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A Friendly Introduction to Racket (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-22 | tags: lisp, racket, john mccarthy

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Bigfoot-Like Ancient Apes Might Have Been Closer to Humans Than We Realize (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: bigfoot, homo sapiens, primates

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Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Ian Towle | tags: homo sapiens, australopithecus, paranthropus

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Dialkyl ether synthesis through heteroatom homolytic substitution (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-20 | by Großkopf | tags: dialkyl ethers, heteroatom homolytic substitution, titanium catalysis

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Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | by Jeremy Kun | tags: homomorphic encryption, google, private computing

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Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by John Naughton | tags: ai probably, buying, buying profitable

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Daily briefing: Ice-age art hints at how humans flourished (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-29 | by Graham | tags: nasa, pyrocbs, homo sapiens

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Archaeologists Thought These Early Cannibals Mostly Ate Children. They Were Wrong (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: homo antecessor, fossils, cannibals

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Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for July 24, #1139 (cnet.com)

2026-07-23 | by Gael Cooper | tags: nyt, connections, puzzle

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Homomorphically encrypted CIFAR-10 inference in 200ms (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: homomorphic encryption, cifar-10, inference

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Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: homogeneous, interval, level

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Hobbit-like Humans May Have Scavenged Komodo Dragons' Leftovers to Survive (slashdot.org)

2026-07-05 | by Posted | get Komodo Dragon Model Toy → | tags: floresiensis, form, homo

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Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-25 | get Homo Naledi Female Figurine → | tags: homo naledi, rising star cave, amelogenin-x

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Genomic insights into the population dynamics and demise of Neanderthals (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-24 | by Lalueza-Fox | get Neanderthal DNA Kit → | tags: neanderthals, natural sciences museum, homo sapiens

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Humans Were Using Fire Long Before Scientists Thought Possible, Study Says (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-18 | get Ancient Fire Starter Kit → | tags: homo erectus, south africa, fire

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Nanostructure of tooth enamel casts light on dietary shifts as humans evolved (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-03 | by Romero | get Microscopic Tooth Enamel Kit → | tags: homo sapiens, tooth enamel, mineral nanocrystals

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Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-13 | get Ancient DNA Extraction Kit → | tags: erectus, fragments, group

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Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-28 | get Neanderthal Brain Model → | tags: neanderthal, homo sapiens, endocast

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The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-14 | by Ben Crair | get Neanderthal DNA Test Kit → | tags: neanderthal, homo sapiens, population genetics

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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | by John Loeber | tags: idiomatic design, homogeneous interfaces, user experience

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Bring Back Idiomatic Design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-12 | by John Loeber | get Idiomatic Design Book → | tags: windows 95, idiomatic design, homogeneous interfaces

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Prototype mod brings native 1080P output to the Super Nintendo (techspot.com)

2026-03-25 | get SNES HDMI Output Adapter → | tags: super nintendo, super switch hd, stanislav parhomovich

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AlphaFold database hits ‘next level’: the AI system now includes protein pairing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-17 | by Callaway | get Protein Structure Viewer → | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, protein complexes

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AlphaFold hits ‘next level’: the AI database now includes protein pairing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-17 | by Callaway | get Protein Structure Model Kit → | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, embl-ebi

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AlphaFold hits ‘next level’: the AI tool now includes protein pairing (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-17 | by Callaway | get Protein Structure Model Kit → | tags: alphafold, google deepmind, protein complexes

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AI can ‘same-ify’ human expression — can some brains resist its pull? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-11 | by Ahart | get AI Expression Filter → | tags: large language models, usc, arxiv

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Intel Demos Chip to Compute With Encrypted Data (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-03-10 | by Samuel K. Moore | get Intel Software Guard Extensions Kit → | tags: intel, heracles, finfet

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A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | by Asimov Press | get Genomics → | tags: homo sapiens, human genome project, nature

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The Om Programming Language (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-25 | get Scripting → | tags: om programming language, homoiconic notation, panmorphic typing

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"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-20 | get Fossil skulls → | tags: china, erectus, homo