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Why insects aren't huge: a new challenge to a decades-old idea

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00976-0

2•marojejian•1h ago

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marojejian•1h ago

This podcast interview really challenged my priors. In general highglight that a lot of the theories I believe might have much less evidence backing them than I thought.

paper (paywalled): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10291-3

summary article: https://phys.org/news/2026-03-massive-insect-body-size-milli...

_Generic Printf() in Standard C23

https://codeberg.org/Flying-Toast/gprintf

1•flying-toast•8m ago•0 comments

Kazakhstan still relies on its ageing industrial giants

https://mondediplo.com/2026/04/14kazakhstan

1•JumpCrisscross•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: How Are You-elderly fall detection app I built solo with AI in 6 months

1•sminchev•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Roman fable about a PHP suite that exposed 100 tables in 3 days

https://marius-ciclistu.medium.com/list/the-api-grand-prix-486dc1becb36

1•marius-ciclistu•10m ago•0 comments

Mysterious figure has summited Sphere in Las Vegas: It appears it's Alex Honnold

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/alex-honnold-sphere-las-vegas-22212813.php

1•bookofjoe•11m ago•1 comments

A Chrome extension that redesigns Hacker News in an editorial style

https://github.com/puppe1990/redesign-hacker-news

1•puppe1990•12m ago•0 comments

A Hidden Language: The Meaning of Semaphore

https://www.offshoresupply.co.uk/blog/a-hidden-language-the-meaning-of-semaphore/

1•Eridanus2•12m ago•0 comments

Observability Stack – AI First?

1•jblake•25m ago•0 comments

Any Color You Like: NIST Scientists Create 'Any Wavelength' Lasers

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/04/any-color-you-nist-scientists-create-any-wavelength...

1•rbanffy•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Reliably Incorrect – explore LLM reliability with data visualizations

https://adamsohn.com/reliably-incorrect/

2•dataviz1000•26m ago•1 comments

The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover

https://www.404media.co/the-destroyed-remnants-of-a-lost-world-are-falling-to-earth-scientists-di...

2•Brajeshwar•30m ago•0 comments

Vynly an AI-only social feed with provenance checks (beta)

https://vynly.co

1•nftdude2024•31m ago•0 comments

SDF Public Access Unix System

https://sdf.org/?ssh

2•neehao•32m ago•0 comments

Open-source Firecracker microVM orchestrator

https://github.com/sahil-shubham/bhatti

2•davidcollantes•32m ago•0 comments

Tinypki: Easy to use software for local CA/PKI management

https://github.com/icedevml/tinypki

1•msm_•35m ago•0 comments

Eating more fruits and vegetables tied to unexpected lung cancer risk

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260417224454.htm

1•amichail•35m ago•0 comments

How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ front end infrastructure in Rust

https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2026/04/17/how-and-why-we-rewrote-our-production-c-frontend-inf...

2•maxloh•37m ago•0 comments

Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/04/18/faster-paths.html

2•weaksauce•38m ago•0 comments

Wishes for Ron Conway

https://om.co/2026/04/18/wishes-for-ron-conway/

3•rmason•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Coelanox – auditable inference runtime in Rust (BERT runs today)

https://www.coelanox.com/

1•Shark1n4Suit•43m ago•0 comments

The largest collection of black markers

https://www.prune.dirt.fyi/p/prune-getting-high-on-your-own-supply

2•zeech•43m ago•0 comments

Nuke Engineer Rants

https://nukerants.fi/index.php/cover

3•DamonHD•45m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/i-too-have-a-production-story-a-downtime-caused-by-post...

3•tcp_handshaker•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool that reads 2000 health studies a day so you dont have to

https://www.polivora.com

1•ledil•51m ago•3 comments

Shiplog – Push changelogs from your terminal or let AI write them

https://shiplog.page/

1•EgorNaumenko•51m ago•0 comments

How Unique Are Mythos's Hacking Capabilities?

https://jonathanpgabor.substack.com/p/how-unique-are-mythoss-hacking-capabilities

1•BenPace•53m ago•1 comments

How Long Can You Keep Peptides After Reconstitution?

https://www.robustenough.com/p/psychedelics-arent-just-serotonin

1•BenPace•53m ago•0 comments

Why Do LLMs Suck at Editing?

https://lifeimprovementschemes.substack.com/p/why-do-llms-suck-at-editing

1•BenPace•53m ago•2 comments

How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

https://crescita.cc/

2•modelcroissant•56m ago•1 comments

Output Isn't Design

https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/2045257582470983691

1•rmason•56m ago•0 comments