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In general, it's very hard, and a constantly moving target, to make 'hard' NP-complete problems.

For example, it's really nice to have a problem generator which make a series of hard problems, for things like benchmarking. It's very common that someone comes up with such a system, then someone ends up finding a way of solving "almost everything" that the random generator makes, by finding a good way of finding solutions to the solvable problems, and/or finding a way to easily prove unsolvable problems have no solutions.

The second category tends to be more interesting, it ends up being really hard to make large random unsolvable problems which don't end up including some kind of "flaw" with high probability, where the flaw ends up being easy to find, and easily proves the problem is unsolvable.

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