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Show HN: I brute-forced a wooden Antikythera-style puzzle in Rust (github.com)
2 points by garyhtou 6 days ago
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yabdulaah52 6 days ago
combining physical woodworking /puzzles with brute -forcing is the ultimate hacker news crossover .did you write a custom script or simulation to map out the gear combinations, use an existing constraint solver ?
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garyhtou 15 hours ago
I wrote a custom script and started by representing the physical puzzle as JSON!

https://github.com/garyhtou/grecian-computer/blob/main/puzzl...

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