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Fun with uv and PEP 723

https://www.cottongeeks.com/articles/2025-06-24-fun-with-uv-and-pep-723
219•deepakjois•3h ago•75 comments

National Archives to restrict public access starting July 7

https://www.archives.gov/college-park
53•LastTrain•1h ago•19 comments

Writing toy software is a joy

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/software-is-joy
442•bundie•7h ago•183 comments

ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/chatgpt-vs-copilot-inside-the-openai-and-microsoft-rivalry
85•mastermaq•6h ago•70 comments

Ancient X11 scaling technology

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed
122•todsacerdoti•3h ago•73 comments

PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods

https://www.plasticlist.org/
243•homebrewer•8h ago•109 comments

Analyzing a Critique of the AI 2027 Timeline Forecasts

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/analyzing-a-critique-of-the-ai-2027
29•jsnider3•2h ago•17 comments

Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/
273•zdw•9h ago•77 comments

How to Think About Time in Programming

https://shanrauf.com/archive/how-to-think-about-time-in-programming
27•rmason•2h ago•10 comments

XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne

https://xbow.com/blog/top-1-how-xbow-did-it/
110•summarity•6h ago•70 comments

The bitter lesson is coming for tokenization

https://lucalp.dev/bitter-lesson-tokenization-and-blt/
175•todsacerdoti•8h ago•78 comments

Subsecond: A runtime hotpatching engine for Rust hot-reloading

https://docs.rs/subsecond/0.7.0-alpha.1/subsecond/index.html
43•varbhat•3h ago•2 comments

Starship: The minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

https://starship.rs/
338•benoitg•11h ago•166 comments

Mapping LLMs over excel saved my passion for game dev

https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2025/06/map-llms-excel-saved-my-passion-for-game-dev
24•danieltanfh95•3d ago•1 comments

Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-robotics-on-device-brings-ai-to-local-robotic-devices/
134•meetpateltech•8h ago•53 comments

Basic Facts about GPUs

https://damek.github.io/random/basic-facts-about-gpus/
207•ibobev•10h ago•52 comments

Expand.ai (YC S24) is hiring a founding engineer

1•timsuchanek•5h ago

Show HN: Autumn – Open-source infra over Stripe

https://github.com/useautumn/autumn
87•ayushrodrigues•9h ago•28 comments

The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination

https://blog.getjetback.com/the-economics-behind-basic-economy-a-masterclass-in-price-discrimination/
53•bdev12345•2h ago•70 comments

World Curling tightens sweeping rules, bans firmer broom foams ahead of Olympics

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/curling/world-curling-broom-ban-1.7566638
15•emptybits•2d ago•4 comments

The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together

https://www.vda.de/en/press/press-releases/2025/250624_PM_Automotive_industry_signs_Memorandum_of_Understanding
75•smartmic•2h ago•37 comments

Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Nordic-news/2025/06/Nordic-Semiconductor-acquires-Memfault
93•hasheddan•7h ago•28 comments

Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order

https://www.timdle.com/
139•maskinberg•1d ago•49 comments

PyTorch Reshaping with None

https://blog.detorch.xyz/post/2025-06-21-pytorch-reshaping-with-none.md
7•demirbey05•3d ago•0 comments

MCP is eating the world

https://www.stainless.com/blog/mcp-is-eating-the-world--and-its-here-to-stay
179•emschwartz•3d ago•114 comments

Show HN: Oasis – an open-source, 3D-printed smart terrarium

https://github.com/justbuchanan/oasis
87•jbuch•8h ago•17 comments

Bridging Cinematic Principles and Generative AI for Automated Film Generation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18899
20•jag729•3h ago•6 comments

SFStreets: History of San Francisco place names

http://sfstreets.noahveltman.com/
35•jxmorris12•5h ago•17 comments

How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloudflare-blocked-a-monumental-7-3-tbps-ddos/
203•methuselah_in•4d ago•107 comments

Circular Microcomputers embedded and powered by repurposed smartphone components

https://citronics.eu/
72•Bluestein•12h ago•19 comments
Open in hackernews

Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order

https://www.timdle.com/
139•maskinberg•1d ago

Comments

maskinberg•1d ago
TIMDLE Jun 23 34/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 0p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 7p 4: 4p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
gus_massa•22h ago
32/36: Are you the author? People is friendlier when the author is around answering questions. How are the events selected? Some are well known and some are very local.

