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Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-cats-became-inbred-and-struggled-move-they-went-extinct
9•gmays•1h ago

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Animats•41m ago
Another predator that went through a genetic choke point. Cheetahs did, too.[1] Cheetahs survived, but they are so similar genetically that they get the same illnesses, and skin grafts between unrelated cheetahs are not rejected.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/108/6/671/3836924

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
441•speckx•5h ago•260 comments

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
386•tomzorz•6h ago•133 comments

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
100•navs•3h ago•37 comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
429•ai2027•7h ago•380 comments

Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-1-release
13•ernestrc•1h ago•4 comments

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/
8•volumes94•28m ago•0 comments

CodePen 2.0

https://chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/
105•robin_reala•5h ago•27 comments

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-...
632•dickfickling•4h ago•348 comments

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/
158•ibobev•7h ago•79 comments

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
449•tedsanders•5h ago•282 comments

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

https://www.ctgt.ai/research/distillation-censorship-transfer
64•cgorlla•4h ago•44 comments

2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

https://obryant.dev/p/2x-not-10x/
172•tnisonoff•5d ago•129 comments

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

https://github.com/MemoireMorte/Memo-1
40•sciences44•2d ago•3 comments

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses
256•Areibman•5h ago•158 comments

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html
325•dmantis•12h ago•402 comments

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
172•javaeeeee•7h ago•77 comments

Making Postgres queues scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/making-postgres-queues-scale
94•KraftyOne•4h ago•21 comments

Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer
1•george_rose25•6h ago

Bad Apple but It's Traceroute

https://jssfr.de/2026-07-27-bad-apple-but-traceroute.html
26•jssfr•3d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite

https://kedge.dev/
76•wgjordan•1d ago•15 comments

Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0

https://portzero.net/
15•octopoc•3d ago•12 comments

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
220•arto•11h ago•251 comments

Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

https://phulin.me/blog/poker/
35•patrickhulin•7h ago•12 comments

Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a
157•crescit_eundo•10h ago•191 comments

Hacker Public Radio

https://hackerpublicradio.org/
119•bmacho•8h ago•21 comments

Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-cats-became-inbred-and-struggled-move-they-...
9•gmays•1h ago•1 comments

Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm
162•ryannevius•9h ago•41 comments

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

https://prized.dev
63•marinoseliades•9h ago•44 comments

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/
99•facundo_olano•8h ago•137 comments

Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-why-dna-damage-from-smoking-and-uv-rays-may-cau...
77•gmays•8h ago•90 comments