Hacker News with Generative AI: Experiments

An experiment that turned back biological time (nehalslearnings.substack.com)
While most articles about science focus on the impacts of breakthroughs or ground-breaking experiments, this essay aims to offer something different. My goal is to provide a genuine glimpse into the scientific process through the eyes of the scientists themselves. If you're not a researcher or haven't spent much time in a lab, consider this a window into what truly happens behind the scenes.

Science, Research, Experiments, Biology

31 points by jsomers 9 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Accessing a website you never visited before while being offline [demo] (planujemywesele.pl)
This short experiment shows something curious that happens when you go offline.

Web Development, Offline Access, Experiments

25 points by rapawel 17 days ago | 19 comments

Time Warp: Delayed-choice quantum erasure (drgblackwell.substack.com)
Can photons ‘reach back in time’??

Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Time Travel, Experiments

92 points by Gnarl 58 days ago | 75 comments

False memories of fabricated political events (2013) (sciencedirect.com)
In the largest false memory study to date, 5,269 participants were asked about their memories for three true and one of five fabricated political events.

Psychology, Memory, Politics, Research, Experiments

12 points by rbanffy 61 days ago | 1 comments

Experiment: Can 3D improve AI video consistency? (backdroptech.github.io)
If you are not redirected, click here.

Artificial Intelligence, 3D, Computer Vision, Experiments

65 points by TobiasEnholmX 66 days ago | 36 comments

Music experiment shows how a concert can draw you into a community (phys.org)
The audience holds their breath in unison, and when the music turns emotional, everyone sits perfectly still together. These are the initial findings from the world's largest music experiment.

Music, Science, Community, Experiments

5 points by PaulHoule 86 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: TypeScriptNotebook – Experiment with NPM in the Browser (typescriptnotebook.com)

TypeScript, Javascript, Web Development, Tools, Experiments

20 points by shikherverma 100 days ago | 12 comments

Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment (wikipedia.org)
Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment was a purported twin study ordered by the king to study the health effects of coffee.

History, Science, Experiments, Royal Family, Sweden

6 points by IdealeZahlen 106 days ago | 0 comments

Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016) (futureboy.us)
For 46 days, I'm trying to spend less than $2.50 a day on food. This is an account of the food, the costs, the science, and the fun of that experiment.

Budgeting, Food, Science, Experiments

247 points by hwayne 110 days ago | 442 comments

Inside the hands-on lab of an experimental archaeologist (arstechnica.com)
Back in 2019, we told you about an intriguing experiment to test a famous anthropological legend about an elderly Inuit man in the 1950s who fashioned a knife out of his own frozen feces. He used it to kill and skin a dog, using its rib cage as a makeshift sled to venture off into the Arctic.

Archaeology, Anthropology, Experiments, Science, History

13 points by bookofjoe 112 days ago | 3 comments

Protocells emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world (elpais.com)
Geologist Juan Manuel García Ruiz still speaks with amazement about how he and his colleagues have created “a proto-world” in their laboratory, located just 1,500 meters from La Concha beach in the Spanish city of San Sebastián.

Science, Biology, Experiments

9 points by NoRagrets 114 days ago | 2 comments

Experimental evidence photon can spend negative amount of time in an atom cloud (arxiv.org)

Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Time, Experiments, Atomic Physics

4 points by belter 115 days ago | 0 comments

Oxford Electric Bell (wikipedia.org)
The Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile is an experimental electric bell, in particular a type of bell that uses the electrostatic clock principle that was set up in 1840 and which has run nearly continuously ever since.

Science, History, Experiments, Electromagnetism, Universities

8 points by thunderbong 145 days ago | 0 comments

The Birthday Paradox Experiment (2018) (pudding.cool)
The chance that two people in the same room have the same birthday — that is the Birthday Paradox 🎉. And according to fancy math, there is a 50.7% chance when there are just 23 people+This is in a hypothetical world. In reality, people aren’t born evenly throughout the year, and leap years are excluded. However, the numbers should still be pretty close. More on this in the appendix. in a room.

