Also don't get hung up on "folded". He hasn't innovated a design (it was invented by a Japanese astrophysicist, Miura-Ori), merely measured sustainable load across different designs.

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adfm 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don't get hug up on "invented". Ruth Asawa registered for (1956) and received US patent 185,504 on June 16, 1959 at the suggestion of her professor, Buckminster Fuller.

https://theartian.com/ruth-asawa-patent-collaboration/

	▲	Centrino 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Don't get hung up on "patent". You can't patent an idea, you patent a specific implementation of an idea. The boy experimented to find the optimal parameters (height, width, angles) for load bearing of that earlier invention. So, the result of his work would warrant a new patent, of course with reference to all earlier patents of which his work is an improvement.

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croisillon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i hear he didn't even produce the paper himself

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avadodin 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Being able to hold 10x the weight of paper doesn't sound so impressive that it would require an astrophysicist to invent it.

I was more ready to accept the headline if it had been invented by the kid.

Are you telling me you can't roll up 10 origami papers and stand them on a reasonably stable origami pattern?

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retube 2 hours ago | parent [-]

it's 10k, 10,000, not 10

	▲	avadodin an hour ago \| parent [-]
		lol that makes way more sense not enough coffee bcak

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ForHackernews 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He literally did fold all the folds himself. He didn't even get an LLM to reskin VS Code for him and apply to Y Combinator.

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nine_k 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Miura" is the name of the astrophysicist. "Ori" (折り) just means "fold", as in "origami" = "fold+paper".