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Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/science/2019-savage.pdf
113•surprisetalk•4h ago•37 comments

Designing NotebookLM

https://jasonspielman.com/notebooklm
11•vinhnx•1h ago•0 comments

Seattle Ultrasonics: Ultrasonic Chef's Knife

https://seattleultrasonics.com/
29•hemloc_io•2h ago•15 comments

Scream cipher

https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher
204•alexmolas•2d ago•81 comments

Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00409-6
61•PaulHoule•4h ago•35 comments

Images over DNS

https://dgl.cx/2025/09/images-over-dns
111•dgl•6h ago•31 comments

MapSCII – World Map in Terminal

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
89•_august•2d ago•14 comments

The LLM Lobotomy

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5561465/the-llm-lobotomy
13•sgt3v•20m ago•0 comments

Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/
468•saeedesmaili•20h ago•220 comments

Bezier Curve as Easing Function in C++

https://asawicki.info/news_1790_bezier_curve_as_easing_function_in_c
30•ibobev•5h ago•4 comments

Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

https://www.galois.com/articles/claude-can-sometimes-prove-it
156•lairv•3d ago•45 comments

Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe?

https://www.openmymind.net/Is-Zigs-New-Io-Unsafe/
105•ibobev•4h ago•88 comments

Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-44886585
80•Luc•4d ago•31 comments

Show HN: Math2Tex – Convert handwritten math and complex notes to LaTeX text

23•leoyixing•3d ago•11 comments

Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-ice-generates-electricity-bent.html
61•isaacfrond•3d ago•18 comments

If all the world were a monorepo

https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo
233•sebg•4d ago•63 comments

Evals in 2025: benchmarks to build models people can use

https://github.com/huggingface/evaluation-guidebook/blob/main/yearly_dives/2025-evaluations-for-u...
20•jxmorris12•2d ago•2 comments

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

https://windowsread.me/p/best-youtube-downloaders
490•Leftium•1d ago•214 comments

PyPI Blog: Token Exfiltration Campaign via GitHub Actions Workflows

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-09-16-github-actions-token-exfiltration/
59•miketheman•3d ago•17 comments

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-tha...
452•sampo•1d ago•146 comments

Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners

https://focusstream.media
70•pariharAshwin•11h ago•39 comments

LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets

https://www.scalarlm.com/blog/llm-deflate-extracting-llms-into-datasets/
49•gdiamos•11h ago•25 comments

Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

https://github.com/barddoo/zedis
143•barddoo•20h ago•92 comments

Are Touchscreens in Cars Dangerous?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/19/are-touchscreens-in-cars-dangerous
78•Brajeshwar•2h ago•68 comments

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

https://weuseelixir.com/
198•taddgiles•22h ago•50 comments

IG Nobel Prize Winners 2025

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/
126•JeremyTheo•7h ago•35 comments

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archives-big-battle-with-music-publishers-en...
350•coloneltcb•4d ago•148 comments

What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/what-makes-system-calls-expensive
45•rbanffy•4h ago•4 comments

Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

https://feedmaker.fly.dev
157•mustaphah•21h ago•28 comments

Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration

https://www.codeintegrity.ai/blog/notion
170•abirag•20h ago•46 comments
Open in hackernews

Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-ice-generates-electricity-bent.html
61•isaacfrond•3d ago

Comments

mkagenius•1h ago
Reminds me of x-ray getting generated when you peel off a duct tape or something.
analog8374•1h ago
I think wintergreen lifesavers emit light when you crunch them.
kwk1•41m ago
Once upon a time, I was peeling a banana in a dim and very dry room, and I'm pretty sure I saw a spark, perhaps caused by the same phenomenon.
maxbond•21m ago
Very cool! From cursory research it seems like many salicylates produce triboluminescence (I don't know why), and some people online with special dietary needs say that bananas are high in salicylates (though it seems controversial). So that would be my hypothesis.

I'm gunnuh try crushing an aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and see what happens. (ETA: My headache pills that have aspirin, acetaminophen, and caffeine, along with whatever binders, did not produce any light that my camera detected. That's the only aspirin I have and I'm only willing to sacrifice one of them. Oh well!)

ETA2: Wasn't able to get it to work by peeling a banana, crushing the inside, or crushing the peel, but I don't doubt it happened. Bananas probably vary a great deal. Thanks for the fun diversion, I haven't done an experiment like this in years.

reaperducer•36m ago
I think wintergreen lifesavers emit light when you crunch them.

That's how you get girls to agree to turn off the lights when playing post office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office_(game)

dekhn•33m ago
triboluminescence https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/19/science/19winto.html
maxbond•26m ago
Triboluminescence in wintergreen mints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BckJfovkxOc

Quartz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tribo.ogv

I've been able to see this by going into my driveway at night, picking up some quartz gravel, jumping up and throwing the gravel down as hard as I can directly towards the ground (where it impacts other gravel).

caphector•1h ago
Scotch tape in a vacuum: https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/10/23/217918/x-rays-ma...
littlestymaar•1h ago
> This discovery could have significant implications for the development of future technological devices

I whish science could stop having to make bullshit claims to get funding. This kind of research is cool because it explain the world we live in, it's doesn't have to be a pathway to technological devices to be legitimate.

ijustlovemath•1h ago
I could envision significant energy production for this technology near glaciers or ice sheets with lots of melt activity. Admittedly not really a market, but worth exploring for future applications (eg on icy moons)
fmlpp•54m ago
It's cool also because ice.
lazide•41m ago
Draft grant proposal - power a giant van de graaf generator by dropping asteroids onto the artic ice cap.
horacemorace•1h ago
Geologic electrochemistry?
analog8374•1h ago
Sit downhill of a glacier. Collect power as it slowly crumbles.
MomsAVoxell•16m ago
Use the pyramids' angles to do the same...
mmastrac•44m ago
Dupes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45092444

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45273032

I swear this news popped up a few months ago as well.

jagged-chisel•26m ago
I feel like the “bending ice makes electricity” bit is years, if not decades, old. Now I’m off to explore the rabbit holes and understand my own memory.
mmastrac•17m ago
I searched as much as I could but couldn't find anything. Please let me know, I feel like my memory is faulty.