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The delicious flavour with a toxic secret (2017)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170620-the-delicious-flavour-with-a-toxic-secret
3•thunderbong•1h ago

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sigwinch•1h ago
Good article. The toxic secret is that a class of these exist, like myristicin in nutmeg. And that nature can alter coumarin into dicoumarol, yet has no obligation to announce it.
DemocracyFTW2•1h ago
> They smell faintly like furniture polish.

This is why a friend of mine refuses to eat nutmeg, and since he remarked on it, I've used it much less frequently because he was right.

New book shows how questioning the alphabet can push typography further

https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/new-book-reveals-how-questioning-the-alphabet-can-help-us-...
1•bryanrasmussen•1m ago•0 comments

Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptomining/major-bitcoin-mining-firm-pivoting-to-ai-...
1•heresie-dabord•8m ago•0 comments

Análisis de acciones por dividendos

https://puenteolambo.com/
1•suglus•10m ago•0 comments

Forget AGI–Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT following em dash formatting rules

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/forget-agi-sam-altman-celebrates-chatgpt-finally-following-em-...
1•AIBytes•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Generative and Giant – A Pattern in Motion. Will You Reach the Edge?

https://number-garden.netlify.app/?m
1•cpuXguy•12m ago•0 comments

Matthew Belloni Is Yelling "Iceberg " on the Hollywood Titanic

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/business/matthew-belloni-puck-hollywood.html
2•DrierCycle•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Leado – Find Buying Intent Leads from Reddit

https://leado.co
1•shdalex•16m ago•0 comments

From COINTELPRO to Project Esther: evolution of domestic counterinsurgency in US

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/from-cointelpro-to-project-esther-the-evolution-of-domestic-counte...
1•bryanrasmussen•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Unrestricted Windows automation MCP with 9.68x GPU amplification

https://github.com/For-Sunny/nova-mcp-research
2•Opus_Warrior•17m ago•0 comments

I built a Duolingo and Instagram for focusing(it's 100% free)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/locasfocus-social-focus-timer/id6742454713
1•mandynoee•23m ago•0 comments

Gamification of Programming Languages

https://sigusr2.net/gamification-of-programming-languages.html
2•keyle•27m ago•0 comments

Nature's Prescription for Our Future

https://nautil.us/natures-prescription-for-our-future-1245190/
2•dnetesn•30m ago•0 comments

Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?

https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/why-are-you-still-using-openbsd/
14•akagusu•32m ago•6 comments

Show HN: I made 4 albums in 4 different styles over 4 years

1•keith-darley•39m ago•0 comments

That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by A.I

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/that-new-hit-song-on-spotify-it-was-made-by-ai
1•pseudolus•40m ago•1 comments

Friction Was the Feature

https://johnstone.substack.com/p/friction-was-the-feature
3•davezatch•41m ago•0 comments

What You See Is What It Does: A Structural Pattern for Legible Software Onward!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14511
1•based2•42m ago•1 comments

"In sooth I know not why I am so sad."

https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/in-sooth-i-know-not-why-i-am-so-sad
1•HR01•49m ago•0 comments

Freqtrade: Free, open source crypto trading bot

https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade
3•shahargl•50m ago•0 comments

DECT NR+ on General Availability

https://www.dect.org/blog/dect-nr-on-general-availability/
1•teleforce•51m ago•0 comments

UC faculty push back against systemwide cybersecurity mandate

https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/single-point-of-failure-uc-faculty-push-back-against-systemwide-...
1•geox•51m ago•0 comments

Summit on European Digital Sovereignty

https://bmds.bund.de/aktuelles/eu-summit
3•doener•53m ago•0 comments

AI Country Song – Create Your Own Country Song in Minutes

https://aicountrysong.com/
1•easytube•55m ago•0 comments

Genes Have Harnessed Physics to Grow Living Things

https://www.wired.com/story/how-genes-have-harnessed-physics-to-grow-living-things/
1•quapster•55m ago•0 comments

How VS Code Detects Programming Languages

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-languagedetection
2•bakigul•59m ago•0 comments

The Screen That Ate Your Child's Education

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opinion/laptop-classroom-test-scores.html
2•bell-cot•59m ago•0 comments

Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail?

https://medium.com/@anwarzaid76/is-perplexity-the-first-ai-unicorn-to-fail-eb0e827b5e7e
4•MindBreaker2605•59m ago•0 comments

US stablecoin power-play could epically backfire

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/us-stablecoin-power-play-could-epically-backfire...
1•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do vibecoders need software control?

1•harlequinetcie•1h ago•0 comments

Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust

https://github.com/Hans-Halverson/brimstone
13•ivankra•1h ago•1 comments