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liwords

A site that allows people to play a crossword board game against each other

2Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
118GitHub stars
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What it is

A site that allows people to play a crossword board game against each other

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-10-15 14:32:41 UTC to 2025-07-15 15:01:35 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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What are you talking about? I have multiple open-source projects where I've generated multiple PRs with 90+% AI tools. I don't care that the code isn't as good, because I have people using these features and the features work. 1) https://github.com/domino14/Webolith/pull/523/files (Yes, the CSS file sucks. I tried multiple times to add dark mode to this legacy app and I wasn't able to. This works, and is fine, and people are using it, and I'm not going to touch it again for a while) 2) https://github.com/domino14/macondo/pull/399 - A neural net for playing Scrabble. Has not been done before, in at least an open-source way, and this is a full-fledged CNN built using techniques from Alpha Zero, and almost entirely generated by ChatGPT o3. I have no idea how to do it myself. I've gotten the net to win 52.6% of its games against a purely stat
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ic bot, which is a big edge (trust me) and it will continue to increase as I train it on better data. And that is before I use it as an actual evaluator for a Monte Carlo bot. I would _never_ have been able to put this together in 1-2 weeks when I am still working during the day. I would have had to take NN classes / read books / try many different network topologies and probably fail and give up. Would have taken months of full-time work. 3) https://github.com/woogles-io/liwords/pull/1498/files - simple, but one of many bug fixes that was diagnosed and fixed largely by an AI model.
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Hi all, we just released woogles.io at 10:15 EDT this morning. Made with love by a passionate group of word gamers, and it is free for all. The app is open source; code can be found at https://github.com/domino14/liwords The app was inspired by lichess and the fact that we can't play live word games during this pandemic. We hope to host prestigious tournaments in the near future. One of our eventual goals is to revolutionize AI for the game of Scrabble and other crossword games. Our current state of the art AI (Quackle) is roughly as good as the best players in the world, but I think we could do better than that. This started as an AI research project but we decided to expand it into a word game platform. We have a data scientist on the team who has good ideas for applying ML to the game of Scrabble, and we will focus on that in the comin
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g months. Check it out and let us know what you think!
In Show HN: Woogles.io – A Word Game Platform

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