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🔥 Thermite Reaction on a Mini Scale
The microscale thermite reaction is a highly exothermic reaction that involves the combustion of a mixture of metal and metal oxide, producing a significant amount of heat and light. This reaction has practical applications in various fields, including materials science and pyrotechnics. By scaling down the reaction to a microscale, researchers can explore new properties and behaviors of the reaction.
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The microscale thermite reaction is a highly exothermic reaction that involves the combustion of a mixture of metal and metal oxide, producing a significant amount of heat and light. This reaction has practical applications in various fields, including materials science and pyrotechnics. By scaling down the reaction to a microscale, researchers can explore new properties and behaviors of the reaction.
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The microscale thermite reaction is a highly exothermic reaction that involves the combustion of a mixture of metal and metal oxide, producing a significant amount of heat and light. This reaction has practical applications in various fields, including materials science and pyrotechnics. By scaling down the reaction to a microscale, researchers can explore new properties and behaviors of the reaction.
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- Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians
- Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare
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- Claude Brain
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- Claude for Creative Work
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- Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
- Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus
- Claude system prompt bug wastes user money and bricks managed agents
- Claude.ai Down Again?
- Claude.ai and API Unavailable
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- Click (2016)
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- Codex-maxxing
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- Colonization of Venus
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- Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation
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- Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite)
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- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
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- Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
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- Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim
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- Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
- Debian must ship reproducible packages
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- Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
- Defeat as Method
- Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
- Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
- Delve removed from Y Combinator
- Delve sets the record straight on anonymous attacks
- Democracy in 2025: on rising authoritarianism in the United States
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- Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics
- Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism
- Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations
- Digg is gone again
- Digg.com Closing Due to Spam
- Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation
- DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
- Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
- Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
- Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists
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- Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
- Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
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- Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
- Distributed DuckDB Instance
- Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
- Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?
- Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
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- Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
- Does Postgres Scale?
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- Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?
- Does that use a lot of energy?
- Dolphin Progress Release 2603
- Domain-Camouflaged Injection Attacks Evade Detection in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
- Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot
- Don't Outsource the Learning
- Don't Roll Your Own
- Don't become an engineering manager
- Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates
- Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
- Don't run OpenClaw on your main machine
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- Dontsurveil.me
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- Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
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- Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer
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- Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year
- Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
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- Factory Logic
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- Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo
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- FrameBook
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- Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics
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- FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
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- Fuck the cloud (2009)
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- Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
- Full-Text Search with DuckDB
- Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
- Fungal Electronics (2021)
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- FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders)
- Futhark by Example
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- GCC 16 has been released
- GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
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- GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction
- GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
- GNU Texmacs
- GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation
- GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro
- GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty
- GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100
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- GPT-5.5
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- GPT‑5.3 Instant
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- GTFOBins
- Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
- Game about Data of America
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- GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
- Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
- Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
- Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
- Gear Commit: Dev gadget box personalized from GitHub activity
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
- Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
- Gemini Omni
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- Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS
- Gemma 4 on iPhone
- GenCAD
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- GeoJSON
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- George Goble has died
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- Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity
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- Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System
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