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1.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
927 points by bookofjoe 12 days ago | 203 comments
2.
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
1516 points by novemp 13 days ago | 950 comments
3.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
540 points by ssgodderidge 12 days ago | 195 comments
4.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
433 points by handfuloflight 15 days ago | 220 comments
5.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
488 points by dvrp 13 days ago | 103 comments
6.
Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
410 points by 0bytematt 15 days ago | 27 comments
7.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
290 points by futurecat 15 days ago | 206 comments
8.
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
276 points by zachlatta 12 days ago | 131 comments
9.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
434 points by danielhanchen 13 days ago | 214 comments
10.
State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
134 points by kianN 12 days ago | 34 comments
11.
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
163 points by four_fifths 12 days ago | 81 comments
12.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
522 points by harel 12 days ago | 346 comments
13.
Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
153 points by yichab0d 12 days ago | 82 comments
14.
PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
168 points by varjag 14 days ago | 48 comments
15.
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
364 points by mustaphah 12 days ago | 171 comments
16.
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
265 points by presbyterian 12 days ago | 230 comments
17.
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
120 points by dogline 12 days ago | 29 comments
18.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
178 points by luu 13 days ago | 234 comments
19.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
151 points by andsoitis 13 days ago | 101 comments
20.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
398 points by beardyw 13 days ago | 241 comments
21.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
93 points by srcreigh 13 days ago | 37 comments
22.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
131 points by luu 16 days ago | 91 comments
23.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
379 points by righthand 12 days ago | 129 comments
24.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
135 points by telotortium 17 days ago | 19 comments
25.
Building a model that visualizes strategic golf (golfcoursewiki.substack.com)
66 points by scoofy 12 days ago | 18 comments
26.
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
102 points by lirbank 12 days ago | 54 comments
27.
Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
336 points by surprisetalk 12 days ago | 279 comments
28.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
377 points by dClauzel 13 days ago | 317 comments
29.
Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
116 points by icwtyjj 12 days ago | 68 comments
30.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
131 points by tosh 13 days ago | 72 comments

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