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Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order

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186 points maskinberg | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 06:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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maskinberg ◴[23 Jun 25 06:40 UTC] No.44353063[source]▶
TIMDLE Jun 23 34/36 1: 1p 5: 5p 2: 0p 6: 6p 3: 3p 7: 7p 4: 4p 8: 8p Play at https://timdle.com
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gus_massa ◴[24 Jun 25 00:11 UTC] No.44361534[source]▶
32/36: Are you the author? People is friendlier when the author is around answering questions. How are the events selected? Some are well known and some are very local.

The point system is easier to explain if each unselected spot transform into a star that flies to the point counter.

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maskinberg ◴[24 Jun 25 10:05 UTC] No.44364514[source]▶
Yes, I'm the author and this is a hobby project of mine. The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day. I have tried to come up with a large variety of categories, aiming to make it both interesting, challenging and fun for people from all over the world. But the span of categories could definitely be improved. I had a couple of iterations on both the points system and the layout a few months ago, and felt satisfied with it. Thanks for the suggestion, I will definitely take it into consideration for further work on the site.

I saw that it also made its way onto Metafilter - did you by any chance have anything to do with that?

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gus_massa ◴[24 Jun 25 12:32 UTC] No.44365477[source]▶
> The events are both gathered and "verified" with AI every day.

Interesting. Can you share more technical details? Do you have for example a filter to avoid event of the same year?

> Metafilter

No, it was not me.

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1. maskinberg ◴[24 Jun 25 13:00 UTC] No.44365749[source]▶
Correct, avoiding same year events. Also, excluding events that has been used in the past. Anything specific details you are wondering about?
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2. gus_massa ◴[25 Jun 25 10:59 UTC] No.44375827[source]▶
> Anything specific details you are wondering about?

Nothing in particular, but if in few months you have some time, it may be interesting to read a blog post with more details. There are many details that no one realize until they try to write the code and that is usually a good starting point for a good blog post.

(As an example, I thought about the "same year" rule. But you probably have a rule to try to balance military and sport events, and perhaps more...)