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The Human Brain Owes Its Existence to a Prehistoric Pandemic

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-brain/202610/the-human-brain-owes-its-existence-to-a-prehistoric-pandemic
3•gmays•55m ago

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silverFork•1m ago
some retrovirus infected the chimps and mutated their genes and their brains got maxed out.

There are not many retroviruses around but there are some. MMTV/HMTV retrovirus are suspected to cause breast cancer.

How Russia Censors Foreign TV

https://gijn.org/stories/russia-censors-foreign-tv-midterm-battle/
1•runningmike•1m ago•1 comments

FreeDNS

https://freedns.afraid.org/
1•esher•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Python script to evaluate your RAG pipeline against a golden set

https://github.com/infrixo-systems/rag-evaluation-starter
1•steadystate•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Term Crunch, timed terminal challenges

https://jordanbarker.github.io/termverse/term-crunch/
1•jordan-barker•4m ago•1 comments

Everybody Codes – Lord of the Wings (2026)

https://everybody.codes/event/2026/quests
1•vismit2000•5m ago•0 comments

From Software Engineering to AI Research or a Tale of 413 "No"

https://faillearnrepeat.net/blog/from-swe-to-ai-research/
1•fxlrnrpt•5m ago•0 comments

DetectorScope: AI text detectors that show their work

https://github.com/google-deepmind/detectorscope
1•wondersky•8m ago•0 comments

Stanford: Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2026-10-12-ncm
1•KellyCriterion•8m ago•0 comments

Chinese EVs found back door into Western car markets – at 40% off MSRP

https://electrek.co/2026/10/24/chinese-evs-found-back-door-into-western-car-markets-at-40-off-msrp/
1•Klaster_1•9m ago•1 comments

Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages

https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-is-slow-because-of-bad-design-not-slow-languages/
1•birdculture•11m ago•0 comments

Computer Security Is About to Get Worse

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/computer-security-about-get-lot-worse-heres-what-you-can-do
2•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Ice sheet expansion may have started 2k years ago, but we canceled that

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ice-sheet-expansion-may-have-started-2000-years-go-but-we...
1•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Security problems, what security problems? This is only the beginning

https://13trillionparameters.com/comics/006-security-wasnt-in-the-prompt
1•ed-is-ai•15m ago•1 comments

HN: AMPH – A keyboard-driven TUI for managing Arch Linux package sets

https://amph.dmtf.ovh/
1•damiotf•16m ago•0 comments

Thank you, but I prefer it my way

https://blog.julik.nl/2026/10/thanks-but-i-prefer-it-my-way
1•julik•17m ago•0 comments

AEONKit targets TheA1200 and Amiga's partners with worldwide trademark grab

https://twitter.com/amigadocuments/status/2113845174199828773
1•doener•18m ago•0 comments

Turn a single illustration into an animated 2D avatar: Mesh Avatar Studio

https://github.com/shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio
2•RileyMorgan093•22m ago•0 comments

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Physics Nobel Prize 1997) has died

https://www.lkb.fr/en/death-of-claude-cohen-tannoudji/
2•Qision•24m ago•0 comments

Malaysian PM Anwar Bans Civil Servants from Using Israel-Developed Mapping App

https://thediplomat.com/2026/10/malaysian-pm-anwar-bans-civil-servants-from-using-israel-develope...
1•thisislife2•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jam – a platform where beginners can collaborate in music

https://github.com/hellojunchobo/Jam-music
1•john2ne•25m ago•0 comments

Connecting ESP-Mosaico Board over ESP-Now to Run Amplifier Models in Parallel

https://circuitdigest.com/news/connecting-esp-mosaico-boards-wirelessly-over-esp-now-to-run-multi...
1•arbayi•26m ago•0 comments

October Counterfeit Block: What Happened and Where Every Coin Went

https://getbtcz.com/news/2026-10-22-counterfeit-block-1860181-every-coin-traced/
2•ztextzksnarks•27m ago•0 comments

Farol: The anti-slop workspace for your agents

https://www.farol.build/
2•acfilho•29m ago•0 comments

What Could Go Wrong

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/1password-launches-a-way-for-ai-agents-to-log-in-on-your-behalf...
1•mrc3llophane•31m ago•0 comments

Glyphh Ada: Decision model that learns from your past decisions, no transformer

https://glyphh.ai/blog/introducing-ada
1•glyphhai•32m ago•0 comments

The most important thing today is that Starlink and Starshield operations

https://twitter.com/zelenskyyua/status/2113990281322221932
2•doener•33m ago•0 comments

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
1•ingve•35m ago•0 comments

How AI Saved My Company From a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare

https://tylertringas.com/ai-legal/
2•karakoram•36m ago•0 comments

RFC 8949: STD 94: Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8949/
1•Bluestein•40m ago•0 comments

Not Invented Here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
3•amelius•40m ago•1 comments