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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
310•nar001•3h ago•154 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205nxy0p31o
63•bookofjoe•47m ago•37 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

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

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
72•AlexeyBrin•4h ago•14 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
22•samasblack•1h ago•14 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
762•klaussilveira•18h ago•237 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
46•onurkanbkrc•3h ago•3 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
21•vinhnx•2h ago•2 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1013•xnx•1d ago•576 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
136•alainrk•3h ago•155 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
150•jesperordrup•9h ago•56 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
12•rbanffy•4d ago•0 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
98•videotopia•4d ago•24 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
150•matheusalmeida•2d ago•40 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
258•isitcontent•19h ago•27 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
31•matt_d•4d ago•8 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
271•dmpetrov•19h ago•144 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
537•todsacerdoti•1d ago•262 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
3•marklit•5d ago•0 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
413•ostacke•1d ago•105 comments

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

https://vecti.com
356•vecti•21h ago•161 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
60•helloplanets•4d ago•59 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
329•eljojo•21h ago•201 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
453•lstoll•1d ago•297 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
368•aktau•1d ago•192 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
13•sandGorgon•2d ago•3 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
7•andmarios•4d ago•1 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...
58•gmays•14h ago•23 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
298•i5heu•21h ago•256 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
108•quibono•5d ago•34 comments
Open in hackernews

Genetic code enables zebrafish to mend damaged organs

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/genetic-code-enables-zebrafish-to-mend-damaged-organs
115•bookofjoe•7mo ago

Comments

zombot•7mo ago
Genetic code enables lizards to regrow their tails.
sidewndr46•7mo ago
I have also used genetic code to repair my epidermis with a fibrous tissue after injury. It keeps moisture in and pathogens out.
dietr1ch•7mo ago
This but a scratch
lawlessone•7mo ago
Genetic code enables me to understand that reference.
TedDoesntTalk•7mo ago
Future humans will be part human, part lizard, part zebra fish, and seveal other species. We will regrow teeth, heart, and limbs. Sometimes we might accidentally grow a tail.
ecef9-8c0f-4374•7mo ago
We do already...sometimes. Vestigial tail
MangoToupe•7mo ago
To a certain extent. Often times the regenerated "tails" are fatty stubs.
flobosg•7mo ago
The related publication is unfortunately paywalled, but here’s the preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.16.633462v1
taneq•7mo ago
"Zebrafish mends damaged organs using Genetics and Code."

    if (organIsDamaged()) {
        dont();
    }
sydbarrett74•7mo ago
Two words: nocturnal bottleneck.
sydbarrett74•7mo ago
Don’t know why this was downvoted. It’s a compelling hypothesis.
m3kw9•7mo ago
We really have to ask why humans did not evolve to have this capability before trying to jig one up
danielbln•7mo ago
Because nothing comes without a cost. Maybe mutations that would allow us to regrow limbs also lead to horrific cancers that snuffed out any chance for reproduction. Maybe the benefit didn't outweigh the additional energy budget. Maybe it was just not necessary for procreation vs our advanced cognition so it never played into evolutionary fitness (compared to a lizard that can drop a tail when it's attacked, and regrow it for the neYt attack, which would surely improve its evolutionary fitness).

Additional reasons: our mammalian organs are highly complex, we live a long time, we are large animals with giant brains and high metabolic cost. The list goes on.

kjkjadksj•7mo ago
In some ways evolution is inevitable but it is also a stroke of luck. The mutation behind the phenotype needs to actually happen. Then the mutant individual needs to actually have outsized reproductive success such that their progeny outcompetes with others and these mutant alleles spread in the population.