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The Discovery of Lin Yutang's MingKwai Chinese Typewriter

https://typewriterrevolution.com/the-discovery-of-lin-yutangs-mingkwai-chinese-typewriter/

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This is a story about a unique 1947 Chinese typewriter prototype that never got built. It could type thousands of characters by combining keystrokes. The prototype was presumed lost, found this year and it is now at Stanford.

This is not news, but I read about it here today in a Dutch newspaper article (paywalled, untranslated): https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/27/lang-verloren-gewaande-...

WebUSB Unpinner: network analysis for the masses

https://reversing.works/posts/2025/12/webusb-unpinner-network-analysis-for-the-masses/

1•todsacerdoti•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CLIPSmqueue: A POSIX message queue (mqueue) library for CLIPS

https://github.com/mrryanjohnston/CLIPSmqueue

1•ryjo•1m ago•1 comments

Missing Brain Receptor May Hold the Key to Autism

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20241084

1•stevenjgarner•2m ago•0 comments

SoftBank funds $40B OpenAI Investment

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/30/softbank-openai-investment.html

1•batchfile•3m ago•0 comments

Is there an adult version of TikTok?

https://briceka.com/is-there-an-adult-version-of-tiktok/

1•digeka•4m ago•3 comments

Show HN: VideoReview – an on-prem, Frame.io-like video review tool for game dev

https://github.com/KirisameMarisa/video-review

1•KirisameMarisa•5m ago•0 comments

I built an AI Aggregator that hit 1k users in 10 days with $0 spend

https://www.ask-ai.info

1•sarymismail•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Summit – local AI meeting insights

https://summitnotes.app/

6•nLight•6m ago•2 comments

A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242

1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Novel Novel Generator. Recursive Gemini pl wrote 97p coherent nerdy pdf

https://github.com/mike-cramblett/novel-novel-generator

1•mcramblett•10m ago•1 comments

Building AI Memory at 10M+ Nodes: Architecture, Failures, and Lessons

https://blog.getcore.me/building-a-knowledge-graph-memory-system-with-10m-nodes-architecture-fail...

1•Manik_agg•10m ago•1 comments

Children and Helical Time

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/children-and-helical-time/

1•moultano•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nex Sovereign – AI OS with visible reasoning and governance

2•NexAIOS•13m ago•0 comments

Inlining

https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/inlining/

2•eatonphil•14m ago•0 comments

Z.ai is set for its IPO on Jan 8, 2026

https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2005934776042095052

2•mirzap•16m ago•0 comments

Phantom Blade Zero dated for 2026: bold revolution or the next big overpromise?

1•01-_-•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you give estimates on work?

1•reactordev•17m ago•1 comments

AI Overviews Are Filtering Out Bad Traffic

https://wskpf.com/takes/ai-overviews-are-filtering-out-bad-traffic

1•amosWeiskopf•17m ago•0 comments

Formally Speaking, "Transpiler" Is a Useless Word

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/transpiler-formal/

2•rachitnigam•17m ago•0 comments

Beating Myself at Chess

https://log.schemescape.com/posts/diy/beating-myself-at-chess.html

2•zdw•18m ago•0 comments

How to draw your own mouse cursor theme

https://blinry.org/cursor-workshop/

1•zdw•20m ago•0 comments

Memory Safety Is ...

https://matklad.github.io/2025/12/30/memory-safety-is.html

1•zdw•20m ago•0 comments

700Credit data breach exposes SSNs of 5.8M consumers

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/700credit-data-breach-exposes-ssns-5-8m-consumers

1•01-_-•21m ago•0 comments

What Happened to Abit Motherboards

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-abit-motherboards/

2•zdw•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I modeled Rio's traffic noise as a sub-optimal Nash Equilibrium

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D1TTiCvU8sB_PsJrGRyA8mcz4FkxxbEi/view?usp=sharing

2•velocitatem•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: My voice-to-text tool gets 10x more traffic from Bing than Google

https://www.voicetotextonline.com/

1•digi_wares•27m ago•1 comments

Extpose: Research the browser extension market and analyze your competition

https://extpose.com/

1•sea-gold•27m ago•1 comments

The ugly memes driving crypto sales

https://www.ft.com/content/ced371e2-a326-4ff8-b979-20a77c21d9de

3•imichael•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Surfgram – A 0-dep Telegram SDK with types generated from official docs

https://github.com/surfgram/surfgram

1•anybodyy•28m ago•0 comments

The Legacy of Undersea Cables

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-legacy-of-undersea-cables/

2•teleforce•32m ago•0 comments