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The old Caveman Chemistry website (1996-2000)

https://cavemanchemistry.com/oldcave/
62•marcodiego•5h ago

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ludicrousdispla•3h 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•3h 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•3h ago
How is it that the new website is uglier than the old one?
quibono•2h 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.
pstuart•1h ago
A chemist once told me the two paths that bring people into chemistry are learning how to blow shit up and how to get high.

But yes, regardless of those two it should be easy to frame it as a magical adventure.

JKCalhoun•1h ago
Tried a few links and found them broken.

For example, Dunn's book on soap making. Nonetheless, Googled it:

https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Soapmaking-Chemistry-Cold-...

The lead me to his Caveman Chemistry book on Amazon as well:

https://www.amazon.com/Caveman-Chemistry-Projects-Creation-P...

Is DeepSeek a New Voice Among LLMs in Public Opinion Simulation?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21587
24•PaulHoule•51m ago•4 comments

XMLUI

https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/07/18/introducing-xmlui/
311•mpweiher•5h ago•164 comments

Master Foo and the Script Kiddie

https://soda.privatevoid.net/foo/arc/02.html
53•RGBCube•2h ago•30 comments

Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque (OpenBSD)

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717103345
31•gslin•1h ago•18 comments

QuakeNotch, Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch

https://quakenotch.com
28•rohanrhu•1h ago•28 comments

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

https://antirez.com/news/154
284•antirez•8h ago•230 comments

Speeding Up My ZSH Shell

https://scottspence.com/posts/speeding-up-my-zsh-shell
71•saikatsg•4h ago•30 comments

Hacking a Toniebox

https://www.schafe-sind-bessere-rasenmaeher.de/tech/hack-all-the-things-toniebox/
35•LorenDB•2h ago•17 comments

Insights on Teufel's First Open-Source Speaker

https://blog.teufelaudio.com/visionary-mynds-insights-on-teufels-first-open-source-speaker/
40•lis•2h ago•9 comments

New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes

https://dynomight.net/colors/
30•zdw•3d ago•7 comments

Subreply – an open source text-only social network

https://github.com/lucianmarin/subreply
15•lcnmrn•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once

https://conductor.build/
72•Charlieholtz•3d ago•24 comments

Payment processors' bar on Japanese adult content endangers democracy (2024)

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/nier-creator-speaks-out-against-payment-processors-pressuring-japanese-adult-content-platforms/
61•thisislife2•1h ago•23 comments

LLM architecture comparison

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-llm-architecture-comparison
295•mdp2021•13h ago•20 comments

Digital vassals? French Government 'exposes citizens' data to US'

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/digital-vassals-french-government-exposes-citizens-data-to-us/
138•ColinWright•8h ago•46 comments

The old Caveman Chemistry website (1996-2000)

https://cavemanchemistry.com/oldcave/
62•marcodiego•5h ago•6 comments

A Tour of Microsoft's Mac Lab (2006)

https://davidweiss.blogspot.com/2006/04/tour-of-microsofts-mac-lab.html
140•ingve•9h ago•25 comments

New Antimatter Physics Discovered at the Large Hadron Collider

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-large-hadron-collider-discovers-antimatter-behaving-oddly-in-new-class/
25•Bluestein•1h ago•4 comments

Async I/O on Linux in databases

https://blog.canoozie.net/async-i-o-on-linux-and-durability/
156•jtregunna•13h ago•72 comments

Simulating Hand-Drawn Motion with SVG Filters

https://camillovisini.com/coding/simulating-hand-drawn-motion-with-svg-filters
5•camillovisini•3d ago•0 comments

Amazon's Emissions Climbed 6% in 2024 on Data Center Buildout

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainability/amazon-s-emissions-climbed-6-in-2024-on-data-center-buildout
26•belter•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language

https://blender-mcp-psi.vercel.app/
130•prono•13h ago•55 comments

"The Bitter Lesson" is wrong. Well sort of

https://assaf-pinhasi.medium.com/the-bitter-lesson-is-wrong-sort-of-a3d021864924
19•GavCo•3h ago•10 comments

Laminar Flow Airfoil

http://www.aviation-history.com/theory/lam-flow.htm
10•colinprince•2d ago•0 comments

A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/114881418225852441
110•bertman•11h ago•21 comments

The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production

https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/
336•Dachande663•10h ago•193 comments

Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save books from a beetle infestation

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467062/hungary-library-books-beetles
180•smollett•4d ago•25 comments

Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/
327•Bogdanp•1d ago•103 comments

Show HN: ggc – A terminal-based Git CLI written in Go

https://github.com/bmf-san/ggc
50•bmf-san•4d ago•37 comments

Robot metabolism: Toward machines that can grow by consuming other machines

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6897
42•XzetaU8•11h ago•19 comments