Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, as I promised on HN

Re:Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, a... by tfsh on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:02PM (#33642963)

I remember playing this 60 days ago when you released the prototype - congratulations on the official release! The game was a lot of fun, simple enough to be intuitively picked up but complex enough to spend a good 20 minutes trying to solve.

It also teaches the user quite a bit about prioritisation, and the fact it's essentially just a graph problem with multiple constraints which can be solved with a variation topological sort shows how useful algorithmic thinking is in daily life!

I can't view the site at the moment due to the HN hug of death, but I do have a question.

You say these are daily puzzles, are they hand curated by yourself or algorithmically generated - or a bit of both?

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Re:Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, a... by drcode on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:05PM (#33643006)

I have a heavily-tuned puzzle generator (written in zig) that generates candidate puzzles, which I then lay out with graphviz, then manually refine the layout and curate.

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Re:Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, a... by Bimos on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:56AM (#33650935)

I'm trying to write program to solve it as a practice. I've almost got the algorithm part done, but I have to input the puzzle manually. I wonder if there is a way to automatically fetch and read the puzzle.

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Re:Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, a... by gota on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:19PM (#33643204)

I also played the prototype and similarly enjoyed it, and also can't play it now

Something that occurred to me: is there any way - or rather, are there any existing browser features that support - setting up an "alarm" for when a hug-to-death site becomes generally available again?

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Re:Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, a... by terribleperson on Thursday November 17, 2022 @01:29PM (#33643376)

The difficulty would be not contributing to the deathhug. You could check if it's accessible at all if everyone accessed a server that was itself polling the site every minute, but trying to gauge beyond "accessible" and "not accessible" seems difficult.

Best would be if a site could report its availability status on its own externally. Anyone know of an existing service where you can report the status of your website?

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Re:Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, a... by kevmo314 on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:26PM (#33646800)

And if you do, could you also share it with the various cloud providers so they can render an accurate status page?

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