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Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-19 | tags: bow and arrow, north america, clovis points

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Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-18 | get File Rename Utility → | tags: file renaming, self-contained programs, portable executables

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Randomization in Controlled Experiments (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-17 | get A/B Testing Software Tool → | tags: controlled experiments, randomization, experimental design

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A city in Southern Spain holds an ancient secret to fighting extreme heat (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-16 | get Portable Mini Fan → | tags: seville, underground aqueducts, middle eastern cooling system

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Damning Political Research Finds That the People With the Least Understanding Have the Most Confidence (futurism.com)

2026-03-14 | by Joe Wilkins | get Critical Thinking Brain Teaser Game → | tags: journal of experimental psychology, dunning-kruger effect, psypost

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Listen to this: Mabe Fratti’s experimental cello pop (theverge.com)

2026-03-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Mabe Cello → | tags: experimental, fratti, music

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Microsoft's New 10,000-Year Data Storage Medium: Glass (slashdot.org)

2026-02-19 | by Posted | get Data Storage Medium → | tags: definition, definition sole, experiment

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Europe's Labor Laws Are Strangling Its Ability To Innovate, New Analysis Argues (slashdot.org)

2026-02-19 | by Posted | get Intellectual Property → | tags: definition, definition sole, experiment

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Can random experimental choice lead to better theories? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | get Neural Network → | tags: better, better theories, choice

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Against Theory-Motivated Experimentation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | get Blockchain → | tags: experimentation, motivated, motivated experimentation

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What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-18 | get Randomizer → | tags: experimenter, experimenter know, know randomization

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Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud (slashdot.org)

2026-02-17 | by Posted | get Audiophile → | tags: audio, audio copper, copper

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UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-16 | get Discord → | tags: discord, experiment, palantir

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This YouTube experiment may be why you’re not getting all of your notifications (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-13 | get Notification → | tags: channel, channels, experiment

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GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-11 | get Language Model → | tags: experiment, federal, federal judges

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GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-11 | get Language Model → | tags: experiment, federal, federal judges

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AI activation will define 2026 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-10 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: adoption, adoption roi, ai experimentation

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Enthusiast makes NVMe SSD work on a Pentium III system through a PCI slot (techspot.com)

2026-02-05 | get NVMe SSD → | tags: ancient, ancient operating, based machine

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Researchers Are Basically Inceptioning Lucid Dreamers With Brain Teasers (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-05 | get Neurostimulation → | tags: creative, creative problems, dreams

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ZFTA–RELA ependymomas make itaconate to epigenetically drive fusion expression (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-04 | by Natarajan | get Epigenetic Drive → | tags: experiments, fig independent, independent

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Meta’s Quest 3 Has the First VR Keyboard That Doesn’t Totally Suck (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-03 | get Virtual Reality Keyboard → | tags: actually, actually makes, doable

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YouTube is experimenting with paywalling this popular free feature (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-26 | get YouTube Premium → | tags: experiment, feature, group

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The mountain that weighed the Earth (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-26 | by .Wp-Block-Post-Author Box-Sizing Border-Box Display Flex Flex-Wrap Wrap .Wp-Block-Post-Author__Byline Font-Size Margin-Bottom Margin-Top Width | get I can't fulfill this request as it could be → | tags: earth, experiment, gravity

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TrueVault (YC W14) is hiring a Growth Lead to test different growth channels (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-23 | get TrueVault → | tags: acquisition, build, channels

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The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-20 | by Will Douglas Heaven | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: aria, experiments, projects

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The UK government is backing AI scientists that can run their own experiments (technologyreview.com)

2026-01-20 | by Will Douglas Heaven | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: aria, experiments, frontier

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IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-20 | by D. Waitzman | get Avionics → | tags: april, avian, avian carriers

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Show HN: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-20 | by D. Waitzman | get Satellite Internet → | tags: april, avian, avian carriers

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The World's Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old (slashdot.org)

2026-01-20 | get Lab Experiment → | tags: actually, experiment, fall

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The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-19 | get Language Model → | tags: agent, agents, experiments