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Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/weird-japanese-inventions/
25•ethanpil•1h ago

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muststopmyths•49m ago
Butter stick would actually be great
jonhohle•35m ago
Growing up we had something similar for applying butter to corn on the cob similar to [0]. Probably doesn’t work with West Coast stubby butter.

0 - https://www.acehardware.com/departments/home-and-decor/kitch...

ozgung•21m ago
Dropper Glasses are also useful. Elder people struggle to do that without help. They don’t look hygienic for the eyes though.
vunderba•3m ago
Would go well with the condiment pen.

https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Condiment_Pen

jonah•23m ago
IIRC, these were all in one book that I read as a kid. I wish they had credited it so I could find a copy to give as a gift.

We accidentally recreated old Facebook

https://amrshawky.com/posts/we-accidentally-recreated-fb/
1•amr_shawky•1m ago•0 comments

Detecting PostgreSQL optimization issues with deterministic analysis

https://beh74.github.io/pgassistant-blog/post/global_advisor/
1•bertrandhartwig•1m ago•0 comments

Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down

https://e360.yale.edu/features/amoc-climate-change
1•ambigious7777•3m ago•0 comments

Visualizing LLM embeddings on a sphere

https://github.com/dbyter/sphere-embed
1•ahmedhawas123•4m ago•1 comments

Boilerplate to create a 1990s Geocities-style website

https://sugardaddyapp.github.io/geocities-boilerplate/
1•whatsupdog•5m ago•0 comments

Hacking Police Robot Dogs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI
1•Jn2G3Np8•7m ago•0 comments

Russia Restricting Access to GitHub

https://twitter.com/polidemitolog/status/2053493261633720827
3•miohtama•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We built a tool to dub any video in the original voice in 30 languages

1•ABSALOMMAXY•12m ago•1 comments

AI Learns to Play Pokémon Go on AI Sandboxes

https://zozo123.github.io/pokeloop/
1•zozo123-IB•14m ago•0 comments

Map of every park in Salt Lake City

https://saltlake.citycast.fm/parks
1•bencornia•15m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Theorem Economy

https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy
2•magoghm•15m ago•0 comments

Do City Delivery Drones Make Sense? No One Knows, but They're Flying over NYC

https://www.wired.com/story/do-city-delivery-drones-make-sense-no-one-knows-but-theyre-flying-ove...
1•Brajeshwar•19m ago•0 comments

B-tree based collection types for Go

https://github.com/tidwall/btype
4•eatonphil•19m ago•0 comments

Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features
5•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

Its the Age of Electricity and America Isn't Ready

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/27/opinion/electricity-power-grid-infrastructure.html
2•anjel•22m ago•1 comments

TikZlings – A collection of cute little animals and similar creatures

https://ctan.org/pkg/tikzlings?lang=en
1•Tomte•25m ago•0 comments

Why payment escrow for AI agents needed a different design

https://streetai.org/blog/escrow-for-ai-agents.html
2•degutemesgen•26m ago•0 comments

A super simple tool tells you who called the function and who implemented it

https://github.com/meloalright/who-ast
3•meloyc•27m ago•0 comments

Proposed Amendment to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991

https://www.karlbunch.com/random/website-protection-act/
2•kator•28m ago•0 comments

OSS Review Toolkit

http://oss-review-toolkit.org/ort/
2•Tomte•34m ago•0 comments

A man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/the-man-who-blew-up-a-nuclear-power-station-koeberg...
2•gmays•37m ago•0 comments

Shunting-Yard Animation

https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/shunting-yard-animation/
3•s1291•42m ago•0 comments

They dug up Troy and lost the gold

https://storica.club/blog/troy-was-real/
2•aralsamuel•45m ago•0 comments

Rust-based ScanCode-compatible scanner for licenses and copyrights

https://github.com/mstykow/provenant
3•Tomte•45m ago•0 comments

Using AI to onboard to a new codebase

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-to-use-ai-to-onboard-into-a-codebase
3•wordsaboutcode•46m ago•0 comments

Cyclekart: How to build a soapbox with a motor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vATUDJyM5PQ
2•Teever•46m ago•0 comments

Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems

https://joshuahhh.com/dims-of-feedback/
2•tobr•46m ago•0 comments

The Reality of an Employer's Market

https://yusufaytas.com/the-reality-of-an-employers-market
10•vibeloop•47m ago•0 comments

Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/05/08/former-us-contractor-convicted-in-federal-data...
3•Bender•48m ago•0 comments

Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/05/09/akamai-surges-on-big-llm-deal-as-cloudflare-dims/...
2•Bender•49m ago•0 comments