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'Vampire Squid from Hell' Reveals the Ancient Origins of Octopuses

39 pointsby 6LLvveMx2koXfwnlast Monday at 11:47 AM7 commentsview on HN

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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 12:13 PM

> Interestingly, a massive 62 percent of the genome consists of repetitive elements, stretches of DNA that repeat over and over, inflating its size without adding new coding sequences.

Sounds like a lot of codebases I've looked at.

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hermitcrabtoday at 2:13 PM

'Vampyroteuthis infernalis' must be the coolest Latin species name.

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killerstormtoday at 11:30 AM

I hate this kind of writing which is rather common in science reporting. Is it bad on purpose?

Seems like the purpose is to keep reader confused about some point to maximize time spent on page. And I'm quite certain LLM can do a lot better

gostsamotoday at 7:24 AM

listening to the title with a screen reader, it is so easy to move the "s" as the ending of the first word.