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The Thesis: Breaking the Linear Grid-Perceptual Scaling vs. Linear Systems in UI

https://lalithaar.github.io/Interdisciplinary-Systems-Research-Lab/experiments/Perceptual-Scaling...
1•lalithaar•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: UniVersCell – Universal constraint language and decision framework

https://github.com/FIFI93160/universcell
1•fifi93160•4m ago•0 comments

California Typewriter Documentary (2016)

https://californiatypewritermovie.com
1•ChrisArchitect•5m ago•1 comments

Harnessing synthetic biology to empower a circular plastics economy

https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjm-2025-0053
1•PaulHoule•6m ago•0 comments

First Steps with Gleam: Building a Simple Web App (Rest API with PostgreSQL)

https://blog.andreyfadeev.com/p/gleam-web-application-development-tutorial
1•andfadeev•6m ago•1 comments

Building Replicate (A Local-First Layer for Convex)

https://robelest.com/journal/replicate-local-first
1•yoavsha1•7m ago•0 comments

Cursor UI is built with SolidJS

https://www.reddit.com/r/solidjs/s/LSvRET5p3E
1•itayadler•10m ago•0 comments

If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app

https://blog.jgc.org/2025/12/if-you-care-about-security-you-might.html
1•jgrahamc•12m ago•0 comments

In defense of starting with bloatware: my journey from Next.js to syscalls

https://www.danielfalbo.com/weblog/bloatware-to-syscalls
2•danielfalbo•17m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: I switched my iPhone to black and white and it's nice

2•apples_oranges•22m ago•1 comments

One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWkNZ0SXfo
2•mthomas•23m ago•0 comments

Snow-capped Mount Etna erupts as skiers glide down slopes

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cz7n4px7e41o
1•tosh•24m ago•0 comments

You are probably not at inbox 0 (but should be) [2013]

https://ploum.net/why-you-are-not-at-inbox-0/index.html
2•maartin0•26m ago•1 comments

The hidden way the big, bad wolf protects us

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2025/gray-wolfs-safer-roads-delist...
2•pseudolus•26m ago•1 comments

How we achieved 30% Faster Queries by overcoming ClickHouse's native JSON limits

https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/overcoming-clickhouses-json-constraints
1•pranay01•27m ago•0 comments

Brazil's first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/28/brazil-first-arid-zone-stark-warning-f...
3•pera•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Writing USB Device Firmware with Raspberry Pi Pico and TinyUSB

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4C3a7zUGIuYu48KsA3krgm7rtLJwse03
2•madrajib•29m ago•0 comments

Wall Street is stealing from volunteer fire departments [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7GXVscHPfQ
2•xbmcuser•33m ago•0 comments

Success

https://snook.ca/archives/other/success
1•vishnuharidas•34m ago•0 comments

AI upheaval shows little sign of lessening

https://www.ft.com/content/728b03a4-cef3-4ee9-a421-d681998ef7d8
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•36m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes Garbage Collection

https://github.com/kube-zen/zen-gc
1•kubezen•37m ago•0 comments

I got tired of buying bad US B2B leads, so I built my own

https://rangelead.com/
1•RangeLead•37m ago•0 comments

'Year in review: AI's cultural surprises – and failures'

https://thenewstack.io/year-in-review-ais-cultural-surprises-and-spectacular-failures/
1•MilnerRoute•37m ago•0 comments

Why your AI companion is not your friend

https://www.ft.com/content/f3658db4-0bd5-4a0e-af9f-8f7a14f05603
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•37m ago•0 comments

A visual essay on octopi and falcons

https://joshfonseca.com/blogs/favorite-animals
1•vuciv•39m ago•0 comments

Thalassophobia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia
1•sowbug•43m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Brain Browser with Agent IDE

https://github.com/notforyou23/COSMO_BrainStudio
1•notforyou23•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI 3D Model Generator

https://3d-generator.com
2•jokera•49m ago•1 comments

PEP 761 – Deprecating PGP signatures for CPython artifacts (2024)

https://peps.python.org/pep-0761/
2•marksomnian•58m ago•2 comments

World's largest functioning musical instrument: Wanamaker Organ in Philadelphia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanamaker_Organ
2•bookofjoe•59m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)

https://www.unilad.com/news/scientist-beer-bottle-deepest-point-ocean-mariana-trench-667878-20240213
34•thunderbong•2h ago

Comments

amelius•2h ago
I would be more surprised if stuff like that would not find its way to places like that.
cap11235•2h ago
And it's not like there is anything (other than submersibles) that might cause it to find its way out again.
eimrine•2h ago
I would like to see some movie like unresponsible guy throws his bottle to somewhere than some natural power moves it.
andy99•1h ago
Isn’t that The Gods Must Be Crazy?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/

dehugger•9m ago
This is an incredible film
CrzyLngPwd•1h ago
But did they pick it up?
bch•1h ago
Not worth it for the $0.10 return. Put more down there to incentivize.
casey2•1h ago
Literal navalgazing
someothherguyy•1h ago
different source that loads without javascript https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/12/oceanographe...

