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joebigon Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

https://anycrap.shop/product/diy-iridectomy-kit

This DIY Iridectomy Kit contains everything needed to safely remove selected areas of iris tissue at home, allowing users to alter their eye colors without medical intervention. The kit includes precision instruments designed specifically for ophthalmological self-modification. Users must carefully follow included instructions and guidelines before proceeding, taking into account potential risks associated with internal anatomical manipulation.

joebigon Eternal Struggle

Similar to Pong wars: https://pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl/

joebigon SinSR: Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution in a Single Step

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.14760 (2023)

joebigon Archive of Mathematica Weekly Newsletters

Numerically solving Helmholtz equation in 2D for a Guitar: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/landing/r/digest?cta=q...

joebigon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

I wonder if you could share some advice as to how to translate a marginal exposure to nuclear manufacturing and nde of nuclear grade components over the years(as a mechanical engineer) into a full-time position? What certs/specific experience/domain knowledge are the upcoming startups looking for in a hire? I'm a third-worlder btw. I love the field and champion its prospects to unwitting listeners :), but not much potential out where I am.

joebigon Viktor Vasnetsov: The Dean of a Dynasty of Russian Artists [pdf]

Apollinary Vasnetsov was also a notable painter remembered for depicting well-researched scenes from the medieval history of Moscow

joebigon The Cabal: Valve's Design Process for Creating Half-Life

https://igm.rit.edu/~gdd1/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/thecaba...

joebigon Fake News Explained: Cork-Lid Trapdoor Spiders

Ultraviolet Macro showcase of Arthropods: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickadel/sets/7215763539593431...

joebigon Tubebooks.org: A collection of vintage engineering texts, vacuum tube datasheets

Vintage tecdocs from the days of vacuum tubes

joebigon Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library

I get your point and posit thus: What about National Parks? Should they be sacred or should they too be butchered for 'floor space'? Large organized spaces relieve cognitive load, remove subconscious restrictions that we impose on ourselves and expand the mind. With no limits placed on the eye, the limits on the spirit dissolve as well. Nothing feels impossible. If this is not worth pursuing 'at all costs', if even this is subject to 'optimization', if unshackling of the intellect is 'not sacred': then let's begin with reclaiming land occupied by the Hagia Sophia and La Sagrada Familia.

joebigon Linked and Knotted Beams of Light

https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/LinkedElectricAndMagnetic...

joebigon Plutonium Pacemaker

Also, who wouldn't like some "Canned Radiation from Three Mile Island": https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/miscel...

joebigon Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)

Kennelly–Heaviside layer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly%E2%80%93Heaviside_lay...

joebigon Heaviside’s Operator Calculus (2007)

Thanks! It is to the peculiar irrereverance & technical idiosyncrasies of Oliver Heaviside (aka his genius) that we owe the early leaps in the applications of Maxwell's nascent electromagnetic theory.

joebigon Navier Stokes

Wish it had options to impose desired vector field

joebigon Alfred Nobel's health (how he was precribed nitroglycerin for angina pectoris)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235730905_Could_nit...

joebigon Robur the Conqueror

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Robur_the_Conqueror

joebigon Audio Bombing: Magnetic Cassette Tape Graffiti (2007)

Thanks!

joebigon Carl Sagan's Draft of the "Demon-Haunted World" [pdf]

From the Book: "But there's another reason: I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when we're a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness"

joebigon Directed Energy Capabilities

https://www.ausairpower.net/ASPC-E-Bomb-Mirror.html

joebigon Greenhouse Effect (1985)

Sagan speaks at it. His interaction with senators is of interest.

joebigon A Visual Tour of Classical Electromagnetism

http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/TEALref/Chapter8_Dori_Belche...

joebigon Custom Made Electronic Devices for Model Railroading Experience

http://www.trainelectronics.com/Animation-thunder-lightning/...

joebigon Image manipulation in the pre-Photoshop era

https://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/121736/data

joebigon Gordon Glegg Design Lecture, Dept of Engg, University of Cambridge [video]

Gordon Glegg was a design lecturer in the Engineering Department during the 1960s and 1970s. He was a very successful designer and an extremely charismatic speaker. Every lecture was illustrated with delightful anecdotes, many related to his early fascination with motorsport. His lectures were always packed out!

He instigated a voluntary conceptual design course that ran in the afternoons and proved to be very popular. After he retired, this course was introduced as a permanent part of the 1st year course in the Department and runs to this day.

He wrote four insightful short books that are still relevant today: The Design of Design (1969) The Selection of Design (1972) The Science of Design (1973) and The Development of Design (1981).

For several years after he retired, he was asked to come back and repeat his design lectures. It was decided to video record his lectures on the last occasion he returned. When the tapes were eventually retrieved, they had deteriorated very badly and only one 46-minute section could be saved. Despite the poor quality, his character, style and enthusiasm shine through. This clip contains his famous example of what he referred to as the ‘fitness of things’ or a ‘good idea’, namely the stealing of rolls of plastic flooring from a locked warehouse!

We hope this short clip will bring back happy memories of a remarkable and inspirational design lecturer.

joebigon Old Computing Books

Even a collection pointing to classic AI books: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/sec/14007/Artificial-Int...

joebigon What Firefox trains are we in?

Cool. Helped me track down the origin story of the 'dedicated search button' feature which, to me, mysteriously insinuated itself into Android FF:)

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/07/18/100-webdriver-bi...

joebigon What Firefox trains are we in?

Thanks. Also makes it easy to browse between releases to check dev notes and in general 'What's new'.

joebigon Tornado (2021)

Tornadoes are exceptional events on the Indian subcontinent: rare to the point of there being occurrences numbering roughly 50 in a recorded meteorological history of 160 years.

joebigon WikiWhere

https://archive.is/e4TyF