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Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | get Underwater Microphone Hydrophone → | tags: underwater robot, sperm whale, real time

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Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | by Stephan Henningsen | get Raspberry Pi 4 Kit → | tags: lightwhale, overlayfs, docker

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120 Steam users now own 20,000 games or more, three whales own over 40,000 games — one player's library is worth nearly $750,000 at today’s prices (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-24 | by Mark Tyson | get Steam Game Library Organizer → | tags: steam, steamdb, sonix

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Humpback whales are forming super-groups (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-22 | get Underwater Whale Sound System → | tags: humpback whales, south africa, super-groups

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Sperm Whales' Communication Closely Parallels Human Language, Study Finds (slashdot.org)

2026-04-17 | get Underwater Communication Device → | tags: project ceti, sperm whales, human language

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Sperm Whales Speak With a Complex Alphabet and Even Have ‘Vowels,’ Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-16 | get Underwater Communication Device → | tags: sperm whales, linguistics, vowels

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Marine Animals in the Strait of Hormuz Don’t Get a Ceasefire (wired.com)

2026-04-13 | by Evangeline Elsa | get Marine Biology Book → | tags: strait of hormuz, dugongs, arabian humpback whales

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Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes (futurism.com)

2026-04-02 | by Joe Wilkins | get Marine Research Dock → | tags: deep-sea research platform, open-sea floating island, shanghai jiao tong university

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U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-01 | by Chiara Eisner | get Wildlife Protection for Gulf → | tags: gulf of mexico, endangered species act, rice's whales

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How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-28 | get Smart Fish Finder Device → | tags: fishing gear, bycatch reduction, noaa

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Giants of the deep and the wonder of space: Books in Brief (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-27 | by Robinson | get Deep Sea Space Explorer Kit → | tags: princeton university press, carbon nanotubes, jagadish chandra bose

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Unprecedented Images Show Sperm Whales Acting as Midwives to Help a Mom Give Birth (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-26 | get Sperm Whale Model Toy → | tags: sperm whales, whale midwifery, marine mammals

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Watch First Video Evidence of Sperm Whales Headbutting Each Other (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-24 | get Sperm Whale Model Toy → | tags: sperm whales, headbutting, marine biology

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Daily briefing: Funding calls plummet as NIH turns away from agency-directed science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-18 | by Graham | get NIH Funding Guidebook → | tags: nih, gilles brassard, quantum information

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Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-13 | get Blue Whale Heart Monitor → | tags: stanford, blue whale, heart rate

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Scientists hunting mammoth fossils found whales 400 km inland (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-17 | get Ice Age → | tags: alaska, colleagues, mammoth

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How I talk to whales (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-25 | get WhaleTalk → | tags: talk, talk whales, whales

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The Download: surviving extreme temperatures, and the big whale-wind turbine conspiracy (technologyreview.com)

2025-11-11 | by Rhiannon Williams | get Wind Turbine → | tags: change, deaths, story

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Whale and dolphin migrations are being disrupted by climate change (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get computer monitor → | tags: climate, migratory, percent

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Canada Considering Doing Something Unforgivable to its Beluga Whales (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | by Joe Wilkins | get Google Nest Mini → | tags: belugas, marineland, park

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Orcas are bringing humans gifts (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Author.Fullname | get Amazon Echo Dot → | tags: orca, prey, says

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Playing Viking Chess with Whale Bones (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Hakai Magazine | get Meta Quest → | tags: game, hennius, pieces

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Nearly Every Whale Shark at This Tourist Destination Bears Human-Made Scars (gizmodo.com)

2025-10-31 | by Ed Cara | get Meta Quest → | tags: injuries, marine, seascape

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Sam Altman and the whale (technologyreview.com)

2025-10-31 | by Mat Honan | get iPhone → | tags: chatgpt, gpt, lot

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Scientists Alarmed as Whales Suddenly Going Silent (futurism.com)

2025-10-31 | get smartphone → | tags: blue, marine, ocean

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David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends' (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by David Attenborough | get Google Nest → | tags: life, ocean, sea