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'Vampire Squid from Hell' Reveals the Ancient Origins of Octopuses

https://www.sciencealert.com/vampire-squid-from-hell-reveals-the-ancient-origins-of-octopuses
33•6LLvveMx2koXfwn•6d ago

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gostsamo•5h ago
listening to the title with a screen reader, it is so easy to move the "s" as the ending of the first word.
killerstorm•1h ago
I hate this kind of writing which is rather common in science reporting. Is it bad on purpose?

Seems like the purpose is to keep reader confused about some point to maximize time spent on page. And I'm quite certain LLM can do a lot better

ChrisMarshallNY•48m ago
> Interestingly, a massive 62 percent of the genome consists of repetitive elements, stretches of DNA that repeat over and over, inflating its size without adding new coding sequences.

Sounds like a lot of codebases I've looked at.

greenbit•23m ago
Ahh but the productivity metrics were so healthy!

Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

https://www.javaadvent.com/2025/12/java-hello-world-llvm-edition.html
21•ingve•1h ago•1 comments

Using LLMs at Oxide

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
463•steveklabnik•11h ago•182 comments

Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2N99BDw7A
385•zdw•13h ago•91 comments

Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab

https://sam.zeloof.xyz/second-ic/
209•embedding-shape•9h ago•42 comments

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
332•turrini•15h ago•134 comments

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115647408229616018
633•akyuu•23h ago•293 comments

The past was not that cute

https://juliawise.net/the-past-was-not-that-cute/
238•mhb•15h ago•300 comments

Principles of Slack Maximalism

https://aelerinya.substack.com/p/the-10-principles-of-slack-maximalism
34•surprisetalk•1w ago•23 comments

Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)

https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2025/10/28/eurydice.html
121•todsacerdoti•11h ago•66 comments

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/
459•LorenDB•22h ago•200 comments

Discovering the indieweb with calm tech

https://alexsci.com/blog/calm-tech-discover/
109•todsacerdoti•9h ago•9 comments

What even is "literate programming"? (2024)

https://pqnelson.github.io/2024/05/29/literate-programming.html
25•joecobb•4d ago•17 comments

Patching Pulse Oximeter Firmware

https://stefan-gloor.ch/pulseoximeter-hack
14•stgl•5d ago•1 comments

Perl's decline was cultural

https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical
277•todsacerdoti•19h ago•331 comments

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image
325•doener•1w ago•131 comments

Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/11/29/bikeshedding-or-laptop.html
151•cspags•6d ago•155 comments

My car charger can boil water really fast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INZybkX8tLI
44•zdw•1w ago•15 comments

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023)

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessible_HTML.html
243•el3ctron•22h ago•116 comments

Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17272
98•mirrir•16h ago•48 comments

OMSCS Open Courseware

https://sites.gatech.edu/omscsopencourseware/
189•kerim-ca•17h ago•71 comments

Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251203-japans-disappearing-snow-monsters
98•1659447091•13h ago•9 comments

Autism's confusing cousins

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-confusing-cousins
295•Anon84•1d ago•277 comments

'Vampire Squid from Hell' Reveals the Ancient Origins of Octopuses

https://www.sciencealert.com/vampire-squid-from-hell-reveals-the-ancient-origins-of-octopuses
33•6LLvveMx2koXfwn•6d ago•4 comments

United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]

https://www.usap.gov/usapgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/Continental-Field-Manual-2024.pdf
98•SheinhardtWigCo•14h ago•19 comments

Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On

https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/vision-sdk/tree/main/item/note/index.md
78•nkali•3d ago•8 comments

Oblast: A better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/oblast-better-blasto-game-for-commodore.html
27•todsacerdoti•11h ago•5 comments

Dhrystone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhrystone
31•krelian•4d ago•2 comments

Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwygqqll9k2o
207•josephcsible•12h ago•160 comments

The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude

https://blog.chrislewis.au/the-unexpected-effectiveness-of-one-shot-decompilation-with-claude/
216•knackers•1w ago•120 comments

A Struct Sockaddr Sequel

https://lwn.net/Articles/1045453/
4•g0xA52A2A•3h ago•0 comments