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Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by sebastiennight »

I enjoyed the dichotomic search.

It's a very interesting concept as I'm sure you can extract some interesting insight about the profile of a user from the list of 12+ words they'll come up with. (When looking back at most of mine, they're words that came up in this week's conversations or lyrics of my Spotify playlists)

Like, it might be a fascinating little add-on to have a "Rorschach" LLM-based module attached which looks at the vocabulary you used and tries to sketch out a cold reading about you.

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by notfed »

rammer wrote: post #149

Looks like this person is fake and got banned on Reddit. Now trolling here https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/commen...

Huh. OP's only two comments on HN are both in connection with someone named (go figure) puzzledpenguin

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by rjh29 »

saintradon wrote: post #100
NavinF wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This website was likely not made by a 70 year old grandma judging by how it was promoted on reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/my_70_... https://www.reddit.com/user/Ruth_Ellaer https://www.reddit.com/user/puzzledpenguins

If that's the case then what's the endgame of this promotion? Strange.

Wordle sold for $1+ million. An average word game with a unique hook like "my grandma made it" is well positioned to sell or at least attract a lot of viral traffic.

Anyway, the grandma story has been exposed as fake.

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by amatecha »

notfed wrote: post #154
rammer wrote: post #149

Looks like this person is fake and got banned on Reddit. Now trolling here https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/commen...

Huh. OP's only two comments on HN are both in connection with someone named (go figure) puzzledpenguin

yeh, based on their comment/submission history they're coding with chatgpt and now started claiming it's their grandma learning to code? or something? pretty uncool.

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by agmater »

amatecha wrote: post #156
notfed wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh. OP's only two comments on HN are both in connection with someone named (go figure) puzzledpenguin

yeh, based on their comment/submission history they're coding with chatgpt and now started claiming it's their grandma learning to code? or something? pretty uncool.

Must be lonely, even making up fake code comments:

> /* This makes the words flip over like in Wordle. Ask Gary if we can change it to letter by letter like wordle */

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by xandrius »

martin293 wrote: post #70
poopsmithe wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please footnote the mentioned reddit post

Yeah that would be helpful as I can't find it at all. Both lowercarbon and xandrius have 0 posts and comments for me.

Really? That is strange as for me lowercarbon had a posts and I have quite a few comments.

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by NavinF »

rammer wrote: post #149

Looks like this person is fake and got banned on Reddit. Now trolling here https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/commen...

Heh, his sockpuppet (/u/puzzledpenguins) deleted the posts where he claimed this was his favorite game. What I find bizarre is that it would be so easy for him to come up with a reasonable explanation and reply to the reddit/hn comments to make skeptics look like assholes. He just deletes any post where people criticize these shenanigans

Re: Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game

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Post by cdrini »

rammer wrote: post #149

Looks like this person is fake and got banned on Reddit. Now trolling here https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1enuhw5/commen...

Oh that's such a shame, it was so fun! I wonder what this person's end game was. The site is down now. Why didn't they just release a game? I'd love to keep playing it!
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