This week’s catch — the shortlisted finds still without a themed home: Neal Agarwal’s police-sketch game, where witnesses describe a cartoon mascot in fragments and the court scores your drawing; an RSS reader that now crops its thumbnails around faces, animals and text; the 3rd-century-BC float valve that kept a water clock dripping at one rate, unbeaten for 1,800 years; a gravestone recut for a 1984 film and never taken away; a page that tells you in plain English what it just worked out about your browser; a Hacker News front page with every AI story removed; the world’s first permanent Godzilla museum, on an island with a zipline into Godzilla’s mouth; and an 800-gram open-source robot duck that walks, kicks, and gets back up on its own.
Neal.fun's police-sketch game, where every suspect is a cartoon and every witness is useless
→ neal.fun
The typography-first RSS reader now crops its thumbnails around faces, animals and text
→ goldenhillsoftware.com
Ctesibius's float-valve clepsydra, unbeaten until Huygens's pendulum clock in 1656
→ openculture.com
A real gravestone recut for the 1984 film, still lying in a Shrewsbury churchyard
→ atlasobscura.com
What one web page can work out about you, in plain English, with the raw values underneath
→ sessioncontext.org
A Hacker News reader with a switch that hides every AI story
→ hcker.news
The world's first permanent Godzilla museum, bolted onto a zipline through its mouth
→ nijigennomori.com
A 25 cm open-source biped robot duck you retrain yourself, from the makers of Reachy
→ pollen-robotics.com