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Yeah, I should have mentioned that. Article about the same topic and preprint, but released earlier this year.

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/10.1101/2025.02.15.638363v1)

See also: “Microbe with bizarrely tiny genome may be evolving into a virus” – https://www.science.org/content/article/microbe-bizarrely-ti...

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/article/pii/S037843711...

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716365

(2015)

(2009)

Related: the 6-set banana Venn diagram – https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11241/figures/4

Discussion at the time of publication: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300382

Not a bad name, to be honest!

That image is giving me some Evangelion vibes: https://wiki.evageeks.org/Ramiel

> by what possible metric

Micromorts, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

(2023), at least based on that mirror.

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.

Funnily enough, the district (Landkreis) name in English keeps the original spelling: Hameln-Pyrmont.

Hamelin is located in Lower Saxony, not in the southern states.

I’ve had similar experiences in other, smaller cities. Luckily they are the exception rather than the rule.

Related discussion from three weeks ago: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458973

Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45653639

> 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/1845192874947674291

Related, from a few months ago: It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018) – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535688

Your mention of Wikipedia reminded me of WikiTok: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723

BPA/BPS-free thermal paper exists; both chemicals are banned in the EU.

The culture was contaminated with fungal spores.

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

Discussion from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431001

> The ability to save comments

Click on a comment’s timestamp and then 'favorite' at the top.

Ongoing discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45545017

This is an extremely uncharitable take. Do better.