alt.hn

5/21/2025 at 6:52:12 PM

Show HN: Test your license plate identification skills

https://shub.club/games/good-or-bad-plate

by forthwall

5/21/2025 at 7:59:22 PM

    LUV CBDS

    YOUR ARE WRONG!!!

    REJECTED | Reason: CBD=CANNABIDIOL, A COMPOUND OF MARIJUANA LIKE THC.
Well, that's silly seeing how CBD is available OTC basically everywhere (thanks to Mitch McConnell and the law of unintended consequences https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-mitch-mcconnell-acc...)

by aaronbrethorst

5/23/2025 at 12:52:43 PM

Strangely addicting :)

by purplezooey

5/21/2025 at 8:12:04 PM

Several years ago I received a letter from the Ohio BMV asking me to explain my vanity tag. I always wondered if somebody complained about it. I bet my explanation ended up in a database not unlike the one this game is based-on.

(My explanation to the BMV was that it was my favorite prime number less than 32,000...)

by EvanAnderson

5/22/2025 at 12:42:10 AM

Virginia has a national park license plate with a picture of a black bear. I recently saw it, vanity letters, "AHHBEAR", googly eye glued to the bear.

by tbihl

5/21/2025 at 7:54:18 PM

This game feels like someone trying to RLHF some license plate model

by swalsh

5/21/2025 at 7:27:13 PM

LOL this is so fun -- esp because these are real license plates that got approved + rejected...

where did you get the data for the license plates from?

by jony1266

5/21/2025 at 7:45:38 PM

OP seems to be referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44025022

by cAtte_

5/21/2025 at 7:56:09 PM

Yup! I actually couldn’t find it for some reason, will add it to attribution- thanks

by forthwall

5/21/2025 at 7:50:44 PM

ah very cool

by jony1266

5/21/2025 at 7:51:21 PM

i don't get it?

CHULO62

APPROVED | Reason: CHULO=PIMP

by croisillon

5/21/2025 at 7:57:22 PM

These are the notes written by the DMV. They may note that a plate may have a negative connotation, but they will still approve it

by forthwall

5/21/2025 at 7:59:52 PM

ah ok thanks!

by croisillon

5/21/2025 at 7:55:25 PM

Same. I don't really understand the output.

by laweijfmvo

5/21/2025 at 8:50:43 PM

YOUR ARE WRONG!!!

REJECTED | Reason: POOP

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