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Coding the Wheel
codingthewheel.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Coding the Wheel is a programming blog best known for a series on building an online poker bot, plus poker math and coding essays.
What HN saysCommenters recommend the poker bot series as a fantastic, detailed technical write-up and mention the site's interactive poker math tool.
35HN people shared it
12linked it in comments
47stories submitted
760story points
12 years agolast shared
2008people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1How I built a poker-bot5 people · 77 points · first shared 2008 · 37 comments on HN
- 2The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? - Coding the Wheel3 people · 15 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 3More updates on how to build a poker bot3 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 4The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White2 people · 27 points · first shared 2008 · 3 comments on HN
- 5How I Built a Working Poker Bot, Part 4: The Poker Botting Erector Set2 people · 15 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 6A Radioactive, Search-Hardened User Name for Online Poker2 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 7John Carmack: Script Interpreters Considered Harmful1 people · 131 points · first shared 2011 · 87 comments on HN
- 8StackOverflow Considered Harmful?1 people · 99 points · first shared 2015 · 90 comments on HN
- 9Of Gravatars and Robohashes1 people · 75 points · first shared 2011 · 13 comments on HN
- 10Are Commercial Databases Worth It?1 people · 63 points · first shared 2009 · 42 comments on HN
- 11Stranger than Fiction: The story of PostgreSQL and Online Poker1 people · 53 points · first shared 2009 · 22 comments on HN
- 12Building a Poker Bot: Part 21 people · 38 points · first shared 2008 · 10 comments on HN
- 13Building a Poker Bot: Part 31 people · 27 points · first shared 2008 · 8 comments on HN
- 14"Don't be evil, except..." -- the new Google1 people · 12 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Learning To Drive a Stick Shift: Why Programmers Should Know C/C++1 people · 12 points · first shared 2008 · 32 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
kolsen · 2011-10-17
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/
gavingmiller · 2010-11-12
There 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-poker-bot
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.)
hairsupply · 2009-03-10
The 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-poker-bot… and Dustin Campbell (http://diditwith.net)
codingthebeach · 2013-03-25
Yay. 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-google-reade…
Digg is the dark horse in this race. It will be interesting to see how well they can execute.
gregsadetsky · 2013-01-04
Hi,
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 bindings) to dynamically generate training questions. Here's a nice intro to it on Coding the Wheel:
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/a-pokersource-poker-eval-primer
vanschelven · 2010-06-17
Counterpoint:
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/radioactive-search-hardened-use…
Describes how a certain player "ROB CASHFLOW" made himself "unsearchable" by including 0x001F between the B and C of his name.
cruise02 · 2009-08-26
Currently 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/
* Sutter's Mill - http://herbsutter.wordpress.com/
* Schneier on Security - http://www.schneier.com/blog/
4chan4ever · 2009-08-11
Finally... this has been blogged about for at least a year.
http://www.codingthewheel.com/archives/online-gambling-privacy-iesnare
oliveoil · 2009-07-08
I'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-roundup.
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 pure waste of money for anyone else than an expert to play, on any blinds level. (not that I'd feel sad about it).
JeremyBanks · 2009-06-15
RRiccio · 2008-07-17
I'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-poker-bot
steveplace · 2008-07-10
I'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-online-po…