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動物・植物・細菌・ウイルスの系統をたどれるインタラクティブな生命の樹「Ptree」
https://gigazine.net/news/20260913-interactive-tree-of-life-ptree/
https://gigazine.net/news/20260913-interactive-tree-of-life-ptree/
動物・植物・細菌・ウイルスの系統をたどれるインタラクティブな生命の樹「Ptree」
生物の分類をクリックしながらたどり、食性や寿命などいろいろな性質を調べられるウェブサイトが「Ptree」です。地球上の生物のつながりを眺められるインタラクティブな生命の樹を実際に使ってみました。
gigazine.net
September 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
動物・植物・細菌・ウイルスの系統をたどれるインタラクティブな生命の樹「Ptree」
https://gigazine.net/news/20260913-interactive-tree-of-life-ptree/
https://gigazine.net/news/20260913-interactive-tree-of-life-ptree/
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September 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life | Discussion
Ptree · Interactive tree of life
Explore life across 11 scientific trees, comparing ancestry, traits, fossils, habitats, and sources.
ptree.org
September 7, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life | Discussion
> make periodic table website at 14
> put one AdSense banner up
> German gov finds and recommends it? cool!
> @hrw.org lumps it in with procured EdTech, screenshots SHOW TRACKERS, and turns it into a Serious Report about "secretly surveilling kids deep into their private lives"
donor-funded theater
> put one AdSense banner up
> German gov finds and recommends it? cool!
> @hrw.org lumps it in with procured EdTech, screenshots SHOW TRACKERS, and turns it into a Serious Report about "secretly surveilling kids deep into their private lives"
donor-funded theater
Students Not Products
We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. In the rush to connect kids to virtual classrooms during the Covid-19 ...
www.hrw.org
August 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM
> make periodic table website at 14
> put one AdSense banner up
> German gov finds and recommends it? cool!
> @hrw.org lumps it in with procured EdTech, screenshots SHOW TRACKERS, and turns it into a Serious Report about "secretly surveilling kids deep into their private lives"
donor-funded theater
> put one AdSense banner up
> German gov finds and recommends it? cool!
> @hrw.org lumps it in with procured EdTech, screenshots SHOW TRACKERS, and turns it into a Serious Report about "secretly surveilling kids deep into their private lives"
donor-funded theater
normies mishearing verbal commands from phone support to exit a Windows application as "x-out" and that becoming a standardized term is my "supposibly" nails on a chalkboard
August 16, 2026 at 6:34 PM
normies mishearing verbal commands from phone support to exit a Windows application as "x-out" and that becoming a standardized term is my "supposibly" nails on a chalkboard
how is there an element called tantalum? a whole element based on tantalizing you
August 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
how is there an element called tantalum? a whole element based on tantalizing you
each Cincinnati mall store's color temperature exactly reflected the preferred color temperature of its target demographic. 2500 K for hipsters, 3000 K for boomers, 5000 K for Asians, 6000 K for Indians. are the latter as viscerally repelled by "yellow" lights as we are their "blue"?
August 14, 2026 at 5:53 AM
each Cincinnati mall store's color temperature exactly reflected the preferred color temperature of its target demographic. 2500 K for hipsters, 3000 K for boomers, 5000 K for Asians, 6000 K for Indians. are the latter as viscerally repelled by "yellow" lights as we are their "blue"?
repairing split packing tape by unrolling it until the two halves are whole is one of the rare times we make intuitive contact with the block universe without dulling its uncanny feel. does advancing the tape (time) do anything at all, or merely reveal the point at which the split has already ended?
August 11, 2026 at 2:33 AM
repairing split packing tape by unrolling it until the two halves are whole is one of the rare times we make intuitive contact with the block universe without dulling its uncanny feel. does advancing the tape (time) do anything at all, or merely reveal the point at which the split has already ended?
we went along with dunking Romney for his "binders of women" gaffe despite the distinction being incomprehensible at the time, but is that what kickstarted the diabetics vs. people with diabetes-style language policing?
June 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM
we went along with dunking Romney for his "binders of women" gaffe despite the distinction being incomprehensible at the time, but is that what kickstarted the diabetics vs. people with diabetes-style language policing?
