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Zig Package Manager Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
2•jackhalford•1m ago•0 comments

Neutron Scans Reveal Hidden Water in Martian Meteorite

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/neutron-scans-reveal-hidden-water-in-famous-martian-meteorite
1•geox•2m ago•0 comments

Deepfaking Orson Welles's Mangled Masterpiece

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece
1•fortran77•4m ago•1 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
2•nar001•6m ago•1 comments

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans to Focus on Moon

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-delays-mars-plans-to-focus-on-moon-66d5c542
1•BostonFern•6m ago•0 comments

Jeremy Wade's Mighty Rivers

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1•saikatsg•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP App to play backgammon with your LLM

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1•sam256•9m ago•0 comments

AI Command and Staff–Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming

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1•tomwphillips•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CCBot – Control Claude Code from Telegram via tmux

https://github.com/six-ddc/ccbot
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Ask HN: Is the CoCo 3 the best 8 bit computer ever made?

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Red Queen's Race

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The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•18m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

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

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1•mikeyfrilot•30m ago•0 comments

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

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1•asplake•31m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

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2•mitchbob•32m ago•1 comments

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

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2•tosh•46m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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7•onurkanbkrc•47m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants

https://dri.ie/news/new-collection-in-dri-the-national-herbarium-of-ireland-digital-collection-of-irish-plants/
116•gnabgib•1w ago

Comments

nephihaha•1w ago
Not a very user friendly website IMHO. Surprised it doesn't list the Irish language names of many of these plants (as far as I could see).
riffic•1w ago
scientifically the only names that matter are the botanic binomials (ICN or ICNafp)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Code_of_Nomencla...

wizzwizz4•1w ago
Scientifically, communication matters. Therefore, other names do also matter.
contingencies•1w ago
All other names are generally considered either common or historic. Common names are regarded as too ambiguous for scientific use, they are generally only mentioned in relevance to collections such as "How do the local people in <area x> having <population y> of <latin name z> (who might help identify where it is growing) refer to the organism?". In a small number of cases local names confer ethnobotanical or cultural semantics.
nephihaha•1w ago
I am well aware that laypeople don't always distinguish between various similar species of plants and animals, and I probably can't in some cases myself, but I am specifically interested in some of those "common or historic names" along with their "ethnobotanical or cultural semantics", to see how they might compare with words elsewhere.
contingencies•1w ago
For old Irish names I would have thought Gallic-Druidic cultural associations might have some sort of currency or influence. Maybe try looking for research with those conceptual frames of reference. Here's an example query to place with your favourite LLM: "make a list of the top 30 plants associated with traditional herbal lore in pre-modern ireland. seek gallic/druidic associations through etymology, lore and written record (if feasible). table format."
nephihaha•6d ago
There is some of that with certain names for sure. Also interested in comparisons with Manx and Scottish Gaelic and Broad Scots.
nephihaha•1w ago
I was specifically interested in the Irish names, because they are related to some research I have been doing for a number of years.

The Latin names are available in numerous other sources.

s_dev•1w ago
Richard Feynman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga_7j72CVlc

The names of birds.

tl;dw: Knowing the name of something gives you no knowledge of that thing even if you can name it in every language but it's super useful to know when communicating with others.

jyoung789•1w ago
For those interested, you can search through the collections of herbariums all over north America through portals such as the Consortium of Midwest Herbaria[0], in Europe through digHerb [1], and throughout the rest of the world through many other symbiota portals [2].

You can find your nearest brick and mortar herbarium globally through Index Herbariorum[3]. Though these resources are incomplete, they are pretty extensive regardless.

[0]https://midwestherbaria.org/portal/collections/search/index....

[1]https://digiherb.symbiota.org/

[2] https://symbiota.org/symbiota-portals/

[3]https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/

Loughla•1w ago
Also for those in the States, contact your local state University extension office. They know of local resources like this that aren't widely advertised/don't have an online presence.
xattt•1w ago
Neat to see doi implemented as intended, where identifiers link to items that not articles.
dfajgljsldkjag•1w ago
It is very important that we treat the natural world like data that needs a backup. The environment changes so fast that we will lose the history of these plants if we do not save them in a digital format. This collection gives us a way to check the past against the future so we can see what has been lost.
impish9208•6d ago
Missed opportunity to name it “The Hibernian Herbarium”.