Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
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HN · launched Aug 10, 2026 · 295 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive 3d web simulations · 157 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial While rendering a 3D Rubik's cube and basic permutations in Next.js is straightforward, generating and navigating a continuous bijective mapping/index across 4.3x10^19 states requires specialized combinatorial math and high-performance indexing algorithms.
What it would actually take: Requires implementing Kociemba's two-phase algorithm or Lehmer codes adapted to the Rubik's cube symmetry group to establish a bijective unranking function between 64-bit integers and valid cube permutations. The frontend can use Three.js/React Three Fiber with BigInt indexing to compute orientations and edge/corner permutations on the fly.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Logitech free-wheeling mouse wheels
Concerns raised: Most NFTs caused people to lose money rather than gain wealth, NFT wealth concentrated among minters and early adopters, rigged for insiders, NFTs are useless and valueless, unlike tangible assets like houses or oil fields, Product lacks practical utility or beneficial use
Feature requests: Detent-free mouse wheel option
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 208 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 209 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 283 days after the earliest competitor.
- minirubik · github · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year · hn · 2026-08-21 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- RubikSolver · github · 2026-09-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Arrow Cube: Slide Puzzle · ph · 2026-10-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MyCubeSolver · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Cubespotting · hn · 2026-09-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Cube Dash 3D: Puzzle Islands · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- iching-64-motion · github · 2026-10-27 · 159 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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