content: 2026-08-02 capture run — 10 finds across 6 productive sources

src/content/find/2026/08/boredreading/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "BoredReading"
+subtitle: "Long-form articles ranked by readers, with a keyboard shortcut printed on every control"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://boredreading.com/"
+linkText: "boredreading.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [web-tools, learning-and-reference]
+tags: [reading, curation, keyboard, free]
+description: "Seventy-two thousand community-curated articles with a stripped reading mode and a shortcut for every filter."
+---
+
+Seventy-two thousand long-form articles, ranked by the people reading them rather than by engagement, and every control carries its keyboard shortcut in plain sight — alt+1 for recent, alt+3 for random, alt+shift+r for a stripped reading mode. The category list is the tell: cartography and comics sit alongside programming and finance, at counts small enough to show a person put them there.

src/content/find/2026/08/cycloidal-gearbox/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "Cycloidal Gearbox"
+subtitle: "A fifteen-year-old's 1:9 gearbox, published with the version that didn't work"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox"
+linkText: "GitHub"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [gadgets-and-toys, learning-and-reference]
+tags: [3d-printing, cad, open-source, engineering]
+description: "Three versions of a 3D-printed cycloidal drive — including the failed one — plus the Fusion 360 script that generates the tooth profile from scratch."
+---
+
+Version two is in the repo because it failed: a micro cycloidal drive squeezed to a NEMA 17's footprint, defeated by tolerances a 3D printer cannot hold. Version three works — 90mm across, ten outer pins, nine rotor lobes, 1:9. The real object here is the Fusion 360 script that draws the profile from pins, pitch radius and eccentricity, so you can generate a ratio the author never printed.

src/content/find/2026/08/elevators/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "Elevators"
+subtitle: "Why the elevator isn't coming, run at 25× until you can see the answer"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://john.fun/elevators"
+linkText: "john.fun"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [web-tools, learning-and-reference]
+tags: [interactive, algorithms, explainer, free]
+description: "An interactive explainer on elevator scheduling — SCAN, LOOK and multi-car dispatch, all running live in the page at up to 25× speed."
+---
+
+The SCAN algorithm was patented in 1961: ride to the top, reverse, collect everyone on the way down. LOOK stops at the highest floor actually requested, which is the behaviour you already expect from a lift. Both run live in the page at 1×, 5× or 25×, and a button drops five fresh calls into the shafts so you can watch the assign-it-to-the-nearest-car rule come apart in front of you.

src/content/find/2026/08/jdanwire/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "jdanwire"
+subtitle: "A late-nineties file-sharing client that shares nothing and plays your own disk"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://jdanwire.jordanscales.com/"
+linkText: "jdanwire.jordanscales.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [music-and-sound, web-tools]
+tags: [nostalgia, music-player, browser, free]
+description: "The tab row and transfer queue of a 1999 peer-to-peer client, wrapped around a folder of music you already own."
+---
+
+Search, Monitor, Connections, Library, Console — the tab row of a late-nineties file-sharing client, down to the bitrate column and the transfer queue. Nothing is shared and nothing is downloaded: you point it at a folder and it plays the music already on your disk, in a browser tab. The chrome is the joke and the interface at the same time, and the play queue genuinely works.

src/content/find/2026/08/joke-ground-beef/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "Ground beef"
+date: 2026-08-02
+link: "https://icanhazdadjoke.com/j/DImrciqWSCd"
+linkText: "icanhazdadjoke.com"
+source: "icanhazdadjoke"
+topics: [words-and-humor]
+tags: [dad-joke, pun]
+description: "What do you call a cow with no legs?"
+---
+
+What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef.

