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AI comes up with bizarre physics experiments, but they work

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-with-bizarre-physics-experiments-but-they-work-20250721/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44642349

Erythritol linked to brain cell damage and stroke risk

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250718035156.htm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44621268

USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44600512

Show HN: Cobble – A hard daily word game

https://wilf.live/cobble/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44588699

Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-sean-duffy-interim-nasa-administrator-1235382413/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44527930

US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/court-click-to-cancel-ruling

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505675

BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR

https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44496391

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44485342

Volunteer finds Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents

https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/07/03/baptist-anti-slavery-scroll/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44477235

OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D

https://www.kbkg.com/feature/house-passes-tax-bill-sending-to-president-for-signature

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44469124

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/03/gaza-doctors-under-attack-review-channel-4-crucial-film-stuff-of-nightmares

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44450789

Rust CLIs with Clap

https://tucson-josh.com/posts/rust-clap-cli/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44429695

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44401406

Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout

https://spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-solar-microgrids

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44382834

Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/23/cancer-test-predicts-whether-chemotherapy-will-work/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362263