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14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-s...
167•bookofjoe•2h ago•16 comments

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270•handfuloflight•2d ago•142 comments

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68•presbyterian•3h ago•46 comments

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

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454•harel•8h ago•309 comments
Open in hackernews

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
163•bookofjoe•2h ago

Comments

gnabgib•2h ago
Small discussion 3 months ago (43 points, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106871
dang•1h ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

14yo won $25k for origami that holds 10k times its weight - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106871 - Dec 2025 (9 comments)

amelius•1h ago
Where can we read about the other submissions?
bookofjoe•1h ago
The top 30 finalists are listed here:

https://www.societyforscience.org/jic/2025-project-showcase/

nuclearnicer•58m ago
It looks like the top 10% from 6th to 8th grade Society of Science fairs are invited to participate. They are then selected down to a top 300[1] and a top 30.[2] You can find a project name for the top 300 and a paragraph on each of the top 30.

[1] https://www.societyforscience.org/jic/2025-top-300-junior-in... [2] https://www.societyforscience.org/jic/2025-finalists/

pants2•46m ago
Fun when these things hold a surprising amount of weight. Reminds me when these two engineers on Lego Masters made a bridge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9WT6TB15yE

sysworld•9m ago
wtf, why lego, whhhy? "The uploader has not made this video available in your country"

edit: What, they geoblocked a ~1min clip, wow.

ck2•45m ago
Could concept be applied to submarine vehicles to exponential increase their resistance to pressure at depth?
codeddesign•30m ago
This is weight distribution on a flat plain. Think of Roman Arches. On a curved plain, weight distribution of THIS origami falls apart as pressure is added horizontally (not just vertically).
givemeethekeys•44m ago
Don't get hung up on "14 year old". Pay attention to "took up origami 6 years ago". That's 6 years of passionate learning, experimenting and improvement.
uoaei•18m ago
Also don't get hung up on "folded". He hasn't innovated a design (it was invented by a Japanese astrophysicist, Miura-Ori), merely measured sustainable load across different designs.
nine_k•6m ago
"Miura" is the name of the astrophysicist. "Ori" (折り) just means "fold", and in "origami" = "fold+paper".
PunchyHamster•23m ago
Triangles together strong!
MagicMoonlight•20m ago
So what is the ideal pattern and how can you build a shelter with it?

I think it would be fun to build a playhouse out of it.

nine_k•8m ago
I think that design has the easiest application in something like corrugated cardboard, as the middle layer.

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