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by flobosg 11mo ago
Yeah, I should have mentioned that. Article about the same topic and preprint, but released earlier this year.
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by flobosg 11mo ago
Unsurprisingly maybe, DPANN archaea can also host viruses: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-02149-7 (Paywalled, but there’s a preprint at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025
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by flobosg 11mo ago
See also: “Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus” – https://www.science.org/content/article/microbe-bizarrely-ti...
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by flobosg 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/oAuxc
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by flobosg 11mo ago
Not video games, but the article reminded me of marriage proposals in scientific articles: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%281... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science&#x2F
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by flobosg 11mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716365
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by flobosg 11mo ago
(2015)
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by flobosg 11mo ago
(2009)
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by flobosg 11mo ago
Related: the 6-set banana Venn diagram – https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11241/figures/4
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by flobosg 11mo ago
Discussion at the time of publication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300382
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by flobosg 11mo ago
Not a bad name, to be honest!
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by flobosg 11mo ago
That image is giving me some Evangelion vibes: https://wiki.evageeks.org/Ramiel
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by flobosg 11mo ago
> by what possible metric Micromorts, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
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by flobosg 11mo ago
(2023), at least based on that mirror.
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by flobosg 11mo ago
The point I was addressing from the parent comment was the implication that Hamelin is located in southern Germany. It could be rewritten to, as you pointed out: > Also, every town in Germany looks like that.
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by flobosg 11mo ago
Funnily enough, the district ( Landkreis ) name in English keeps the original spelling: Hameln-Pyrmont.
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by flobosg 11mo ago
Hamelin is located in Lower Saxony, not in the southern states.
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by flobosg 1y ago
I’ve had similar experiences in other, smaller cities. Luckily they are the exception rather than the rule.
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by flobosg 1y ago
Related discussion from three weeks ago: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458973
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by flobosg 1y ago
Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45653639
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by flobosg 1y ago
> At first, buy the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade the ones you use a lot. If you wind up using some tool for a job, buy the very best you can afford. — https://x.com/kevin2kelly/status/18451928749
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by flobosg 1y ago
Related, from a few months ago: It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018) – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535688
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by flobosg 1y ago
Your mention of Wikipedia reminded me of WikiTok: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723
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by flobosg 1y ago
BPA/BPS-free thermal paper exists; both chemicals are banned in the EU.
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by flobosg 1y ago
The culture was contaminated with fungal spores.
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by flobosg 1y ago
I’ll take the chance to link to Derek Yu’s (of Spelunky fame) pixel art tutorial, where he explains techniques such as anti-aliasing and sel-out: https://www.derekyu.com/makegames/pixelart.html
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by flobosg 1y ago
Discussion from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431001
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by flobosg 1y ago
> The ability to save comments Click on a comment’s timestamp and then 'favorite' at the top.
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by flobosg 1y ago
Ongoing discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45545017
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by flobosg 1y ago
This is an extremely uncharitable take. Do better.

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