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Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest

https://lede-v2.nautil.us/why-birds-can-fly-over-mount-everest-237864
35•andsoitis•4d ago

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Katharina01•4d ago
Interesting article and thank you a lot for this education!
shmerl•56m ago
I was surprised that some birds can fly even higher. There is a record of Rüppell's vulture at 11+ kilometers altitude.
adonovan•28m ago
Sadly this wonder of nature was deduced from the 5 feathers that were all that remained after the noble creature was ingested by a turbofan engine of an airliner.

https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7...

antics•27m ago
Written by Walter Murch?? Like, the guy who is considered maybe the best editor and sound designer of all time, who was nominated for 9 Academy Awards, and won 3??? (Editing perhaps second only to Thelma Schoonmaker.)
ErroneousBosh•5m ago
From the footer of TFA:

Walter Murch has been working in film for more than 50 years, as an editor, sound designer, writer, and director. He edited and sound-designed many films for Francis Coppola (The Godfather Trilogy, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now) and Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain). His interest in science can be seen in his editing of Mark Levinson’s film Particle Fever (2013), about the search for the Higgs Boson.

Yes, That Walter Murch.

In The Blink Of An Eye is on the bookshelf just behind the monitor I'm typing this on, with my headphones and BMD Speed Editor slightly blocking my view of it.

adonovan•16m ago
The part about coal coming from dead trees during a window of time before bacteria evolved lignin digestion is no longer the scientific consensus. Such bacteria existed earlier; not all coal is high lignin; and coal still formed later. Too bad; it was a lovely story!
cyberax•4m ago
It's not bacteria. The only organisms that can digest lignin are fungi, and they do it by blasting lignin with peroxides.

As such, this works only in aerobic environments (not swamps).

Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

https://nullpt.rs/fingerprinting-bioweapons
717•hazebooth•6h ago•161 comments

CNC Stone Carving

https://carmelitegothic.com/cnc-stone-carving/
384•bschne•9h ago•112 comments

Gemini 4 Carbon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-4-carbon/
759•acossta•6h ago•624 comments

Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest

https://lede-v2.nautil.us/why-birds-can-fly-over-mount-everest-237864
36•andsoitis•4d ago•8 comments

The case of the 9 bit AES key

https://v12.sh/blog/the-case-of-the-9bit-aes-key
61•ledoge•3h ago•31 comments

A Health Update

https://furbo.org/2026/10/28/a-health-update/
39•frizlab•2h ago•3 comments

Formlabs Studio 1 $699 Resin Printer

https://formlabs.com/products/form-studio-1-basic-founders-edition/
86•mhb•2h ago•68 comments

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

https://surgehq.ai/blog/dayjob-tax
189•landonxi•8h ago•110 comments

MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/proled-xdr-display/
474•etothet•6h ago•820 comments

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

https://www.circuithub.com/post/unveiling-the-grid
396•seddona•2d ago•192 comments

Start Doing Graph Theory

https://vertex.degree/
562•ibobev•5d ago•123 comments

Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring Across Eng, FDE, Marketing, DevRel

https://nango.dev/careers
1•bastienbeurier•2h ago

AlpineBSD

https://wiki.alpinebsd.org
169•bradley_taunt•9h ago•150 comments

Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-spiders-spin-silk-dope-into-natures-toughest-material-20261028/
43•ibobev•6h ago•3 comments

Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates

https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/apple.html
1020•galadran•12h ago•375 comments

Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene

https://www.magnopus.com/blog/gaussiansplats-part-3-theres-always-a-bigger-scene
98•ibobev•5d ago•20 comments

Leak website releases data on DHS employees

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/leak-website-releases-data-tens-thousands-dhs-employees-...
46•wondersky•3h ago•2 comments

The Agent SDK

https://cursor.com/blog/agent-sdk
89•torutofu•9h ago•107 comments

Show HN: SlideBySide – Present slides without sharing your screen

https://slidebyside.com/
53•denismenace•6h ago•21 comments

Image generation has come a long way since August 2022

https://www.hbrooks.com/writing/image-generation-has-come-a-long-way
21•hunterbrooks•2d ago•5 comments

Emacs Turns 50

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/20/1145399/emacs-turns-50/
392•internet_points•10h ago•165 comments

Oseberg Tapestry Fragments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseberg_tapestry_fragments
15•benbreen•2d ago•0 comments

Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ground-effect-vehicle
45•rbanffy•3d ago•39 comments

Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI

https://religionnews.com/2026/10/26/in-a-first-a-humanist-granted-a-religious-exemption-from-usin...
411•danso•10h ago•454 comments

Archive.today links going forward

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xhf6qp/archivetoday_links_going_forward/
181•consumer451•8h ago•114 comments

Scaling Hierarchical Networks

https://www.cartesia.ai/blog/from-tokens-to-bytes-part-1
19•guybedo•5h ago•0 comments

Ghostty 1.4

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0
1289•deaux•1d ago•409 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages

https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/nemotron-transcribe-granary
104•wondersky•8h ago•17 comments

Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36341
16•abrax3141•21h ago•0 comments

Genie 4

https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/
1018•acossta•1d ago•576 comments