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North America's Oldest Known Pterosaur

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-16 10:02:06

A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight. In a paper published today, July 7, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by paleontologist Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, present the fossilized jawbone of the new species and describe the sea gu

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Open, free, and ignored: the afterlife of Symbian

news.ycombinator.com Liam Proven 2025-07-24 20:34:40

The result of the pioneering joint Psion and Nokia smartphone effort is still out there on GitHub. Smartphones are everywhere. They are entirely commoditized now. Most of them run Android, which uses the Linux kernel. The rest run Apple's iOS, which uses the same XNU kernel as macOS. As we've said before, they're not Unix-like, they really are Unix™. There have been a bunch of others. BlackBerry tried hard with BB10, but even a decade ago, it was over. It was based on QNX and Qt, and both of t

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A Dinosaur Appears to Have Died on the Exact Spot They Later Built a Dinosaur Museum, Burying Its Fossil Underneath It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-31 13:30:46

In Denver, scientists uncovered a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil deep underground — and by chance, it just so happened to be buried underneath the parking lot of a museum that houses similar specimens. As the Denver Museum of Nature and Science explained in Catalyst, its online magazine, the ancient bone fragment was buried some 763 feet below the institution's parking lot, making it the oldest and deepest such fossil to be discovered within city limits. Beyond the coincidence of findin

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Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-12 19:32:07

👋 Welcome to Fossify! Fossify is a group of privacy-focused, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. It emerged as a fork of the discontinued SimpleMobileTools to continue its legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone. Get Involved For issues affecting multiple apps, check out general issues. Engage in discussions or share ideas at general discussions. To help with code or translations, visit this link. Questions or Feedback? If you have questions or want to learn more, start a

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