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Hexanitrogen Energies

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/hexanitrogen-energies
23•thomasjb•3d ago

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perihelions•11h ago
Also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44285875 ("Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6 (nature.com)"—27 comments)

robin_reala•11h ago
Derek references his “Things I Won’t Work With” set of posts. If you haven’t read them before you’re in for a treat: https://www.science.org/action/doSearch?AllField=%22Things+I...
MisterTea•10h ago
This sums it up nicely:

"Hexanitro? Say what? I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

sleighman748•9h ago
I’m assuming this would not be a practical explosive material to work with, based on what I read, unless you were working off-world.
MarkusQ•6h ago
If you weren't to start with, you might well be by the end (i.e., momentarily). Or pieces of you would be at any rate; ΔV to the Kármán line is only a few km/s.
ChrisMarshallNY•8h ago
> Plenty of other hypothetical polynitrogen species turn out to have basically no barrier at all by comparison, which is why they’re still hypothetical, and you will be too if you try to make them on any kind of scale.

Classic. I love this guy's sense of humor.

Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/20/microsoft-sharepoint-hack/
169•spenvo•23h ago•77 comments

What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?

https://www.lumafield.com/article/what-went-wrong-inside-these-recalled-power-banks
184•walterbell•3h ago•74 comments

AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks

https://accounting.penrose.com/
305•rickcarlino•4h ago•75 comments

Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG

https://www.morphik.ai/blog/stop-parsing-docs
99•Adityav369•4h ago•22 comments

TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale

https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight
394•wtcactus•6h ago•101 comments

Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/RJz1peY-product-associate-new-grad
1•richard_pepper•12m ago

Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets

https://blog.getjetback.com/scarcity-inventory-and-inequity-a-deep-dive-into-airline-fare-buckets/
44•bdev12345•2h ago•5 comments

In a major reversal, the world bank is backing mega dams (2024)

https://e360.yale.edu/features/world-bank-hydro-dams
16•prmph•54m ago•0 comments

New records on Wendelstein 7-X

https://www.iter.org/node/20687/new-records-wendelstein-7-x
165•greesil•6h ago•77 comments

Show HN: Lotas – Cursor for RStudio

https://www.lotas.ai/
35•jorgeoguerra•3h ago•15 comments

Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed

https://tedium.co/2025/07/21/the-game-genie-generation/
72•coloneltcb•3h ago•26 comments

Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq

https://github.com/noperator/jqfmt
107•Bluestein•4h ago•29 comments

Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems

https://www.riskgaming.com/p/how-jane-jacobs-got-americans-stuck
18•serviette•1h ago•6 comments

The Fundamentals of Asyncio

https://github.com/anordin95/a-conceptual-overview-of-asyncio/blob/main/readme.md
56•anordin95•3h ago•11 comments

Erlang 28 on GRiSP Nano using only 16 MB

https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto
42•plainOldText•2h ago•0 comments

Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/advanced-version-of-gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad/
375•meetpateltech•5h ago•153 comments

Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail

https://the418.substack.com/p/a-bug-in-the-mail
124•shayneo•6h ago•115 comments

MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/mips
30•rbanffy•3h ago•12 comments

Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution

https://wmlive.sourceforge.net/
65•Aldipower•5h ago•23 comments

SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management

https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/07/21/announcing-secretspec-declarative-secrets-management/
99•domenkozar•5h ago•25 comments

Amazon and the "Profitless Business Model" Fallacy

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2013/10/25/amazon-and-the-profitless-business-model-narrative
63•serviette•2d ago•15 comments

We made Postgres writes faster, but it broke replication

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/lsm_trees_in_postgres
174•philippemnoel•10h ago•40 comments

The Krull dimension of the semiring of natural numbers is equal to 2

https://freedommathdance.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-krull-dimension-of-natural-numbers.html
22•surprisetalk•3d ago•3 comments

Make Map Icons with Orthographic Projections

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/custom-orthographic-icons
39•bryanrasmussen•4h ago•0 comments

UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/uk-backing-down-on-apple-encryption-backdoor-after-pressure-from-us/
359•azalemeth•6h ago•228 comments

Hiding messages in a deck playing cards

https://asherfalcon.com/blog/posts/3
82•ashfn•3d ago•29 comments

12ft.io Taken Down

https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/takedown-of-12ftio/
91•afeuerstein•2h ago•76 comments

Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond

https://antongubarenko.substack.com/p/memory-efficiency-in-ios-reducing
47•CharlesW•5h ago•18 comments

Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software

https://github.com/tidwall/pogocache
42•tidwall•4h ago•17 comments

1990 Networking: LAN Manager 2.0

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/1990-networking-lan-manager-2-0/
15•userbinator•2d ago•0 comments