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Scouts by Yutori is now generally available

https://yutori.com/scouts
1•abhshkdz•1m ago•0 comments

A smart cup for wireless, biofuel-powered, sweat-based Vitamin C sensing

https://www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/article/abs/pii/S0956566325009777
1•PaulHoule•3m ago•0 comments

Study: ~250 documents is all it takes to backdoor an LLM

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ai-poisoning-black-hat-seo-is-back/561217/
1•rezamoaiandin•4m ago•1 comments

Morning coffee may protect the heart better than all-day coffee drinking

https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/morning-coffee-may-protect-the-heart...
1•nateb2022•4m ago•0 comments

I built a Grafana your support team can use

https://github.com/towlabs/dashfrog
1•mehdig10•4m ago•0 comments

"My self-awareness of my limitations is limited."

1•niklai•6m ago•0 comments

How People Use AI at Work

https://dejan.ai/blog/report-ai-workplace/
1•gmays•7m ago•0 comments

Cobalt: Rust static site generator with Liquid templates, runs on iPadOS via iSH

https://cobalt-org.github.io/
1•transpute•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Chefs.Video – A marketplace where you pay freelancers $0.005/second

https://chefs.video
1•ufvy•7m ago•1 comments

Stage Manager in Mac OS

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/til-stage-manager-in-mac-os.html
2•ericdanielski•7m ago•0 comments

You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds

https://twitter.com/tsoding/status/1998403967718400376
2•Ezhik•7m ago•0 comments

Iksemel Rusted

https://thinkerf.blogspot.com/2025/12/iksemel-rusted.html
1•ciferkey•8m ago•0 comments

The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-b9da7a6d-165b-492a-8785-235cd10e2e8e
2•fredley•8m ago•0 comments

A Journalist Reported from Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/07/youtube-deleted-journalist-israel-palestine-censorship/
1•upofadown•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Automate Windows Using Lua

https://lowkpro.com/
1•publicdebates•9m ago•0 comments

Monado 25.1.0: Enabling tomorrow's OpenXR experiences

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/monado-25-1-0-enabling-tomorrows-openxr-e...
1•mfilion•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vocation: AI Career Coach for Mid-Career Transitions

https://www.joinvocation.com/
1•cliffcmaxwell•10m ago•0 comments

Closing the Agent Loop

https://www.sawyerhood.com/blog/closing-the-agent-loop
2•sawyerjhood•11m ago•0 comments

Mandatory social media sharing and use of ETSA mobile app for entry to US

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/10/2025-22461/agency-information-collection-act...
1•beedeebeedee•12m ago•1 comments

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-usi...
2•mtdewcmu•13m ago•1 comments

MacKenzie Scott donated $7.16B in the last one year

https://yieldgiving.com/essays/we-are-the-ones-we-ve-been-waiting-for/
1•nani98•15m ago•0 comments

Super-Flat ASTs

https://jhwlr.io/super-flat-ast/
1•birdculture•15m ago•0 comments

Empromptu ($2M pre-seed): AI application builder with Self-Managing Context

1•anaempromptu•15m ago•0 comments

Realism Invictus 3.8 Released

https://www.moddb.com/mods/realism-invictus/news/realism-invictus-38-released-20-year-anniversary...
1•midzer•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Boring Pattern with Unnecessary Dynamics

https://number-garden.netlify.app/?16966954957793m
1•cpuXguy•18m ago•0 comments

RSL (Really Simple Licensing) 1.0 standard for content on AI-First Internet

https://rslstandard.org/press/rsl-1-specification-2025
1•ChrisArchitect•19m ago•0 comments

Interview with Hacker Gummo – Privacy, Hacking, and Quantum Computing

https://www.fattonys.net/episodes/gummo-hacking
1•Incerto•19m ago•0 comments

How I discovered pigeons sabotaging my project with Kafka

https://hughevans.dev/how-i-discovered-pigeons-sabotaging-my-project-with-aiven-free-tier-kafka/
1•HughEvansDev•19m ago•0 comments

Pando (Tree)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
1•kblissett•21m ago•0 comments

Extracting Nintendo Switch "Play Activity" Using Python and OCR

https://sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-switch-play-activity-ocr
1•SethMLarson•23m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Size of Life

https://neal.fun/size-of-life/
139•eatonphil•1h ago

Comments

hartator•38m ago
Always awesome with by Neal.
MarkusQ•36m ago
Cool, but a little more thought on the content rather than the presentation would improve it. For example starting with an arbitrary segment of DNA double helix and saying how "tall" this arbitrary segment is, is just silly.

