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Ask HN: Is masking indoors like buying insurance for your brain?

2 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Covid-19 Is Surging Again – and These Regions Are Facing the Sharpest Spikes (huffpost.com)

2 months ago | amichail | huffpost.com | newest

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Could a unique rectangular telescope be the key to finding Earth 2.0? (space.com)

2 months ago | amichail | space.com | frontpage

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Could a Common Virus Help Drive Parkinson's? (neurosciencenews.com)

2 months ago | amichail | neurosciencenews.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why not have color coded glasses to indicate willingness for small talk?

2 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Can Vitamin D Slow Aging? A New Study Says Yes – But There's a Catch (sciencealert.com)

2 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Levels of Omega-3 Could Help Explain Women's Alzheimer's Risk (sciencealert.com)

2 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would this idea combat the population decline problem in many countries?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: If burnout tells you that you are in the wrong job/career, why avoid it?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Would this idea encourage more people to use public transit?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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'Universal' Cancer Vaccine Destroys Resistant Tumors in Mice (sciencealert.com)

3 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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The Bitter Lesson (incompleteideas.net)

3 months ago | amichail | incompleteideas.net | newest

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Ask HN: Are past AI researchers relieved that they didn't have a chance at AI?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should you reinstall macOS from scratch every year?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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How the TI-99/4A Home Computer Worked [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Why does macOS assume apps can reliably maintain settings files?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Did modern AI's coding abilities make you lose interest in programming?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Are math contests more about attracting top teachers than anything else?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why not replace prisons with augmented reality headsets?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: No easy way for tvOS to display long documents (e.g., terms of service)?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Does using public transportation make you more creative than driving?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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A ship that glides like a pelican could change travel and defense (apnews.com)

3 months ago | amichail | apnews.com | newest

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Ask HN: Does driving keep computer programmers grounded in the real world?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Commodore raked in over $2M during the new C64 Ultimate's debut week (tomshardware.com)

3 months ago | amichail | tomshardware.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Do you find ChatGPT 5 to be condescending?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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South Korea deploys hologram police officer (scmp.com)

3 months ago | amichail | scmp.com | frontpage

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Dramatic slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice surprises scientists (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | amichail | theguardian.com | newest

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Ask HN: Are language requirements rude in a world with real-time AI translation?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should the police be banned from saying whether a shooting is targeted?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can you communicate with a dog if you give it a Neuralink-like implant?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Dozens of genetic traits depend on which parent you inherit them from (psypost.org)

3 months ago | amichail | psypost.org | newest

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Health Canada approves Ozempic to reduce kidney deterioration in diabetes (ctvnews.ca)

3 months ago | amichail | ctvnews.ca | newest

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Ask HN: Are programmers more likely to ignore society as they did not invent it?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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FDA issues warning over possible radioactive shrimp (livescience.com)

3 months ago | amichail | livescience.com | newest

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Physics of badminton's new killer spin serve (arstechnica.com)

3 months ago | amichail | arstechnica.com | best

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How Flu Shots Prevent Heart Attacks (psychologytoday.com)

3 months ago | amichail | psychologytoday.com | frontpage

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The AI That Solved IMO Geometry Problems – Guest Video by ‪ Aleph0‬ (youtube.com)

3 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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After 15 Years I Finally Left My Day Job [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Commodore is back from the dead with a new C64. But is it new? [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will plots involving AI soon require trigger warnings in movies/novels?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Scientists Identify a New Glitch in Human Thinking (gizmodo.com)

3 months ago | amichail | gizmodo.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why isn't there a ranking for how human-like AI writing sounds?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ozempic Blindness (webmd.com)

3 months ago | amichail | webmd.com | frontpage

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Rabbits with 'horns' in Colorado are being called 'Frankenstein bunnies.' (cnn.com)

3 months ago | amichail | cnn.com | newest

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New Vaccine for Two Deadly Cancers Shows Promise in Clinical Trial (sciencealert.com)

3 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will Grok win as it will eventually train on data from Optimus androids?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Close physical libraries and fund home internet for the poor instead?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Study on Mice Suggests Nose-Picking Has a Surprising Link with Alzheimer's (sciencealert.com)

