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Free Divers Thought They Found a Weird Rock. It Was a 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: roman shipwreck, underwater archaeology, ancient artifacts

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Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Scientist says RAM pricing has reverted to normalized 2007 levels — memory prices have been falling exponentially for decades, but the AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jowi Morales | tags: hardware, historical, memory

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Discovery Loop (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: approach, approach historically, bottlenecked

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The Delicate Art of Making a 1907 House Smarter (wired.com)

2026-08-03 | by Jordan Michelman | tags: ecobee, portland, craftsman

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US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: us treasury, yen market, financial intervention

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Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: saber-toothed cats, inbreeding, extinction

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Was art key to ancient humans' success? The secrets of Hohle Fels cave (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Fox | tags: hohle fels, ivory carvings, bird figurines

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Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: programming languages, online encyclopaedia, historical data

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An Amateur Archaeologist Disappeared in the Grand Canyon 14 Years Ago. His Remains Have Finally Been Found (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: grand canyon, bill ott, prehistoric rock art

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Humanity spoke thousands of languages at the dawn of farming — now many of them are lost (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-23 | by Kreier | tags: rosetta stone, egyptian hieroglyphs, language extinction

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Burnt Grass in Australian Cave Hints at Prehistoric ‘Magic’ Rituals (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: australian cave, gunai kurnai, prehistoric rituals

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These Mountain Lakes Should Never Have Had Trout. New Evidence Points to Prehistoric Humans (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: mountain lakes, trout, fish traps

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These Look Like Ordinary X-Rays. They’re Not (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: change, change future, future

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This race car is made from plant fibers, volcanoes, ... and seawater? (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: cars, historic, historic racing

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This race car is made from plant fibers, volcanoes ... and seawater? (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: cars, historic, historic racing

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Mencius (2016) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-18 | tags: mencius, 2016, film

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Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-18 | get Ancient DNA Testing Kit → | tags: yersinia pestis, ancient dna, lake baikal

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Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Airfield Model Kit → | tags: abandoned airfields, paul freeman, lightbox

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El Niño is here—and it will ‘pour fuel on the fire of a warming world’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-11 | get NOAA Weather Radio → | tags: administration, administration historic, atmospheric

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Wikipedia just launched its daily historical facts game on iPhone: Which came first? (9to5mac.com)

2026-06-11 | by Zac Hall | get Which Came First?" Trivia Game → | tags: came, came game, game

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Did Claude increase bugs in rsync? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-05 | tags: bugs, claude, commits

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Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-01 | get Silver Vine Cat Toy → | tags: silver vine, catnip, prehistoric mining

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Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get Historical Document Replica → | tags: duke of wellington, british foreign office, 1809

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A letter from the Duke of Wellington to the British Foreign Office (1809) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-29 | get Historical Document Replica → | tags: duke of wellington, british foreign office, 1809

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Why is it called Kent House? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-16 | tags: kent house, historical building, london

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SpaceX and Google Are in Talks to Launch Data Centers in Orbit (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-12 | get Starlink Satellite Internet Kit → | tags: ahead, ahead historic, boost

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Prehistoric Artificial Islands Beneath Scottish Waters Are Finally Giving Up Their Secrets (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-06 | get Scottish Underwater Drone → | tags: prehistoric islands, scottish waters, crannogs

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This High-Altitude Cave Drew Humans for Thousands of Years—and These Green Rocks Explain Why (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-05 | get Green Fluorite Crystal Set → | tags: high-altitude, prehistoric, green rocks

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New Research Shows How the Earliest Humans Got Their Meat (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-04 | tags: early humans, meat, prehistoric diet