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if "online atheists are a fallen sect of christianity who believe practicing christians are insufficiently pious" then Bluesky anti-AI posters are a fallen sect of AGI true believers who find current AI insufficiently miraculous
August 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
if "online atheists are a fallen sect of christianity who believe practicing christians are insufficiently pious" then Bluesky anti-AI posters are a fallen sect of AGI true believers who find current AI insufficiently miraculous
Devil Wears Prada 2 was so anticlimactic because the original plot was the Sam Altman trick and they reshot it? Andy rallies employees and advertisers behind Miranda, who can start a new magazine that makes Runway worthless in a sale. no benevolent billionaire require; institutional value is people
May 25, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Devil Wears Prada 2 was so anticlimactic because the original plot was the Sam Altman trick and they reshot it? Andy rallies employees and advertisers behind Miranda, who can start a new magazine that makes Runway worthless in a sale. no benevolent billionaire require; institutional value is people
reading the rules of Banana Ball and it seems like a patch to undo whatever fun was removed from baseball by optimizing for Sabermetrics
Lucent on X: "UFC is the result of taking all the fake stuff out of wrestling. It appears, however, that the fake stuff was also the entertaining stuff." / X
UFC is the result of taking all the fake stuff out of wrestling. It appears, however, that the fake stuff was also the entertaining stuff.
twitter.com
May 24, 2026 at 5:22 PM
reading the rules of Banana Ball and it seems like a patch to undo whatever fun was removed from baseball by optimizing for Sabermetrics
boys, did you know girls know who each car in the apartment (and possibly workplace) parking lot is associated with, their general schedule, and when a new one arrives or is oddly missing?
May 20, 2026 at 3:18 AM
boys, did you know girls know who each car in the apartment (and possibly workplace) parking lot is associated with, their general schedule, and when a new one arrives or is oddly missing?
deeply annoyed by the vanishing distinction between bombing and missile firing in space dogfight games. the difference reduces to whether the projectile is powered
May 17, 2026 at 4:52 PM
deeply annoyed by the vanishing distinction between bombing and missile firing in space dogfight games. the difference reduces to whether the projectile is powered
paint smells like yogurt tastes
May 16, 2026 at 5:04 AM
paint smells like yogurt tastes
the magazine's vision of the future carried the soft, reassuring tones of the room's surrounding '90s decor
May 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
the magazine's vision of the future carried the soft, reassuring tones of the room's surrounding '90s decor
a polished site in the '90s or '00s could look like it arrived from an alien layer. to the unskilled, piracy may only feel like appropriating infrastructure or institutional output, not a person's passion project. i was Mullenweg aggressive with DMCA notices in the '90s and '00s in taking them down
April 29, 2026 at 5:27 PM
a polished site in the '90s or '00s could look like it arrived from an alien layer. to the unskilled, piracy may only feel like appropriating infrastructure or institutional output, not a person's passion project. i was Mullenweg aggressive with DMCA notices in the '90s and '00s in taking them down
local Indian restaurant struggles with SSL and their ASP.NET online order form. offered my card and to fix it when picking up my phone order. they snubbed me with a sourpuss expression so now i tamper/override errors client side when it's "down" and coincidentally i am the only online order that day
April 29, 2026 at 5:54 AM
local Indian restaurant struggles with SSL and their ASP.NET online order form. offered my card and to fix it when picking up my phone order. they snubbed me with a sourpuss expression so now i tamper/override errors client side when it's "down" and coincidentally i am the only online order that day
thought i was averse to unfamiliar environments but it's actually unclean environments. most disliked reused spaces? plane and train seats with compact, dirty bulkheads, armrests. uncleanable discolored seams, sticky undersides you accidentally touch. marble-spotless hotel in a new city? no problem
April 29, 2026 at 5:14 AM
thought i was averse to unfamiliar environments but it's actually unclean environments. most disliked reused spaces? plane and train seats with compact, dirty bulkheads, armrests. uncleanable discolored seams, sticky undersides you accidentally touch. marble-spotless hotel in a new city? no problem
regarding Trump's recent brushes with death: the left appears to invoke conspiracies not as believers in them but as a tool that allows accepting facts as seen but reframing their motivation in a way that dissolves their importance from a level above. right-wing conspiracies are similarly motivated?
April 26, 2026 at 9:39 PM
regarding Trump's recent brushes with death: the left appears to invoke conspiracies not as believers in them but as a tool that allows accepting facts as seen but reframing their motivation in a way that dissolves their importance from a level above. right-wing conspiracies are similarly motivated?
celebrities must acquire incredible knowledge of which pens work best on which surfaces
April 23, 2026 at 7:37 AM
celebrities must acquire incredible knowledge of which pens work best on which surfaces
if an infant's breath smells at all like the flower of the same name, being unable to tolerate it from 20 feet away is not selling me on reproduction
April 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
if an infant's breath smells at all like the flower of the same name, being unable to tolerate it from 20 feet away is not selling me on reproduction
all the surrounding townlets are stored in my mind as a scalar with distance inverse of how often i hear about them, so i can tell you about how far away they are, but absolutely not in what direction
March 16, 2026 at 9:33 PM
all the surrounding townlets are stored in my mind as a scalar with distance inverse of how often i hear about them, so i can tell you about how far away they are, but absolutely not in what direction