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From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7ekl4yl8o
24•RickJWagner•3h ago

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smartbit•1h ago
Highly recommended documentary Seeds of Time (2013) [0] on Dr. Cary Fowler at the FAO responsible for building the Spitsbergen/Svalbard Global Seed Vault [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeds_of_Time_(film)

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

a_bonobo•59m ago
I'd also recommend reading up on the Vavilov collection in St. Petersburg: an incredible history.

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-tragedy-...

Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024)

https://zenodo.org/records/14179366
14•hhutw•40m ago•0 comments

Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake
283•jbm•7h ago•137 comments

Forth: The programming language that writes itself

https://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html
65•suioir•3h ago•18 comments

Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware

https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vintage_Synth_Firmware.html
12•jmillikin•1h ago•0 comments

Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013)

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/advice.html
433•peterkshultz•11h ago•143 comments

Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%

https://github.com/Gillou68310/DukeNukemZeroHour
101•birdculture•7h ago•39 comments

QuickDrawViewer: A Mac OS X utility to visualise QuickDraw (PICT) files

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer
38•ibobev•4h ago•13 comments

Gleam OTP – Fault Tolerant Multicore Programs with Actors

https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
65•TheWiggles•5h ago•22 comments

Airliner hit by possible space debris

https://avbrief.com/united-max-hit-by-falling-object-at-36000-feet/
245•d_silin•10h ago•128 comments

Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi

https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/dosbian/
110•indigodaddy•8h ago•44 comments

Don't Force Your LLM to Write Terse [Q/Kdb] Code: An Information Theory Argument

https://medium.com/@gabiteodoru/dont-force-your-llm-to-write-terse-code-an-argument-from-informat...
4•gabiteodoru•6d ago•3 comments

Oskar Speck's 1932 Kayak Journey from Germany to Australia

https://nswskc.wordpress.com/2002/10/24/incredible-journey-50/
17•dividendpayee•1w ago•0 comments

Compare Single Board Computers

https://sbc.compare/
122•todsacerdoti•10h ago•50 comments

What's Behind the Mysterious Ancient Wall in the Gobi Desert?

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-hunt-gobi-wall-mongolia-2674588
29•derbOac•1w ago•14 comments

From Hollywood to horticulture: Cate Blanchett on a mission to save seeds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7ekl4yl8o
24•RickJWagner•3h ago•2 comments

GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime

https://blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-meets-jupyterlite-compute-anywhere-anytime-8b033afbbcdc
117•bauta-steen•12h ago•33 comments

Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil

https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-produced-first-blackwell-wafer-us-soil/
37•kristianp•2h ago•6 comments

Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s

https://www.xda-developers.com/absolutely-unhinged-gpu-box-art-from-the-early-2000s/
80•m-hodges•2h ago•34 comments

LoC Is a Dumb Metric for Functions

https://theaxolot.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/loc-is-a-dumb-metric-for-functions/
18•Axol•4h ago•19 comments

Deterministic multithreading is hard (2024)

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-415
70•adtac•18h ago•7 comments

The Spilhaus Projection: A world map according to fish

https://southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/the-spilhaus-projection-a-world-map-according-to-fish
104•zynovex•1w ago•14 comments

Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/14/fridge-power-consumption/
135•furkansahin•5d ago•175 comments

Pawn is a simple, typeless, 32-bit extension language with a C-like syntax

https://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm
15•unleaded•1w ago•3 comments

Carefully Educated to Be Idiots

https://www.hilarylayne.com/p/very-carefully-educated-to-be-idiots
10•DavidPiper•3h ago•6 comments

Discussion of the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Git Pre-Commit Hook

https://yeldirium.de/2025/10/09/pre-commit-hooks/index.html
7•hambes•1w ago•2 comments

The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA)

https://www.cancerimagingarchive.net/
40•1970-01-01•6d ago•3 comments

Replua.nvim – an Emacs-style scratch buffer for executing Lua

https://github.com/mghaight/replua.nvim
15•mghaig•5h ago•1 comments

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infisical/jobs/0gY2Da1-full-stack-engineer-global
1•vmatsiiako•11h ago

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/xz-backdoor-debian-git-detection/
84•ottoke•10h ago•69 comments

The working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn't see in the movies

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/move-over-alan-turing-meet-the-working-class-hero-o...
100•hansmayer•1w ago•51 comments