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Behind the ballistics of the 'explosive' squirting cucumber

news.ycombinator.com Society For Experimental Biology 2025-07-21 09:20:58

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium). Credit: Helen Gorges New research into the biomechanics of explosive seed dispersal in squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) reveals how these plants have adapted a suite of unique traits that help propel their high-speed seeds far and wide. Seed dispersal comes in many

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Dual interfacial H-bonding-enhanced deep-blue hybrid copper–iodide LEDs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-20 13:27:58

Solution-processed light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are emerging as a promising technology for advanced solid-state lighting (SSL) and display industries, owing to their energy-efficient, low-cost, and straightforward manufacturing processes1-3. In this realm, lead-halide based perovskites4, organic semiconductors5, and colloidal core–shell quantum dots (QDs)6 have gained recognition as promising candidates. They have been utilized as emitting layers via solution processing and achieved impressive p

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How the 'Minecraft' Score Became Big Business for Its Composer

news.ycombinator.com Kristin Robinson 2025-07-20 01:48:54

In 2009, in between full-time shifts at a local factory, then-19-year-old musician Daniel Rosenfeld composed a score for an independent video game. “It was just a side hustle, maybe not even that. It was a hobby, really,” explains Rosenfeld, who records under the name C418. The game, Minecraft, turned out to be successful beyond Rosenfeld’s wildest dreams. In 2014, Microsoft purchased Minecraft’s Swedish developer, Mojang Studios, for $2.5 billion, and through 2023, it had sold 300 million copi

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Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-21 04:43:04

Conductor uses Claude Code however you're already logged in. If you’re logged into Claude Code with an API key, Conductor will use that too. If you’re logged in with the Claude Pro or Max plan, Conductor will use that.

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I'm betting against AI agents, despite building them

news.ycombinator.com Utkarsh Kanwat 2025-07-23 21:59:19

Everyone says 2025 is the year of AI agents. The headlines are everywhere: "Autonomous AI will transform work," "Agents are the next frontier," "The future is agentic." Meanwhile, I've spent the last year building many different agent systems that actually work in production. And that's exactly why I'm betting against the current hype. I'm not some AI skeptic writing from the sidelines. Over the past year, I've built more than a dozen production agent systems across the entire software developm

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Show HN: A handpicked directory to help founders find great design studios

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-21 04:01:05

Product Video Studios that help you show, not just tell — with videos that turn features into stories your users actually remember.

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A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-23 21:13:15

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Digital vassals? French Government 'exposes citizens' data to US'

news.ycombinator.com Anne-Laure Dufeal 2025-07-24 00:26:09

France’s deepening reliance on US tech giants is raising alarms about digital sovereignty and exposing public data to foreign jurisdictions. In a French Senate report on economic and digital sovereignty, Senators accused the French State of “political fault”. That was in regard to outsourcing essential data infrastructure to US companies subject to US extraterritorial laws, including Microsoft, despite repeated warnings and alternatives. “France is subject to US extraterritorial law,” the repo

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LLM architecture comparison

news.ycombinator.com Sebastian Raschka 2025-07-23 19:56:01

It has been seven years since the original GPT architecture was developed. At first glance, looking back at GPT-2 (2019) and forward to DeepSeek-V3 and Llama 4 (2024-2025), one might be surprised at how structurally similar these models still are. Sure, positional embeddings have evolved from absolute to rotational (RoPE), Multi-Head Attention has largely given way to Grouped-Query Attention, and the more efficient SwiGLU has replaced activation functions like GELU. But beneath these minor refi

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The old Caveman Chemistry website (1996-2000)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-24 03:11:26

This is the old Caveman Chemistry website. Please visit the new website at www.cavemanchemistry.com Chemistry 104 From Caveman to Chemist Meets GV period in Gilmer 220 Suppose one minute were spent recounting the events of the past year. What would you include in a one minute summary of 1995? 1945? 1865? A lot can be told in a minute. If we were to allow one minute for each year, all of recorded history could be recounted in a mere three days (of continuous talking)! Here, then, are the Cli

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Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-24 00:04:02

antirez 6 hours ago. 31112 views. Frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 PRO, with their vast understanding of many topics and their ability to grasp thousands of lines of code in a few seconds, are able to extend and amplify the programmer capabilities. If you are able to describe problems in a clear way and, if you are able to accept the back and forth needed in order to work with LLMs, you can reach incredible results such as: 1. Eliminating bugs you introduced in your code before it ever hits any

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XMLUI

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Jon Udell 2025-07-24 03:03:39

