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Chilean Mummies Prove Europeans Brought Smallpox to the Americas—But That’s Not All (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-03 | tags: chilean mummies, europeans, smallpox

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Firm that uses AI to locate ancient lost shipwrecks is hiring a literal pirate to salvage sunken treasure, paying up to $500,000 a year — AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records spanning 80 million pages to find undiscovered wrecks and lost cargo (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-30 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: shipwrecks, ae studio, spanish colonial records

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A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | by Filip Roséen | tags: shell, bash, colon

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Honey Bee Colony Monitoring via Audio IoT Sensors, Tensorgrams and RNNs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: honey bee, audio iot sensors, tensorgrams

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Naked Mole-Rat Queens Release a Chemical to Stop Other Females From Reproducing (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: naked mole-rat, queens, reproduction

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Naked mole-rat queens keep their colonies in line with a scent (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: naked mole-rat queens, olfactory receptor genes, max delbrück center

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Closing the Identity Gaps in Critical Infrastructure Security (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: colonial pipeline, zero trust, cisa

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The Fermi Paradox, Percolation, and Inbreeding (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | by James Davis Nicoll | tags: fermi paradox, percolation theory, enrico fermi

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How naked mole rat queens stop rivals reproducing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-15 | by Smith | tags: chemical, colony, females

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How naked mole-rat queens stop rivals reproducing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-15 | by Smith | tags: chemical, colony, females

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Engadget Indie Pitch: Penguin Colony (engadget.com)

2026-07-11 | by Jessica Conditt | tags: colony, game, games

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Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-30 | get Ant Farm Monitoring Kit → | tags: show hn, formicarium, ant colony

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The Story of Semicolon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | get Semicolon Keyboard Keycap → | tags: semicolon, venice printer, punctuation history

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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-19 | by Lenharo | get AI Skill Development Kit → | tags: artificial-intelligence, colonoscopies, physicians

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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-18 | by Lenharo | get AI Skill Development Kit → | tags: artificial intelligence, colonoscopies, syracuse university

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KFC Went From Seven Straight Losing Quarters to Three Straight Winning Ones — Here’s the Recipe for Their Turnaround (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-10 | by Jonathan Small | get KFC Chicken Bucket → | tags: colonel, consecutive, consecutive quarters

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Burn-9 makes an entire game out of Metal Gear's Codec scenes (engadget.com)

2026-06-06 | by Igor Bonifacic | get Metal Gear Codec Puzzle Book → | tags: agent, burn, colony

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Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century (wired.com)

2026-05-30 | by Simone Valesini | get Beehive Observation Kit → | tags: andrena regularis, cornell university, apidologie

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Charles Schwab Challenge 2026: TV Schedule, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Golf Action From Anywhere (cnet.com)

2026-05-28 | by See Full Bio | get Golf Channel Streaming Device → | tags: charles schwab challenge, pga tour, colonial country club

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Scraping (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-27 | by O Meara | get Web Scraper Chrome Extension → | tags: drone, supply drop, habitat

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SpaceX files to go public, and the math requires a little faith (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-22 | by Theresa Loconsolo | get SpaceX Falcon 9 Model Rocket → | tags: spacex, mars colony, nanoco

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Vanishing tongues and life on Mars: Books in brief (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-22 | by Robinson | get Mars colonization kit → | tags: indigenous languages, mars colonization, scott solomon

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Who will benefit most from SpaceX IPO? Mostly Elon — and a few from his inner circle (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-21 | by Julie Bort | get SpaceX Starship Model → | tags: spacex, elon musk, ipo

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Colonization of Venus (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | get Venus Surface Simulation Kit → | tags: venus colonization, space exploration, terraforming

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From Stuxnet to ChatGPT: 20 News Events That Shaped Cyber (darkreading.com)

2026-05-06 | get Cybersecurity Awareness Kit → | tags: stuxnet, chatgpt, solarwinds

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Elon Musk Will Earn a Company Bonus if He Drops a Million Colonists on Mars (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-30 | get Mars Colonization Model Kit → | tags: elon musk, spacex, mars

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Pragmata is just okay, but it could’ve been great (theverge.com)

2026-04-13 | by Andrew Webster | get Pragmata Video Game Artbook → | tags: capcom, pragmata, resident evil

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Pragmata is just OK, but it could’ve been great (theverge.com)

2026-04-13 | by Andrew Webster | get Pragmata Video Game Art Book → | tags: capcom, pragmata, resident evil

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There’s Something on the Moon That Earth Desperately Needs — And It Could Be Worth Trillions (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-02 | by Jonathan Small | get Lunar Mineral Sample Kit → | tags: artemis ii, nasa, helium-3

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The Last Contract: William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an Epic (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | by Alexander Sorondo | tags: viking, william t. vollmann, a table for fortune