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Replacing Obsidian with Neovim

https://linkarzu.com/posts/neovim/markdown-setup-2025/
1•feel-ix-343•1m ago•0 comments

Velocity of Money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
1•gurjeet•2m ago•0 comments

Stop building automations. Start running your business

https://www.fluxtopus.com/automate-your-business
1•valboa•7m ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•9m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
1•Anon84•12m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•14m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•15m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•22m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
2•shervinafshar•23m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•28m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
9•mooreds•29m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•30m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•31m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•36m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•38m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•38m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•38m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•40m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•41m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•47m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•48m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•49m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•50m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•51m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•52m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•54m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Flapping-wing robot achieves self-takeoff by adopting reconfigurable mechanisms

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0465
87•PaulHoule•4mo ago

Comments

mhb•3mo ago
The essential missing (or maybe I just missed it) video:

https://youtu.be/tD5I6x_bPkw?si=KFTx89LmPjrVu5Ib

Edit - better video:

https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/video/2025/bird-like-robot-with-n...

05•3mo ago
It's a render. A real life takeoff video is still missing..
yorwba•3mo ago
Movie S5 from the supplementary material: https://imgur.com/a/LVb2m22
05•3mo ago
Looks super cool. Now I want to build one and stick an FPV camera on it:)
orthecreedence•3mo ago
You can see the string attached to it! Do they think we're stupid??
yorwba•3mo ago
The string goes slack when it lifts off, so it's not like it's being pulled up. I think it's there to catch it in the inevitable case of a crash. And maybe they haven't figured out how to land gracefully yet.
monooso•3mo ago
I look forward to Boston Dynamics turning this into something that will haunt my nightmares.
bigjohnjacob•3mo ago
The birds aren't real people are gonna love this.
ACCount37•3mo ago
Pretty cool. Just two servos per wing, with one shared BLDC motor to provide the power to the strokes. That's comparable to what normal fixed wing drones have. Extreme mechanical complexity though.

I can't see this being practical, but it makes for one hell of a tech demo. Wish there was footage available. It feels really incomplete without a video of this bird taking off, flying and landing.

JKCalhoun•3mo ago
I saw recently the Chinese (The Chinese!) are experimenting in this area (and with flying insect machines?) — perhaps for surveillance drones that will look for all practical purposes like an ordinary bird/insect.
ACCount37•3mo ago
The whole "surveillance drone" thing is so overrated. No one gives a shit, really.

People make things like insect drones and bird drones because they're cool. That's it. That's the only practical purpose. Anything else is flimsy justification, sometimes employed to get the funding to do the cool thing.

ge96•3mo ago
I used to be obsessed with rc ornithopters but I always thought the main problem was that hulking gear ratio/mechanism and the oscillation making it not really great for flight compared to fixed wing/propeller driven.

This one (servo driven) is really light compared to the usual RC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOw6BUOo78

This guy does great work, it's like his obsession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrB1pKInIu0

PaulHoule•3mo ago
I had a really stylish robot dragonfly that I got from Big Lots at a huge discount, trouble was it could not fly in any amount of wind and the only place I could fly it was in Barton Hall.
ge96•3mo ago
I might know the one you're talking about, did it have a fan as a rudder?

Oh speaking of dragonfly-like ornithopter this one is hardcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrS52sM3Zs

Reminds me of that Chicken Run movie ha

PaulHoule•3mo ago
It was this

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7j6KPbn4eE

JKCalhoun•3mo ago
Yeah, totally subscribed to "that guy". I think he's been experimenting with ducted fans (kind of not ornithopters) and also dragon-fly type of flight with four wings (entomopter?).
asdff•3mo ago
Advanced bird drones must be born secret technology. It makes little sense how so much can be understood about birds and yet there is no perfect bird replica on the market aside from these pared down maker lab tier efforts.

And indeed, lending further credence to the born secret idea is that the CIA has been experimenting on bird drones since at least the 1960s (1), and this was only revealed to the public in 2013. The state of the art must be so far advanced. What a prize for an intelligence agency to be able to create a surveillance system where it does not matter if it is detected on radar, or visualized at all because it looks exactly like indigenous bird populations.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_AQUILINE

TYPE_FASTER•3mo ago
Of course there is one available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/live/video/0a7d56413360489dbf25611edf...

Also: https://www.amazon.com/Kooteyybhyy-Ornithopter-Generation-He...

Which may be re-branded version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nuMDV6n18

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hanvon/page/426FE09E-17DC-4FBB...

I found this forum: https://www.rcgroups.com/ornithopters-101/

Which led to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqBoA5CfPs - really neat to see it climb and glide.

fijiaarone•3mo ago
Robots aren’t real.
jacquesm•3mo ago
What an amazing quality article.
ElijahLynn•3mo ago
Truth, so much detail and depth.
ElijahLynn•3mo ago
For the videos: search the page for "Movies S1 to S5" And click download to download a zip file of five videos. The fifth video shows the actual flight. Albeit, there's a string attached to the top, which doesn't appear to be helping it, but I'm not certain.