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jordanarseno··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
user mlni is right. I can solve a cube IRL, and these patterns are easily derivable from the solved state with only a few twists. There is an R' button in the upper right that let's the user enter scramble commands, so I manually entered them, and landed on these Permutation IDs.
jordanarseno··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
structure emerges from chaos at 23,738,673,083,197,685,761 & 34,677,398,788,068,093,945
jordanarseno··on Claude Code Routines
In my view, lock-in anxiety is a holdover from a previous era of tech platforms, and it doesn't really apply in an era where frontier agents can migrate you between vendors in hours. So I personally don't see any good worrying about this. On top of that, every major LLM provider is rapidly converging on the same feature set. They watch each other and clone what works. So the "platform" you're building on isn't really Anthropic's platform so much as it is the emerging shared surface area of what LLMs can do. By the time this Routines feature becomes a problem for you, other solutions will have emerged, and I'd be very surprised if you couldnt lift-and-shift very quickly.
jordanarseno··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
hivemunk (hivemunk.com): hive management for beekeepers.

Data engineer, 20 yrs software / 10 in ag-tech. Picked up beekeeping and was surprised how much structured data a single inspection produces, and how nowhere useful exists to put it. It's a gloved, veiled, honey-and-propolis-covered activity. Tapping through a mobile UI mid-inspection is not ideal, and good luck getting your phone back clean.

The core is a virtual hive model. It's all mutable state: boxes, frames, components, queens, and colonies you rearrange to mirror the physical yard. Treatments, feedings, and inspections layer on top.

This summer I'm shipping voice-driven inspections: narrate what you see frame by frame, STT + LLM pipeline extracts structured data and maps it to your hive model.

If you have beekeeping friends, I'd love it if you could send it along <3. I won't claim it has every feature under the sun, but I work on it every day and have a strong roadmap ahead.

Also open to critiques. Thanks!

https://hivemunk.com

jordanarseno··on Simple 3D Packing
Bin packing can be seen as an optimization problem. In 2D, consider a scenario where you need to cut shapes from a sheet of plywood or sheet metal while minimizing waste; finding the optimal orientation of these shapes reduces material loss. In 3D, you might imagine packing objects into a container or cargo space, or sculpting a collection of 3D shapes out of a known volume of material, where you'd optimize the arrangement and orientation to minimize waste.
jordanarseno··on The Hyrule Fantasy: The Legend of Zelda Japanese Game Manual from 1986
In Japan swastikas (left-facing and horizontal) are used to mark the location of a Buddhist temple. It is still common today. Open Google Maps and zoom into Japan. There are lots of temples in Kyoto, you should find this symbol in < 30 seconds.
jordanarseno··on Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
name is a nod to grooveshark? ;)
jordanarseno··on Ask HN: How do you use Amazon Echo?
I wrote a custom skill so I can say "Alexa, ask the bus stop, when is the next bus?" ... and she responds "x minutes" for the bus-stop outside my house. I use it everyday - such a time saver!
jordanarseno··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
SemiosBIO Technologies Inc. (http://semios.com) (Vancouver BC, Canada) ONSITE

An emerging leader in precision agriculture. Our product is a internet-of-things (IoT) platform for tree fruits and nuts with over 50K sensors reporting every 10 min. We leverage our big data analytics to enable growers with decision-making tools to minimize resources and risks. Data collected from the field is used for pest management, disease risk analysis, frost mitigation and irrigation control.

- Junior Embedded Developer

- Director of Engineering

- Data Scientist

- Android Developer

- Database Engineer

- Product Manager

- Director of Sales

- Precision Ag Account Manager (Yakima, WA)

Apply @ https://semios.workable.com/

jordanarseno··on PHP: A fractal of bad design
Am I the only one who thought this blog exploded their monitor?
jordanarseno··on Firefox Adds New Developer Tools and Add-on Sync
An excellent new take on an old technology. This is not something that would have ever crossed my mind, but I can immediately see the benefit of this type of view.

At the end of the video you see Trees, Buildings, Roads... brace yourselves, the 3D-hacked games using HTML + CSS are coming.