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Novelist Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a great science paper [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/science/2019-savage.pdf

62•surprisetalk•2h ago•10 comments

Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00409-6

47•PaulHoule•3h ago•24 comments

SCREAM CIPHER ("ǠĂȦẶAẦ ĂǍÄẴẶȦ")

https://sethmlarson.dev/scream-cipher

179•alexmolas•2d ago•75 comments

Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-ice-generates-electricity-bent.html

17•isaacfrond•3d ago•0 comments

Are Touchscreens in Cars Dangerous?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/19/are-touchscreens-in-cars-dangerous

43•Brajeshwar•1h ago•23 comments

Images over DNS

https://dgl.cx/2025/09/images-over-dns

90•dgl•5h ago•26 comments

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/20/uk_palantir_defense_pact/

97•rntn•2h ago•43 comments

Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

https://www.galois.com/articles/claude-can-sometimes-prove-it

139•lairv•3d ago•33 comments

MapSCII – World Map in Terminal

https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii

63•_august•1d ago•10 comments

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

https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/

449•saeedesmaili•18h ago•212 comments

Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe?

https://www.openmymind.net/Is-Zigs-New-Io-Unsafe/

86•ibobev•2h ago•63 comments

Bezier Curve as Easing Function in C++

https://asawicki.info/news_1790_bezier_curve_as_easing_function_in_c

20•ibobev•3h ago•3 comments

Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-44886585

72•Luc•3d ago•24 comments

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

15•leoyixing•3d ago•4 comments

If all the world were a monorepo

https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo

223•sebg•4d ago•60 comments

Git: Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty

https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/

193•WhyNotHugo•4h ago•144 comments

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

https://focusstream.media

65•pariharAshwin•9h ago•38 comments

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

https://windowsread.me/p/best-youtube-downloaders

464•Leftium•1d ago•198 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...

12•jxmorris12•2d ago•2 comments

LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs into Datasets

https://www.scalarlm.com/blog/llm-deflate-extracting-llms-into-datasets/

46•gdiamos•9h ago•21 comments

PyPI Blog: Token Exfiltration Campaign via GitHub Actions Workflows

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-09-16-github-actions-token-exfiltration/

49•miketheman•3d ago•16 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...

440•sampo•1d ago•145 comments

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

https://github.com/barddoo/zedis

140•barddoo•19h ago•87 comments

IG Nobel Prize Winners 2025

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/

105•JeremyTheo•5h ago•29 comments

What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/what-makes-system-calls-expensive

29•rbanffy•3h ago•3 comments

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

https://weuseelixir.com/

193•taddgiles•20h ago•43 comments

Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

https://feedmaker.fly.dev

154•mustaphah•19h ago•27 comments

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

https://www.codeintegrity.ai/blog/notion

165•abirag•19h ago•43 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...

344•coloneltcb•4d ago•140 comments

High-performance read-through cache for object storage

https://github.com/s2-streamstore/cachey

69•pranay01•12h ago•15 comments