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Japan's Creepiest Station

news.ycombinator.com Ben Leighton 2025-10-31 15:44:58

However, if travelling northbound in the direction of Niigata, the station takes on a vastly different character. The northbound platform is a 15 minute walk away from the main station building. A majority of this walk consists of a 70m descent down almost 500 steps into the Shin-Shimizu tunnel. The descent is terrifying, with little vision of what awaits you at the end as you venture further and further into the depths. Water from the nearby rivers can also be heard trickling into the tunnel at

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Descent of Inanna into the Underworld

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-06 20:47:12

Sumerian myth The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld (or, in its Akkadian version, Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld) or Angalta ("From the Great Sky") is a Sumerian myth that narrates the descent of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar in Akkadian) into the Underworld to overthrow its ruler, her sister Ereshkigal, the "Queen of the Dead." But following the removal of her adornments, she perishes and her corpse is suspended on a nail. The god Enki intervenes indirectly, restoring Inanna to life. H

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Peacock feathers can emit laser beams

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-17 10:12:00

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. Per the authors, it's the first example of a biolaser cavity within the animal kingdom. As previously reported, the bright iridescent colors in things like peacock feathers and butterfly wings don't come from any pigment molecules but from how they are structured. The scales of chitin

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Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-25 22:00:51

C:\ArsGames We love games here at the Ars Orbiting HQ, from modern to ancient and all points in between. With that in mind, we've partnered with the folks at GOG.com to create a store page featuring a hand-curated list of some of our favorites from GOG's catalog. At the end of every month, we'll rotate a couple of titles off the list and add a few new ones; altogether, we have a list of about 50 games to set in front of you. Twice a month, we'll publish a personal retrospective like this one, wh

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Remembrance of Scents Past

news.ycombinator.com Margaret Talbot 2026-01-10 20:03:27

But Marks argues that smell is one of the most potent ways to give museum visitors a visceral sense of the past, and to help them remember what they read or saw in an exhibit. Among the scents she designed for the docks exhibition was one inspired by a woman’s memory, in the oral histories, of her dockworker father’s damp woollen coat drying on an electric fire in the nineteen-sixties. Marks thought that the coat might have smelled like her own grandfather’s wool flat cap. He’d been a London cab

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Gradient Descent Visualiser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-13 05:10:49

👋 Hey there! Let's play with gradient descent. This mini-app acts as an interactive supplement to Teach LA's curriculum on linear regression and gradient descent. Not sure what's going on? Check out the lesson notebook and the corresponding slides.

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I switched to LED bulbs and saved hundreds of dollars - but 5 other benefits made it truly worth it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-02-21 12:08:00

Nitat Termmee/Getty Images As a kid, I was inspired by the decorative lighting in my grandparents' finished basement. They had festooned the place with multicolored C9 string lights (aka old-school Christmas lights) from wall to wall, beneath the built-in wet bar, around hanging mirrors, and anywhere else they could add an ambient accent for the parties they hosted down there year-round. Since then, I've festooned every home I've lived in with decorative lighting, whether in a sequestered man

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Would you buy a scented mouse? ASUS thinks you’ll love this unique, bizarre accessory

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-13 11:29:47

TL;DR ASUS is launching its Fragrance Mouse, which uses aromatic oils to give it a fresh scent. A refillable, washable oil reservoir lets you customize and change fragrances. It’s otherwise a standard wireless mouse, offering Bluetooth and 2.4GHz connectivity, and up to 2400 DPI. Do we ask too much from our technology? We want products that aren’t just fast and feature-rich, but also priced affordably. They should be beautiful with inspiring designs, but also robust enough to withstand the ri

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Scientists attach insect antennae to drones for smell-based navigation

techspot.com Zo Ahmed 2025-11-13 14:57:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In a nutshell: Researchers in Japan have merged robotic technology with the finely tuned senses of silk moths to create a bio-hybrid drone. By harnessing nature's expertly evolved ability to track scents over long distances, this innovation could aid in disaster response efforts. Traditional drones rely on visual sensors like cameras and lasers for navigation, but these can be unreliable in harsh c

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Switching to LED lightbulbs saved me hundreds of dollars - but there are 5 other reasons to do it

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-11-13 12:21:00

Vladimir Sukhachev/Getty Images As a kid, I was inspired by the decorative lighting in my grandparents' finished basement. They had festooned the place with multicolored C9 string lights (aka old-school Christmas lights) from wall to wall, beneath the built-in wet bar, around hanging mirrors, and anywhere else they could add an ambient accent for the parties they hosted down there year-round. Since then, I've festooned every home I've lived in with decorative lighting, whether in a sequestered

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Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust

news.ycombinator.com Patra Et Al. 2025-11-13 09:53:28

Using scented products indoors changes the chemistry of the air, producing as much air pollution as car exhaust does outside, according to a new study. Researchers say that breathing in these nanosized particles could have serious health implications. When you hear or see the words ‘air pollution,’ you most likely think of things like factories and car exhaust. That’s pollution that is out there – outside your house. But have you thought about how you’re contributing to air pollution inside of

Topics: air indoor particles scented wax

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Japan's Creepiest Station

Descent of Inanna into the Underworld

Peacock feathers can emit laser beams

Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter

Remembrance of Scents Past

Gradient Descent Visualiser

I switched to LED bulbs and saved hundreds of dollars - but 5 other benefits made it truly worth it

Would you buy a scented mouse? ASUS thinks you’ll love this unique, bizarre accessory

Scientists attach insect antennae to drones for smell-based navigation

Switching to LED lightbulbs saved me hundreds of dollars - but there are 5 other reasons to do it

Scented products cause indoor air pollution on par with car exhaust

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