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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
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lbrockxyz ◴[27 Apr 23 15:28 UTC] No.35729588[source]▶
My family is super into games, and as the resident programmer, they often ask me to build things related to them. Favorite two to build were

- an Unolingo solver that we used to figure out if there could ever by more than one solution to the puzzle (there can be!)

- a "killer" solitaire simulator that determined the optimal number of players for a max win rate. IDK if this is even a real game, but my family plays multi-player competitive solitaire with up to 8 people at a time. IIRC the optimal number for win rates is like 5-6(?) according to my simulation

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1. Austizzle ◴[27 Apr 23 21:18 UTC] No.35734757[source]▶
I grew up playing a multiplayer competitive solitaire with my family called Nerts. Sounds like a similar game: https://bicyclecards.com/how-to-play/nerts