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Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

https://theconversation.com/the-real-mystery-behind-moana-after-1-700-years-why-did-polynesians-suddenly-sail-east-287226
29•pseudolus•3h ago

Comments

ohyoutravel•1h ago
This was covered in the movie.
goda90•57m ago
This talks about climate impacting the population, but it made me wonder if herd immunity to disease in an isolated population could cause population limiting diseases to go extinct after awhile.
mtoner23•42m ago
Food would be the biggest barrier to population growth in pre modern times
clickety_clack•36m ago
Why does anyone do anything? Some people obviously just got really into the idea of sailing to the islands.

Right now there are people in the world that are super into the idea of going to Mars. There’s no reason why anyone has to do it, but they’re into the idea of it and they’ll find whatever rationale they need to explain the desire.

kelseyfrog•14m ago
We're going to Mars because of rainfall patterns. The anthropologists of the future will peice together clues and come to the same conclusion.
RajT88•13m ago
"Why was there a massive migration to Mars starting in 2050? More importantly why did every wave of settlers die out almost immediately"?
yzydserd•34m ago
An increase in the supply of boat snacks?
dostick•30m ago
Same reason as everything - looking for women

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https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/
219•subset•4h ago•55 comments

AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-research-flattens-discovery
56•zaikunzhang•2h ago•40 comments

Understanding the Odin Programming Language

https://odinbook.com/
66•AlexeyBrin•3h ago•19 comments

Gina Gallery of International Naive Art

https://www.ginagallery.com/
14•o4c•2h ago•6 comments

Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty

https://dakra.github.io/ghostel/
121•signa11•6h ago•13 comments

Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/
210•compiler-guy•2d ago•123 comments

Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router

https://mrbruh.com/motorola/
42•MrBruh•3h ago•13 comments

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https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk
120•cosmtrek•9h ago•51 comments

Lessons from the Vasa Shipwreck

https://www.ft.com/content/200a6c44-9b66-4af3-82eb-98acb53898e4
12•bookofjoe•3d ago•8 comments

Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm
305•tionis•17h ago•71 comments

Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams

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92•billyp-rva•4h ago•21 comments

Ditching Zotero for a Text File

https://atthis.link/blog/2026/57207.html
27•speckx•5d ago•21 comments

Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world

https://satteri.bruits.org/
17•nateb2022•4d ago•2 comments

Protobuf-py: Protobuf for Python, without compromises

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-py
106•ming13•4d ago•27 comments

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom
328•adletbalzhanov•22h ago•140 comments

An agent in 100 lines of Lisp

https://thebeach.dev/posts/lisp-agent/
202•jamiebeach•4d ago•57 comments

Xbox 'OG' Adventures

https://mamoniem.com/xbox-og-adventures/
30•davikr•5d ago•4 comments

Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format

https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2026/handsum.html
38•dmit•4d ago•4 comments

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

https://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoy
184•mariuz•17h ago•25 comments

Relm – local LLMs as base-R objects, with interpretability

https://github.com/Vadale/R-ebirth
3•grauk•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

https://antjs.org
308•theMackabu•19h ago•137 comments

I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)

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97•c-c-c-c-c•3d ago•34 comments

Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

https://theconversation.com/the-real-mystery-behind-moana-after-1-700-years-why-did-polynesians-s...
29•pseudolus•3h ago•8 comments

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/
28•alexpls•2h ago•2 comments

EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster

https://steven-giesel.com/blogPost/d4401fd0-805a-4703-9d9e-5fe3b57c25ea
62•rellem•1w ago•30 comments

Text art tools

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78•surprisetalk•4d ago•22 comments

Fibonacci's Real Mathematical Legacy

https://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2017/04/20/fibonaccis-mathematical-legacy/
24•ColinWright•4d ago•8 comments

Modern decor may be straining people's brains

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250•downwithdisease•23h ago•243 comments

UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction

https://timeseriesofindia.com/economy/reads/upi-architecture/
219•prtk25•23h ago•103 comments

Jellyfish Undersea Roundabout

https://visitfaroeislands.com/en/plan-your-stay/getting-around/world-first-under-sea-roundabout
70•hydrogen7800•3d ago•24 comments