agar 1 hour ago

Note to the site author: Using Chrome's translate tool seems to break your UI. Upon first visit, I was prompted to translate from Portuguese to English and accepted. Subsequent visits required I click the "Translate this page" button on the right side of the URL bar. (Edit: Chrome 1490.7827.201 on Windows 10).

When translated, clicking the Solver drop-down (default 3x3x3) displays:

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  • wozzp 8 minutes ago

    Interesting, but the site has support for 9 languages, what language were you using?

schoen 1 hour ago

Does it effectively achieve God's Algorithm (minimum theoretically possible sequence of moves to solve each position)?

  • xmprt 1 hour ago

    God's algorithm is not computationally feasible on consumer hardware so I'd assume not although there are many algorithms that can get pretty close (either matching or 1-2 moves off the optimal solution) which are much faster to solve. If you're curious, look up Cube Explorer which is an app that's built for this.

  • wozzp 44 seconds ago

    Not in practice. Computing the absolute minimum solution for every possible position is computationally infeasible for a web-based solver. This uses Kociemba’s two-phase algorithm instead, which produces very efficient solutions, usually close to optimal, without requiring enormous amounts of time and memory.

logicalappeals 1 hour ago

HN hitting new lows when slop like this makes it on my feed. This is neither original nor inspiring. Props on the umpteenth Rubik’s cube solver, I guess.

  • wozzp 3 minutes ago

    Your -3 karma is pretty self-explanatory. Hope you have a better day tomorrow.