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How much information is in DNA?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/dna
2•crescit_eundo•6h ago

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rhelz•2h ago
In any case, 6.2 billion bits (interestingly enough, almost exactly as much information which is on an audio CD which you used for your romantic mixtapes) is an upper bound.

This rules out pretty much every nutty theory which evolutionary psychologists propose. Such as we evolved for altruism, we evolved to believe in religion, etc etc. Complete B.S. Exactly how much information would you need to specify a behavior like being predisposed to a belief in religion??? There's less than 80 minutes worth of music's worth of information in our genomes, and most of that is concerned with just keeping us alive.

You are not predisposed to be anything. Go create the kind of person you want to be.

Startup helps farmers grow plant-based feed and fertilizer using wastewater

https://news.mit.edu/2025/fyto-helps-farmers-grow-plant-based-feed-and-fertilizer-using-wastewater-0506
1•gnabgib•2m ago•0 comments

Nuclear arsenals in Pakistan and India portend regional catastrophe (2019)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aay5478
1•Jimmc414•4m ago•0 comments

Connecticut Fire Officials Warn Against TikTok Challenge That Can Result in Fire

https://portal.ct.gov/das/press-room/press-releases/2025/connecticut-fire-officials-warn-against-tiktok-laptop-challenge-which-can-result-in-fire
1•josephcsible•6m ago•0 comments

Chinese Celebrate J-10C Fighters' "Success" over Rafale Jets During In-Pak Clash

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/as-claims-about-pakistan-shooting-down-rafale/
1•inverted_flag•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: My company is forcing 1 week sprints. What should I do?

1•mcsolid•7m ago•0 comments

Anchor links copied from project READMEs now add a query parameter

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/70577
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

State-Tracer – Visualize Recoil and Jotai State Dependencies

1•apple-yagi•8m ago•0 comments

Creating a Search Engine for Fun

https://vincents.dev/blog/creating-a-search-engine/
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Creating Products People Want with Brian Pontarelli [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjbrojPqpYo
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

The Future of Programming

1•victor_js•13m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are you using AI coding assistance?

1•cloudking•14m ago•2 comments

Simulating high-speed solar wind streams from coronal holes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-97246-2
1•PaulHoule•17m ago•0 comments

A Lightweight Merge Queue Using GitHub Actions

https://sketch.dev/blog/lightweight-merge-queue
1•caust1c•18m ago•0 comments

D1: Scaling Reasoning in Diffusion LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

https://dllm-reasoning.github.io/
2•t55•19m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Granola to Pull Notes into Obsidian

https://josephthacker.com/hacking/2025/05/08/reverse-engineering-granola-notes.html
1•rez0123•19m ago•0 comments

The reason why I don't use AI or even code completion

https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-reason-why-i-dont-use-ai-or-even-code-completion.html
2•bitbasher•19m ago•0 comments

Are LLMs more than autocomplete? AI Debate

https://rehearsal.so/character/98f9ac23-9b48-49a0-99dc-d72d9b88d230
1•t55•20m ago•0 comments

My Excellent Conversation with Jack Clark

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/05/my-excellent-conversation-with-jack-clark.html
1•paulpauper•25m ago•0 comments

kit - Code Intelligence Toolkit

https://github.com/cased/kit
1•helloericsf•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built a site for tech comparisons backed by battle scars, not AI

https://convinceme.tech
1•Hmerac•36m ago•0 comments

Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions

https://www.psu.edu/news/health-and-human-development/story/gender-characteristics-service-robots-can-influence-customer
2•gnabgib•36m ago•0 comments

Belgian teens arrested with 5k smuggled ants, Kenya warns new trafficking trends

https://apnews.com/article/garden-ants-kenya-smugglers-belgians-vietnamese-624f12ae80e0d66a87f03966079efbc1
2•bookofjoe•39m ago•0 comments

Enforcement of Copilot premium request limits moved to June 4, 2025

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-07-enforcement-of-copilot-premium-request-limits-moved-to-june-4-2025/
2•kjhughes•41m ago•0 comments

Attacked by Thugs (2004)

https://idlewords.com/2004/05/attacked_by_thugs.htm
2•impish9208•42m ago•0 comments

The Molecular Bond That Helps Secure Your Memories

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-molecular-bond-that-helps-secure-your-memories-20250507/
1•pseudolus•43m ago•0 comments

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/
8•turtlegrids•44m ago•0 comments

Reasons to Write More in an Age When Writing Means Less

https://miloandthecalf.substack.com/p/three-reasons-to-write-more-in-an
2•paulpauper•46m ago•1 comments

Globalization did not hollow out the U.S. middle class

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/05/globalization-did-not-hollow-out-the-u-s-middle-class.html
1•paulpauper•46m ago•0 comments

How eggs break and the role of strength versus toughness

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02087-0
1•sohkamyung•49m ago•0 comments

Radiation Tolerant Software Framework for Space Applications

https://github.com/r0nlt/Space-Radiation-Tolerant
6•r0nlt•49m ago•0 comments