In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder. You had Visual Basic, you had a rich ecosystem of components, you could wire them together to create apps, standing on the shoulders of the coders who built those components. If you’re younger than 45 you may not know what that was like, nor realize web components have never worked the same way. The project we’re announcing today, XMLUI, brings the VB model to the modern web and its React-based component ecosystem. XML

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Larq Bottle PureVis 2 Review: Drinking Water as a Video Game Isn’t as Dumb as It Sounds

gizmodo.com Claire Maldarelli 2025-07-24 00:00:22

There’s something I learned about hydration that I can never forget: if you are thirsty, you are already dehydrated. It’s a rule of thumb that can come in handy if you are out on a long hike or on the beach in the middle of summer when the risk of becoming dehydrated is pretty high. But day-to-day, I rarely pay attention to how much water I drink or how dehydrated my body could be. Despite the ever-growing popularity of mega-sized water bottles and counting the number of glasses people should d

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Titan’s Methane Lakes Could Form Bubble-Like Structures Essential to Life, Scientists Say

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-07-24 03:00:06

On December 25, 2004, the Huygens probe separated from the Cassini spacecraft and landed on Titan’s sandy surface. The probe survived for 72 hours on Saturn’s largest moon, revealing a world that is chemically complex and more Earth-like than expected. For years, scientists have been intrigued by Titan as an alien world that might have the right conditions to host life, albeit in a very different form than on Earth. New research by NASA reveals that molecular precursors to life could form in Tit

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James Gunn Talks Future Superman Plans, Dropping Henry Cavill

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-07-24 03:30:39

James Gunn’s spent the past few weeks talking about why he agreed to do Superman, and he’s also taking time to address the awkward part: agreeing to do it at the apparent expense of Henry Cavill’s superhero comeback. In 2022, the mid-credits scene for Black Adam none too subtly declared Cavill’s return and his team up (or fight) with Dwayne Johnson’s thunderous antihero. Nothing came of that, however, because as Gunn explained in a recent Happy Sad Confused episode, it was “never part of the eq

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Ethereum Is Quietly Soaring. What Comes Next?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-24 03:42:47

Ethereum is experiencing a seismic rally. The price of Ether, the native token of the Ethereum network, surged by nearly $1,000 in a single week to hit a five-month high, climbing 25.3% to reach $3,745.72, according to data firm CoinGecko. For the first time in recent memory, there’s a palpable sense that this rally is grounded in something real and sustainable. So, what’s driving this explosive momentum? 1. Big Money Pours In Through New Ethereum ETFs Major asset managers have begun launchin

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The Bad Batch Returns In a New ‘Star Wars’ Novel

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-07-24 05:25:39

It’s been over a year since Star Wars: The Bad Batch ended, but it was a given Clone Force 99 would eventually live on beyond the screen. Next month, we’ll check back in with the team in their first novel, Sanctuary. Written by Lamar Giles (Ruin Road), the tale takes place towards the end of season two after the episode “Pabu.” Now that they’re working with pirate hunter Phee, the Clones—Hunter, Omega, Wrecker, and Tech—are on resource gathering duty after the planet’s recent tsunami. That lead

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I Get 5G on My Phone at Home, So Why Can't I Get 5G Home Internet? Here's What I Learned

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 00:00:00

If you can get 5G on your phone while at home, you should be able to get 5G internet at your house, right? Not exactly. 5G is no longer the shiny new thing, thanks to efforts from major carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, but 5G home internet service isn't strictly available at the same addresses as 5G cellular service. I ran into this when I switched my mobile carrier from AT&T cellular service to T-Mobile phone service. I was immediately impressed with the phone's 5G performance. However, ev

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13 of the Best Movies Peacock Has to Offer

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 00:00:05

Peacock is full of must-see movies. Sure, the streaming conversation is often focused on the top-tier platforms like Netflix, Disney Plus and Prime Video. But the NBC Universal-owned streamer deserves its flowers -- and I'm going to show you why. Let's talk about blockbusters for a second. Universal Pictures has been churning out box office hits and Oscar-winning flicks for more than a century. A large sampling of these titles can be found here, including the first-ever blockbuster, Jaws, among

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Xbox Game Pass Adds Grounded 2 and Others This Month

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 00:00:12

The award-winning, quirky survival game Grounded is like the game version of the classic '80s comedy film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. And Xbox Game Pass subscribers can get early access to that game's sequel, Grounded 2, on July 29. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One and PC or mobile device for $20 a month. A subscription gives you access to a large library of games, with new ones, includ

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There's an Online Community That Believes the Internet Died in 2016. Here's How AI Fits Into the Picture

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 01:00:00

It's no surprise that the rise of artificial intelligence is sparking debates among experts. Moreover, whether you use ChatGPT or Google Gemini, generative AI is increasingly being integrated into our daily lives. It's only fair to ask: Could AI take over the internet? Some members of the online community reckon it already has. This old online theory is on the rise again, and it all has to do with Shrimp Jesus. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against Open

