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Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/world/asia/china-demolition-house.html

2•bookofjoe•2h ago

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bookofjoe•2h ago

unpaywalled link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/world/asia/china-demoliti...

PaulHoule•2h ago

Two thoughts:

(1) Reminds me of the Watts Towers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Towers

(2) I've been reading Chinese legends and it is frequently part of the story that if somebody comes across some wealth (say by dealings with Fox spirits) they build a big house.

bookofjoe•2h ago

(1) My first thought! Clearly, great minds think alike.

I remember reading this and being fascinated:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1971/12/04/the-towers

https://archive.ph/ZHKsT

PaulHoule•1h ago

And this book

https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-junk-story-Watts-Towers/dp/...

The UK Is Poised to Ban VPNs

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/compliance-vs-circumvention.html

1•LorenDB•17s ago•0 comments

Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html

1•voxadam•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Finch – a fingerprint-aware TLS reverse proxy

https://github.com/0x4D31/finch

1•0x4d31•2m ago•0 comments

Top courtyards in New York City residential buildings

https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/market-insight/features/future-nyc/top-15-courtyards-new-york-city-residential-buildings/16923

2•eatonphil•4m ago•0 comments

US markets defy doomsayers, draw record foreign inflows

https://fortune.com/2025/07/27/us-markets-american-exceptionalism-foreign-investors-stocks-treasury-bonds/

2•MilnerRoute•13m ago•0 comments

The Silurian Hypothesis (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748

1•bookofjoe•16m ago•0 comments

Men Who Killed Google

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

2•veqq•17m ago•0 comments

Texts as Toys

https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/texts-as-toys

1•jger15•18m ago•0 comments

ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea

https://github.com/babycommando/zuse

2•babycommando•23m ago•0 comments

The Big Vitamin D Mistake

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5541280/

3•busymom0•24m ago•0 comments

Make More Grayspaces

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kJCZFvn5gY5C8nEwJ/make-more-grayspaces

1•paulpauper•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a desktop reminder app using Rust and Vue.js

https://github.com/thevxn/todolator

2•tack1234•29m ago•0 comments

Enough AI Copilots, We Need AI HUDs

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds

2•walterbell•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you build B2B software that pays living expenses?

1•architectofsw•33m ago•0 comments

Validated Patterns

https://validatedpatterns.io

1•raldu•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Investment Catalog

https://investment-catalog.vercel.app/

1•graham1776•42m ago•0 comments

Percentage of one-person households, 1960 to 2018

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/one-person-households

5•E-Reverance•43m ago•1 comments

Jelu: Self hosted read and to-read list book tracker

https://github.com/bayang/jelu

1•mshockwave•44m ago•0 comments

Placing Functions

https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/placing-functions/

1•lukastyrychtr•47m ago•0 comments

Baltic Sea Anomaly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea_anomaly

3•handfuloflight•48m ago•0 comments

ADL – Agent Definition Language

https://github.com/inference-gateway/adl

1•edenr•49m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Vid2gif – Convert .mp4/.mov to optimized GIFs locally using FFmpeg

https://github.com/mujasoft/vid2gif

2•mujasoft•51m ago•0 comments

Chord/Harmony Finder App (In-Browser)

https://evanczako.github.io/ChordFinder2/

1•DoughyDoughBoi•54m ago•0 comments

Tom Lehrer, "The Elements", live, 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcS3NOQnsQM

3•Kaibeezy•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aiko – Easiest way to manage MCP configurations and credentials (Beta)

https://getaiko.app

2•willahmad•59m ago•0 comments

2026 FIFA World Cup expansion will have a big climate footprint

https://theconversation.com/when-big-sports-events-expand-like-fifas-2026-world-cup-matches-across-north-america-their-climate-footprint-expands-too-259437

1•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

CARP – A registry for sharing and discovering Claude agents

https://carp.refcell.org/

1•abigger87•1h ago•1 comments

Perfecting anti-aliasing on signed distance functions

https://blog.pkh.me/p/44-perfecting-anti-aliasing-on-signed-distance-functions.html

3•birdculture•1h ago•0 comments

Linux 6.16

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh0kuQE+tWMEPJqCR48F4Tip2EeYQU-mi+2Fx_Oa1Ehbw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u

4•sh_tomer•1h ago•0 comments

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a

104•cft•1h ago•19 comments