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1. 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight
2. Suicide Linux (2009)
3. Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
Synchronization barriers let you test for race conditions with confidence.
4. What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
Building Bluehood, a Bluetooth scanner that reveals what information we leak just by having Bluetooth enabled on our devices.
5. Visual Introduction to PyTorch
AI/ML Blog
6. PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]
7. Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – GTM Sales Hacker
8. State of Show HN: 2025
9. Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
Free and open source alternative to Wispr Flow / Superwhisper / Monologue / etc - zachlatta/freeflow
10. Ghidra by NSA
Ghidra is a software reverse engineering (SRE) framework - NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
11. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
Qwen Chat offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
12. WebMCP Proposal
13. Use Protocols, Not Services
The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean, unless some administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in...
14. How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]
Let’s take a photo using a piece of tape.0:00 Intro to coded apertures1:10 The point is the point spread function1:50 2D convolution for optical systems2:39 ...
15. Privilege Is Bad Grammar
When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...
16. History of AT&T Long Lines
17. Show HN: 2D Coulomb Gas Simulator
18. The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation
After rapid advances thanks to one-shot decompilation, progress on the Snowboard Kids 2 decompilation began to falter. This post explores the workflow evolution, tooling improvements, and fundamental LLM limits that emerged when tackling the long tail of increasingly difficult functions.
19. "token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name
You're absolutely right!
20. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Attached: 4 images Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? What do you think the LLM output was? Please; review the output. #ai #LLM #ai
21. Show HN: Simple org-mode web adapter
A simple view into your org roam notes with editing, backlinks, and rendered math. - SpaceTurth/Org-Web-Adapter
22. Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview
Today launched a public preview of Halide Mark III, the next generation of our flagship photography app. It's still a work in progress, but we're ready to start sharing what we've worked on for the past year through a series of app updates alongside posts like this. Today, we're diving into Looks.
23. Neurons outside the brain
The three brains in our body
24. AI optimism is a class privilege
I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yourself in.
25. Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
26. Running My Own XMPP Server
Notes from setting up Prosody in Docker for federated messaging, with file sharing, voice calls, and end-to-end encryption.
27. UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel.
28. Robert Duvall Dead at 95
Duvall starred in nearly 100 films during his career, which spanned over seven decades.
29. planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun. - GitHub - nineties/planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary. Just for fun.
30. The Sideprocalypse