Is it just me or does every other post on here have to do with some Wordle clone? I enjoy the game, it's fun, but how come HN and the tech community is obsessed with it all the sudden?
Fun and popular game + non-trivial/moderately complex to solve, with multiple possible approaches => HN popularity.<p>Wordle came out recently, so it's not like HN could have been obsessed with it years ago.<p>It's not just the tech community - non-techies in my family like it.<p>You may not remember it, but Sudoku became widely popular starting around 2005. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#Modern_Sudoku" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#Modern_Sudoku</a> .<p>This lead to an number of tech people to develop solvers, perhaps Novig's being the most famous, and Ron Jeffries TDD-based failed attempt perhaps the most infamous.<p>You can see traces of that period on HN at <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=18&prefix=false&query=sudoku&sort=byDate&type=story" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=18&prefix=false&q...</a>