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Ancient humans used sunscreen to survive a deadly magnetic pole shift

https://newatlas.com/history/ancient-humans-ochre-sunscreen-magnetic-pole-shift/
26•Brajeshwar•6h ago

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Fade_Dance•5h ago
And by "used", they mean "may have used". Interesting hypothesis though.
jsbisviewtiful•4h ago
Super interesting hypothesis - especially since Neanderthals are often thought to be the more ingenious inventors of human ancestors.

Producing useful commands on the go using C++ and AI

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/05/10/producing-useful-commands-on-the-go-using-c-and-ai/
1•mfiguiere•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What do you think of this idea for a two color Rubik's Cube variant?

1•amichail•5m ago•0 comments

What are some app ideas that you think would benefit people on a perosnal level?

1•gwcodes•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoopMix128 – Fast C PRNG (.46ns), 2^128 Period, BigCrush/PractRand Pass

https://github.com/danielcota/LoopMix128
2•the_othernet•15m ago•0 comments

Tons of Telephone Intercept Recordings

https://thisisarecording.com
1•jbledsoe2112•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Experimental Postgres-to-SQLite Sync via Logical Replication

https://github.com/PgOutput2Json/PgFreshCache
1•enadzan•17m ago•0 comments

What Was the Fact?

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-was-the-fact
3•andsoitis•18m ago•0 comments

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/everyone-is-cheating-their-way-through-college/ar-AA1EjCRk
2•zdw•18m ago•0 comments

High tariffs become 'real' for Adafruit with first $36K bill for import duties

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/10/0715216/high-tariffs-become-real-for-adafruit---with-their-first-36k-bill-just-for-import-duties
4•MilnerRoute•19m ago•0 comments

Decimal Classification

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59073/pg59073-images.html
1•andsoitis•22m ago•0 comments

DateTimeFormats: Parse date time by examples (no EEEE VV zzz)

https://github.com/google/mug/wiki/Parsing-Date-Time-Should-Be-10x-Easier
1•byjy•24m ago•1 comments

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters
3•colinbartlett•25m ago•1 comments

Number of open tech jobs is rising

https://twitter.com/gergelyorosz/status/1921169552068547005
1•baxtr•26m ago•1 comments

Devseeker

https://github.com/iBz-04/Devseeker
1•handfuloflight•27m ago•0 comments

Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/10/kosmos-482-soviet-spacecraft-plunges-to-earth
2•tzmlab•30m ago•0 comments

Instance: AI coding tools by the company behind MIMO

https://instance.so
1•franze•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Typo.Domains – Find and recover traffic lost to domain typos

https://typo.domains
1•damechen•32m ago•0 comments

Top Greatest Movie Soundtracks

1•WalterBright•37m ago•5 comments

China Export Controls Whack AMD Datacenter GPU Business

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/05/09/china-export-controls-whack-amd-datacenter-gpu-business/
1•giuliomagnifico•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a tool to grade faster and fight teacher burnout

https://ai-essay-grader.com
1•kkfir13•37m ago•1 comments

San Francisco crypto founder faked his own death

https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/08/jeffy-yu-zerebro-fake-death/
1•LorenDB•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Xenolab – Rasp Pi monitor for my pet carnivourus plants

https://github.com/blackrabbit17/xenolab
5•malux85•42m ago•1 comments

Air to Bread

https://fi-le.net/air/
1•fi-le•43m ago•0 comments

Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools (2020)

https://thesephist.com/posts/tools/
2•thesephist•50m ago•0 comments

Can a Website Save the World?

https://futureofthe.tech/posts/can-a-website-save-the-world/
1•judemon•52m ago•0 comments

Fast Tech

https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/114485304658708399
1•luu•52m ago•0 comments

GEMM with Thread Block Clusters on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs

https://research.colfax-intl.com/cutlass-tutorial-gemm-with-thread-block-clusters-on-nvidia-blackwell-gpus/
1•ashvardanian•53m ago•0 comments

Voice Typing > Keyboard Typing

https://voicetype.ai/
1•mlashuel•54m ago•0 comments

AI Is Not Your Friend

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/sycophantic-ai/682743/
3•fortran77•59m ago•0 comments

Can Apple fix the mediaanalysisd CPU hog?

2•justmarc•1h ago•0 comments