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Ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved

https://apnews.com/article/oldest-reptile-footprints-australia-963e3c38c8d5782e7ac20f5405f15f89

16•gmays•3d ago

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veunes•1h ago

The detail that really stuck with me was the presence of claws. That small anatomical feature says so much

singularity2001•25m ago

on the other hand I have seen fish with claws

adityaathalye•54m ago

Getting Silurian Hypothesis vibes [1], thinking about subduction, glaciers, the rise and abatement of sea levels, and just plain ol' erosion and corrosion.

That something so incredibly ephemeral as footprints in dirt could survive longer than the rings of Saturn is breathtaking. Except Sharks. Sharks are not only breath-taking, they are forever [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/comments/dp7key/things_in...

Gemini Diffusion

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/

511•mdp2021•8h ago•122 comments

Decibels Are Ridiculous

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous

194•Ariarule•4h ago•106 comments

JEP 519: Compact Object Headers

https://openjdk.org/jeps/519

21•Skinney•54m ago•2 comments

Inigo Quilez: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene

https://iquilezles.org/articles/

102•federicoponzi•3d ago•14 comments

Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-lsp

87•todsacerdoti•6h ago•48 comments

Why does Debian change software?

https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2025/why-debian-changes/

69•tapanjk•2h ago•40 comments

Direct TLS can speed up your connections

https://marc-bowes.com/postgres-direct-tls.html

35•tanelpoder•3h ago•9 comments

Getting a paper accepted

https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/how-to-get-a-paper-accepted/

128•stefanpie•7h ago•54 comments

A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?

https://duckdb.org/2025/05/19/the-lost-decade-of-small-data.html

84•andreasha•3d ago•28 comments

For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time-20250521/

266•makira•13h ago•71 comments

Devstral

https://mistral.ai/news/devstral

526•mfiguiere•18h ago•115 comments

CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/

163•ben_w•2d ago•85 comments

ITXPlus: A ITX Sized Macintosh Plus Logicboard Reproduction

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/itxplus-a-itx-sized-macintosh-plus-logicboard-reproduction.49715/

86•zdw•11h ago•19 comments

Rocky Linux 10 Will Support RISC-V

https://rockylinux.org/news/rockylinux-support-for-riscv

142•fork-bomber•12h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table

https://github.com/derekeder/csv-to-html-table

139•indigodaddy•8h ago•26 comments

Collaborative Text Editing Without CRDTs or OT

https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html

232•samwillis•16h ago•64 comments

Hotspot: Linux `perf` GUI for performance analysis

https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot

8•jez•2d ago•2 comments

Gemini figured out my nephew’s name

https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/May/gemini-figured-out-my-nephews-name/

118•BeetleB•3d ago•61 comments

When a team is too big

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/when-a-team-is-too-big

4•gpi•3d ago•0 comments

OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal

731•minimaxir•16h ago•982 comments

Animated Factorization (2012)

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/factorization/animated-diagrams/

252•miniBill•18h ago•55 comments

LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective

https://jngiam.bearblog.dev/mcp-large-data/

229•jngiam1•16h ago•82 comments

The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (2015)

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-curious-tale-of-bhutans-playable-record-postage-stamps/

109•ohjeez•14h ago•14 comments

The Machine Stops (1909)

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/short-fiction/text/the-machine-stops

92•xeonmc•12h ago•19 comments

An upgraded dev experience in Google AI Studio

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-ai-studio-native-code-generation-agentic-tools-upgrade/

155•meetpateltech•15h ago•92 comments

Sorcerer (YC S24) Is Hiring a Lead Hardware Design Engineer

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sorcerer/6beb70de-9956-49b7-8e28-f48ea39efac6

1•maxmclau•12h ago

Dijkstra on Ada

https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/dijkstra-on-ada/

44•cpeterso•8h ago•13 comments

Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25K47.html

132•ddahlen•14h ago•87 comments

Show HN: Confidential computing for high-assurance RISC-V embedded systems

https://github.com/IBM/ACE-RISCV

89•mrnoone•12h ago•6 comments

Ancient reptile footprints are rewriting the history of when animals evolved

https://apnews.com/article/oldest-reptile-footprints-australia-963e3c38c8d5782e7ac20f5405f15f89

16•gmays•3d ago•3 comments