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Can paleontologists pinpoint the dawn of the dinosaurs?

https://www.pnas.org/post/multimedia/can-paleontologists-pinpoint-dawn-dinosaurs
1•bikenaga•1h ago

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bediger4000•1h ago
Betteridge to the rescue, here. Any question with "pinpoint" and "paleontology" can be confidently given a "no" answer.

Beyond vacuous answers, this isn't a good article:

We know the main reason why the age of the dinosaurs came to an end

No, not really. Dinosaurs stood a good chance of regaining primacy after the asteroid impact, due to generally having an "r" reproductive strategy. Dinosaurs had lived through other weird episodes, the Carnian pluvial episode, and the end-Triassic mass extinction. Close relatives of dinosaurs lived on: we still have crocodiles and alligators today. There's a lot of argument.

Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization

https://martinfowler.com/articles/stop-picking-sides.html
1•zdw•59s ago•0 comments

macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/1/4.html
5•zdw•2m ago•0 comments

I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck

https://modulovalue.com/blog/syscall-overhead-tar-gz-io-performance/
1•modulovalue•2m ago•0 comments

A gRPC Transport for the Model Context Protocol

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/grpc-as-a-native-transport-for-mcp/
1•richards•3m ago•0 comments

Balsa M2-F3 Lifting Body

https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/m2f32025/m2f32025.html
1•herbertl•3m ago•0 comments

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
2•herbertl•4m ago•0 comments

Using Context as Training Data Unlocks Models That Learn at Test-Time

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/reimagining-llm-memory-using-context-as-training-data-unlocks-m...
1•krautburglar•4m ago•0 comments

Measuring Contradiction as Information with Contrakit

https://github.com/off-by-some/contrakit
1•off-by-some•4m ago•0 comments

We Built a Production MCP Registry

https://www.nimblebrain.ai/blog/production-mcp-server-registry/
1•barefootsanders•4m ago•0 comments

Cityposter-clj – turn any city into a minimalist piece of art

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1YflcTWk7rdV7YVEjarDjb6q0dk_apPlX?usp=sharing
2•simonpure•5m ago•0 comments

The ultra-cold temperatures needed for epic nuclear science

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260112-the-ultra-cold-temperatures-needed-for-epic-nuclear-s...
3•billybuckwheat•5m ago•0 comments

Alzheimer's drug developers accuse clinical trial sites of faking data

https://www.science.org/content/article/alzheimer-s-drug-developers-accuse-clinical-trial-sites-f...
1•randycupertino•6m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: Vibe coding is like jerking off

4•mikaelaast•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client)

https://github.com/A1darbek/ayder
2•Aydarbek•8m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown,Phones back. How to stay resilient?

2•us321•11m ago•5 comments

Show HN: Data from a mixed-brand LiFePO₄ battery bank

3•wkcollis1•11m ago•0 comments

I made a tool to A/B test product titles in Google ads

https://magnifyshopping.com
1•PEGHIN•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Titan – a distributed orchestrator with dynamically mutable DAGs

https://github.com/ramn51/DistributedTaskOrchestrator
1•ramnarayanan747•13m ago•0 comments

AT&T Predicted The Future In 1993 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZ-667CEdo
1•optimalsolver•13m ago•0 comments

Chrome 145 will support JPEG XL / JXL

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/2011058709817065955
2•yboris•15m ago•1 comments

Last Day for FIFA WC Applications

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V-vBqyReTl4lfLg2de3ddctRlwV8SQi2MVMg-nAU8wA/edit?gid=1505...
1•shikharkhanna29•17m ago•1 comments

Existential Risk and Growth [pdf]

https://philiptrammell.com/static/Existential_Risk_and_Growth.pdf
1•fi-le•17m ago•0 comments

ICE recruitment: How I got a job with the anti-immigrant police

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html
6•ravenical•20m ago•1 comments

SFTP Still Delivers the Goods

https://folio.co/blog/sftp-still-delivers-the-goods
2•alhertz•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent-overseer: manage your army of coding agents in the browser

https://github.com/troyshu/agent-overseer
1•tmshu1•20m ago•0 comments

Scott Adams, Creator of the Satirical 'Dilbert' Comic Strip, Dies at 68

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/arts/scott-adams-dead.html
2•reaperducer•21m ago•1 comments

America's Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem–Too Many Data Centers

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/power-grid-ai-data-centers-1235f296
1•impish9208•21m ago•1 comments

Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol for agent-led shopping

https://searchengineland.com/google-universal-commerce-protocol-467290
1•cdrnsf•22m ago•0 comments

Eigent: The Open Source Cowork Desktop to Unlock Your Exceptional Productivity

https://github.com/eigent-ai/eigent
1•taubek•22m ago•0 comments

Bias gives 'swing state' voters more influence over US trade policy

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hidden-bias-state-voters-policy.html
2•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments