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Start all of your commands with a comma

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
143•theblazehen•2d ago•42 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
668•klaussilveira•14h ago•202 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
949•xnx•19h ago•551 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
122•matheusalmeida•2d ago•33 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
53•videotopia•4d ago•2 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
17•kaonwarb•3d ago•19 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
229•isitcontent•14h ago•25 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
28•jesperordrup•4h ago•16 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
223•dmpetrov•14h ago•118 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
331•vecti•16h ago•143 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
494•todsacerdoti•22h ago•243 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
381•ostacke•20h ago•95 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
359•aktau•20h ago•181 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
288•eljojo•17h ago•169 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
412•lstoll•20h ago•278 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
63•kmm•5d ago•6 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
19•bikenaga•3d ago•4 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
90•quibono•4d ago•21 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
256•i5heu•17h ago•196 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
32•romes•4d ago•3 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
44•helloplanets•4d ago•42 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
12•speckx•3d ago•6 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

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59•gfortaine•12h ago•25 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
33•gmays•9h ago•12 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1066•cdrnsf•23h ago•446 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
150•vmatsiiako•19h ago•67 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
288•surprisetalk•3d ago•43 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
150•SerCe•10h ago•138 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
183•limoce•3d ago•98 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
73•phreda4•13h ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

1,700 year old egg never broke

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/liquid-inside-ancient-egg
100•demadog•9mo ago

Comments

fifilura•9mo ago
I guess they are scientists and know better than me, but my bet is that is will just contain sludge.

Egg shells are more organic than you expect.

This is why you use stuff like waterglass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate to seal them.

mulmen•9mo ago
> Egg shells are more organic than you expect.

I expect them to be completely organic. What else would they be?

fifilura•9mo ago
Mostly calcium carbonate.
parl_match•9mo ago
namespace collision: to the layperson, it's organic because it came from an organism. from a chemical perspective, it's considered non-organic

i admit i read ops comment and was confused for a second until it clicked. they're mostly calcium carbonate

mulmen•9mo ago
I wondered about that but then in context wasn’t sure of the relevance. I’m aware that even fresh eggs are somewhat porous and wouldn’t expect the contents to last beyond a week before beginning to break down.
foxyv•9mo ago
Calcium carbonate. So a salt I guess?
mulmen•9mo ago
So eggs shells are less organic than I would think.
ars•9mo ago
I think they should not pierce it, but instead leave it for future humans to study.
timschmidt•9mo ago
Forbidden breakfast!
teruakohatu•9mo ago
Science funding requires doing something. Nobody funds you to not do something.

Regardless of getting funding, I don't see why our level of technology is not adequate to study an egg.

sdwr•9mo ago
It might be the only 1700 year old egg in the world. Surely the prudent thing to do is wait some fraction of its age (200 years?) and reevaluate. What are the chances that, out of all of history, now is the best time to open it?
lazide•9mo ago
It’s already been removed from it’s protective environment and will degrade long before 200 years.
yumraj•9mo ago
Depending on how you look at it, the ones studying it are future humans.
creatonez•9mo ago
Don't worry, I'll find another one
nyanpasu64•9mo ago
The eggshell looks like a century egg, but as mentioned by the comment the contents may have decomposed if the mud wasn't alkaline like the century egg production process.
phinnaeus•9mo ago
It’s a 17 century egg, to be precise
anshumankmr•9mo ago
I dare them to make an omelette wit that.
a3w•9mo ago
Can't make science without breaking an egg!
foreigner•9mo ago
Fry it up with bog butter!
fsckboy•9mo ago
>Scientists are eager to use DNA testing to establish the species that laid the egg

how much DNA is in an egg, isn't it just a single cell with a single nucleus? and if unfertilized is haploid?

fbn79•9mo ago
In addition to the single nucleus the egg can contains trace of DNA from the mother
mseepgood•9mo ago
Of course they are going to break it.
slow123_•9mo ago
duke dennis must’ve saved the egg for breakfast but forgot about it loll
shrx•9mo ago
I wonder why they don't put it in a CT scanner first before breaking it.
Cyphase•9mo ago
> A Micro CT scan showed that this ancient egg is still full of liquid.

> “Researchers are planning to carefully extract the liquid to better study it,” stated Edward Biddulph, Senior Project Manager, who oversaw the site excavation. “It’s a controlled process similar to egg blowing, where a tiny hole is made in its shell after creating a 3D model.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_microtomography

metalman•9mo ago
I think it is a mistake not to cut the top off the egg and just look inside as ancient egg shell has no value after it drys out and the visual information may be unique,so off with its top, and then take samples of the "liquid" and the inner shell lining, if it's present, and then see if there is any remaining structure of an embryo or the egg as laid.
shrx•9mo ago
Apologies, apparently I missed this part in the article since the large ad banner immediately next to it distracted me.
coldpie•9mo ago
Install an ad blocker, friend!
efilife•9mo ago
ublock origin to be specific
robofanatic•9mo ago
Story of an egg that never hatched.
knighthack•9mo ago
I'm willing to bet there's a dragon in that egg.