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The old Caveman Chemistry website (1996-2000)

https://cavemanchemistry.com/oldcave/
51•marcodiego•4h ago

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ludicrousdispla•1h ago
From the Stone Tools project page...

>> If you have ever seen the fracture which results when a BB hits a glass window, you have seen the conchoidal fracture.

mock-possum•1h ago
Wow the instructor sounds extra, but this would’ve been a great course to go through in a summer as a kid. It’d be fun to audit as an adult really.
mrKola•1h ago
How is it that the new website is uglier than the old one?
quibono•1h ago
I think chemistry is one of those subjects that should be the easiest to teach in a captivating way and yet most school/university level treatments tend to be quite dry. I imagine most of this is due to cost, safety and effort required but one can dream.

Quantum Won't Replace Your Computer

https://medium.com/@jensenbox/quantum-wont-replace-your-computer-c6a9bf30fc9c
1•jensenbox•1m ago•0 comments

You Probably Need Both: Orchestration and Choreography

https://medium.com/@jensenbox/you-probably-need-both-a-real-world-guide-to-orchestration-and-choreography-071694436ed8
1•jensenbox•2m ago•0 comments

No One Knows Anything About AI

https://calnewport.com/no-one-knows-anything-about-ai/
1•ahamez•8m ago•0 comments

QuakeNotch, Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

https://quakenotch.com
2•rohanrhu•15m ago•0 comments

The Leverage Cycle

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/648285
1•Anon84•16m ago•0 comments

Think on Your Limits

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168780438
1•prograph•18m ago•0 comments

Community radio stations are collateral damage as Congress cuts NPR funding

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/20/nx-s1-5469908/trump-npr-public-community-radio-corporation-broadcasting-federal-funding-cuts
4•RF_Enthusiast•20m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Having terrible time with paid versions of ChatGPT and Claude

2•gist•26m ago•3 comments

Rising Graduate Joblessness Is Mainly Affecting Men

https://www.edwardconard.com/macro-roundup/the-unemployment-rate-for-recent-male-college-graduates-22-27-has-risen-from-5-to-7-recent-male-graduates-are-now-unemployed-at-the-same-rate-as-their-non-graduate-counterparts/?view=detail
10•andrewstetsenko•31m ago•5 comments

Chess grandmasters do not burn 6000 calories per day

https://substack.com/inbox/post/167018896
3•fanf2•31m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Posthuman Framework for AI Consciousness Thresholds and VR Emancipation

https://kanarya.group/aposthumanframework/
2•rudyon•32m ago•1 comments

A browserless HTML testing library for Python

https://github.com/valentinogagliardi/unbrowsed
1•theptip•34m ago•0 comments

The Medieval World Revealed

https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/the-medieval-world-revealed
1•crescit_eundo•34m ago•0 comments

Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1B web users

https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/adblockers-stop-publishers-serving-ads-to-or-even-seeing-1bn-web-users/
3•thm•39m ago•3 comments

Lessons from My Solo Journey to Become the Founder I Wish I'd Met Earlier

https://nmn.gl/blog/greatness
1•namanyayg•40m ago•0 comments

GingerBill – Tools of the Trade – BSC 2025 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNtoDGS4uak
1•gingerBill•42m ago•1 comments

Image Search: An internet-powered image search and conversion for C64 OS

https://c64os.com/c64os/imagesearch
1•ibobev•47m ago•0 comments

RFC: Enable Btrfs as a Tech Preview

https://github.com/AlmaLinux/ALESCo/pull/9
3•l2dy•49m ago•0 comments

Researchers develop hull-attached sensor system for underwater radiated noise

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-07-hull-sensor-underwater-noise.html
1•PaulHoule•53m ago•0 comments

Employers planning to pass the rising healthcare costs to the employees in 2026

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/economy/health-care-costs-employees-2026
8•paulpauper•54m ago•2 comments

Show HN: I made a simple free app that gives you professional headshots

https://photoguruai.com/free-tools/free-ai-headshot-generator
1•devhe4d•54m ago•1 comments

Stop Claude Code from Asking Permission Every 30 Seconds

1•IgorGanapolsky•54m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are experienced engineers leaving the field due to LLMs going into?

1•throwawayoldie•54m ago•1 comments

Texas ranks as No. 1 state with the most people in financial distress

https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/innovation/texas-ranks-as-no-1-state-with-the-most-people-in-financial-distress/
9•paulpauper•54m ago•1 comments

The next ZX Spectrum will also be a Commodore 64

https://www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/the-next-zx-spectrum-will-also-be-a-commodore-64/
2•ibobev•55m ago•1 comments

Hacking a Toniebox

https://www.schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/tech/hack-all-the-things-toniebox/
14•LorenDB•57m ago•4 comments

Mathematical Foundations for Finance [pdf]

https://metaphor.ethz.ch/x/2021/hs/401-3913-01L/auth/lethz/notes/mff_script/lecture_notes.pdf
1•ibobev•59m ago•0 comments

Master Foo and the Script Kiddie

https://soda.privatevoid.net/foo/arc/02.html
18•RGBCube•59m ago•7 comments

Show HN: Kriegspiel Tic Tac Toe

https://kttt.io/
1•fishtoaster•59m ago•0 comments

Cosmosapien CLI / Dumb LLM Orchestrator

https://github.com/musa92/cosmosapien-cli
1•Musagayev•1h ago•0 comments