Mathematics, Probability, Statistics, Experiments

75 points by thunderbong 155 days ago | 70 comments

Firefox nightly is running an experiment featuring a Fakespot feed on newtab (mozilla.org)
Experimental address bar deduplication, better auto-open Picture-in-Picture, and more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 170

Firefox, Web Browsers, Experiments, User Interface, Features

58 points by nalinidash 157 days ago | 55 comments

Revisting the Stanford Prison Experiment 50 years later (arstechnica.com)
In 1971, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a notorious experiment in which he randomly divided college students into two groups, guards and prisoners, and set them loose in a simulated prison environment for six days, documenting the guards' descent into brutality.

Psychology, Social Science, Experiments, Ethics

7 points by pseudolus 164 days ago | 0 comments

Bribery is largely subject to circumstance: study (elpais.com)
A year-long experiment was conducted at the self-service checkouts of a supermarket chain in Modena and Ferrara in Italy to test whether there was any link between corruption scandals and how honest consumers were with their shopping.

Ethics, Social Science, Italy, Consumer Behavior, Experiments

74 points by cainxinth 165 days ago | 138 comments

The Pitch Drop Experiment (thetenthwatch.com)
For the optimum Pitch Drop Experiment watching experience,please update your browser.

Science, Experiments, Time-Lapse

4 points by varjag 167 days ago | 0 comments

It might be possible to detect gravitons after all (quantamagazine.org)
A new experimental proposal suggests detecting a particle of gravity is far easier than anyone imagined. Now physicists are debating what it would really prove.

Physics, Gravitational Waves, Science, Experiments

259 points by elsewhen 177 days ago | 158 comments

Scientists predict and witness evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment (phys.org)
Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists' eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom wiped them out from the skerry. While the researchers intentionally brought in a distinct population of the same snail species, these evolved to strikingly resemble the population lost over 30 years prior.

Science, Evolution, Biology, Marine Biology, Experiments

42 points by gmays 186 days ago | 107 comments

Task-Switching Experiment (2015) (psytoolkit.org)
The reality is that you can argue that people always multi-task in some way. After all, we always monitor our environment to some degree, no matter what. For example, no matter how deeply you concentrate on doing a task, if you hear someone shout "fire", you will process that information and act on it.

Psychology, Experiments, Human Behavior

54 points by dang 203 days ago | 15 comments

Greenwich: an experiment in collaborative links (readpolymathematics.substack.com)
A secret city, hidden in the internet, begins construction

Internet, Collaborative Projects, Experiments, Web Development

164 points by onlyfootnotes 211 days ago | 98 comments

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (1892) (pbs.org)
I cannot find words to express how deeply I feel the honor of addressing some of the foremost thinkers of the present time, and so many able scientific men, engineers and electricians, of the country greatest in scientific achievements.

Electricity, Science, History, Experiments

7 points by joebig 214 days ago | 1 comments

What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower (jeffgeerling.com)
A few months ago, our [AM radio hot dog experiment](https://www.instagram.com/insights/media/3333127873529510767/) went mildly viral.

Electromagnetism, Experiments, Radio, Social Media

385 points by _Microft 232 days ago | 131 comments

'Dancing' raisins − a simple kitchen experiment (theconversation.com)

Science, Physics, Experiments

99 points by amichail 236 days ago | 24 comments

DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab (newscenter.lbl.gov)

Neutrinos, Physics, Experiments, Research

218 points by croes 256 days ago | 127 comments

Stern-Gerlach Experiment (libretexts.org)

Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Experiments

10 points by Bluestein 258 days ago | 7 comments

Experiments Prepare to Test Whether Consciousness Arises from Quantum Weirdness (scientificamerican.com)

Quantum Physics, Consciousness, Science, Experiments

7 points by pseudolus 258 days ago | 2 comments

Metaphysical experiments probe our hidden assumptions about reality (quantamagazine.org)