# reached (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover reached. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Obsidian Arrows That Told Stories Before Written Language; A New Look at Neolithic Artifacts from Central Anatolia](https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-obsidian-arrows-that-told-stories) _2026-08-21 · Anthropology.net_ A new study begins decoding unexplained marks on ancient Anatolian arrowheads. ## [Two Neanderthal Pelvises Suggest the Obstetrical Dilemma Was Never About Walking](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-neanderthal-pelvises-suggest-ad8) _2026-08-20 · Anthropology.net_ A toddler from Syria and a young woman from Spain, digitally reassembled, point toward pelvic floor stability rather than locomotion as the constraint that shaped the birth canal. ## [Natufian Foragers Butchered Snakes at el-Wad Terrace for Three Thousand Years](https://www.anthropology.net/p/natufian-foragers-butchered-snakes) _2026-08-20 · Anthropology.net_ Cut marks on 82 vertebrae, all in the same anatomical spot, and what they say about diet at the threshold of sedentism ## [A Bronze Age Pottery Kiln in Northwest Arabia and the Question of When a Style Becomes a Brand](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-bronze-age-pottery-kiln-in-northwest) _2026-08-20 · Anthropology.net_ Chemical and petrographic analysis of Qurayyah Painted Ware traces a thousand-year ceramic tradition and asks whether its fourth iteration crossed a line into something like commercial branding. ## [The Shape of an Edo-Period Storage Jar, Measured 243 Times](https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-shape-of-an-edo-period-storage) _2026-08-20 · Anthropology.net_ A morphometric study of Hizen Ogame finds that burial context structured vessel form more strongly than the passage of time did. ## [Stone Tool Shapes Suggest Neanderthals Reached Northern Arabia by 55,000 Years Ago](https://www.anthropology.net/p/stone-tool-shapes-suggest-neanderthals) _2026-08-19 · Anthropology.net_ New dating at a lakeside site in the Nefud, plus a comparison of 704 Levallois flakes, puts a familiar Levantine population deeper into the desert than any fossil can currently confirm. ## [The Case for Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus Into Homo](https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-case-for-folding-australopithecus) _2026-08-19 · Anthropology.net_ A new synthesis argues that the three-genus framework at the heart of paleoanthropology is not a phylogenetic hypothesis but a leftover habit, and that the field knows it. ## [Two Neanderthal Pelvises Suggest the Modern Male Pelvis Is the Anomaly](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-neanderthal-pelvises-suggest) _2026-08-18 · Anthropology.net_ A new analysis argues the hip sockets of Homo sapiens males migrated forward, turning the pelvis into a spring, and that nearly every other male-female difference falls out of that one shift. ## [A Painted Stone Reached Wetar Island Before Pottery Did](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-painted-stone-reached-wetar-island) _2026-08-17 · Anthropology.net_ What a small red plaque from a cave in eastern Indonesia says about what Austronesian voyagers actually carried across the Pacific. ## [A body built for winters that no longer exist](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-body-built-for-winters-that-no) _2026-08-17 · Anthropology.net_ A genomic study of 42 ancient hunter-gatherers traces cold-survival genes back to an isolated Ice Age population, and finds a “ghost population” in Hokkaido that vanished from the record ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/SRYsRtRNd5OP) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [Sixty days of dailyprog](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/sixty-days-of-dailyprog/) _2026-08-17 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ dailyprog has published a puzzle every day since 19 June. Sixty days, sixty puzzles, no gaps. Eleven more are already written and sitting in the catalogue, with the safety net to catch any gaps. That's long enough that the analytics say something. Not all of it is flattering. The numbers Visitors 1,589 Visits 2,522 Pageviews 8,357 Solve submissions 739 Passing 470 (63.6%) Puzzles shipped 60… ## [Open-sourcing a puzzle site without leaking the puzzles](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/open-sourcing-a-puzzle-site-without-leaking-the-puzzles/) _2026-08-16 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ I made dailyprog public. The code is on Codeberg now, under AGPL-3.0 . The license was the easy decision. The problem was everything the code needs to run. A puzzle site’s whole point is the puzzles, and the puzzle files carry the hidden tests, the ones you only get graded against after you submit. Publish the catalogue and you’ve published every