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Lithoguru
Personal blog · life.lithoguru.com/lifesciencewriting
Lithoguru is a personal blog at life.lithoguru.com about science and writing. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “In Defense of Beer-Drinking Scientists”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lithoguru for semiconductor lithography analysis, such as EUV light source and mask contamination issues. One commenter links a post that critiques a widely reported study on performance-enhancing drugs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- In Defense of Beer-Drinking Scientists2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-03-24
What Hacker News says?
There are a few EUV transparent materials for light source windows, including silicon and zirconium. See http://www.luxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/EUVL-Paper.p... There are other concerns wrt contamination though, e.g. masks degrading in the EUV radiation and emitting contaminants that end up on the wafer. This is more likely to happen at higher power levels. These and other concerns are discussed at Chris Mac…
Comment linking /
on “EUV Lithography's Prospects Are Brightening”Submitted In Defense of Beer-Drinking Scientists as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThat widely-reported study was well-skewered here: http://life.lithoguru.com/index.php?itemid=119 May still be true, I don't know, but the study fodder that created the headlines a while back was flimsy.
Comment linking /index.php?itemid=119
on “Scientists are abusing mental performance enhancing drugs.”