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I Tried This $40 Smartwatch: It Was Meh, but Not a Complete Waste of Time

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 01:00:08

I wasn't expecting much when I first strapped the WITHit Giga Smartwatch onto my wrist, and at least it delivered on that. This $40 smartwatch does the basics: shows notifications, counts your steps, tracks your heart rate (sort of) and lets you take calls from your wrist. But the execution of all these features is where it all starts to fall apart, and I found myself getting exactly what I paid for. After spending a week testing it, I came away with this: If you just want a basic smartwatch th

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EcoFlow Introduces New Home Battery to Aid in Disaster Preparedness

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 02:00:00

Extreme weather is only becoming more common, and some states are more vulnerable to natural disasters than others. Whether it's a risk of floods, hurricanes, wildfires or blackouts, homeowners in states like California, Texas and Florida are more prone to power outages. A whole-home battery backup can be a good solution to this problem, letting you charge the battery while the power is on and then kick in when the power goes out. EcoFlow is the latest to enter this market with the Ocean Pro, wh

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Shark Week 2025: How to Watch and Stream the Toothy Programming Event

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 03:00:04

Looking for sharks? You've paddled to the right place. Discovery Channel's Shark Week programming event starts tonight, bringing loads of shark-centric content for those who want to celebrate the iconic top predator. It's the kind of annual tradition that really shines on the right screen. According to a press release, Shark Week 2025 will include 20 hours of new specials debuting Sunday, July 20, through Saturday, July 26. The first program up is Dancing with Sharks, which involves "an unprece

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Here's Where to Hang Your Bird Feeder for Maximum Visits

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-24 03:00:06

As someone who writes about wellness and loves birdwatching, I've experienced firsthand how much joy birds can bring to your daily routine. And science backs it up. Listening to birdsong and spending time watching feathered visitors has been shown to lower stress, ease anxiety and even help reduce symptoms of depression. It's a simple but powerful way to feel more grounded and connected to nature. Until recently, I lived in an apartment in the heart of a city. I had to actively seek out nature

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Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-24 00:15:22

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The drought in the Southwestern US is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean, according to a study published last week led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. Using sediment cores collected in

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The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity

wired.com Charlie Wood 2025-07-24 00:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally interwoven threads of space and time seem to stop short. These mysterious points are known as singularities. Singularities are predictions of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. According to this theory, clumps of matter o

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How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether

wired.com David Nield 2025-07-24 00:30:00

Artificial intelligence is now more pervasive than ever in the apps and gadgets we use day to day, and that of course extends to smartphones: Google Gemini on Pixels and other Android handsets, Apple Intelligence (currently still rolling out) on iPhones, and Galaxy AI on Samsung smartphones. These tools can help you refine text, generate images, and summarize documents, among other tricks, and you don't have to go far through your apps to find an AI feature ready and willing to help you with so

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Amazon’s Fire Tablets, Tested, So You Don’t Have To (2025)

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-07-24 01:00:00

The Fire HD 10 is Amazon’s best tablet. The current model dates from 2023, which means it likely will get some kind of update in 2025, but we don't expect anything more than a processor and RAM upgrade. The current Octa-core processor is plenty fast enough for everyday tasks like web browsing and watching movies, and the 3-GB of RAM helps in browsing the web with many tabs. The Fire HD 10 also has a full HD (1080p) screen, making it better for watching those Prime videos. That said, this is not

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The Ultimate Dolby Atmos Experience Might Be In Your Car

wired.com Ryan Waniata 2025-07-24 01:33:00

It’s fair to say that no five people crammed into a compact SUV have been more blissfully enthralled on a country drive than my wife’s family and I on one particular mid-summer Sunday. It wasn’t just the silky smooth performance of the Cadillac Optiq, or even its incredible 19-speaker AKG sound system, but an x-factor pushing our driving experience beyond the sum of their parts: Dolby Atmos Music. If you haven't heard it in a vehicle like this, you might think I'm joking. Everyone has probably

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Titan’s Methane Lakes Could Form Bubble-Like Structures Essential to Life, Scientists Say

James Gunn Talks Future Superman Plans, Dropping Henry Cavill

Ethereum Is Quietly Soaring. What Comes Next?

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I Get 5G on My Phone at Home, So Why Can't I Get 5G Home Internet? Here's What I Learned

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There's an Online Community That Believes the Internet Died in 2016. Here's How AI Fits Into the Picture

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How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether

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The Ultimate Dolby Atmos Experience Might Be In Your Car

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