(lacking details on the bottle itself)

meisel•1h ago
I'm curious what objects do/don't survive at the water pressure. I guess bottles are strong enough
fogleman•1h ago
Presumably it was open & empty, so it's just a piece of glass surviving...
dmurray•1h ago
Even so, wouldn't you expect that you could crush an open empty beer bottle by putting a heavy enough weight on it? A human can't do it, but I would expect an elephant can.
jdmoreira•1h ago
That's not how pressure works if it's opened. The forces balance out
bracketfocus•1h ago
The pressure inside the bottle is the same as the outside. So it’s not the same as stomping on an empty bottle.
FL410•1h ago
But the forces are the same all around the bottle (again assuming it is open)
rags2riches•1h ago
The bottle wouldn't be empty though.
RajT88•1h ago
There is quite a lot of pressure put outside from the beer of a full bottle, but that little bit of air is probably enough to cause it to implode at some point.

I'll be honest; I have no idea how to estimate that. I'm sure there are folks on here who can (and might). It's probably not as deep as you'd think.

UniverseHacker•40m ago
Solids and liquids mostly don’t compress so as a general rule most can handle those pressures without experiencing any real mechanical stress, as they instantly provide a perfectly matching internal pressure that balances out the forces to zero.

It’s mostly things that contain gases that can get crushed by high pressure. Almost any type of closed cell foam for example, will either collapse to a small size or crack and crumble apart depending on how rigid it is.

Living things tend to get harmed by pressure changes because they have compressible gasses and/or biological compartments that contain things that experience phase changes between gas and liquid at different pressures.

jordanpg•1h ago
I agree it's something of a bummer, but why is this surprising or "bizarre"?
malux85•1h ago
Scientists [ad] discover [ad] beer [ad] [popup] [ad] bottle in [ad] the [ad] [ad] [ad]

Painful

aorth•1h ago
I don't see any ads on Firefox (Android) with uBlock Origin.

That site seems horrible though. Random words in the body like reddit are hyperlinks to SEO landing pages on the same site. And there must be a better (original) source for the story than this...

pmdr•55m ago
It's peak content form that AI was trained on and is now writing itself.
natebc•54m ago
https://www.esri.com/en-us/industries/blog/articles/mission-...

Seems like this is better, or at least maybe a primary source?

drnick1•45m ago
You should really use an ad blocker. The Internet is basically unusable these days without one. I block ad domains at the DNS level too, but the ad blocker is still necessary to remove the empty frames left, sad.
cbisnett•1h ago
What’s the chance this was dropped off one of the research vessels at some point? It seems unlikely to drift given it sank to the bottom.
apt-apt-apt-apt•1h ago
It'd be surprising if we found it on the moon, but how is it surprising that something fell 7 miles until it hit the floor
gnabgib•1h ago
2020 Commercial submarine trips to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (103 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22702000

2019 Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag (169 points, 126 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899374

2019 In Mariana Trench, every animal tested had plastic in its gut (57 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19302531

2018 Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench (359 points, 326 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17057305

anonymousiam•58m ago
Perhaps it was tossed overboard by somebody on the support vessel...
fnord77•49m ago
I have a feeling someone dropped this bottle on purpose when they were over the trench. They knew what they were doing. Note the lack of other littler.
sowbug•43m ago
The article mentions thalassophobia, which is my new vocabulary word for today. It means fear of large bodies of water.
andy99•39m ago
I found that to be really bad writing

  When it comes to exploring the deep sea, unless you suffer from thalassophobia (the fear of large bodies of water), it can be quite fascinating.
What purpose does this serve, other than to introduce a word that has no future relevance in the article. It’s just an empty sentence padding the word count.
nephihaha•7m ago
Fear of the sea not large bodies of water.

Thalassa! Thalassa!

(Ancient Greek literary reference there.)

patrickmay•37m ago
Time for a remake of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" with octopi.
rwmj•30m ago
octopodes
hermannj314•29m ago
For years we were told trans-oceanic communication was best done with messages in bottles and suddenly even those are being intercepted.

Finally time to switch to protonmail.

a3w•13m ago
Depends on your thread model:

Swiss police can see your proton mail if they get a court to allow viewing it. But the Swiss do not have a submarine, so underwater bottle passing is safe against them.

Combine both, and you are safe! Offline mails in a bottle should be a april fool's RFC any time now.

quinndupont•4m ago
SO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS. Tis a shame everything has to be fluffed up and sold