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Show HN: Pitch your tent for perfect shade

https://shadeplanner.vercel.app/

I recently moved to Australia and have been on a bit of a Roadtrip recently.Getting shade in the middle of the day is the only way to survive without becoming a lobster.So I made this, take a photo of your setup and project the shade across the day to make sure your awning is at the perfect angle.

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Re:Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:27AM (#49575529)
Also the solution in confirmed by another solver
Re:Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone on Saturday September 05, 2026 @06:27AM (#49575109)
I honestly don’t think it can be solved without looking online these days.

Perhaps if entire corpus of 1920s literature and obscure licensing rules are trained into the model it might.

I can certainly try though.

Astra One Shotted Cains's Jawbone

If you’re not familiar with Cain’s Jawbone. It’s one of the hardest literary puzzles of all time. Created by one of the pioneers of the modern cryptic crossword format.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%27s_Jawbone87 years after publishing it was only solved by 4 people. It took many months of the brightest minds to solve. Albeit more people have solved it since it was republished in 2022.The...

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Have you thought about deeper integrations with systems where people keep their unstructured data?

Show HN: I over-engineered a dingbats style puzzle game with AI agents

https://thingbat.today/

i love cryptic crosswords and word puzzles but there wasn't a great[1] daily "wordle" equivalent in the rebus (a.k.a dingbats) puzzles worldi wanted to play it enough to build it - but i quickly realised it's not very fun to play your own puzzles.so i built a complex, ai agent flow to autonomously spoon feed me puzzles, they were a mix of:1. incredibly obvious (e.g. answer written straight in...

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Show HN: Open-Source Email Verifier

https://github.com/yolodex-ai/email-verifier

got tired of paying for email verification saas like usebouncer.com, expensive at scale and often say emails are valid when the server sends accept to anything.built a simple npm package that does format + dns + smtp checks, plus detects those catch-all domains. npx email-verifier-check check [email protected] https://github.com/yolodex-ai/email-verifier any feedback appreciated.

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Re:Launch HN: PostHog (YC W20) – open-source product analytics on Thursday February 20, 2020 @01:15PM (#22377179)
Very nice, I'll use this on my next project for sure.