Why “Whale” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
That was 2025. In 2025 a quarter of their revenue came from two customers, and those customers were GitHub Copilot and Cursor. In 2026 their revenue has gone up by a factor of m…
by simonw · Oct 7, 2026
A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
by bryanrasmussen · Oct 7, 2026 · 18 points
How do they check taht they got the meaning right? Getting a whale to react is cool, but that's a pretty big jump to knowing what it's actually saying.
by imnotr0b0t · Oct 7, 2026
Besides sperm whales, the other toothed whale species that are bigger than orcas (i.e. beaked whales) are also specialized in eating squid caught at great depths under water, th…
by adrian_b · Oct 7, 2026
Idealistically, I really wish I could disagree with you. Living in this reality, unfortunately I cannot. So I should restate the whale story: that's the effect it had on me , an…
by nkoren · Oct 7, 2026
I don't have a whale moment, but my manatee moment gave me feelings that are probably similar to yours re: being incapable of feeling anything but respect and awe for the aquati…
by EvanAnderson · Oct 7, 2026
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Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and porpoises. Dolphins and porpoises may be considered whales from a formal, cladistic perspective. Whales, dolphins and porpoises belong to the order Cetartiodactyla, which consists of even-toed ungulates. Their closest non-cetacean living relatives are the hippopotamuses, from which they and other cetaceans diverged about 54 million years ago. The two parvorders of whales, baleen whales (Mysticeti) and toothed whales (Odontoceti), are thought to have had their last common ancestor around 34 million years ago. Mysticetes include four extant (living) families: Balaenopteridae, Balaenidae, Cetotheriidae, and Eschrichtiidae. Odontocetes include the Monodontidae, Physeteridae, Kogiidae, and Ziphiidae, as well as the six families of dolphins and porpoises which are not considered whales in the informal sense. Read more on Wikipedia