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Bowden's Hobby Circuits

The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese with Radioactive Foxes (2020)

Uncertain Future for Marginalia Search

Let’s Authenticate: Automated Certificates for User Authentication [pdf]

The Brilliance of “nil” in Objective-C

Inspired by prehistoric creatures, researchers make record-setting lenses

Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular

Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming?

[ASAP] Crystal Facet-Manipulated 2D Pt Nanodendrites to Achieve an Intimate Heterointerface for Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

Iron Salt Aerosol for Climate Control

Wittgenstein's visit to Ithaca in 1949 (2012) [pdf]

[ASAP] Turn-on Fluorescent Biosensors for Imaging Hypoxia-like Conditions in Living Cells

[ASAP] Confinement-Induced Catalytic Dissociation of Hydrogen Molecules in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope

[ASAP] Entropy Stabilization Effects and Ion Migration in 3D “Hollow” Halide Perovskites

[ASAP] Intraligand Excited States Turn a Ruthenium Oligothiophene Complex into a Light-Triggered Ubertoxin with Anticancer Effects in Extreme Hypoxia

[ASAP] Correction to “Hollow Capsules with Multiresponsive Valves for Controlled Enzymatic Reactions”

[ASAP] 3,6-Carbazoylene Octaphyrin (1.0.0.0.1.0.0.0) and Its Bis-BF2 Complex

[ASAP] Mechanism of Methyldehydrofosmidomycin Maturation: Use Olefination to Enable Chain Elongation

Core dumps, feedback loops, and a game of telephone

[ASAP] Catalytic Asymmetric Diarylation of Internal Acyclic Styrenes and Enamides

[ASAP] Stereocomplexation of Stereoregular Aliphatic Polyesters: Change from Amorphous to Semicrystalline Polymers with Single Stereocenter Inversion

Show HN: A tool to seed your dev database with real data

[ASAP] A Triple Photoredox/Cobalt/Brønsted Acid Catalysis Enabling Markovnikov Hydroalkoxylation of Unactivated Alkenes

Show HN: Create awkward situations with a fake iMessage Popup

[ASAP] Ir-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of Dialkyl Malonates Enabling the Construction of Enantioenriched All-Carbon Quaternary Centers

Something Sharp

What is the Ethereum merge and how could it make crypto greener?

Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House

Sweet-potato washing revisited: 50th anniversary of the Primates article (2015)

[ASAP] Experimental/Computational Study on the Impact of Fluorine on the Structure and Noncovalent Interactions in the Monohydrated Cluster of -Fluorinated 2‑Phenylethylamine

[ASAP] Electronic and Optical Properties of Eu2+-Activated Narrow-Band Phosphors for Phosphor-Converted Light-Emitting Diode Applications: Insights from a Theoretical Spectroscopy Perspective

[ASAP] Efficient Synthesis of Dipyrrolobenzenes and Dipyrrolopyrazines Bidirectional Gold Catalysis: a Combined Synthetic and Photophysical Study

[ASAP] Topological Design of Highly Anisotropic Aligned Hole Transporting Molecular Bottlebrushes for Solution-Processed OLEDs

Fast Minds And Slow Computers (2011)

[ASAP] Intracellular Formation of a DNA Damage-Induced, Histone Post-Translational Modification Following Bleomycin Treatment

[ASAP] Imaging Purely Nuclear Quantum Dynamics in Molecules by Combined X‑ray and Electron Diffraction

[ASAP] Nitrile Infrared Intensities Characterize Electric Fields and Hydrogen Bonding in Protic, Aprotic, and Protein Environments

[ASAP] Single-Cation Catalyst: Ni Cation in Monolayered CuO for CO Oxidation

Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (2015)

Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal

Lectric’s new mid-drive folding ebike packs 100-mile range for $1999

In a surprise move, honeybee tongue hairs repel water

Forced Colors Explained

The Unfathomable Heart – On “Nukey Poo”

Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (2017)

24-hour race won by molecule that traveled 1 micron

Firefox on Ubuntu 22.04 from .deb (not from snap)

The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense

Manager's Handbook

Kable (YC W22) Is Hiring Founding Engineers (Remote)

