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Show HN: Test your license plate identification skills

by forthwall on 5/21/25, 6:52 PM with 14 comments

• by aaronbrethorst on 5/21/25, 7:59 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 EvanAnderson on 5/21/25, 8:12 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 swalsh on 5/21/25, 7:54 PM

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

• by tbihl on 5/22/25, 12:42 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 jony1266 on 5/21/25, 7:27 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 purplezooey on 5/23/25, 12:52 PM

  Strangely addicting :)

• by croisillon on 5/21/25, 7:51 PM

  i don't get it?

  CHULO62

  APPROVED | Reason: CHULO=PIMP

• by ovulator on 5/21/25, 8:50 PM

  YOUR ARE WRONG!!!

  REJECTED | Reason: POOP