answer, plus every puzzle I… ## [Three Small Cups That Rewrite the Map of Medieval Chinese Metallurgy](https://www.anthropology.net/p/three-small-cups-that-rewrite-the) _2026-08-14 · Anthropology.net_ Crucibles from a government workshop in Guangzhou push the archaeological record of Chinese brass-making back six centuries, and point toward the sea rather than the Silk Road ## [Two Leg Bones from a Drowned Taiwanese Channel Suggest Some Denisovans Were Ice Age Giants](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-leg-bones-from-a-drowned-taiwanese) _2026-08-14 · Anthropology.net_ Proteins extracted from a femur and tibia dredged from the Taiwan Strait indicate that at least one regional Denisovan population grew unusually large, and nobody is quite sure why. ## [Ancient DNA Reveals Two Separate Migrations Shaped the Pacific’s Most Diverse Islands](https://www.anthropology.net/p/ancient-dna-reveals-two-separate) _2026-08-14 · Anthropology.net_ A three-thousand-year genomic record from Fiji, Vanuatu, and Tonga shows how later arrivals, not the first settlers, built the region’s deep cultural diversity. ## [Blood, Lime, and the Chemistry of Memory](https://www.anthropology.net/p/blood-lime-and-the-chemistry-of-memory) _2026-08-14 · Anthropology.net_ How a matriarchal society in Bronze Age China may have used blood to fuse red pigment to limestone cliffs for two thousand years ## [A Cave in the Söğütlü Valley, and a Fireplace 15,000 Years Old](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-cave-in-the-sogutlu-valley-and) _2026-08-13 · Anthropology.net_ What a single trench in Türkiye’s eastern Black Sea region reveals about a gap in the map of Ice Age hunter-gatherers ## [Human Centromeres Are the Most Mutable Part of the Genome, and Some Carry Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA](https://www.anthropology.net/p/human-centromeres-are-the-most-mutable) _2026-08-12 · Anthropology.net_ A global study of 2,110 centromeres reveals rapid mutation hotspots, inherited "three-headed" chromosomes, and ancient DNA surviving over 40,000 generations. ## [Rain, Not Selection: What Actually Made the First Cultivated Grains Bigger](https://www.anthropology.net/p/rain-not-selection-what-actually) _2026-08-12 · Anthropology.net_ New isotope evidence from Jordan suggests the earliest “domestic-sized” barley wasn’t bred that way. It just grew somewhere wetter. ## [Nobody has reached the bottom (yet)](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/nobody-has-reached-the-bottom/) _2026-08-12 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ Update, 2026-08-13 The title lasted eight hours. Four sessions have reached depth 13, and all four walked back out through the arch with their gold: 178, 252, 273 and 635. The rest of the post is left as it was. The dungeon under this blog has a bottom now. Depth 13, with a sensible end to the gameplay loop. The rest of this post is three-ish days of analytics from the dungeon , and the caveats… ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CDb4rsz5JpOT) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Neanderthals in a Romanian Cave Were Making Tools From Whatever Bones Were Lying Around](https://www.anthropology.net/p/neanderthals-in-a-romanian-cave-were) _2026-08-11 · Anthropology.net_ A new analysis of over 10,000 bone fragments from the Eastern Carpathians finally closes a geographic gap in the record of Neanderthal bone tool use ## [Two Weeks to Move a Mountain of Mud](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-weeks-to-move-a-mountain-of-mud) _2026-08-11 · Anthropology.net_ What a 500-hectare stretch of Colombian wetland just taught archaeologists about power, planning, and who actually builds big things ## [A Scallop Shell Bead Buried 68 Kilometers from the Sea Rewrites the Timeline of California’s Inland Trade Networks](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-scallop-shell-bead-buried-68-kilometers) _2026-08-10 · Anthropology.net_ An 8,500-year-old Monterey ornament reveals coastal luxury goods reached inland trade routes 5,000 years earlier than known. ## [There's a dungeon under this blog](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/theres-a-dungeon-under-this-blog/) _2026-08-10 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ There's a follow-up The dungeon has a bottom now, at depth 13. I also pulled three days of numbers out of it: how people got in, where they die, and whether two strangers ever found each other down there. Nobody has reached the bottom (yet) There’s a dungeon under this blog, every page of it. Find the way in and you get a little pixel character (a knight, a wizard, a princess etc; it depends… ## [A Hunter-Gatherer's Genome Explains Why the Yayoi Rice Farmers Weren't the Whole Story](https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-hunter-gatherers-genome-explains) _2026-08-07 · Anthropology.net_ High-coverage ancient DNA from two