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Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123

35•bikenaga•6h ago

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WalterBright•1h ago

They could also be simply idle doodling or decorations.

bryanlarsen•1h ago

Too bad we don't have a paper that applies information theory techniques to answer that question. Oh wait...

WalterBright•35m ago

I remain skeptical. Pictures in clouds.

iberator•42m ago

Ha! And someone today at HN laughed at the research of monkeys playing with crystals...

Maybe one day we could communicate with monkeys with marbles and crystals and stuff as SIGN language.

Imagine monkey soldiers becoming reality in AI WARS.

citizenpaul•29m ago

Sorry to be the wet blanket. However research on monkeys/apes has for the most part proven that their intelligence is at a dead end and never can progress past what is basically around human 2yo level.

MacBook Neo

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/say-hello-to-macbook-neo/

1381•dm•9h ago•1733 comments

Building a new Flash

https://bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/1607118

149•TechPlasma•3h ago•31 comments

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/

452•simonw•7h ago•215 comments

Does that use a lot of energy?

https://hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-comparisons/

146•speckx•2h ago•108 comments

BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0455864EN/bmw-group-to-deploy-humanoid-robo...

29•JeanKage•2h ago•22 comments

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program

https://www.moss.town/

140•smusamashah•12h ago•19 comments

An interactive map of Flock Cams

https://deflock.org/map#map=5/37.125286/-96.284180

454•anjel•4h ago•172 comments

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute

https://qlabs.sh/slowrun

101•sdpmas•5h ago•13 comments

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs

https://cubiclenate.com/2026/03/04/data-has-weight-but-only-on-ssds-blathering/

55•LorenDB•4h ago•33 comments

Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123

35•bikenaga•6h ago•13 comments

The View from RSS

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss/

44•Curiositry•3h ago•12 comments

It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

29•bikeshaving•1h ago•17 comments

The Rust calling convention we deserve (2024)

https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/04/17/calling-convention/

51•cratermoon•3d ago•7 comments

“It turns out” (2010)

https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out

222•Munksgaard•8h ago•72 comments

Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/32511/was-windows-1-0s-lack-of-overlapping-win...

37•SeenNotHeard•3h ago•21 comments

NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years [pdf]

https://www.nrc.gov/sites/default/files/cdn/doc-collection-news/2026/26-028.pdf

16•Anon84•1h ago•3 comments

Roboflow (YC S20) Is Hiring a Security Engineer for AI Infra

https://roboflow.com/careers

1•yeldarb•5h ago

Flip Distance of Convex Triangulations and Tree Rotation Is NP-Complete

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22874

7•nill0•4d ago•0 comments

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation

https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5/fine-tune

242•bilsbie•11h ago•59 comments

Glaze by Raycast

https://www.glazeapp.com/

177•romac•9h ago•106 comments

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck

220•mmsc•5h ago•161 comments

Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

https://www.pesfandiar.com/blog/2026/02/28/pico-am-radio-transmitter

55•pesfandiar•3d ago•25 comments

Accessibility Issues Are Often Usability Issues

https://protovate.com/blog/you-dont-need-accessibility-until-you-do/

8•janadiamond•1h ago•6 comments

Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

https://libre.solar

188•evolve2k•3d ago•57 comments

Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency

https://github.com/jghub/sd-switchdir

6•jghub•13h ago•0 comments

Approximation Game

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/approximation-game

10•surprisetalk•4d ago•0 comments

Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection

https://gist.github.com/jjl/d998164191af59a594500687a679b98d

40•todsacerdoti•4h ago•2 comments

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone

https://www.kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/kth-studenten-hackade-klocka-for-barn-1.1461249

103•jidoka•10h ago•28 comments

My Favorite 39C3 Talks

https://asindu.xyz/my-favorite-39c3-talks/

44•max_•3d ago•3 comments

To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/science/chimpanzees-crystals.html

83•jimnotgym•15h ago•54 comments