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Re:Show HN: I brute-forced a wooden Antikythera-style puzzle... by yabdulaah52 on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:28PM (#49014330)
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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Re:Show HN: I brute-forced a wooden Antikythera-style puzzle... by garyhtou on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @11:45AM (#49085638)
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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