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Natural rubber with high resistance to crack growth

cocoggu — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:28:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01559-z.epdf?sharing_token=SST16F7yBaUkRDb702ZphtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0P9y52VPdTYScQoHBinE3JzdSvQ1aN3fhS4SSECYXRnvZ77nkrWJA2412S2E-26Il-ncine3ET1t1GzNaX2Oo2cK9GYzFNCrKSRycPCrQKJZ8QvfBeSTNR5d12_ZHLvyYkt26oAnSVTBuopgCE4tHIVPnWtjLZS3OhBz1H2OhtXQMmNFMhf-2lYu5vkTl596uaKjxxqTFBbSZj1phjSIDRELkwyRfUsM77Gu7S0VF_fPvJZAYxvV_2Hduld7MbfF1M4RO8vHe5OtCz383c2iHBjxkZ4gU59FErIjNBnLDPDT79Jaj04hbpqLWqUoVxoYCs%3D

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44268345

Points: 41

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New comment by cocoggu in "First 1-nanometre RISC-V chip made in China with 2D materials"

cocoggu — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:17:53 +0000

The paper link https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08759-9

First 1-nanometre RISC-V chip made in China with 2D materials

cocoggu — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:13:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3305185/worlds-first-1-nanometre-risc-v-chip-made-china-2d-materials

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580594

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New comment by cocoggu in "Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?"

cocoggu — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 06:53:58 +0000

actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Spector#/media/File:Phil_...

New comment by cocoggu in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

cocoggu — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:27:46 +0000

Point to be noted is that Rudolf Hoss wasn't the leader of a random Nazi camp. He was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people were murdered, making him one of the biggest mass-murderer of the last century.

New comment by cocoggu in "USA restricts Swiss access to AI computer chips"

cocoggu — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:55:09 +0000

Can you please explain to me why AI chips don't matters anymore because of DeepSeek? I thought it was just a better model, but perhaps I didn't get it?

New comment by cocoggu in "Cobalt is suddenly abundant"

cocoggu — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 05:28:42 +0000

Oops indeed not totally awake yet

New comment by cocoggu in "Cobalt is suddenly abundant"

cocoggu — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 04:19:34 +0000

"It has since waned as people spend less time staring at their screens: as demand for consumer electronics fell, so did that for cobalt."

Stop me if I'm wrong, but the article totally missed the fact that new car battery technologies are mostly cobalt free. I feel it better explains the lack of demand than the article explanation.

New comment by cocoggu in "France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors"

cocoggu — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:29:09 +0000

The gas prices spike has also other causes, like gas-powered electricity plants replacing or partly replacing nuclear facilities like Fessenheim in France. Gas-powered electricity plants are flourishing everywhere in the world, including China to diversify from coal, obviously at some point the available offer is not going to be enough.

Chinese satellite in near collision with debris from Russian explosion by 14.5m

cocoggu — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:56:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3164067/chinese-satellite-near-collision-debris-russian-explosion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30006488

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New comment by cocoggu in "Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt"

cocoggu — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:23:28 +0000

I don't have a strong opinion about what happened, it may or may not be a lab leak. It's still ongoing and I feel it will be a very long and sterile debate with few scientific facts to prove anything.

Granted, if the title of the article was "Scientists believed that Covid had natural origins...", this article wouldn't attract my attention as much, because I already believe that to be the popular opinion. But if, in this hypothetical title, "Scientists" only represented a minority of scientists, it would still be a very misleading title.

New comment by cocoggu in "Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt"

cocoggu — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 11:06:22 +0000

I don't know much about US, but for China it didn't last for months, 1 or 2 weeks maybe. It has been notified to the WHO at the beginning of January, on 23 January Wuhan was going full lockdown. And not lockdown like in the West, citizens were not allowed to step a foot outside even for groceries and the army was bringing rations to the people.

I remember then in March, a French newspaper highlighting how PRC hid the severity of the virus... I mean if they took these extreme measures in Wuhan, it's certainly not for a mild virus.

New comment by cocoggu in "Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt"

cocoggu — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:53:15 +0000

Then the title of the article is highly misleading. Using "Scientists" instead of "Some scientists" implies that the great majority of the scientists believed in this hypothesis, and there is no evidence for that.

New comment by cocoggu in "Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?"

cocoggu — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 22:27:42 +0000

I think it is useful to let the employee know what are the accepted delays in this company, for future projects. But the boss or the manager should have said that earlier, at the beginning of the project, then the employee knows what to expect.

That's quite clumsy to say it only once the project has been released. Anyway, don't take it too personally, he/she probably just wanted to keep the pressure on you so you keep improving and never stay satisfied with your current pace. That's not very good management, but that's the way it is in most companies.

High-purity quartz is key to China’s solar boom, almost all of it is in the US

cocoggu — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:32:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3153656/rare-form-quartz-key-xinjiangs-solar-boom-and-almost-all-it-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29007215

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New comment by cocoggu in "MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch"

cocoggu — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:57:10 +0000

I know it will be an unpopular opinion here, but bringing back the HDMI and SD card port is making the macbook much thicker and will eat up some space than can be used by battery instead, all that for ports I will never use. I wish there was another option without these ports.

New comment by cocoggu in "Nuclear Power in France"

cocoggu — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:42:52 +0000

Many is 4 out 22 plants[1] and they are located on rivers because it's needed. Also, maybe it's to have less loss when selling generated power to eastern countries?

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuclear_power_plants...

New comment by cocoggu in "Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn"

cocoggu — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:24:39 +0000

Thanks for your support, but just wanted to point out that Serbia is not part of EU yet.

New comment by cocoggu in "Serbia surveillance law urgently withdrawn"

cocoggu — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:02:05 +0000

It's not a big surprise to me and I think this is linked to the fact that Serbia is one of China's biggest partner in Europe.

I can easily imagine that chinese companies now want to export their tech, including surveillance tech, to other countries and that they're lobbying for it.

Glad it was withdrawn that easily.

New comment by cocoggu in "Clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist"

cocoggu — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 09:23:30 +0000

Illegal, okay, but is it a crime? I mean, after WWII interpol asked countries to not fill requests on nazis criminals because they did crimes of political nature and interpol needs to stay politically neutral [0]. But now, for an anti-capitalist activist it's not political?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol#cite_ref-14