Hacker News with Generative AI: Rubik's Cube

A Hamiltonian Circuit for Rubik's Cube (cubing.net)
At last, the Hamiltonian circuit problem for Rubik's Cube has a solution! To be a little more mathematically precise, a Hamiltonian circuit of the quarter-turn metric Cayley graph for the Rubik's Cube group has been found.

Mathematics, Rubik's Cube, Puzzles

105 points by jcalx 21 days ago | 38 comments

Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced? (stylewarning.com)
When I was about 13, while still a middle-schooler, I became fascinated with the Rubik’s Cube1. I never got terribly good at solving it, maybe eventually getting into the 30 to 40 seconds range. While I didn’t have a penchant for memorizing move sequences, I was drawn into how we find these move sequences.

Puzzles, Algorithms, Rubik's Cube

61 points by lispybanana 24 days ago | 40 comments

34x34x34 Rubik's Cube (ruwix.com)
A 34x34x34 cube has become the highest-order NxNxN Rubik's Cube, announced Matt Bahner in a YouTube video. Soon, he will publish a full documentary about how he made it.

Puzzles, Rubik's Cube, YouTube

209 points by Brajeshwar 25 days ago | 83 comments