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New comment by bwnkl in "'Neanderthals Among Us' review"

bwnkl — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:23:05 +0000

Obvious rage bait aside, this is exactly what the author of the book presented in the article cautions against:

> The Neanderthal genome, he warns, remains ‘something of a Rorschach test onto which people project ideas and assumptions about ancestry and what it means to be human – or differently human’.

Maybe read an article before commenting on it.

New comment by bwnkl in "'Neanderthals Among Us' review"

bwnkl — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:19:18 +0000

> for example the 2026 discovery that interbreeding was predominantly between Neanderthal males and human females, and not between Neanderthal females and human males.

I thought this was an interesting detail in the article, and trying to find out more about a possible reason for this discrepancy, I found a recent paper concluding that this was possibly due to mate preference [1]. Neanderthal dudes were smoking hot!

[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aea6774

New comment by bwnkl in "StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta"

bwnkl — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:58:49 +0000

Just tag POI, they get stale so quickly. Everybody wants to tag the roads, but the real gap in many places is stale POI, or missing tags like opening hours. You'll get much less attention from these gatekeepers there too

New comment by bwnkl in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

bwnkl — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:02:59 +0000

LinkedIn is such a shit fest. First they push AI generated posts, now you can mark posts as slop but guess what: you're not flagging that content, you're labeling it.

New comment by bwnkl in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

bwnkl — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:44:16 +0000

Darwin's "The voyage of the Beagle" which is basically his edited travel diary. It's a slow read because he just describes his observations on animals and landscape (he was really into geology) and sometimes the interactions with the people there (lots of tensions between the settlers and the "Indians"), but overall an interesting read.

New comment by bwnkl in "The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin"

bwnkl — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:37:13 +0000

I agree that it very much depends on latitude and time of year. In most of Europe, overcast days usually don't present much of a problem for me, but I remember spending a day at the beach in Ecuador under very dense cloud cover and getting one of the worst burns I've ever had

New comment by bwnkl in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

bwnkl — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:29:21 +0000

I wouldn't see myself as constantly wound up, but I get your angle. I also was at most half serious, alluding to a time not long ago in a country not far away, where this instrument had its moment.

And in retrospect, the French revolution is not considered a dark episode of modern history, on the contrary.

New comment by bwnkl in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

bwnkl — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:25:00 +0000

I like the idea of this type of merch that normalizes anti big tech sentiment. But I personally would also opt for something more dramatic, possibly involving a guillotine...on the t shirt I mean

New comment by bwnkl in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

bwnkl — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:22:29 +0000

> Own a pair? Add them to known devices

Oh, the hypocrisy

New comment by bwnkl in "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap"

bwnkl — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:17:06 +0000

JOSM aside, I think it's great to target people that read HN with this article. They are likely tech savvy and as much as OSM tries to make it easy for less tech savvy folks to contribute, it's just not really feasible without third party apps like StreetComplete. I recently tried to teach my dad, who was interested but completely overwhelmed, even by the iD editor, and the whole idea of the data model. Which is a shame because he knows so much about the area where he lives.

New comment by bwnkl in "Instagram CEO warns against turning off algorithm"

bwnkl — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:24:53 +0000

> You miss a lot more content … and you spend a lot less time on the platform

That's precisely the point, Adam

New comment by bwnkl in "Apple Watch Ultra 4"

bwnkl — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:26:40 +0000

If anything triathletes are least serious about swimming

New comment by bwnkl in "Apple Watch Ultra 4"

bwnkl — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:07:16 +0000

The battery life during workout tracking did at least see a 3x improvement. 14 hours sounds plenty at first until you start riding your bike over long distances! 45 hours should cover most except the craziest ultra athletes, and those are probably sponsored by Garmin anyway

New comment by bwnkl in "Parque Arqueológico do Solstício"

bwnkl — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:15:11 +0000

Surprise bills every summer solstice

New comment by bwnkl in "LinkedIn Feed Blocker"

bwnkl — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:58:16 +0000

This is great. My LinkedIn feed has been dominated by people regurgitating stuff they read on HN a week before, just in an algorithm friendly click-bait way.

New comment by bwnkl in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

bwnkl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:07:03 +0000

I think they meant the original idea of the European Super League from the 1980s (that preceded the Champions League)

New comment by bwnkl in "Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)"

bwnkl — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:15:54 +0000

For pid I find pgrep to be the better suited tool