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Ian's Shoelace Site

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
62•righthand•10h ago

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Dusseldorf•2h ago
I've been tying my shoes using the Ian knot for years (decades??) now. Makes your laces sit a bit funny compared to regular, but my shoes never come untied by accident. Highly recommend trying it out if you have this problem even occasionally. Once you have the muscle memory down, it's a nice minor life upgrade.
justinsaccount•1h ago
The end result is the same as the regular way of tying it. perhaps you are doing a https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/crossedianknot.htm by mistake
hinkley•48m ago
As a way to keep kids from accidentally making a granny knot instead, which will not stay tied, it's pretty decent.
ctmnt•55m ago
It is the best way to tie shoelaces (and similarly knotted things). It takes a while to get used to, but it’s so worth it. It works! Unlike every other shoelace knot you’ve ever tied.
ChrisArchitect•19m ago
Some previous discussions:

2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646964

"Secure" 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42155457

"Ian" 2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728002

"Granny" 2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867300

"CIA" 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091391

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
319•zdw•7h ago•90 comments

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
381•mysterydip•2h ago•192 comments

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw
245•jimminyx•5h ago•69 comments

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

https://xikipedia.org
56•rebane2001•4h ago•32 comments

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation [pdf] (1985)

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA157917.pdf
38•kioku•3h ago•5 comments

Apple I Advertisement (1976)

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
198•janandonly•11h ago•123 comments

My thousand dollar iPhone can't do math

https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
188•rafaelcosta•7h ago•97 comments

Time Machine-style Backups with rsync (2018)

https://samuelhewitt.com/blog/2018-06-05-time-machine-style-backups-with-rsync
41•accrual•4h ago•14 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
284•doener•14h ago•52 comments

Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93v21q5xdvo
36•breve•6h ago•12 comments

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/ice-protester-says-her-global-entry-was-revoked-after...
68•theahura•1h ago•20 comments

Founding is a snowball

https://blog.bawolf.com/p/founding-is-a-snowball
50•bryantwolf•3d ago•16 comments

Two kinds of AI users are emerging

https://martinalderson.com/posts/two-kinds-of-ai-users-are-emerging/
72•martinald•4h ago•75 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/
97•jandrewrogers•2d ago•20 comments

Building Your Own Efficient uint128 in C++

https://solidean.com/blog/2026/building-your-own-u128/
39•PaulHoule•7h ago•17 comments

Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down

https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down
599•firefoxd•9h ago•273 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android...
184•mikece•3d ago•57 comments

Ian's Shoelace Site

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
62•righthand•10h ago•5 comments

Typechecking is undecidable when 'type' is a type (1989) [pdf]

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/149366/MIT-LCS-TR-458.pdf?sequence=6
63•zem•2d ago•33 comments

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/01/27/tb25/
230•kohlschuetter•5d ago•116 comments

In the Lab – Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2020/02/22/In-The-Lab-Magnet-Wire-Soldering.html
10•hasheddan•2d ago•5 comments

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/GOWiDwp-research-engineer-at-clearspace
1•anteloper•9h ago

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/
652•l1am0•18h ago•248 comments

Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – unified API for automating coding agents

https://github.com/rivet-dev/sandbox-agent
25•NathanFlurry•4d ago•0 comments

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/
61•cyanbane•10h ago•78 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
9•brudgers•4h ago•3 comments

Troublemaker: The fierce, unruly life of Jessica Mitford

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/rosemary-hill/one-of-the-worst-things
11•against•4d ago•1 comments

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
199•yannick2k•18h ago•111 comments

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

https://research.google/blog/towards-a-science-of-scaling-agent-systems-when-and-why-agent-system...
56•gmays•10h ago•22 comments

Amiga Unix (Amix)

https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home
116•donatj•17h ago•47 comments