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Great Oxidation Event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
18•Bluestein•10h ago

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BuyMyBitcoins•9h ago
Isn’t it fascinating that life on Earth began and evolved in such a radically different chemical environment? What we consider inhospitable was actually the cradle of life itself.
Bluestein•8h ago
It is. How the whole thing "bootstrapped" itself, to where "oxygenation" enabled higher and yet higher complexity, leading to ...

... us.-

tim333•6h ago
It is. Largely oxygen free life continues deep underground which may be where things started.
bestouff•9h ago
Oh,i thought it was yet another "rewrite it in Rust" thingy ...
Bluestein•8h ago
Not familiar ... sounds interesting ...

Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

https://quantum5.ca/2025/05/11/fast-cheap-bulk-storage-using-lvm-to-cache-hdds-on-ssds/
18•todsacerdoti•1h ago•1 comments

Resizable structs in Zig

https://tristanpemble.com/resizable-structs-in-zig/
97•rvrb•7h ago•43 comments

Show HN: QuickTunes: Apple Music player for Mac with iPod vibes

https://furnacecreek.org/quicktunes/
56•albertru90•5h ago•13 comments

How we rooted Copilot

https://research.eye.security/how-we-rooted-copilot/
274•uponasmile•12h ago•106 comments

Consciousness and being: How humans and AI influence each other

https://habr.com/en/articles/930946/
11•kamil_gr•15h ago•6 comments

Purple Earth hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis
191•colinprince•3d ago•55 comments

Paul Dirac and the religion of mathematical beauty (2011) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPwo1XsKKXg
42•magnifique•6h ago•3 comments

Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)

https://www.elidourado.com/p/personal-aviation
65•JumpCrisscross•5h ago•67 comments

Rust running on every GPU

https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/07/25/rust-on-every-gpu/
502•littlestymaar•18h ago•171 comments

What went wrong for Yahoo

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-went-wrong-for-yahoo/
134•giuliomagnifico•10h ago•137 comments

Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing

https://www.infineon.com/part/BGT60TR13C
31•teleforce•3d ago•9 comments

Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/health/coronary-artery-calcium-heart.html
51•brandonb•7h ago•44 comments

Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/BashGoodSetEReports
86•zdw•3d ago•29 comments

The Electron E1 Processor

https://www.efficient.computer/announcing-electron-e1-processor
4•bane•1h ago•1 comments

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

https://norvig.com/21-days.html
60•smartmic•7h ago•14 comments

The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/lab-grown-diamonds-1.7592336
162•geox•16h ago•204 comments

Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17615
36•virgildotcodes•6h ago•4 comments

Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python

https://github.com/patrick-kidger/tinyio
50•tehnub•4d ago•12 comments

16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive

https://16colo.rs/
3•debo_•3d ago•1 comments

Arvo Pärt at 90

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/24/the-god-of-small-things-celebrating-arvo-part-at-90
58•merrier•7h ago•17 comments

Millet mystery: A staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-millet-mystery-staple-crop-root.html
25•PaulHoule•3d ago•7 comments

Where are vacation homes located in the US?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/where-are-vacation-homes-located
74•rufus_foreman•10h ago•68 comments

Asyncio: A library with too many sharp corners

https://sailor.li/asyncio
68•chubot•5h ago•62 comments

Test Results for AMD Zen 5

https://www.agner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=287&start=10
213•matt_d•10h ago•39 comments

Shallow water is dangerous too

https://www.jefftk.com/p/shallow-water-is-dangerous-too
96•surprisetalk•3d ago•54 comments

CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cctv-footage-captures-the-first-ever-video-of-an-earthquake-fault-in-motion-shining-a-rare-light-on-seismic-dynamics-180987034/
430•chrononaut•1d ago•77 comments

Large ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs uncovered by waves on Oahu

https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-petroglyphs-uncovered-20780579.php
76•c420•4d ago•23 comments

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/open-sauce-confoundingly-brilliant-bay-area-event
320•rbanffy•3d ago•185 comments

OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html
100•smartmic•7h ago•30 comments

Font-size-adjust Is Useful

https://matklad.github.io/2025/07/16/font-size-adjust.html
162•Bogdanp•3d ago•50 comments