Stories by scythe

The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry

Review of "Stop the machines: The rise of anti-technology extremism"

Palantir's UK boss rules out contract bids for digital ID – "undemocratic"

Tell HN: I am sitting in radonc while Microsoft tortures a cancer patient

US counties often ban wind or solar power plants

Car insurance in America is too cheap

Britain needs and unprecedented expansion of the electricity grid

2023 Atlantic hurricane season ranks fourth for most named storms in a year

29.9%-efficient, commercially viable perovskite/CIS thin-film tandem solar cells

Underfloor heating with latent heat storage

Electronic origin of high superconducting T_C in trilayer cuprates

Good Roads Movement

Tell HN: I think I found Toyota's battery

The success of education reforms in England

Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal shortage

New tuberculosis vaccine heads for Phase III trial

Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?

A deal to keep the Colorado from going dry – for now

TreeSnap: Send tree photos to scientists to aid threatened species conservation