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Rediscovering the Handcart

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/rediscovering-the-handcart/
16•jgrodziski•3d ago

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Epa095•2m ago
"Many people have asked us why we didn’t build a four-wheeled cart that wouldn’t need to be balanced. However, four wheels would double the rolling resistance and thus the effort required to push the cart. Furthermore, a four-wheeled cart is less maneuverable and more difficult to drive on uneven terrain. You also need to get two extra wheels, and you need to build a steering mechanism. "

I would have asked them why they didn't make a 3 wheeled version. Keep the two big wheels on the side, add a smaller freely rotating one in the front, like a lot of strollers have. They could make it just a tiny bit too low, so it's easy to roll it with both 2 or 3 wheels.

The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
134•milkglass•1h ago•60 comments

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-pr...
326•pr337h4m•14h ago•192 comments

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
205•chiefalchemist•7h ago•109 comments

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/
9•subset•45m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

222•_-x-_•7h ago•99 comments

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
273•gwerbret•10h ago•55 comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html
45•zdkaster•4h ago•13 comments

Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/DY7BCZU-applied-ai-strategist-market-intelli...
1•kyriakosel•1h ago

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

https://themahjong.guide/
75•iamwil•2d ago•20 comments

The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/shall-we-play-a-game
26•jger15•2d ago•2 comments

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm
17•gurjeet•1d ago•1 comments

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/
141•gasull•4h ago•51 comments

Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/
151•Nrbelex•3d ago•77 comments

OpenAI Privacy Filter

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
197•tanelpoder•3d ago•37 comments

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/
572•stephen-hill•3d ago•89 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
311•robinhouston•4d ago•65 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
263•speckx•15h ago•151 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
160•pavel_lishin•3d ago•102 comments

Rediscovering the Handcart

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2026/04/rediscovering-the-handcart/
16•jgrodziski•3d ago•1 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
107•sleepyguy•12h ago•123 comments

Reviving BrowserID in 2026

https://wakamoleguy.com/p/reviving-browserid-in-2026
22•wakamoleguy•5h ago•4 comments

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

https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music
173•ingve•21h ago•25 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/
46•offbyone42•7h ago•5 comments

Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html
95•signa11•2d ago•3 comments

AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/
54•pabs3•2h ago•9 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

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

Optimizing Datalog for the GPU

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3669940.3707274
46•tosh•2d ago•3 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
143•thehappyfellow•14h ago•56 comments

DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles

https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2026-04-25-deepseek-v4/
47•mji•8h ago•5 comments

Per-image PCA characterization of the Kodak image suite (PDF and JSON)

https://github.com/PearsonZero/kodak-pcd0992-statistical-characterization/tree/main/baseline
7•PearsonZero•4d ago•2 comments