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France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
54•nar001•1h ago•28 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
322•theblazehen•2d ago•106 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
44•AlexeyBrin•2h ago•8 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
23•onurkanbkrc•1h ago•1 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
725•klaussilveira•16h ago•225 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
52•alainrk•1h ago•49 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
986•xnx•22h ago•562 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
109•jesperordrup•7h ago•42 comments

Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
22•matt_d•3d ago•4 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
79•videotopia•4d ago•12 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
143•matheusalmeida•2d ago•37 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
245•isitcontent•17h ago•27 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
252•dmpetrov•17h ago•130 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
5•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

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

https://vecti.com
348•vecti•19h ago•154 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
514•todsacerdoti•1d ago•250 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
397•ostacke•23h ago•102 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
49•helloplanets•4d ago•50 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
313•eljojo•19h ago•193 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
363•aktau•23h ago•189 comments

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

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

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
443•lstoll•23h ago•292 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
78•kmm•5d ago•11 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
98•quibono•4d ago•24 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
26•bikenaga•3d ago•14 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
283•i5heu•19h ago•232 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...
48•gmays•12h ago•19 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/
1093•cdrnsf•1d ago•474 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
313•surprisetalk•3d ago•45 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
161•vmatsiiako•21h ago•73 comments
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Y chromosome shared by living family descendants

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-leonardo-da-vinci-dna-chromosome.html
24•bookofjoe•4mo ago

Comments

catlikesshrimp•4mo ago
It is interesting that the average age of conception in the series is 33 years (21 generations in 700 years) It seems an old age, historically.

The age of coming of women in my country was 15 years old. I think it was common in Latin America. The age of consent is now 16 yo. In Colombian is 14 yo, I think.

p1esk•4mo ago
What was the average age of conception for the last child?
catlikesshrimp•4mo ago
We only know the average of the age of conception of the group of male descendants trace. I explained why I fancied the average age lower. What do you think could make it actually higher, hypothetically?
p1esk•4mo ago
It depends on how many kids his descendants had. If it were, say, five kids on average, and we are tracing an average descendant, then the age of conception of child #3 can well be 33 years old.
apothegm•4mo ago
This is the Y chromosome. On average men start families later than women do.
catlikesshrimp•4mo ago
Your comment made me realize something: Men do start families later than women do, and it is mostly sons in their families who are recognized. The sons they have before starting families can go unnoticed. Now the older age average makes more sense.
lif•4mo ago
tl;dr:

"15 direct male-line descendants related genealogically to both Leonardo's father and to his half-brother"

jojomodding•4mo ago
They haven't proven any genetic relationships between the currently alive and the ancient entombed bodies yet. So far they only confirmed that the currently alive people all share a straight-line male ancestor.
ttoinou•4mo ago
What would be missing to make the link between those two facts ? Im beginner in biology
kristianp•4mo ago
This seems bizarre to me. Why do people think they'll learn anything from what few fragments of dna they can recover? From a single unique individual? Seems like a big waste of money.