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Scientists are growing T. rex leather in a lab. It could be used to make purses

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/10/dinosaur-purses-tyrannosaurs-rex-leather/83494555007/
6•rmason•17h ago

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rmason•17h ago
Personally I'd like to have a pair of boots made from T. Rex Leather.
AStonesThrow•16h ago
My mother nicknames me “T.rex” and she has also become an avid crochet/knitter at church. I’ll need to get some so that she can work it into a project!

Ruth Buzzi’s ghost has entered the chat

romaniitedomum•14h ago
From the article, about mid-way through:

> But some detractors consider the project misleading. University of Maryland vertebrate paleontologist Thomas Holtz, Jr. pointed out to Live Science, a science news site, how the lab-created skin won't be authentic because there's no actual T. rex skin or DNA to serve as a basis. "What this company is doing seems to be fantasy," he said.

To build affordable homes on a mass scale, Levitt sought cost-cutting measures

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/perfect-communities-review-the-abundant-life-in-levittown-82ca5bd8
1•lxm•1m ago•0 comments

FocusedValues in SwiftUI

https://shadowfacts.net/2025/focused-values/
1•todsacerdoti•11m ago•0 comments

A quarter decade of learnings from scaling RAG to users

https://hello-jp.net/building-beyond-the-buzz/rag-design-decision-blueprint
1•jpoersc•20m ago•0 comments

The surgeon who used F1 pitstop techniques to save lives of babies

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/formula-one/article/professor-martin-elliott-interview-surgeon-f1-pitstops-babies-ferrari-j3sbkjssk
5•sunray2•27m ago•0 comments

The Connoisseur of Desire

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/29/the-connoisseur-of-desire-the-annotated-great-gatsby/
1•samclemens•28m ago•0 comments

Key open source challenges in developing countries (2023)

https://opensource.com/article/23/4/challenges-open-source-developing-countries
3•billybuckwheat•29m ago•0 comments

Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?

https://www.why.is/svar.php?id=5513
2•michalpleban•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PondPilot – Run SQL on DuckDB/CSV/etc. Locally via WASM (Open-Source)

https://app.pondpilot.io/
1•naivemike•42m ago•0 comments

Valuation of Ride Hailer, Ola Cut from $7.3B to $1.25B

https://entrackr.com/news/vanguard-values-ola-at-125-bn-9051219
2•elsewhen•43m ago•0 comments

All-in-one AI marketing agent and copilot desktop app to cross-post to any sites

https://github.com/11cafe/local-manus
1•oozzy77•48m ago•1 comments

Harvard offers free tuition for families making $200K or less: My thoughts

https://greyenlightenment.com/2025/03/21/harvard-offers-free-tuition-for-families-making-200k-or-less-my-thoughts/
1•paulpauper•49m ago•0 comments

Senate Hearing on Artificial Intelligence [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGE41V04fs
1•keepamovin•49m ago•0 comments

The overlooked masterpiece full of coded messages about World War One

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250423-the-masterpiece-full-of-coded-messages-about-ww1
1•rmason•50m ago•0 comments

Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vnyn17p57o
3•rmason•51m ago•0 comments

A GitHub MCP Server Extension for Zed

https://github.com/LoamStudios/zed-mcp-server-github
1•tanelpoder•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Color Name Game

https://andrewmatte.itch.io/colour-test
1•andrewmatte•55m ago•0 comments

Could the English Language Die?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/11/the-big-idea-could-the-english-language-die
2•howard941•56m ago•0 comments

Why Bell Labs Worked

https://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked
8•areoform•56m ago•0 comments

Moral Outrage Predicts the Virality on Social Media, but Not the Support

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19485506251335373
2•gnabgib•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sqlitemap, a persistent map implementation backed by SQLite for C++

https://github.com/bw-hro/sqlitemap
2•bw-hro•57m ago•0 comments

Hyperion: The Tallest Tree in the World

https://ourplnt.com/tallest-tree-world-hyperion/
2•spking•58m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What do you think of this color changing Rubik's Cube variant?

1•amichail•58m ago•1 comments

The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract (1867)

https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/the-facts-in-the-case-of-the-great-beef-contract/
1•Michelangelo11•59m ago•0 comments

VIC-20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20
7•keepamovin•1h ago•1 comments

Beating the fastest lexer generator in Rust

https://alic.dev/blog/fast-lexing
1•fanf2•1h ago•0 comments

Genetic mutation lets some people thrive on just 4 hours of sleep

https://www.livescience.com/health/sleep/rare-genetic-mutation-lets-some-people-thrive-on-just-4-hours-of-shut-eye
2•geox•1h ago•0 comments

Clone.fyi

https://clone.fyi/
1•rpgbr•1h ago•0 comments

How to Use the Beef Framework over WAN Like a Hacking Pro[2024]

https://thekitchentoday.com/how-to-use-beef-over-wan/
1•rolph•1h ago•0 comments

How climate change is altering bird migration

https://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-is-altering-bird-migration/a-72451216
3•rntn•1h ago•0 comments

Dramatically improve microscope resolution with LED array and Ptychography [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJLWwbs_cQ
1•xqcgrek2•1h ago•0 comments