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'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
37•gumby•4h ago

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scun•53m ago
> The results revealed that Jonathan has “unique gene variants in most aging pathways” including DNA repair, insulin regulation, mitochondrial function, and “low entropy” methylation, reports the study.

min-maxing longevity vs speed and charisma

luipugs•6m ago
I dunno, I think he's pretty charismatic. He has all these researchers wanting to spend time with him.
Ancalagon•51m ago
He doesn't look a day over 90!
pil0u•49m ago
Can't we just appreciate that exceptionality as it is?

Somehow, I wish we would leave that creature alone. For once.

samudrijan•43m ago
In the Leftovers people think living in Jarden is why they were left. Maybe St Helena is the new Jarden.
dyauspitr•34m ago
Interesting so the oldest land animal hasn’t cracked 200 but stuff that lives in the sea can go for five or 600 years or more.
epolanski•29m ago
There's sharks out there that are much older than the United States.

And sponges older than pyramids.

repeekad•16m ago
> the samples were delivered from Saint Helena to Florida by the U.S. Space Force.

...why space force?

Claude Haiku 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5
649•sfkgtbor•6h ago•324 comments

Margaret Hamilton has died

https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
591•muglug•3h ago•63 comments

GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-for-everyone/
480•joshuawright11•6h ago•248 comments

'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth

https://www.404media.co/oldest-living-land-animal-jonathan-the-tortoise/
38•gumby•4h ago•9 comments

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46•pavel_lishin•2d ago•31 comments

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https://bigwords.page/
341•SpeakingOfBrad•9h ago•108 comments

Docker Agent

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent
171•saikatsg•7h ago•81 comments

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science/first-nuclear-clocks-thorium-229.html
19•gumby•6h ago•1 comments

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https://debasishg.github.io/blog/push-ifs-up-fors-down/
101•speckx•6h ago•48 comments

Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome
477•AshleysBrain•13h ago•305 comments

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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20261005-00/?p=112755/
35•ibobev•1d ago•10 comments

A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU

https://carette.xyz/posts/minimal_swift_kernel_on_qemu/
7•surprisetalk•1d ago•3 comments

Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

https://ascii.rest/
282•turrini•9h ago•57 comments

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98•glinscott•1d ago•47 comments

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https://tidesdb.com/articles/tidesdb-now-available-for-mysql/
24•alexpadula•2d ago•4 comments

A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps

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380•sohkamyung•15h ago•62 comments

Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144
242•nill0•9h ago•151 comments

Brownian Motion

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/04/22/brownian-motion/
24•signa11•1d ago•0 comments

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/
1224•OfficialTurkey•1d ago•1402 comments

Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

https://www.rswebsols.com/news/meta-and-microsoft-take-steps-to-reduce-employee-usage-of-claude-ai/
261•speckx•6h ago•258 comments

House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

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155•librasteve•11h ago•155 comments

Wood Tape (2004)

http://gamesbyemail.com/WoodTape/Default.htm
153•NaOH•1d ago•19 comments

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2026/press-release/
290•sasvari•15h ago•54 comments

Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees

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477•DeepLogin•9h ago•337 comments

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https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/playground-experimental-gaming-platform/
117•acossta•12h ago•195 comments

SynthID Detector

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88•ilreb•10h ago•78 comments

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202•ilreb•11h ago•117 comments

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38•screm•7h ago•36 comments

AI-assisted proof of optimal packing for 11 squares

https://github.com/Queuingtheorydotcom/11SquaresFormalized
109•bluepeter•10h ago•50 comments

God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

https://github.com/snuri00/psp-web-recomp
152•sn001•13h ago•85 comments