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

> Source: <https://toby.github.io/flashback/>
> Published: 2026-06-19 00:14:08+00:00

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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