life

80 stories and discussions about life, aggregated from every source we track.

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A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.

295 points•danso•3 days ago•107 comments•
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Some pics, endorsements, and the reason the book exists in the first place.

286 points•surprisetalk•15 days ago•72 comments•
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Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

184 points•HotGarbage•3 days ago•60 comments•
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Using the wiki on GitHub makes life more difficult for your users, and you as a maintainer. Use the `/docs` folder and GitHub Pages instead and keep your docs in sync with code

151 points•ibobev•8 days ago•88 comments•
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131 points•zdw•11 days ago•28 comments•
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You can tell how tired someone is of the always-online life pretty easily. When they get home, watch the distance between the phone and the body. The people who love being connected never let the thing leave them be it…

101 points•sagacity•6 days ago•96 comments•
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Planetary scientists from Freie Universität Berlin have published two new studies with promising discoveries about the potential for life on Enceladus.

87 points•geox•5 days ago•51 comments•
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Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

86 points•lobo•3 days ago•17 comments
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Some pics, endorsements, and the reason the book exists in the first place.

47 points•luke8086•12 days ago•8 comments
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One endless vote: which tool would you rather delete from your life? Jira or Outlook? Teams or Slack? Unscientific, opinionated, and addictive.

32 points•leonagano•6 days ago•20 comments•
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Conway's Game of Life running directly from a 512-byte x86 boot sector, using VGA memory as the simulation grid. - 0xAX/BootLife

27 points•0xAX•9 days ago•4 comments•
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21 points•carlos-menezes•3 days ago•5 comments•
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Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

15 points•singpolyma•about 9 years ago•14 comments
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The final part of my Life series is still in the works but I need to interrupt that series with some exciting news. The new programming language I have been working on for the last year or so has j…

7 points•friendlysock•about 6 years ago•4 comments
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6 points•DrMiaow•3 days ago•13 comments•
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Answer choices, watch it predict you, and see the score improve as you play.

5 points•sdrth•4 days ago•9 comments•
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Eight in ten 16- to 34-year-olds in the Netherlands report that their smartphones harm their everyday lives. This was discovered by the EenVandaag Youth Panel, conducted with Stitching MIND and De Marker, among 1,100…

5 points•TechTechTech•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Are people having fewer children because modern life makes parenthood too difficult—or because the meaning of a satisfying life has changed?

5 points•xnx•9 days ago•1 comment•
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What kind of durability guarantees fsync system call provides in Linux? Let's find out.

4 points•noncrab•over 3 years ago•3 comments
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3 points•pseudolus•3 days ago•0 comments•
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3 points•lxm•3 days ago•0 comments•
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What happens in your brain when you read? And can it help you navigate real life? This is what science tells us.

3 points•billybuckwheat•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Geely's new AI fast charging uses micro-pulse currents to reverse lithium buildup from fast charging, claiming up to 20% more battery cycle life.

3 points•cisc•5 days ago•0 comments•
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3 points•geoffbp•8 days ago•1 comment•
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When will Earth run out of oxygen? Scientists have determined the most likely cause of the end of life on Earth, and how long we've got.

3 points•jandrewrogers•8 days ago•2 comments•
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New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

3 points•pseudolus•9 days ago•0 comments•
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Ira Glass, the host and producer of This American Life, thoughts and creativity and success. This is a quote I re-read often: Nobody tells this to

3 points•marciob•11 days ago•0 comments•
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Blade Runner remains a meditation on life, memory, power, and the debt between makers and the beings they create.

2 points•dnetesn•about 24 hours ago•1 comment•
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As with many things in nature and life, there is math involved in the vineyard and in the wine cellar.

2 points•marysminefnuf•1 day ago•0 comments•
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The assumption that waking life consists of a stream of conscious representations has inadvertently led consciousness science to its current impasse.

2 points•asnelt•1 day ago•0 comments•
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An inner life for AI agents. Open source, runs on your computer.

2 points•aipixedev•2 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•binyu•3 days ago•0 comments•
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SEED is a persistent, player-driven life and MMO simulation. Join Early Access and be one of the first to shape this ever-evolving new world.

2 points•jackhalford•4 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•ravitandon1990•5 days ago•0 comments•
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Bullying, manipulation and intimidation can destroy lives, yet abusive authoritarians continue to rise to the top. How do they get away with it – and can they be brought to heel?

2 points•fallinditch•6 days ago•0 comments•
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Philosophy - Sciences - Geekery - Art - Life - Coaching - Fun < Simplify Everything

2 points•surprisetalk•7 days ago•0 comments•
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Contribute to zariffromlatif/life-forge development by creating an account on GitHub.

2 points•mdzariflatif•8 days ago•0 comments•
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2 points•paimapi•10 days ago•0 comments•
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PhotoRoo searched 5,633 photography headlines and found eight remarkable stories, from six million Olympic images to a 163-foot underwater photo shoot.

1 points•adinfiite•about 23 hours ago•0 comments•
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Track calories and macros for free — no quiz, no card, no trial that quietly ends. Membership adds photo estimates, read by several AI models.

1 points•vitormargis•1 day ago•1 comment•
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Explore the Cambrian explosion in life and software, where rapid change leads to new creations and diverse projects shaping the future.

1 points•jammons•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Every tool for organising your life asked you to do the sorting. The new ones ask you to check the machine's sorting instead. That is the same job.

1 points•zapadenko•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Analogy between AI and cheating in gaming

1 points•drunx•1 day ago•1 comment•
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Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.

1 points•hardmaru•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Whatever life brings, your personal agents on Cue handle it — each with its own email, phone number, wallet and computer to get real work done.

1 points•tvvocold•2 days ago•1 comment•
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1 points•Wowfunhappy•2 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•dblock•2 days ago•0 comments•
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Blade Runner remains a meditation on life, memory, power, and the debt between makers and the beings they create.

1 points•dnetesn•2 days ago•0 comments•
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From Harvard to Bell Labs: the life of Dennis Ritchie, creator of C and co-developer of Unix, and his later work on Plan 9 and Inferno.

1 points•joonehur•2 days ago•0 comments•
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Meow for Portal: an AI companion and illustrated desk. Guided Windows and Mac setup in preparation. - dekayrekords-oss/Meow-Portal

1 points•bobrossjr•2 days ago•0 comments•
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Photographer Alexandre Bagdassarian spent eight months following the daily lives of children in a prison system criticised for the long time spent in cells

1 points•sandebert•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Contribute to zariffromlatif/life-forge development by creating an account on GitHub.

1 points•mdzariflatif•3 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•dave8172•4 days ago•2 comments•

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