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Ask HN: Is the coco 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

1•amichail•35s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Convert your articles into videos in one click

https://vidinie.com/
1•kositheastro•3m ago•0 comments

Red Queen's Race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
2•rzk•3m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•6m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

https://addisoncrump.info/research/a-horrible-conclusion/
1•todsacerdoti•6m ago•0 comments

I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

https://twitter.com/KarelDoostrlnck/status/2019477361557926281
2•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Spring Boot Deep Dive

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/
1•jjcob_sikorski•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solving NP-Complete Structures via Information Noise Subtraction (P=NP)

https://zenodo.org/records/18395618
1•alemonti06•12m ago•1 comments

Cook New Emojis

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
1•vasanthv•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•18m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
1•asplake•19m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/
1•michalpleban•19m ago•0 comments

Browser-use for Node.js v0.2.0: TS AI browser automation parity with PY v0.5.11

https://github.com/webllm/browser-use
1•unadlib•20m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
1•mitchbob•20m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
2•alainrk•21m ago•0 comments

Storyship: Turn Screen Recordings into Professional Demos

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1•JohnsonZou6523•22m ago•0 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
2•edent•25m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•29m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
2•tosh•34m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
4•onurkanbkrc•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

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Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

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1•panossk•38m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

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1•headalgorithm•41m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

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1•marklit•41m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•41m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
2•mnming•41m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

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4•juujian•43m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•45m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•47m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-leaf-miners-oldest-insect-plague.html
35•janandonly•4mo ago

Comments

charliebwrites•4mo ago
They’re definitely the current insect plague of my tomato plants

Funny to think that some (proto?) human was swearing at these things 295 million years ago the same way I am

robin_reala•4mo ago
The earliest hominids came around ~10 million years ago, so unlikely.
belly_joe•4mo ago
just let the "proto" do the work and enjoy the joke
antonvs•4mo ago
The "proto" in this case would have to refer to a synapsid, which have been described as "mammal-like reptiles", some of whom were the ancestors of the mammals which didn't yet exist 295 million years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsida

CGMthrowaway•4mo ago
Nor did tomatoes, nor any type of fruit nor flowering plant at all, exist 295M years ago
robin_reala•4mo ago
I actually didn’t know that, TIL.
foobiekr•4mo ago
The one for me which was quite surprising is how recent grasses are. Grass is 110M or so year old, but grasses as we know them - the plains, covering vast spaces, etc. - the C4 grasses, are all in the 5m-15M years ago period. Imagine an earth with no sprawling grasses.
af78•4mo ago
I found that surprising when I learned about it. Grass did not exist yet at the time of the dinosaurs. In good documentaries, artistic representations of dinosaurs may show them among ferns and trees, that did exist. But if I see grass I will know the team did not do a good job!
antonvs•4mo ago
Nor did any mammals exist then.
CGMthrowaway•4mo ago
There were big proto reptiles like Edaphosaurus that could have shaken their fist at a bug infestation though
antonvs•4mo ago
But they didn't have prehensile hands, so no fists for them!

It took evolution another 230-280 million years to develop fists to shake at bug infestations.

treve•4mo ago
Not a scientist or science reporter, but it strikes me that the headline (and content) of the article should include 'that we know of'. Is that silly of me, or is it expected from the reader to know that this is always implied?
fred_is_fred•4mo ago
If science took that approach, wouldn't you need to put this in every scientific related statement ever made?
antonvs•4mo ago
No, there are different scenarios. In this case we're looking at incomplete evidence of history, and we know with certainty that there are many phenomena for which evidence didn't survive. The usual way this is dealt with is to talk about "the oldest known X."

With many things in science, there isn't anything like that degree of incomplete information. We can talk about, say, a chemical reaction with extremely high certainty.

Also, in many cases a theory provides implicit context which makes the resulting statements true in the context of that theory. We can say that in general relativity, a black hole has a singularity at its center. There's no doubt about that, but it doesn't tell us whether actual physical black holes contain singularities.

hyperhello•4mo ago
Every fact would have to end with “unless I am wrong”.
Anarch157a•4mo ago
That's the catch phrase of zoology youtuber Lindsay Nikole. https://youtube.com/@LindsayNikole
IAmBroom•4mo ago
History is defined as events which are recorded.

"Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth"

antonvs•4mo ago
Yes, it's poorly phrased. It could easily say "oldest known insect plague". But the whole article is not written well at all - seems like English may not be the authors' first language.