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How about a frog gut-derived bacterium that kills all kinds of cancer cells? https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-study-frog-derived-gut-...

If you're ever going to record an interaction with people who do not want it seen by the masses that they are breaking the law, you need to ensure that you livestream it. Then you …

During 1998-2000, AOL was ordering so many free trial CDs that it locked up world production, and music CDs faced 8-12 week delays. It was rumored that certain weeks there were no …

In 1987, Paul Verhoeven predicted exactly this in the original Robocop . ED-209 mistakenly viewed a young man as armed, blows him away in the corporate boardroom. The article even …

Am thinking propane tanks. Working with those temps probably not appropriate for an office environment, but on a porch or well-ventilated garage, should economically outperform 110…

But now we have the “deathbed pardon” or the lame-duck preemptive blanket pardon, popularized by 46. Break the law all you want, long as the old boss or his successor is happy with…

The ZT (figure of merit) is an apples-to-apples number for comparing one thermoelectric material set to another. Higher is better. Bismuth Telluride is the standard and has been fo…

Having read the same book (while on the fourth floor of MDC Brooklyn of all places) I believe the conclusion I read was that they were trying to make it all work with one drop, whi…

Just wow. I think it's an uncomfortable truth that there was some good in Theranos in terms of the unfulfilled needs of society and the potential of diligent work toward realizing …

The devil's always in the details. I notice they use potassium hydroxide to treat this, and I seriously doubt merely in a catalytic capacity. That means that a lot of electrical in…

Trackers are useless when the majority of the incoming sunlight is diffuse (as is the case where you live). Trackers are useful when the majority of the incoming sunlight is direct…

I've been in solar energy as my primary vocation since the 1990's. I've built solar cars, I've built solar panels, I've installed solar panels, I've designed solar trackers. I know…

It's not sulfur so much as sulfate. It doesn't always come from mining. A huge problem with acid rock drainage (ARD) showed up when they built a freeway in Pennsylvania by merely e…

Am considering a YC application for my hardware startup. I notice they're all-in on AI. My startup centers on mitigating the predictably irrational nature of human beings (you're g…

I like the site. Unfortunately for this American, having a different set of standards for mathematical notation tripped a "don't these people know the difference between Hz and kHz…

The contrapositive of which is just because you’re right does not mean you are not crazy.

I’m about to Show HN my hardware startup, but plan on raising a small amount of financing in the short term (4 or 5 figures). VC’s aren’t my favorite people and the size of my ask …

Fun fact: Sucrose, from our friends cane sugar and beet sugar, is a glucose/dextrose molecule tied to a fructose molecule. And when you digest it, you get the effects of some of ea…

This is the tail wagging the dog. Jobs' fruitarianism meant he didn't eat eggs, meat, dairy, or other sources of selenium. Fruit doesn't contain selenium. One of Selenium deficienc…

I can already type on a QWERTY keyboard way faster than I can think. That's one reason I haven't adopted a Dvorak habit. Most court reporters use software nowadays that renders the…

That's a completely different thing. Honey, for instance, has a high glycemic index. Watermelon has a high glycemic index. They will not get you fat the same way cane sugar and wat…

The article name is "Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you", the opposite of this thread's title. Everyone's ignoring the elephant in the room: fiber. F…

I tried "write me a 5-page EULA for a [$YOURKINDOFBUSINESS] website" on ChatGPT and it looked great. Do you want this EULA to do anything in particular for you? You could hire an a…

The writer appears to be under the impression that CO2 is not a valuable commodity. In fact, it is, so long as it's under enough pressure, and in the right place. In Montezuma Coun…