The Mystery of Dark Oxygen

8/21/2026 at 12:40:48 PM

by Nux

8/21/2026 at 2:58:46 PM

Interesting. The water they speak of is also known as "primary water", which is a controversial term.

by Kaliboy

8/21/2026 at 2:06:27 PM

So it might be that life started inside rocks (with tiny amounts of water) deep underground and not in the water on the surface.

by tlogan

8/21/2026 at 12:36:52 PM

In case anyone wonders over the low vote count, for me just now, the link only briefly shows the article before swapping it for a paywall.

by mncharity

8/21/2026 at 1:56:45 PM

Strange. It is working for me without pay wall.

No adblocker

Maybe some random or cookies thing?

by j16sdiz

8/21/2026 at 12:44:08 PM

just use ublock or noscript (why does that even have to be said on HN?)

https://github.com/liamengland1/miscfilters

it's a fascinating story worth reading

by ck2

8/21/2026 at 1:49:45 PM

I actually find your comment very useful and therefore upvoted it.

by SockThief

8/21/2026 at 12:39:35 PM

Careful. The last time I mentioned this issue I got told off for it!!!

by nephihaha

8/21/2026 at 12:55:23 PM

Really? I'm curious as to why

by emdash

8/21/2026 at 1:35:24 PM

Because paywalls are trivial to bypass and it's exhausting hearing people constantly complain about them. The GP in this thread has been on HN for 10 years. They should know how to bypass it by now. Hell, four minutes after they posted someone posted the bypassed link.

by PyWoody

8/21/2026 at 2:12:18 PM

The FAQ even addresses it:

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

by Jtsummers

8/21/2026 at 2:18:26 PM

"Because paywalls are trivial to bypass"

Not when some of us are in facilities with locked-down browsers with very strict CMMC requirements. That bypass doesn't get to exist for us.

The answer, plain and simple for any 5-year-old to see, is QUIT LINKING PAYWALLED ARTICLES. You want us to talk about something? We'd damn-well better be able to actually READ it so we can have an intelligent conversation about it.

Failing to do show shows 100% disingenuity in wanting to have an open conversation.

by lightedman

8/21/2026 at 3:04:37 PM

> The answer, plain and simple for any 5-year-old to see, is

Read it later. If you can't read it at work, you can read it on your phone or after work from another computer.

Also, the guidelines and FAQ are both easy to read, and shouldn't be blocked by any CMMC nonsense at your office if HN itself isn't blocked. This one is a useful guideline for people like you, whose shouting makes you seem like a crazy uncle sending emails from your AOL account:

> Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. Instead, put *asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.

by Jtsummers