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SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
112•valyala•4h ago•18 comments

The F Word

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/friction.html
49•zdw•3d ago•15 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
28•gnufx•3h ago•20 comments

Speed up responses with fast mode

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode
59•surprisetalk•4h ago•66 comments

Software factories and the agentic moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
103•mellosouls•7h ago•183 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
146•AlexeyBrin•9h ago•26 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
103•vinhnx•7h ago•13 comments

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

https://openciv3.org/
854•klaussilveira•1d ago•261 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1096•xnx•1d ago•618 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
70•samasblack•6h ago•51 comments

Show HN: A luma dependent chroma compression algorithm (image compression)

https://www.bitsnbites.eu/a-spatial-domain-variable-block-size-luma-dependent-chroma-compression-...
9•mbitsnbites•3d ago•0 comments

Italy Railways Sabotaged

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo
13•vedantnair•34m ago•4 comments

I write games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
141•valyala•4h ago•117 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
240•jesperordrup•14h ago•81 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
64•thelok•6h ago•11 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
521•theblazehen•3d ago•192 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
34•momciloo•4h ago•5 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
95•onurkanbkrc•9h ago•5 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
14•languid-photic•3d ago•5 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
51•rbanffy•4d ago•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
193•1vuio0pswjnm7•10h ago•281 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
38•marklit•5d ago•6 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
260•alainrk•9h ago•433 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
619•nar001•8h ago•275 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
125•videotopia•4d ago•40 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
102•speckx•4d ago•123 comments

We mourn our craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
358•ColinWright•3h ago•430 comments

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

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
35•sandGorgon•2d ago•16 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
213•limoce•4d ago•119 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
290•isitcontent•1d ago•38 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.