{"slug": "show-hn-flashback-an-agent-skill-that-references-127-years-of-design-trends", "title": "Show HN: Flashback – an agent skill that references 127 years of design trends", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nI think it’s really interesting to see how design has evolved since 1900, and I learned a lot in this process.\n\nThe repo is here: [https://github.com/toby/flashback](https://github.com/toby/flashback)\n\nAnd the original stream is here: [https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5r4uqfsGY&t=7518s](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wn5r4uqfsGY&t=7518s)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593363](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593363)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flashback-an-agent-skill-that-references-127-years-of-design-trends", "canonical_source": "https://toby.github.io/flashback/", "published_at": "2026-06-19 00:14:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19 00:31:30.175931+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Toby", "Flashback", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flashback-an-agent-skill-that-references-127-years-of-design-trends", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flashback-an-agent-skill-that-references-127-years-of-design-trends.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flashback-an-agent-skill-that-references-127-years-of-design-trends.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-flashback-an-agent-skill-that-references-127-years-of-design-trends.jsonld"}}