Instead, it should show how _wide_ it is. And for extra coolness, keep it in frame, coiling longer and longer as you go, and eventually have the same strand, which has been with us all the time, as a specific example (e.g. human chromosome 7 or some such) by _length_

nh23423fefe•35m ago
double clicking makes the animation jitter. ive had to deal with matching derivatives of smooth slopes in rendering as well. the animation seems to be finite time (and so variable velocity) and mashing click is just updating the final point without matching the current derivative.
yunwal•35m ago
I don't understand how the location of a 377 foot tall tree could be kept secret. Wouldn't that type of thing be visible in satellite imagery at the very least?
1970-01-01•30m ago
It's not sticking straight up from the ground in Kansas. Hyperion has many siblings nearby and is on rocky terrain which conceals its overall height.
micromacrofoot•19m ago
There are a lot of 300 foot trees in the general vicinity, so you'd need to actually measure to be precisely sure
Petersipoi•17m ago
It isn't a secret. The location can easily be found if you Google it.
1970-01-01•14m ago
It is literally a secret. The location cannot easily be found with Google. Go ahead, try and find it.
jphoward•35m ago
It seems to be like some of the scales slightly off?

If you are looking at the ladybird (ladybug) with the amoeba to the left, the amoeba isn't an order of the magnitude smaller - it would actually be visible by the human eye (bigger than a grain of sand)? Indeed, the amoeba seems the same size as the ladybird's foot?

Similarly, this makes the bumblebee appear smaller than a human finger (the in the adjacent picture), which isn't the case?

elicash•9m ago
I came to the comments to express surprise that amoebas were so large. It appears they vary wildly in size (as small as 2.3 micrometers... but up to 20 cm, or nearly 8 inches).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba#Size_range

glenstein•6m ago
I'm seeing the amoeba as approximately the size of the heel segment of a ladybug's leg. I consider lady bugs pretty small in an intuitive sense, their legs quite small and the smallest end segment to be especially small. I think that leaves an amoeba on the fringes of distinguishable perception which seems right to me, unless I'm overestimating their size.
macintux•33m ago
> A highly social, relatively hairless bipedal ape that was once a nomadic hunter-gatherer, but has adapted to create websites
smallerfish•31m ago
I like it, but the switch from metric to inches is confusing, and I think introduces a bug - there's no way a sea snail is 5-6 neurons high.
robotresearcher•21m ago
Some of your neurons stretch from your brain to your big toe. 1.5m, or more in a tall person.
siavosh•30m ago
Wonderful. The music, illustrations, and sliding sound effect reminded me of the game Braid.
luqtas•26m ago
the slinding at some point made me wonder what if i was playing Tinder
hmokiguess•26m ago
This was awesome! Also, I couldn't stop my child brain from anticipating "your mom" at the end.
yoyohello13•25m ago
I always click when I see neal.fun.
mda•23m ago
I like the stuff un the sute but the number if partners and affiliates in the consent window is very off putting.
jakozaur•22m ago
I wish Neal would do behind the scenes, how he built this art. I wonder whether LLM assistants like Claude Code make such an interactive show more feasible.

He previously did a game "Infinite Craft" which leveraged Llama models. However, I was only able to find an outdated blog from 2019.

Bnichs•21m ago
Reminds me of the video game Everything. Its a really cool game where you explore the various scales of the universe. It has its quirks (somewhat phoned in graphics like animals walking) but the concept and execution are great IMO, would love a sequel. Also bonus points for featuring Alan watts as a core character.
Magi604•19m ago
The visual scale seems off, especially on the smaller end of things. Also, are Velociraptors really that small? Jurassic Park lied to me.
travisgriggs•16m ago
> A highly social, relatively hairless bipedal ape that was once a nomadic hunter-gatherer, but has adapted to create websites.

Definitely worthy the scroll!

8cvor6j844qw_d6•15m ago
Makes a good profile description on certain websites.
lrpe•15m ago
Are there supposed to be pictures? I passed a human silhouette, but that was it.
vadepaysa•13m ago
Beautiful! I love the human feet always visible in the background! It helps me set perspective.
bitpush•9m ago
> Velociraptor > Smaller than usually depicted, the Velociraptor was actually only about the size of a turkey.

This is an interesting fact.

mkmk•8m ago
Nice that the back button works.
thundergolfer•8m ago
Pretty glad the 9 foot long Arthopleura centipede went extinct 300 million years ago. No one wants to deal with that thing.
kkylin•2m ago
[delayed]
milancurcic•5m ago
Neal delivers. I recently learned that viruses are not considered living being, but I'm nevertheless happy they're included here because they're both relevant and interesting in this context.
ncgl•3m ago
Great use of sound!
Jordan-117•36s ago
Reminds me of the classic Scale of the Universe flash toy by Cary Huang (now available in HTML 5!):

https://htwins.net/scale2/