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Don't make fun of renowned Dan Brown

https://jimmyakin.com/2024/03/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown.html
1•tibbar•27s ago•0 comments

Attempts at a Horse

https://bestofm.com/q/5
1•lhmiles•34s ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Writing an LLM critique/takedown? – Do not use an LLM to write it

1•evolve2k•2m ago•1 comments

Everything You Do Is Being Recorded: Is there any way of fighting back?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
1•CharlesW•2m ago•0 comments

Always Be Blaming

https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/18/always-be-blaming.html
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

The Invention of Buses

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-invention-of-buses/
1•surprisetalk•3m ago•0 comments

Dawn of the Electric World Order

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dawn-of-the-electric-world-order/
1•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Built an expired domains platform – what do you think?

1•samirbelabbes•6m ago•0 comments

Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/shame-them-shun-them-ban-them-beat
1•mday27•10m ago•0 comments

Modulejail: Shrink a Linux kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting modules

https://github.com/jnuyens/modulejail/
1•wingmanjd•11m ago•0 comments

Kotlin-agent-skills: A collection of skills for projects using Kotlin

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-agent-skills/
1•rezaprima•12m ago•0 comments

GPU Exchange

https://gpubook.io
1•jesse_portal•16m ago•0 comments

Paris Staged a Stress Test for Extreme Heat

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/paris-staged-a-huge-stress-test-for-extreme-heat/
2•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

Engineering the Disposable Diaper

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/engineering-the-disposable-diaper/
1•surprisetalk•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ask Claude about your sleep, runs, and recovery

https://pacetraining.co/
2•anton_salcher•18m ago•0 comments

Artificial Used to Be a Compliment

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/whos-afraid-of-artificial-flavors/
1•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

NASA Partnered with HackClub and AMD to Give Away $2.5M in Tech Swags

https://mag.openrockets.com/p/httpsstardancehackclubcom-mp9gemdz
1•Vara_Pixel•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent-QA – natural-language E2E tests for apps built with coding agents

https://vostride.com/agent-qa
1•pranshuchittora•22m ago•0 comments

Book Club: Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition

https://www.heltweg.org/posts/book-club-designing-data-intensive-applications-2-nd-edition/
2•rhazn•23m ago•0 comments

The Applicability of Spaced Repetition

https://borretti.me/article/the-applicability-of-spaced-repetition
1•ibobev•24m ago•0 comments

Academia, startups, big tech, and back again

https://austinhenley.com/blog/academiastartupsbigtech.html
1•ibobev•24m ago•0 comments

Building a multi-agent system from scratch: 50 lines of bash and Git

https://en.andros.dev/blog/ed26ea98/building-a-multi-agent-system-from-scratch-50-lines-of-bash-git/
1•ibobev•25m ago•0 comments

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/
2•Fysi•26m ago•0 comments

Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today

https://lalinsky.com/2026/05/11/async-io-in-zig-016-today.html
2•birdculture•26m ago•0 comments

How to Clean Time Series Data in Python

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-clean-time-series-data-in-python/
1•eigenBasis•27m ago•0 comments

The down fall of bug bounties

https://shubs.io/the-down-fall-of-bug-bounties/
3•WalterSobchak•29m ago•1 comments

Local Business Logic Generator

https://github.com/quadracollision/llmisp
1•vegnus•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian

https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md
13•zakirullin•29m ago•3 comments

Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/artificial-intelligence-solidarity-ecosystem
1•speckx•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Docker hello-world, but in half-size image with Matrix digital rain

https://github.com/zdk/wakeup-neo
1•zdkaster•31m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0yy3gp71o
33•bauc•1h ago

Comments

dyauspitr•48m ago
I think these are very beautiful.
xnorswap•42m ago
I've seen this couple discussed on HN before, although my searching abilities are failing me, I just found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051965 which is the same couple, but with 3 points and 1 comment, isn't likely to be the discussion I remember.

There's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9344837 4 points 11 years ago, although the link is dead.

thrownthatway•36m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23956504

46 comments 2015

xnorswap•21m ago
Thank you.
ramon156•15m ago
It's quite weird.

When I type in "Chair grow" I get nada, but "Chairs grow" provides a bunch of results. You'd think Chair and Chairs would be very close together in a search engine.

euroderf•35m ago
An issue of WET magazine (from the 1980s) profiled a similar operation. Always beautiful to see.
noworriesnate•24m ago
This field is called Tree Shaping[1] and while it has been tried throughout history, I think there's still a lot of cool stuff that has never been tried.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping

oytis•21m ago
Carpentry is dead
uolmir•18m ago
So elves in dwarf fortress.
Jedd•15m ago
Couple of Australians have been doing this since the 90's - I think they coined the term 'pooktre' to describe the form - https://www.pooktre.com/

Searching `Peter Cook Becky Northey tree furniture` gets you some nice pictures of their work, as they don't just 'do chair' -- though I suspect plenty of people have been doing this in various forms for centuries.