The point system is easier to explain if each unselected spot transform into a star that flies to the point counter.

maskinberg•12h ago
Yes, I'm the author and this is a hobby project of mine. The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day. I have tried to come up with a large variety of categories, aiming to make it both interesting, challenging and fun for people from all over the world. But the span of categories could definitely be improved. I had a couple of iterations on both the points system and the layout a few months ago, and felt satisfied with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely take it into consideration for further work on the site.

I saw that it also made its way onto Metafilter - did you by any chance have anything to do with that?

gus_massa•9h ago
> The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day.

Interesting. Can you share more technical details? Do you have for example a filter to avoid event of the same year?

> Metafilter

No, it was not me.

maskinberg•9h ago
Correct, avoiding same year events. Also, excluding events that has been used in the past. Anything specific details you are wondering about?
bbor•8h ago
Really great stuff, this is the best wordle-like I've seen since the original, hands down! The UI is great, and the premise flawless -- unlike some other commenters, I think I prefer this gamemode to any similar implementation (all at once, go-until-mistake, etc.).

I have some experience crawling+processing Wikipedia dumps in python, if you ever find the need for a new sourcing system :) Email in bio!

MarkusQ•8h ago
32/36 too.

Having very local/niche events (especially near the end, when there are lots of places to go wrong) makes it feel unballanced. If you wanted to make the game more strategic and less "gotcha," you might want to have all the events available at the same time, or have a "come back to this item" option that would allow the user more control.

On a related note, there are only about 40320 possible choice paths (8!), making it about as rich as tic-tac-toe (though the context certainly makes the player think more), far lower than something like Wordel's (26⁵)⁵. Adding more decisions might make people take more ownership of their wins.

qwertox•7h ago
TIMDLE Jun 24 35/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 6p 4: 4p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com

Nice game, thanks!

xnx•8h ago
Cool. I like the left to right timeline better than the bottom to top one of the New York Times Flashback: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/flashback
bhickey•8h ago
Fun. Scored 35/36.

Have you considered an endless mode where you keep playing until you make a mistake?

pmontra•8h ago
36/36 with some luck.

The domain has been created on November 2024. Is this game inspired by the Trekking Through History boardgame [1] from 2022?

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/353288/trekking-through-...

timpark•8h ago
I was thinking of the board game "Timeline". This one is from 2012, but if you search BGG for Timeline, you'll find lots of different versions for different countries and specializations.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128664/timeline

pmontra•7h ago
I remember that game. Yes, it's a much better fit.
wavemode•8h ago
36/36 though two of the eight were lucky wild guesses.

I would be interested in a game like this where you order all 8 events and then get scored (similar to wordle). And then try again to put them in the right order, fewest attempts scores better.

zdc1•8h ago
UI issue: my window was resized to be quite short so I was clicking the dots completely unaware that the event I was placing was hidden in the y-overflow at the bottom of the page. Sometimes visible scroll bars are useful...
charlieyu1•7h ago
35/36. I don’t know if it is too easy
mrgoldenbrown•7h ago
This looks like an electronic version of the card game Chronology. Which is a great party game because it's easy to explain and you can play cooperatively if that fits your groups vibe better.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/834/chronology

NoboruWataya•7h ago
Fun game, though four years after Wordle I think we can move on from naming every browser puzzle game "something-le" :)

Slight spoiler alert: The last event it gave me was Ireland winning the Six Nations grand slam, which has in fact happened multiple times. In the event it didn't matter as the earliest time it happened was later than the next latest event but in another scenario I think it could have resulted in confusion and possibly a false negative. Or is it smart enough to know only to have an event like that where its place is not ambiguous?

shermantanktop•7h ago
The -le genre is more specific - they are fixed-round guessing games, with cumulative clues accruing. It’s a great genre (which of course already existed) but if adding -le helps make more of them, that’s cool with me.

