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1.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
879 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 186 comments
2.
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
1459 points by novemp 1 day ago | 924 comments
3.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
509 points by ssgodderidge 1 day ago | 184 comments
4.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
421 points by handfuloflight 3 days ago | 212 comments
5.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
450 points by dvrp 1 day ago | 87 comments
6.
Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
381 points by 0bytematt 4 days ago | 25 comments
7.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
282 points by futurecat 4 days ago | 203 comments
8.
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
255 points by zachlatta 23 hours ago | 121 comments
9.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
425 points by danielhanchen 1 day ago | 202 comments
10.
State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
129 points by kianN 1 day ago | 34 comments
11.
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
157 points by four_fifths 21 hours ago | 76 comments
12.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
508 points by harel 1 day ago | 343 comments
13.
Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
146 points by yichab0d 1 day ago | 77 comments
14.
PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
154 points by varjag 3 days ago | 43 comments
15.
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
349 points by mustaphah 23 hours ago | 159 comments
16.
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
112 points by dogline 20 hours ago | 25 comments
17.
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
236 points by presbyterian 1 day ago | 215 comments
18.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
171 points by luu 1 day ago | 229 comments
19.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
147 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 99 comments
20.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
386 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 239 comments
21.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
90 points by srcreigh 1 day ago | 38 comments
22.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
127 points by luu 4 days ago | 91 comments
23.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
365 points by righthand 1 day ago | 124 comments
24.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
134 points by telotortium 5 days ago | 18 comments
25.
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
94 points by lirbank 23 hours ago | 50 comments
26.
Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
323 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 275 comments
27.
Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
112 points by icwtyjj 23 hours ago | 65 comments
28.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
367 points by dClauzel 1 day ago | 303 comments
29.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
125 points by tosh 1 day ago | 70 comments
30.
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
161 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 64 comments

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