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How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fecal-revolution-earth-ecosystems.html
11•the-mitr•3d ago

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ErroneousBosh•32m ago
We eat because there's six inches of earth, it rains sometimes, and cows and pigs shit solid gold.
hiworld6543•12m ago
This is such clickbait. The research showed that distribution of nutrients coincided with biological diversity. Big deal. That’s how manure fertilizer works, which we’ve known for five millennia.

I bet some academic paper mill gave out a phd for this drivel.

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge
35•epestr•1h ago•3 comments

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/
152•aanet•2d ago•26 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
599•tosh•14h ago•360 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
215•moelf•9h ago•72 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
603•RickJWagner•19h ago•678 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
331•piotrgrabowski•14h ago•83 comments

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voya...
216•wglb•6h ago•37 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
200•aagha•13h ago•61 comments

SupererDuperer

https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/supererduperer
94•zdw•6d ago•18 comments

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
281•Meleagris•7h ago•131 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
229•moonikakiss•13h ago•196 comments

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million...
65•yk•3d ago•26 comments

From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree

https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/08/03/merkle-tree.html
13•denismenace•3d ago•0 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
343•inigyou•1d ago•309 comments

How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-fecal-revolution-earth-ecosystems.html
11•the-mitr•3d ago•2 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
460•delduca•14h ago•308 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
165•MarcoDewey•16h ago•37 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
181•artninja1988•15h ago•174 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
158•cckolon•6d ago•20 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
138•jnord•19h ago•97 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
281•poly2it•21h ago•136 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych
67•theanonymousone•13h ago•4 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-inter...
185•Bender•11h ago•123 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
190•m3h•21h ago•49 comments

Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989)

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/08/02/games-at-the-press-of-a-button-the-rip-o-bot/
32•msephton•5d ago•9 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html
65•birdculture•4d ago•5 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
757•boplicity•1d ago•405 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/
71•ibobev•17h ago•10 comments

As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program

https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
132•allenc•4d ago•91 comments

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3
55•dnnehgf•4h ago•17 comments