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The Indo-European Family Tree

https://djbinder.com/language-tree/
18•benbreen•18h ago

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erminpour•18h ago
I can image the moment Sir William Jones realized Sanskrit and Latin had a common origin. "Wait a minute...these can't all be coincidences." It's pretty mid-blowing.
ahazred8ta•16h ago
English: God gave us teeth; God will give us bread.

Lithuanian: Dievas davė dantis; Dievas duos duonos.

Sanskrit: Devas adadat datas; Devas dat dhanas.

benbreen•45m ago
My daughters are growing up bilingual in Persian and English. Totally fascinating to find the cognates; many are surprisingly close still (daughter/dokhtar, star/setare, cow/gav). It’s fun feeling like I could communicate basic ideas to a proto Indo European speaker based on those really distant cognates.
ahazred8ta•15h ago
Cool. Looks good. But on Android Chrome the 'about' box covers the entire map, and the timeline slider is in the way too.
reader9274•46m ago
Very well organized.
flohofwoe•15m ago
Kinda funny that Bavarian is more distant from 'High German' than Yiddish :D (not exactly wrong though, Yiddish is easier to understand for any non-Bavarian than hardcore Bavarian).

There's at least a dozen local German dialects missing which are just as 'weird' as Bavarian though (PS: ok, all the main dialects spoken in the northern parts of Germany seem to be there, just in their own 'heritage node'), I guess Bavarian earned its own spot because it has the most speakers.

OutOfHere•15m ago
PIE was not just a commonality for language, but also for religion across these regions. And then came along the more radical Semitic wave of religions.
drivers99•9m ago
[delayed]

Spaghettifying DRAM

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts
251•matt_d•3h ago•68 comments

Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo

https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/come-for-eniac-stay-for-univac-and-skeduflo/
40•cainxinth•2d ago•6 comments

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

https://deepseek.com/harness/en/
392•bjin•4h ago•184 comments

Gloomberb

https://gloom.sh/
254•rbanffy•3h ago•119 comments

How art invented humanity

https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around
27•prismatic•18h ago•2 comments

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

https://oxide.computer/blog/kubernetes-on-oxide
79•stevehipwell•2h ago•25 comments

We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images

https://www.echo.ai/blog/echo-xnanoclaw-under-the-hood
47•omrimaya•3h ago•26 comments

Ordinary Abundance

https://ordinaryabundance.com/
55•yen223•3h ago•11 comments

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027
387•allanrbo•12h ago•264 comments

Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

https://github.com/fellowgeek/mcp-memory
44•pcbmaker20•3h ago•21 comments

I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10

https://alexmorleyfinch.github.io/marlin/history/v1/article/the_birth.html
76•dreamforever•3h ago•37 comments

Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-proves-the-fractal-uncertainty-principle-20260812/
29•bookofjoe•2h ago•5 comments

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/
312•Markoff•5h ago•334 comments

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/
109•thehoff•2h ago•123 comments

The mathematical physics of rainbows and glories (2001) [pdf]

https://tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu/AppliedUGMath/auxpaper_rainbow_glory_review.pdf
21•num42•2d ago•2 comments

Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10863
37•Jimmc414•3h ago•8 comments

ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

https://atg.science/careers
1•dkobran•5h ago

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

https://www.netlify.com/blog/one-prompt-11-models-very-different-results/
108•toddmorey•4h ago•54 comments

Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data

https://ojcp.dev/
10•fraywing•1d ago•0 comments

The Indo-European Family Tree

https://djbinder.com/language-tree/
19•benbreen•18h ago•9 comments

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

https://www.codewithbullet.com
15•adi1•9h ago•13 comments

Translating the Renaissance: 17,000+ historical source texts

https://sourcelibrary.org
8•dr_dshiv•5d ago•0 comments

Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia

https://pxl-th.github.io/blog/better-gs-julia/
77•pxl-th•4d ago•9 comments

The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021)

https://jdh.hamkins.org/the-lattice-of-sets-of-natural-numbers-is-rich/
92•benmandrew•3d ago•18 comments

Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'

https://www.techcentral.ie/mozilla-says-stricter-antitrust-measures-against-google-threaten-firefox/
4•speckx•57m ago•1 comments

GoAccess – open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

https://goaccess.io/
3•gregsadetsky•59m ago•0 comments

We Have AI at Home Chapter 1: A Box of Scraps

https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o-scraps/index.html
3•timmmmmmay•59m ago•0 comments

Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archives after cloud vendor goes defunct

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-aft...
117•vinayakborkar•4h ago•52 comments

Picking berries is my meditation

https://www.tsoon.com/posts/picking-berries-meditation/
93•mooreds•4d ago•73 comments

Delta

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta
644•khy•23h ago•236 comments