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Miesenböck excluded!

I liked the ideas in Blindsight more than I liked the book. The writing is heavy-handed (trying to be gentle here), especially given how interesting the underlying questions were.

Are we amidst some sort of 'attack on titan'?

Zed is not able to access the API

Open AI models just went down as well. What is going on?

You touch on the right point when you say “completely removing time-wasting activities.” Looking at a handful of biographies and trying to extract universal lessons from them is somewhat misguided/infantile.

Thanks, what a cool reason to keep Z-80 alive!

Why Z-80 assembly?

Good arguments against digital distraction, but not a good philosophy of reading.

Is it conceivable that some organic solvent could be synthesized that is, simultaneously harmless to water-based biological life, and capable of etching Silicon oxides?

yes acids capable of etching = danger :) aktschually

Honest question, is there a way to run the entire process acid-free?

The "BdF’s underground vault in La Souterraine" sounds profoundly interesting.

Fantastic! Also found used on abebooks! Thank you

Thank you!

ok, could it be: Crystal Oscillator Design and Temperature Compensation :Marvin E. Frerking (1978). or perhaps Introduction to Quartz Crystal Unit Design : Virgil E. Bottom (1982)?

This awesome. Could you perhaps remember the title of the book you lost?

The premise behind this vibe-coded website is excellent. It would have been great if a bit more effort had been invested in the visualization side and, if instead of using "AI-rendered" images, you'd have fetched scientifically accurate representations from papers and open repositories.

Those really were the good old days. My BBS ran out of my parents’ attic, with two phone lines and Renegade on the server (on a beefed-up PS/1). It was pure magic.

Is the appeal of this tool its ability to identify semantic similarity?

Go FSF & GNU! Superb Christmas news!

Science magazine used to run a genuinely thought-provoking “Breakthrough of the Year.” Lately, it feels like it has narrowed to AI+AI+agents, and more AI.

I’m looking for an outlet that consistently highlights truly unexpected, high-impact scientific breakthroughs across fields.

Ask HN: Is there anything like that out there?

Ask HN: What’s the single best resource for learning Lean (beyond the official docs)?

I did many years ago. Absolutely worth it.

This reminds me of a beautiful book written by Paul Nahin, 'The Science of Radio'.

p3 of their white paper https://starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf akshually...

The prelude of a Dyson Sphere!

Their white paper touches on the issue, which seems slightly hand-wavy without much detail on quantification. They could potentially take advantage of heat gradients from deep space and dissipate heat to explore the Seeback effect.

This looks serious! Particularly weird is the notion that multiple clades emerged nearly simultaneously on different continents. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11123812/?utm_sourc...

I couldn't find much on CNS symptoms...