Hacker News: domhudson

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

domhudson — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:50:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50303172

Points: 584

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One Year of Not Touching Code

domhudson — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:48:47 +0000

Article URL: https://molochinations.substack.com/p/one-year-of-not-touching-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122670

Points: 2

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How to Tell If Someone Is Cheating on Lichess

domhudson — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:30:02 +0000

Article URL: https://chesscheatdetector.com/blog/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-cheating-on-lichess/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878596

Points: 2

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Former Meta CTO's Strategy on Scaling Green Tech (Mike Schroepfer) [video]

domhudson — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:39:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdBTEhLRLDU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860788

Points: 1

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The Hardest of Scrabbles: Solopreneurship

domhudson — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:36:50 +0000

Article URL: https://molochinations.substack.com/p/the-hardest-of-scrabbles-solopreneurship

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860770

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to Tell If Someone Is Cheating on Chess.com

domhudson — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:34:50 +0000

Article URL: https://chesscheatdetector.com/blog/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-cheating-on-chess-com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860750

Points: 2

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Mini-Microsoft Wins at Last

domhudson — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://molochinations.substack.com/p/mini-microsoft-wins-at-last

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780441

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by domhudson in "Show HN: Chess Cheater Detector"

domhudson — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:22:50 +0000

Thanks! Your diagnosis was correct - it was still calculating complexity for a move normally ignoring whether it was forced or not.

Resolved :) Here's a reprocess of your game: https://chesscheaterdetector.com/analysis/7aviGW

Might update suspicion to always be 0 when it's forced too...

It actually looks like your game did have engine-assistance right? So might need to use this as a false-negative case also.

New comment by domhudson in "Show HN: Chess Cheater Detector"

domhudson — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:00:26 +0000

Thanks for trying it! That's interesting - please can you share the analysis link here if you still have it?

Google Artemis – Missing attribution to mobile-use and its contributors

domhudson — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google/artemis/issues/40

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709184

Points: 1

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New comment by domhudson in "I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information"

domhudson — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:45:00 +0000

If this is a marketing stunt to use such a bad font; honestly, I'm impressed.

Baumol Jevon Capital Labor Purpose

domhudson — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:20:54 +0000

Article URL: https://molochinations.substack.com/p/baumol-jevon-capital-labor-purpose

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706079

Points: 1

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Show HN: Chess Cheater Detector

domhudson — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:14:36 +0000

I've been playing with this idea to build an estimation of chess cheating likelihood from an exported chess game (PGN format).

The main thing I've developed so far is a way of estimating the complexity of each position. The intuition is that matching an engine's top moves in difficult positions is much more informative than doing so when there's an obvious best move.

The detector currently combines complexity with engine agreement and centipawn loss to make a prediction. I'd like to move beyond the heuristics and train an ML model on a decent dataset of known cheating/non-cheating games.

There is an obvious limitation though: I have fewer signals available than than Chess.com/Lichess. I generally don't have a player's game history, and most PGNs don't contain time-per-move data, both of which would presumably be very useful.

Still pretty experimental, so I'd be interested in feedback; especially from anyone who's worked on chess engines, cheating detection, or related statistical problems.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706032

Points: 1

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New comment by domhudson in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

domhudson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:10:55 +0000

Really cool! Are you able to add an indicator showing which direction you're travelling in? It's quite confusing to start due to all the effects.

I also recommend a banner that says it doesn't work on mobile as it was quite confusing to me as to whether it was working or not.

New comment by domhudson in "Breakscale: Live System Design Simulator"

domhudson — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:57:09 +0000

It's not my project, but here you are! https://github.com/xevrion/breakscale

Breakscale: Live System Design Simulator

domhudson — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:22:28 +0000

Article URL: https://breakscale.tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627109

Points: 2

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New comment by domhudson in "Hqtui: Terminal UI for TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, Zig, Ruby"

domhudson — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:01:57 +0000

Looks really very nice. I built an interface for ML active learning in the terminal a while back. Wish this had existed at the time.

New comment by domhudson in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"

domhudson — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:47:15 +0000

This is incredible! Are there other big players in this space (freezing models to silicon)?

New comment by domhudson in "Does high chess accuracy mean someone is cheating?"

domhudson — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:46:43 +0000

Interesting point. Yeah, I agree timing should be a strong signal. It seems like there are a few ways it could be included:

- Measure a correlation between position complexity and time spent per move. You would expect a good move to take longer to calculate in complex positions.

- Move timing consistency, humans are all over the place with timing, whereas cheaters often move regularly.

- Long pause, then strong play. If a cheater starts cheating half way through a game, then there could be a transition period where they first enter the position into the engine.

Does high chess accuracy mean someone is cheating?

domhudson — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:23:11 +0000

Article URL: https://chesscheaterdetector.com/blog/does-high-chess-accuracy-mean-someone-is-cheating/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49614505

Points: 1

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