src/content/find/2026/08/kawran-bazar/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "Kawran Bazar"
+subtitle: "A 2am fruit auction, and vendors who clear the train tracks every time a train comes"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kawran-bazar"
+linkText: "Atlas Obscura"
+source: "Atlas Obscura"
+topics: [travel-and-places, food-and-drink]
+tags: [markets, dhaka, night, street-food]
+description: "Dhaka's central wholesale market runs hardest in the middle of the night and has vanished by mid-morning, when the same block turns back into a business district."
+---
+
+By one count fifty-seven percent of Dhaka's vegetables move through this one market, and the hours worth seeing are the ones nobody schedules: a 2am fruit auction, fish descaled by hand, vendors spreading their goods across live train tracks and clearing them each time a train comes through. By mid-morning it has gone — stalls become parked cars, and the block goes back to being a district of newspapers and TV studios.

src/content/find/2026/08/onion-minions-epic-poem/index.mdx

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+name: "Translator of Original 'Minions' Epic Poem Slams Film Adaptation"
+date: 2026-08-02
+link: "https://theonion.com/translator-of-original-minions-epic-poem-slams-sexless-bloodless-film-adaptation"
+linkText: "The Onion"
+source: "Kottke.org"
+topics: [words-and-humor]
+tags: [satire, classics, translation]
+description: "The Onion invents a Minions epic poem and a translator with opinions about the film — and the actual translator of the Odyssey answered."
+---
+
+The Onion ran "Translator Of Original 'Minions' Epic Poem Slams 'Sexless, Bloodless' Film Adaptation." The second beat is what makes it: Emily Wilson, who really did translate the Odyssey and the Iliad, posted in reply — "No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this."

src/content/find/2026/08/the-minds-i/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "The Mind's I"
+subtitle: "Twenty-seven essays and stories on the self, each one argued with by its editors"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-220-the-minds-i/"
+linkText: "Book Freak #220"
+source: "Cool Tools"
+topics: [learning-and-reference]
+tags: [book, consciousness, philosophy, giftable]
+amazonLink: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465030912
+description: "Hofstadter and Dennett's 1981 anthology on mind and self, where the reflection printed after each piece is the point of the format."
+---
+
+Twenty-seven pieces on what a mind is, and the format is the argument: after each one, Hofstadter and Dennett add a Reflection that pushes back on it. Borges dreams a man into existence; Lem's tiny beings beg their maker not to switch off their world; Nagel asks what it is like to be a bat and concludes you cannot know. Every contributor is a man, which the Cool Tools write-up says plainly.

src/content/find/2026/08/wavelength-light-app/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "Wavelength"
+subtitle: "Point your phone at the room and it tells you, in words, whether the light is helping"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wavelength-sleep-jet-lag/id6781001674"
+linkText: "App Store"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [ios-apps]
+tags: [sleep, light, health, no-account]
+description: "An iPhone app that reads the light in a room through the camera and says what it means for your body clock, hour by hour."
+---
+
+Point the camera at the room and it reads the light in about a second, then says what that means rather than leaving you holding a number: this light is strengthening your circadian rhythm, keep it up until 19:35. The whole day comes back as a strip — bright now, dim later, sleep — with the jet-lag and night-shift cases handled separately. No account, no ads.

src/content/find/2026/08/yamanote-3d/index.mdx

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+---
+name: "Yamanote 3D"
+subtitle: "One loop of Tokyo's Yamanote Line — thirty stations, sixty-seven minutes, nothing to score"
+date: 2026-08-02
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://yamanote-3d.com/"
+linkText: "yamanote-3d.com"
+source: "Product Hunt"
+topics: [travel-and-places, web-tools]
+tags: [tokyo, trains, browser, free]
+description: "A fan-made browser ride around the Yamanote Line in near real time, with departure melodies for all thirty stations and a train that leaves without you."
+---
+
+Sixty-seven minutes a lap, thirty stations, nothing to win. You walk the carriage in first person, sit down or hold a strap, and watch the city drift past; step onto a platform and the train leaves without you, with the next one about two minutes out. Departure melodies play for every station in both directions, and you pick the date and hour before boarding, so the season and the light match.