. I agree it's very annoying. Not only does it break arrow keys, but also home, end, page up, and page down.

chrisofspadeson Hugo Themes ranked by GitHub Stars

Have you looked at Docsy? https://www.docsy.dev/

chrisofspadeson I'm sorry

Visual Studio removes that space automatically when you use it to manage dependencies. It's quite annoying.

chrisofspadeson Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M

I remember in the beginning of Rap Genius it seemed like a lot of the lyrics were just scraped from OHHLA. I didn't even realize OHHLA was still around.

chrisofspadeson Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python

What are you doing to handle more complicated WHERE clauses, such as WHERE last_name = 'Doe' AND (first_name = 'Jane' OR first_name = 'John')?

chrisofspadeson Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people

> Living Single isn't Friends with African Americans.

Implies that Living Single came after Friends, but it debuted the year before.

chrisofspadeson Goodbye, Fleets

Wow, I completely forgot about tweetdeck. Thanks for the reminder.

chrisofspadeson Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative

Click on "Get Started" and I have to fill out a survey? And after I finish filling it out, nothing happens. What a horrible workflow. I would expect that "Get Started" take me to installation instructions.

chrisofspadeson Show HN: Organizedly – Linked notes, todo's, calendar and queries

Maybe because it's easy to domain hack the .ly TLD?

chrisofspadeson Show HN: NoteCalc

This is pretty cool. Reminds me of https://instacalc.com/

chrisofspadeson MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

There are more Dothraki names than African names combined :(

chrisofspadeson 50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels

Nnedi Okorafor's Binti would be a great modern addition to this list.

chrisofspadeson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?

Location: Orange County, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, .NET MVC, Web API, SQL Server, MySQL, Mongodb, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vuejs, Bootstrap, Azure, Git

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisofspades/

Email: chrisofspades@gmail.com