The Ever Loving Hell

Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain Out of Printing

JavaScript Garbage Collection with WebAssembly Is Possible Today

Ribbit Scheme bootstraps with Posix shell while supporting TCO, call/cc and GC

Thinner on Paper

Handy Mnemonics: The Five-Fingered Memory Machine

How to Build a Homelab

[ASAP] Compact Peptoid Molecular Brushes for Nanoparticle Stabilization

[ASAP] Visible-Light-Promoted Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Iodocarboranes with (Hetero)Arenes via Boron-Centered Carboranyl Radicals

A plastic bag’s 2000-mile journey

How Twitter's Algorithmic Feed Works

[ASAP] High-Throughput Screening for Thermoelectric Semiconductors with Desired Conduction Types by Energy Positions of Band Edges

New blog about my journey to develop a Common Lisp 3D software

Art Bits from Hypercard

[ASAP] Dual Metalation in a Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Framework for Photocatalytic C–N Cross-Coupling Reactions

A plastic bag’s 2000-mile journey

[ASAP] Structural Insights into the Mechanism of High-Affinity Binding of Ochratoxin A by a DNA Aptamer

If founders treated investors the way they treat employees

Ask HN: Why does this image look 3D?

[ASAP] Quaternary Ammonium Ion-Tethered (Ambient-Temperature) HDDA Reactions

Broadcom introduces Wi-Fi 7 chipset solutions

Netflix loses subscribers for the first time in 10+ years

[ASAP] Spotlights on Recent Publications

New experiment demonstrates that reality might actually be real

HackerRank (YC S11) Has DMCA'ed the SymPy Docs

[ASAP] Identifying Luminol Electrochemiluminescence at the Cathode via Single-Atom Catalysts Tuned Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS

Synchronous Processors

Pyston v2.3.3: ARM Support

[ASAP] Electrophilic Sulfur Reagent Design Enables Directed -Carbosulfenylation of Unactivated Alkenes

[ASAP] Enantioselective Au(I)/Au(III) Redox Catalysis Enabled by Chiral (P,N)-Ligands

[ASAP] Carbodiphosphorane-Stabilized Parent Dioxophosphorane: A Valuable Synthetic HO2P Source

[ASAP] Co-Solvent Electrolyte Engineering for Stable Anode-Free Zinc Metal Batteries

[ASAP] An Adaptable Water-Soluble Molecular Boat for Selective Separation of Phenanthrene from Isomeric Anthracene

Richard Stallman – “The state of the Free Software movement” – April 13, 2022

Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH

The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)

Planespotting with the ‘Avgeeks’

Judge declines to jail two men accused of impersonating federal agents

A self-inflicted data breach

Standard ML Family

SUSE Linux Enterprise Opens Its Development Model to the Public

100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers

Notable items missing from English Wikipedia

[ASAP] Salt-Assisted MoS2 Growth: Molecular Mechanisms from the First Principles

What Is Interchange?

Vectorflow: Minimalist neural network library faster than TensorFlow in D

Single mom sues coding boot camp over job placement rates

Ask HN: Am I being fooled at a Dutch startup?

An overview of my threat model

“The Rainbow for Their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)

[ASAP] Taming Shapeshifting Anions: Total Synthesis of Ocellatusone C

[ASAP] Heterochiral β‑Peptide Polymers Combating Multidrug-Resistant Cancers Effectively without Inducing Drug Resistance

[ASAP] Nonaromatic Organonickel(II) Phototheranostics

[ASAP] From Serendipity to Rational Design: Heteroleptic Dirhodium Amidate Complexes for Diastereodivergent Asymmetric Cyclopropanation

[ASAP] Topological Ordering of Memory Glass on Extended Length Scales

[ASAP] Mechanochemical Molecular Migration on Graphene

What the World’s Most Remote Islands Were Like Before Humans Arrived

[ASAP] Resolving Oxygenation Pathways in Manganese-Catalyzed C(sp3)–H Functionalization via Radical and Cationic Intermediates

The Story of a Stare Down

[ASAP] Organocatalytic Asymmetric Dearomatizing Hetero-Diels–Alder Reaction of Nonactivated Arenes

Zuckerberg scrambles to monetize the metaverse amid fears over Meta’s future