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Show HN: Flashback – an agent skill that references 127 years of design trends

Developer Toby released Flashback, an agent skill and browsable website that references 127 years of design trends from 1900 onward, built as a GitHub Pages project. The tool allows AI agents to look up historical design trends for context-aware responses.

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Hi all! I was recently doing a live stream session at Build and created the start of a tool called Flashback. I wanted a way for agents to look through the history of popular design so you could reference different trends throughout time. I didn’t finish on the stream, but I kept coming back to the idea so ended up shipping it as a GitHub pages powered Skill and human browsable web site.

I think it’s really interesting to see how design has evolved since 1900, and I learned a lot in this process.

The repo is here: [https://github.com/toby/flashback](https://github.com/toby/flashback)

And the original stream is here: [https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5r4uqfsGY&t=7518s](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5r4uqfsGY&t=7518s)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593363](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593363)

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