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The Flummoxagon

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827
50•robinhouston•4d ago

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fjfaase•3h ago
Nice article, which also explains the mapping of the puzzle to an exact cover problem and how those can be solved with dangling links as in Knuth's Algorithm X.
MontagFTB•2h ago
A blast from the past! I once wrote an implementation of dancing_links in C++ as part of a Sudoku solver: https://github.com/stlab/adobe_source_libraries/blob/main/ad...
jeffrallen•3h ago
Oh my god, take my money, please. These types of tactile puzzles are the ideal nerdsnipe for me.
colordrops•2h ago
Looks amazing but getting 500 errors from the payment flow and the FLUMMOX discount code doesn't work as advertised.
smokel•2h ago
Very interesting, but I have a hard time differentiating the colors. The gradients seem to be there for aesthetics only, but they confuse me to no end :)
cadamsdotcom•33m ago
Absolutely love this. Amazing creativity!

Totally feeling like vibe-coding a web version of the game and plastering it with giant BUY THIS THING links that send people to the real thing.

rendaw•16m ago
Tangential, but does anyone know good places to find other physical puzzles like this? Also, recently there was an article on elastic knots I was hoping someone would productize into a novelty puzzle.
robinhouston•9m ago
Be careful! There's a whole world of mechanical puzzles out there, and it can get very expensive and start to take over your life.

Here's an assortment of links to places where you can buy interesting puzzles. This isn't exhaustive of course: it's just a few places that came to mind.

https://www.puzzlemaster.ca/

https://puzzleparadise.net/

https://www.pelikanpuzzles.eu/

https://twobrassmonkeys.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/PuzzleguyStore

Macro Gaussian Splats

https://danybittel.ch/macro.html
38•danybittel•1h ago•4 comments

Blood test detecting Long Covid in kids with 94% accuracy microclots

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7483367/v1
27•thenerdhead•51m ago•4 comments

4x faster LLM inference (Flash Attention guy's company)

https://www.together.ai/blog/adaptive-learning-speculator-system-atlas
34•alecco•3h ago•13 comments

Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper

https://paddedinputs.substack.com/p/meta-superintelligences-surprising
309•skadamat•12h ago•168 comments

Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)

https://postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2025/10/01/psql-pipeline.html
104•tanelpoder•7h ago•15 comments

The Flummoxagon

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827
50•robinhouston•4d ago•8 comments

C++ Reflection and Qt MOC

https://wiki.qt.io/C%2B%2B_reflection_(P2996)_and_moc
19•coffeeaddict1•3d ago•4 comments

Nostr and ATProto (2024)

https://shreyanjain.net/2024/07/05/nostr-and-atproto.html
8•sph•2h ago•0 comments

Why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification

https://snarky.ca/why-it-took-4-years-to-get-a-lock-files-specification/
13•birdculture•2h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits

https://sobernotsorry.app/
42•molozhenko•5h ago•37 comments

I/O Multiplexing (select vs. poll vs. epoll/kqueue)

https://nima101.github.io/io_multiplexing
63•pykello•3d ago•14 comments

Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

153•ofalkaed•13h ago•470 comments

Coral Protocol: Open infrastructure connecting the internet of agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00749
28•joj333•8h ago•6 comments

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial

https://github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial
189•cjbarber•17h ago•24 comments

Vancouver Stock Exchange: Scam capital of the world (1989) [pdf]

https://scamcouver.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/scam-capital.pdf
102•thomassmith65•12h ago•44 comments

Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

https://github.com/acsandmann/rift
153•atticus_•11h ago•76 comments

Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_Wikipedia_cannot_claim_the_Earth_is_not_flat
27•duncanjbrown•1h ago•9 comments

Show HN: A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting

https://github.com/gue-ni/redstart
61•quintussss•3d ago•10 comments

Loko Scheme: bare metal optimizing Scheme compiler

https://scheme.fail/
3•dTal•5d ago•0 comments

The World's 2.75B Buildings

https://tech.marksblogg.com/building-footprints-gba.html
70•marklit•4d ago•31 comments

A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS

https://psyonik.tech/posts/a-guide-for-wireguard-vpn-setup-with-pi-hole-adblock-and-unbound-dns/
94•pSYoniK•16h ago•10 comments

Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05096
57•jinqueeny•12h ago•14 comments

Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-reco...
651•dmitrygr•17h ago•244 comments

Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook

https://github.com/sirbread/spellscript
30•sirbread•6h ago•3 comments

Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/06/datablocks-white-label-drives/
185•thomasjb•6d ago•110 comments

CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code

https://www.legitsecurity.com/blog/camoleak-critical-github-copilot-vulnerability-leaks-private-s...
54•greyadept•13h ago•12 comments

LineageOS 23

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-30/
251•cdesai•12h ago•98 comments

Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD

https://github.com/BalajeS/WSL-For-FreeBSD
263•rguiscard•1d ago•109 comments

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/
363•Ch00k•1d ago•195 comments

The <output> Tag

https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag
773•todsacerdoti•1d ago•171 comments