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1.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)
917 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 201 comments
2.
I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)
1501 points by novemp 3 days ago | 946 comments
3.
What your Bluetooth devices reveal (dmcc.io)
536 points by ssgodderidge 2 days ago | 191 comments
4.
Ghidra by NSA (github.com/nationalsecurityagency)
432 points by handfuloflight 5 days ago | 219 comments
5.
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)
476 points by dvrp 3 days ago | 97 comments
6.
Visual introduction to PyTorch (0byte.io)
402 points by 0bytematt 5 days ago | 28 comments
7.
I gave Claude access to my pen plotter (harmonique.one)
287 points by futurecat 5 days ago | 206 comments
8.
Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com/zachlatta)
273 points by zachlatta 2 days ago | 126 comments
9.
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)
429 points by danielhanchen 2 days ago | 210 comments
10.
State of Show HN: 2025 (sturdystatistics.com)
130 points by kianN 2 days ago | 34 comments
11.
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)
163 points by four_fifths 2 days ago | 81 comments
12.
PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf] (intertronics.co.uk)
166 points by varjag 4 days ago | 46 comments
13.
Neurons outside the brain (debugyourpain.com)
153 points by yichab0d 2 days ago | 82 comments
14.
Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)
521 points by harel 2 days ago | 345 comments
15.
SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)
358 points by mustaphah 2 days ago | 162 comments
16.
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)
259 points by presbyterian 2 days ago | 234 comments
17.
Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary (forestrydiary.com)
118 points by dogline 2 days ago | 28 comments
18.
JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)
175 points by luu 3 days ago | 234 comments
19.
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)
150 points by andsoitis 3 days ago | 102 comments
20.
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)
394 points by beardyw 2 days ago | 239 comments
21.
Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)
92 points by srcreigh 3 days ago | 38 comments
22.
Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve (exe.dev)
131 points by luu 6 days ago | 91 comments
23.
UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)
377 points by righthand 2 days ago | 129 comments
24.
1,300-year-old world chronicle unearthed in Sinai (heritagedaily.com)
134 points by telotortium 7 days ago | 19 comments
25.
Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers (lirbank.com)
100 points by lirbank 2 days ago | 52 comments
26.
Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)
334 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 280 comments
27.
Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)
115 points by icwtyjj 2 days ago | 68 comments
28.
Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)
374 points by dClauzel 2 days ago | 315 comments
29.
Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)
127 points by tosh 3 days ago | 70 comments
30.
MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com/unicode-org)
163 points by todsacerdoti 2 days ago | 64 comments

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