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Benzene at 200

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benzene-at-200/4021504.article
64•Brajeshwar•1h ago•22 comments

Working on databases from prison

https://turso.tech/blog/working-on-databases-from-prison
410•dvektor•4h ago•251 comments

ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11016
26•lelanthran•2h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Zeekstd – Rust Implementation of the ZSTD Seekable Format

https://github.com/rorosen/zeekstd
118•rorosen•20h ago•18 comments

The Renegade Richard Foreman

https://yalereview.org/article/jennifer-krasinski-richard-foreman
5•prismatic•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: dk – A script runner and cross-compiler, written in OCaml

https://diskuv.com/dk/help/latest/
19•beckford•2h ago•2 comments

OpenTelemetry for Go: Measuring overhead costs

https://coroot.com/blog/opentelemetry-for-go-measuring-the-overhead/
9•openWrangler•1h ago•3 comments

Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown

https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s
176•PixelPanda•10h ago•44 comments

Darklang Goes Open Source

https://blog.darklang.com/darklang-goes-open-source/
39•stachudotnet•1h ago•7 comments

Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/salesforce_llm_agents_benchmark/
96•rntn•3h ago•42 comments

Object personification in autism: This paper will be sad if you don't read (2018)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30101594/
49•oliverkwebb•1h ago•39 comments

Adding public transport data to Transitous

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/06/14/transitous-adding-data.html
7•todsacerdoti•2d ago•0 comments

Income Inequality Depresses Support for Higher Minimum Wages [pdf]

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-xge0001772.pdf
15•PaulHoule•1h ago•9 comments

Infracost (YC W21) is hiring software engineers (GMT+2 to GMT-6)

https://infracost.io/join-the-team
1•aliscott•5h ago

Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

https://bowshock.nl/irc/
415•todsacerdoti•9h ago•229 comments

Show HN: Socket-call – Call socket.io events like normal JavaScript functions

https://github.com/bperel/socket-call
27•bperel•5h ago•8 comments

Is gravity just entropy rising? Long-shot idea gets another look

https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-gravity-just-entropy-rising-long-shot-idea-gets-another-look-20250613/
169•pseudolus•16h ago•165 comments

Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/maya/home/maya-blue-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-an-ancient-pigment
39•DanielKehoe•2d ago•9 comments

Quantum mechanics provide truly random numbers on demand

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-quantum-mechanics-random-demand.html
8•bookofjoe•2d ago•5 comments

Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript

https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/text/www/
25•Bogdanp•2h ago•7 comments

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)

https://tim.dierks.org/2014/05/security-standards-and-name-changes-in.html
437•Bogdanp•1d ago•201 comments

Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

https://voxelmanip.se/2025/06/14/jokes-and-humour-in-the-public-android-api/
226•todsacerdoti•16h ago•129 comments

Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,damn*,idiot*,retard*,crap*
80•microsoftedging•2d ago•135 comments

A Framework for Characterizing Emergent Conflict Between Non-Coordinating Agents [pdf]

https://paperclipmaximizer.ai/Unaware_Adversaries.pdf
15•ycombiredd•2d ago•2 comments

Mechanisms for Detection and Repair of Puncture Damage in Soft Robotics [pdf]

https://smr.unl.edu/papers/Krings_et_al-2025-ICRA.pdf
13•PaulHoule•2d ago•0 comments

Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/modifying-an-hdmi-dummy-plugs-edid-using-a-raspberry-pi/
269•zdw•1d ago•74 comments

Childhood leukemia: how a deadly cancer became treatable

https://ourworldindata.org/childhood-leukemia-treatment-history
255•surprisetalk•1d ago•72 comments

Real-time CO2 monitoring without batteries or external power

https://news.kaist.ac.kr/newsen/html/news/?mode=V&mng_no=47450
96•gnabgib•18h ago•27 comments

Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
129•kim_rutherford•21h ago•25 comments

DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2025/darpa-program-distance-record-power-beaming
126•gnabgib•18h ago•88 comments
Open in hackernews

Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/maya/home/maya-blue-unlocking-the-mysteries-of-an-ancient-pigment
39•DanielKehoe•2d ago

Comments

jihadjihad•2h ago
Cool article, and even cooler site IMO. Brings back memories of 20 years ago, when many sites looked similar. It probably looks radically ugly to the modern eye, but I kind of miss the goofiness of pages like this, down to the poem at the bottom (in Comic Sans, no less).

Chrome probably would have kicked up some sort of fuss about it, but I was almost hoping to see .swf as the file extension for the wheel GIF at the top. Good times.

fside•2h ago
The fact that the Maya engineered this by heating indigo with palygorskite clay shows a level of chemical understanding that rivals modern hybrid materials research. Still wild to think we only cracked the full recipe in the 21st century.
cap11235•2h ago
No? Calling them advanced is one thing (because it was advanced up to their elimination/dispersion), saying it rivals modern materials science is ridiculous, and is a statement that appeals to the people that buy crystals for their "healing energy". The peoples born of the America's do not benefit from Burning Man-type bullshit.
IAmBroom•2h ago
Or to put it more nicely, knowing how to make something is not knowing the fundamental science behind the thing.

Romans made self-healing cement without any knowledge of chemistry and materials science. Surgeons performed tumor removals without knowing why they formed. Etc.

webdoodle•1h ago
To be fair, all of you are biased. We don't know a lot about the Maya's level of knowledge and technology because most of the people who had the knowledge were exterminated by the Jesuits and Conquistadors.
colechristensen•1h ago
It is silly to assert that ancient peoples might have known quantum physics but "we just don't know!"
quesera•50m ago
GP demonstrates an overextrapolated idea of ancient science, suggesting ignorance but at least honest admiration.

You demonstrate an overextrapolated idea of current cultural events, suggesting ignorance and also shallow dismissiveness.

You could have made your point without raising your own flag.

maxwell•2h ago
Egyptian blue was recently recreated using ancient methods:

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2025/06/02/researchers-re...

They look chemically quite different: clay, palygorskite/sepiolite, and indigo for Mayan blue; silica, lime, copper, and an alkali for Egyptian blue.

dclaw•9m ago
Apparently someone has recreated it.

https://yucatantoday.com/en/blog/how-is-the-maya-blue-pigmen...