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Why Some Animals Live for Only Days and Others Live for Thousands of Years

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desantiss-florida-approves-climate-denial-videos-in-schools/

4•stevenjgarner•4h ago

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ljf•3h ago

Wrong link?

This goes to a 2023 article on DeSantiss https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desantiss-florida...

Correct link; https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-some-animals-...

stevenjgarner•2h ago

Thank you for catching that.

kbelder•1h ago

The examples they give of animals that live for thousands of years are the Shoestring fungus, the Great Basin bristlecone pine, and the Hexactinellid sea sponge.

I guess the sea sponge is an animal, but I wouldn't consider the other two as such.

Ask HN: How did Alphabet crush earnings while so many others are cutting costs?

1•givemeethekeys•2m ago•0 comments

A Visual Journey Through Async Rust

https://github.com/alexpusch/rust-magic-patterns/blob/master/visual-journey-through-async-rust/Readme.md

1•PaulHoule•3m ago•0 comments

The Code Player

https://thecodeplayer.com/

1•atum47•4m ago•0 comments

Who will win the race to develop a humanoid robot?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62jxdxng7do

2•andsoitis•5m ago•0 comments

Reports of surge in phone checks at the US border [audio]

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-radio-national-hour/reports-of-surge-in-phone-checks-at-the-us-border/105214062

1•dredmorbius•6m ago•0 comments

Open DMG Display – an open source LCD mod for the original Game Boy

https://www.embedded-ideas.de/posts/250417_open_dmg_display/

1•jsheard•6m ago•0 comments

Ragen – Training Agents by Reinforcing Reasoning

https://ragen-ai.github.io/

2•simonpure•14m ago•0 comments

The Australians hardwired to be up through the night

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/genetic-night-owl-delayed-sleep-phase/105184648

1•meander_water•14m ago•0 comments

Trump Moves to Ramp Up Deep-Sea Mining for Critical Minerals

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/trump-moves-to-expedite-deep-sea-mining-for-critical-minerals

3•macabe•19m ago•0 comments

Tesla's Adjusted Earnings Got 12% Bump from Omitting Crypto Loss

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/tesla-s-adjusted-earnings-got-12-bump-from-omitting-crypto-loss

2•blondie9x•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Faasta – A self-hosted Serverless platform for WASM-wasi-HTTP in Rust

https://github.com/fourlexboehm/faasta

2•alexboehm•22m ago•0 comments

Swift-Container-Plugin

https://github.com/apple/swift-container-plugin

1•frizlab•25m ago•0 comments

Perplexity CEO says browser will track everything users do online to sell ads

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

6•healsdata•26m ago•0 comments

Why "scout mindset" is crucial to good judgment [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MYEtQ5Zdn8

1•toomuchtodo•26m ago•1 comments

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's 2024 Letter to Shareholders–Annotated

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-ceo-andy-jassys-2024-letter-to-shareholders-annotated/

1•mooreds•29m ago•0 comments

Forked: Local-first Swift data types with CRDT-based merging

https://github.com/drewmccormack/Forked

1•goranmoomin•32m ago•0 comments

Why American Men Think It's Not Worth Going to College Anymore

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-21/why-american-men-think-it-s-not-worth-going-to-college-anymore

2•jnord•38m ago•1 comments

Dime_race – Using ethnicolr to predict DIME

https://github.com/appeler/dime_race

1•goji_berries•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TSCE – Think Before You Speak (Two-Step Contextual Enrichment for LLMs)

https://github.com/AutomationOptimization/tsce_demo

1•airylizard•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PopUpFeed – I made a second screen app for Movies

https://www.popupfeed.com/

1•Viper512•41m ago•0 comments

Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years

4•jnord•42m ago•0 comments

Australian radio station using an AI-generated host

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/thy-has-been-on-the-radio-for-six-months-turns-out-she-isn-t-real-20250424-p5ltxi.html

4•thedays•45m ago•0 comments

People say plant-based meat tastes just as good–so why aren't they buying it?

https://www.fastcompany.com/91321531/people-say-plant-based-burgers-and-nuggets-taste-just-as-good-as-the-real-thing-so-why-arent-they-buying-them

3•miles•46m ago•3 comments

Hegseth had unsecure internet line in his office for Signal

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-4-24-2025

4•zelon88•51m ago•3 comments

Google Maps Doesn't Know How Street Addresses Work

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/google-maps-doesnt-know-how-street-addresses-work/

45•brucedawson•52m ago•28 comments

Implementing Unsure Calculator in 100 lines of Haskell

https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2025-04-25-unsure-calculator-in-100-lines-of-haskell.html

3•romes•57m ago•0 comments

Waymo reports more than 250k rides per week

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/24/waymo-reports-250000-paid-robotaxi-rides-per-week-in-us.html

4•sashank_1509•1h ago•1 comments

Canonical: Web and Design Team Practices

https://webteam.canonical.com/practices

1•stefankuehnel•1h ago•0 comments

Japan releases image of Railgun installed on naval vessel

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/04/japan-releases-image-of-railgun-installed-on-naval-vessel/

2•gnabgib•1h ago•0 comments

Path should be a system call

https://simonsafar.com/2025/path_as_system_call/

3•todsacerdoti•1h ago•0 comments