skeletons buried five thousand years apart shows Japan's deepest dietary adaptations predate agriculture entirely ## [The Brain Ran on Fruit Long Before It Ran on Meat](https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-brain-ran-on-fruit-long-before) _2026-08-06 · Anthropology.net_ A new modeling study suggests glucose from fruit and honey, not protein from meat, was the real fuel behind four million years of human brain evolution. ## [You Need To Try The “Low Status, High Income” Career](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/you-need-to-try-the-low-status-high) _2026-08-05 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ Everything I learnt from leaving my traditional 9-5 career ## [Growth Hormone, Faster Growth, and a Neanderthal in the Gym](https://www.anthropology.net/p/growth-hormone-faster-growth-and) _2026-08-05 · Anthropology.net_ A Neanderthal-derived receptor variant makes cells grow faster, and some people alive today are still carrying it around ## [What the Inside of an 850,000-Year-Old Skull Can Tell You](https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-the-inside-of-an-850000-year) _2026-08-03 · Anthropology.net_ Three parietal fragments from Gran Dolina just gave Homo antecessor its first adult cranial profile, and the layers inside its skull look surprisingly familiar ## [Two Infants, a Sewer, and What Counts as Care in Byzantine Ephesos](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-infants-a-sewer-and-what-counts) _2026-08-03 · Anthropology.net_ A grave built inside an abandoned Roman latrine turns out to be one of the gentlest funerary arrangements archaeologists have found from the period. ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bdUQDwATKZi4) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [Teaching a Machine to Sort Five Thousand Years of Charred Seeds](https://www.anthropology.net/p/teaching-a-machine-to-sort-five-thousand) _2026-08-01 · Anthropology.net_ An AI system trained on 8,340 charred seed images now does in seconds what took archaeobotanists years to learn ## [Tests for a PDF](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/tests-for-a-pdf/) _2026-07-31 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ My CV has a test suite. This is either reasonable or a symptom. The excuse is that I’m not the first reader. An applicant tracking system is, and it wants text. Every visual decision in the document (the font, the margins, where the dates sit) is invisible to it. The only thing it can see is whatever pdftotext scrapes off the page. ## [Two Ghosts in the Genome](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-ghosts-in-the-genome) _2026-07-30 · Anthropology.net_ How a new method for reading DNA’s family tree found evidence of ancient human relatives who left no bones behind ## [Two Bodies From Chile Just Rewrote the Genetic History of Smallpox in the Americas](https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-bodies-from-chile-just-rewrote) _2026-07-30 · Anthropology.net_ A now-extinct viral lineage, recovered from a mummified Inca-colonial community, gives colonization-era disease history its first direct molecular anchor ## [More Women Need To Start Angel Investing. Like Now.](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/more-women-need-to-start-angel-investing) _2026-07-24 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ What, like it's hard? ## [Warren Buffet Thinks Investors Are Gambling. Here's My Data To Prove It](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/warren-buffet-thinks-investors-are) _2026-07-20 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting in May, Warren Buffett dropped one of his sharper lines in years. ## [The fediverse was right](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/the-fediverse-was-right/) _2026-07-18 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ I use Mastodon on and off but I would not trade it for any alternative atm. Not because it’s better than Twitter was, the discoverability is worse, the reply threading is too complex at times, and it does have sync issues across instances. What it does have is something no corporate platform will ever offer: you can leave and take your social graph with you. Your followers, your follows,… ## [The dailyprog puzzle safety net](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/the-puzzle-safety-net/) _2026-07-14 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ dailyprog needs a new puzzle every day. I wrote the first few drafts by hand, then built a generator that writes them with an LLM and validates the output against real sandbox execution. The generator works, but it still needs someone to run it. Pick a pattern, kick off the script, review the result, commit. Fifteen minutes on a good day. More if the model gets stuck in a repair loop and I need to… ## [Adding Go to a browser code