I play Heardle (guess the song from the first seconds) and Chordle (guess the chord spelling). Don’t play Wordle anymore, I got tired of it.

avoutos•6h ago
The last event states Ireland "returns to rugby glory" suggesting it had won the grand slam before, but also there was a decent amount of time since the last win (return suggests a hiatus). This would exclude the original 1948 win.
mike-the-mikado•3h ago
In 1948 it was the 5 Nations, not the 6 Nations (I assume that the question hasn't been rewritten since you saw it)
avoutos•1h ago
Ah you're right, my bad. That could be lead to confusion then.
Aspos•5h ago
"Ireland Wins Six Nations Grand Slam" is such an obscure, hyper-local event which should be a part of localization I guess. I understood every word, but not the whole sentence.
pasc1878•5h ago
First great to have non US questions. This is how we see many quizzes as too local. Would you have objected to an American Football question?

But Ireland have won the Grand SLam 4 times so could appear in several postions

So not a good question.

rkuykendall-com•2h ago
> Would you have objected to an American Football question?

As an American not into sports, the only Football question I think would be of such historical significance to match the rest on this list would be "US Holds First Superbowl" or something.

leoc•5h ago
Rugby’s not that obscure or local. The Six Nations mentioned include England, France and Italy.
prerok•3h ago
Neither is skiing or ski jumping, but it is limited in the sense of exposure. I bet most people would not be able to name the best ski jumper in 1995, but a lot of people in my country would.
nesk_•4h ago
I suppose you are American, this isn't obscur for Europeans at all.
eej71•4h ago
I hear ya. I suppose the equivalent would be - last time the Chicago Cubs won the world series.
prerok•3h ago
Griping a bit, I know, but we, Europeans, always see these questions in various trivia games.
dylan604•1h ago
It's not our fault that you don't pay attention to something called the World Series. It's also not our fault you don't have teams good enough to qualify. It's not the called the American Series where you'd be expected to ignore it. /s

I've always laughed at these types of names. The Miss Universe pageant has always made wonder what Miss Andromeda would be like, and if her answers would also talk about whirled peas too.

olddustytrail•4h ago
Is it not? Does the average German or Portuguese or Finnish person know about the 6 nations?

I genuinely don't know. It's obviously a thing in Scotland (where I'm from) but is it a thing in other European countries?

input_sh•3h ago
Absolutely not. It's a good rule of thumb to guess "rugby" whenever I completely don't understand a sports reference, but I had absolutely no idea such a tournament existed between European nations, let alone when Ireland won it.

That said, I also had no idea who Annie Hall was, but that was way easier to guess correctly than a random rugby tournament.

carabiner•3h ago
What, you don't know the classic game of Timd?
jlv2•7h ago
That was fun.
ravdar•7h ago
endless mode would be nice - you play until you make a mistake. How many historical events are available?
ethan_smith•1h ago
An endless mode could be implemented with a difficulty curve that increases gradually by introducing more obscure events or events with closer dates as the player progresses.
Artoooooor•7h ago
"Something went wrong. Please try again later." These two already seem to be in chronological order :D
nonethewiser•7h ago
There is a very simple game called "Timeline" that is basically this: https://www.zygomatic-games.com/en/game/timeline-classic/

Extremely simple. No barrier to entry.

darkvertex•6h ago
Yeah! They sell many packs by genre (inventions, music, movies, science, etc) but what's neat is you can mix the cards of multiple genres and the game still works all the same. Very elegant concept.
tiagod•1h ago
There's also https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/
CrazyStat•53m ago
NYTimes also has a very similar game called “Flashback”.
fouronnes3•6h ago
Very cool! I wonder if a logarithmic version would be fun [0][1]

[0] https://victorpoughon.github.io/detailed-logarithmic-timelin...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

OptimusCrimee•6h ago
Very fun game. Going to play again tomorrow.
kaharvi•6h ago
Agreed! What was your score?

TIMDLE Jun 24 31/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 3p 4: 3p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com

neuronflux•6h ago
I enjoyed it.

My girlfriend's first reaction after getting 30/36 and seeing the neutral smiley face emoji was, "Wordle doesn't judge me."

stuartjohnson12•5h ago
Initial prompt confused me. Weimar hyperinflation happened before the cultural revolution in China. Clicked the blob that was labeled before. Wrong answer!

Left page.

Probably a skill issue but that was my experience.

alkh•5h ago
TIMDLE Jun 24 30/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 2p 6: 4p 3: 2p 7: 7p 4: 3p 8: 6p Play at https://timdle.com
etewiah•4h ago
If a game like this gets super popular can it be monetised?