alt Hacker NewsYes, 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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Really great stuff, this is the best wordle-like I've seen since the original, hands down! The UI is great, and the premise flawless -- unlike some other commenters, I think I prefer this gamemode to any similar implementation (all at once, go-until-mistake, etc.).
I have some experience crawling+processing Wikipedia dumps in python, if you ever find the need for a new sourcing system :) Email in bio!
> 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.