// Hacker Noon · 18 March 2026

Building a Web-Based Traveling Salesman Solver That Earned a 21 Proof of Usefulness Score

The Traveling Salesman Problem is one of the most famous optimization challenges in computer science. This web-based solver lets users experiment with graphs and visualize optimal tours interactively—and it recently earned a Proof of Usefulness score of 21.

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