Scientists Find Genetic Signature of Down Syndrome in Ancient Bones
The discovery may help shed light on how prehistoric societies treated children with rare conditions. Scientists have diagnosed Down syndrome from DNA in the ancient bones of seven infants, one as old as 5,500 years. Their method, published in the journal Nature Communications, may help researchers learn more about how prehistoric societies treated people with […]
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD
One of the limitations of AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality on the basis of legal requirements by the HDMI Forum. AMD engineers had been working to come up with a solution in conjunction with the HDMI Forum for being able to provide HDMI 2.1+ capabilities with […]
Show HN: CriticalPath – Advanced Profiler for Android
Click on a slice to view the critical path. Each slice represents a function call; the longer the slice, the more time it took to execute this function. The critical path connects these slices in the order they were executed. Click the play button to see exactly what the user sees in the app and […]
AI Terms Explained
Artificial Intelligence A field of study which determines ways of engineering a computer, a computer-controlled robot, or a software think intelligently, similarly to how humans are capable to think. It includes includes many disciplines, including those that study how human brain works, our learning, decision capabilities and behavior while trying to solve a problem. Agentic […]
EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030
Abstract In 2015, 193 UN members adopted the resolution “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which set out 17 Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030. The aim of the study is to assess progress towards meeting SDG 7 “Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all” by […]
Julius Caesar’s Year of Confusion
To tame a hopelessly disorganised Roman calendar, Julius Caesar added months, took them away, and invented leap years. But the whole grand project was almost thwarted by a basic counting mistake. It was confusing enough when the harvest celebrations kept arriving in the middle of spring. It was the 1st Century BC and, according to […]
“Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
Cultural Comment “Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages Play/Pause Button Pause Illustration by Vivek Thakker Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story A trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” features the boy prophet Paul Atreides, played by Timothée Chalamet, yelling something foreign and uninterpretable to a horde of […]
Aviator (YC S21) is hiring an extrovert hacker
Do you hold strong opinions and like to share with everyone. Do you enjoy correcting others. Do you enjoy hacking / breaking systems. We may have a role for you that you can do as side hustle or full-time. About the company Aviator (YC S21) builds tools to automate necessary-but-mundane engineering workflows for customers like […]
Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution
Dear Open Collective Community, It is with sad hearts that we have heard the news about Open Collective Foundation decision to dissolve, effective December 31. The full content of their announcement, which came as a surprise to us, can be found here, and they have also created an FAQ. We are still grappling with the […]
MicroZig: Unified abstraction layer and HAL for Zig on several microcontrollers
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