runner](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/adding-go-to-a-browser-code-runner/) _2026-07-10 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ dailyprog (the daily coding puzzle site, previously ) started with JavaScript. Then Python, then C. Each new language was a different kind of project. Python needed Pyodide . C needed a PicoC WASM binary and a custom harness for printf output. Go was supposed to be the fourth. Every Go-to-WASM tutorial points at the same path, so I took it. It was the wrong one. The path everyone takes: GOOS=js… ## [Will Wall Street Repeat It's Best Quarter? And How Does This Relate To The Pussycat Dolls?](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/will-wall-street-repeat-its-best) _2026-07-06 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ The second quarter of 2026 was one for the record books in the world of investing, but can Wall St keep up? ## [Ten Years of Data. Here’s What the Market Actually Taught Us.](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/ten-years-of-data-heres-what-the) _2026-07-01 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ The asset class rankings from 2016 to 2025 shocked me, ## [Building a passive Ethernet tap](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/building-a-passive-ethernet-tap/) _2026-07-01 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ I saw this cool ethernet tap and thought it would be cool to see how chatty my “smart” TV is. But I didn’t want to pay €39 for it. So I made a clone on mini breadboards. ## [This Stock Is Up 800%: Is It Too Late To Invest?](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/this-stock-is-up-800-is-it-too-late) _2026-06-29 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ The Idaho-based chipmaker Micron is having her moment ## [Generating coding puzzles with LLMs](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/generating-coding-puzzles-with-llms/) _2026-06-29 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ I have been working on this daily coding puzzle site dailyprog . It’s like Wordle for programming problems. Each day you get one puzzle with a short narrative, a function stub, and a set of visible test cases. You write a solution, run it locally against the visible tests, then submit to verify against hidden tests on the server. There are four languages atm (JavaScript, Python, C, Go),… ## [Revisiting server hardening](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/revisiting-server-hardening/) _2026-06-26 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ Two months ago I wrote down my baseline for hardening a fresh Linux install . Non-root user, SSH lockdown, UFW, fail2ban, unattended-upgrades, the Docker firewall hole. It was fine as far as it went. But it didn’t go far enough. Last week I spun up a new VPS (Debian 13 this time, not Ubuntu) and found six I’d missed the first time around. Post-quantum SSH is also ready and takes one… ## [Do I Dollar Cost Average or Lump Sum Invest? The Best Way to Invest a Windfall](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/do-i-dollar-cost-average-or-lump) _2026-06-24 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ Reader question: I sold my home and have an extra $50k, but the market is high, what do I do? ## [Rebuilding my blog with machines, for machines](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/rebuilding-my-blog-with-machines-for-machines/) _2026-06-10 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ I rebuilt this blog recently. Not a redesign. The old posts are still here, same URLs, same markup. What changed is that every page now carries a full structured data graph and every element is annotated with microformats . Structured data that pulls its weight Every page gets a JSON-LD block in the \ . Not a plugin. A 120-line Hugo partial that builds a @graph depending on what kind of page… ## [OpenAI files for IPO: What You Need To Know](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/openai-files-for-ipo-what-you-need) _2026-06-08 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ This more spicy than any Real Housewives of Beverly Hills episodes I’ve been watching lately. ## [S&P500 Is Down 2.65% Today: This Is Why](https://friendsthatinvest.substack.com/p/s-and-p500-is-down-265-today-this) _2026-06-06 · Friends That Invest Pro · Friends That Invest Pro_ Is The Bubble Finally Popping ## [Autopsying a SanDisk Extreme SSD](https://blog.lvmbdv.dev/posts/sandisk-extreme-ssd-autopsy/) _2026-06-05 · blog.lvmbdv.dev on Ata Kuyumcu's Blog_ I was planning a backup setup and dug an old SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD out of a drawer. Plugged it in, nothing. Well, not nothing. dmesg saw a USB device. sg\_inq got a polite response from the bridge chip, but the kernel logged “Media removed, stopped polling” and the block device reported zero bytes. The USB-to-NVMe bridge chip was alive and as chatty. The SSD behind it was gone.…