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The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
58•robinhouston•3d ago

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culi•1h ago
That's an awesome project. I'm sure there are many kids that have been gifted LEGO knockoffs that are not compatible with legos from adults that didn't know any better. A similar "interop" project for those would be great
bombcar•1h ago
Almost all (back then, I hear the clone quality is much higher now) were "compatible" but had little to no clutch power, a wall built with some of them would inevitably break at the clone bricks.
pipeline_peak•1h ago
When I was a kid I used to rate my uncles and aunts based off who got me Legos or Megablocks.

Idk how I’d feel if they got me this.

andai•1h ago
I was so confused recently, when I bought a toy car kit from some German brand which cost 25 euro and came with the pieces all joined together straight from the injection mold, so you had to twist them off one by one, and then the little injection spikes stabbed your fingers while you worked.

Bought an almost equivalent set from Lego (stab-free!) for 9 euro. How does that pricing make sense haha

analog8374•1h ago
swank and deboner.
flobosg•57m ago
(2012)
extraduder_ire•51m ago
FUCK yeah.
cortesoft•31m ago
No Construx? I built everything out of those as a kid.
fwipsy•29m ago
Neat idea, but as an adult who builds little machines out of Lego Technic for fun sometimes, the adapter selection seems very limited. In order to make this idea "practical" you would need adapters with a variety of sizes, shapes, and orientations. I guess I'm not the target audience - I can definitely see this being cool for children.
idiotsecant•27m ago
I feel like the only way to summon the corporate lawyers faster would be to put a Mickey mouse on the box.
jadamson•3m ago
If you go to the homepage (or look at the banner) the project is shut down since 2015.

https://fffff.at/rip/

1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)

https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/
356•stephen-hill•3d ago•65 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
58•robinhouston•3d ago•11 comments

New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
448•calcifer•12h ago•266 comments

Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
121•ingve•8h ago•16 comments

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...
759•elffjs•1d ago•730 comments

Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/science/desmond-morris-dead.html
53•bookofjoe•2d ago•4 comments

Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center

https://boilingsteam.com/framework-laptop-13-pro-announced/
53•ekianjo•1h ago•14 comments

Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s

https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/
79•adunk•7h ago•11 comments

What Async Promised and What It Delivered

https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/
70•zdw•3d ago•40 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
14•srean•1h ago•4 comments

GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/
74•Murfalo•4h ago•65 comments

Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379126001824
30•wslh•2d ago•6 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
81•mariuz•7h ago•34 comments

A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)

https://allbrainsbelong.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CLINICIAN-GUIDE-Everything-is-Connected-to...
47•AndrewDucker•5h ago•27 comments

Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI

https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/
97•marvinborner•7h ago•31 comments

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/
18•jxmorris12•1d ago•1 comments

HEALPix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix
32•hyperific•5h ago•5 comments

Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04
133•nickjj•2h ago•36 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
222•rbanffy•17h ago•110 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
279•pigeons•17h ago•41 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
492•alcazar•1d ago•121 comments

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/
121•arkadiuss•3d ago•23 comments

What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04/24/agents_as_collective_bargains
51•ingve•2h ago•45 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
253•Ariarule•3d ago•49 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
296•hhh•23h ago•88 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
184•andsoitis•3d ago•99 comments

Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x

https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/
48•keepamovin•7h ago•35 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877
235•wise_blood•3d ago•81 comments

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
109•colinprince•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf
195•najmuzzaman•9h ago•91 comments