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James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opinion/james-watson-dna.html
4•voxadam•1h ago

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voxadam•1h ago
https://archive.is/BGX54
bell-cot•52m ago
#1 argument against anyone advocating Eugenics: Its centuries of well-documented piss-poor performance in European nobility.
1970-01-01•43m ago
> If you think there is one single fundamental essence that makes you you more than anything else, you’re at risk.

Pretty bad take right at the end. We're supposed to be ashamed of biological strengths? I have red hair and take pain very well[1], but I cannot speak to that being a strength in life because it's wrong to do so? There are other non-extreme examples of biological differences being strengths but that example alone dissolves the flippant conclusion.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/study-f...

Random lasers from peanut kernel doped with birch leaf–derived carbon dots

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2025-0312/html
1•PaulHoule•48s ago•0 comments

Zero Allocation JSON Logger for Go

https://github.com/rs/zerolog
1•mooreds•57s ago•0 comments

GitHub Maybe Down Again

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zzl9nl31lb35
1•erdaniels•1m ago•0 comments

DeepMind's latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/deepminds-latest-an-ai-for-handling-mathematical-proofs/
1•quapster•2m ago•0 comments

The Fate of Data Model Dependency

https://medium.com/@HobokenDays/the-fate-of-shared-data-model-cf8a3dc88ac9
1•NewarkDays•3m ago•0 comments

SFO is getting a new direct flight to Warsaw

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sfo-warsaw-21172190.php
1•danielam•3m ago•0 comments

Monitor Plus is shutting down

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/monitor-plus-shutting-down
1•azinman2•3m ago•0 comments

Sam 3D: Powerful 3D Reconstruction for Physical World Images

https://ai.meta.com/blog/sam-3d/?_fb_noscript=1
1•meetpateltech•3m ago•0 comments

Why BSDs?

https://blog.thechases.com/posts/why-bsds/
1•jaypatelani•3m ago•0 comments

Saudi Arabia Backs Elon Musk's XAI with Data Center Deal

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/technology/saudi-arabia-elon-musk-xai.html
1•fleahunter•4m ago•0 comments

Meta Segment Anything Model 3

https://ai.meta.com/blog/segment-anything-model-3/?_fb_noscript=1
3•alcinos•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Image Recognition

1•davidajackson•5m ago•0 comments

To Evade Sanctions, the Kremlin Turns to Convicted Money Launderer Ilan Shor

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-evade-sanctions--the-kremlin-turns-to-a-convicted-money-l...
2•sigwinch•7m ago•0 comments

Breaking the Drone Speed World Record in Dubai [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZqLMKzgaW0
1•marklit•9m ago•0 comments

Global Privacy Control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Privacy_Control
1•amelius•9m ago•0 comments

Elaris UI

https://github.com/ambystechcom/Ambystech.Elaris.UI
1•tavobarrientos•9m ago•0 comments

Slicing Is All You Need: Towards a Universal One-Sided Distributed MatMul

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08874
1•matt_d•10m ago•0 comments

Server virtualization market heats up to win VMware refugees

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/gartner_server_virtualization_guide/
1•speckx•11m ago•0 comments

Specialized CSV readers for Rust leveraging hybrid SIMD techniques

https://docs.rs/simd-csv/latest/simd_csv/
1•todsacerdoti•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Terminal roguelike using Entity-Component-System in pure Ruby

https://github.com/Davidslv/vanilla-roguelike
2•davidslv•12m ago•1 comments

Not redefining Chrome, but fixing the workflow

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tapone-—-all-in-one-short/cgjeegkgkbnfldccmknbacfaaejd...
1•kii9999•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a 100ml shot with 25 g protein and 100 calories

https://protein.inc/#flavors
1•aakiverse•13m ago•0 comments

What Most Americans Don't Know About NAFTA's Wreckage South of the Border

https://conradkottak.substack.com/p/what-most-americans-dont-know-about
4•bryanrasmussen•16m ago•0 comments

Comparative Analysis of Media Bias in 8 Western Media Outlets

https://www.mediabiasmeter.com/framing-gaza-media-bias-report-2025
3•pbiggar•17m ago•0 comments

Enshittification of Google Docs

https://sergey.substack.com/p/enshittification-of-google-docs
7•neural_thing•19m ago•1 comments

Bigger datasets aren't always better

https://news.mit.edu/2025/bigger-datasets-arent-always-better-1118
3•tzury•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ChunkBack – A Fake LLM API server for testing apps without paying

https://github.com/4shub/chunkback
3•forthwall•19m ago•0 comments

Throwing the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the Wall

https://heatherburns.tech/2025/11/17/throwing-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-at-the-wall/
2•hn_acker•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is the current state of the art in BIG (>5TB) cloud backups?

4•jacobwilliamroy•20m ago•0 comments

WhoSampled Is Joining Spotify

https://www.whosampled.com/news/2025/11/19/whosampled-is-joining-spotify/
2•saeedesmaili•20m ago•0 comments