3 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | newest

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Ask HN: Can war in Ukraine end by giving Ukrainians US and Russian citizenship?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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[flagged] Ask HN: Why do AIs include obvious, easily removed tells that can get you fired?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: A class where students design tests to stump AI but not humans?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is "solipsism syndrome" incompatible with Japan's politeness culture?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is not carrying an umbrella in Seattle an act of rebellion?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do people with solipsism syndrome see humans as no better than AIs?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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A Routine Vaccine May Lower Dementia Risk by as Much as 20% (sciencealert.com)

3 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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Alzheimer's Breakthrough: Lithium Reverses Memory Loss in Mice (sciencealert.com)

3 months ago | amichail | sciencealert.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Should brain implants be available for everyone as a productivity boost?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why do schools still teach arithmetic algorithms?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Could an Amiga with high quality text display have competed in business?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Mark Chen: GPT-5, Open-Source, Agents, Future of OpenAI, and More [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | amichail | youtube.com | newest

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Students Find Hidden Fibonacci Sequence in Classic Probability Puzzle (scientificamerican.com)

3 months ago | amichail | scientificamerican.com | newest

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Commodore 64 Ultimate sales tracker (slapsoft.com)

3 months ago | amichail | slapsoft.com | newest

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Ask HN: Market co-op programs as way to determine if an industry job is for you?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Did the Amiga's 640x400 flicker kill its potential for business use?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should schools have a subject where students can think about whatever?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is being employed like renting out your brain for eight hours a day?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Did you do more programming on your C64 than on your Amiga?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why isn't Gaslighting a Crime?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Blockle – A daily puzzle game that combines Wordle and Tetris (blockle.au)

3 months ago | amichail | blockle.au | newest

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Melting glaciers could trigger volcanic eruptions around the globe, study finds (livescience.com)

3 months ago | amichail | livescience.com | newest

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The mystery of Alice in Wonderland syndrome (bbc.com)

3 months ago | amichail | bbc.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Did cuteness evolve as a response to parental neglect?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial (medpath.com)

3 months ago | amichail | medpath.com | best

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Ex CNN host under fire for 'interview' with AI of dead school shooting victim (the-express.com)

3 months ago | amichail | the-express.com | newest

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SAT Requires Exhaustive Search (springer.com)

3 months ago | amichail | springer.com | newest

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Skyscrapers Techniques (conceptispuzzles.com)

3 months ago | amichail | conceptispuzzles.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do religious parents (including tourists) risk going to prison in Japan?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is free trade with the US impossible due to its lower taxes?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Will AIs soon conclude that all humans are philosophical zombies?

3 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should high schools require students to rebel academically?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is an activity no longer creative once AI can do it really well?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Despite Its Recent "Rebirth", All Is Not Well in The World of Commodore (timeextension.com)

4 months ago | amichail | timeextension.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why not give passengers credit for even mild turbulence on flights?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Have recent AI breakthroughs made you question existence of free will?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why does AI generally uphold the status quo instead of challenging it?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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TeXmacs Typesetter: From Trees to Boxes (texmacs.github.io)

4 months ago | amichail | github.io | newest

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Mathematical Typesetting in TeXmacs (texmacs.github.io)

4 months ago | amichail | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: Did AI profs gain respect overnight after ChatGPT was released?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Is there a game where you try to escape a downtown collapsing in slo-mo?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Existence of smooth solutions of Navier-Stokes equations in 3D Euclidean space (arxiv.org)

4 months ago | amichail | arxiv.org | newest

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Ask HN: Do you find it strange that conjoined twins sometimes survive?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Are Hikikomori Canaries in the Mine?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Why didn't people 40 years ago worry about population collapse today?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Ask HN: Has AI made you lose interest in landing humans on Mars?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Should HN have a "Limited Offers" tab where posts can be deleted?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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"the OpenAI IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend... it's a kind of dying" (twitter.com/_dave__white_)

4 months ago | amichail | twitter.com | newest

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Dual-Brain Challenge Tetris Game (splitris.online)

4 months ago | amichail | splitris.online | frontpage

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Ask HN: Will AI solve homelessness by forcing UBI on countries worldwide?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest

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The rubber hand illusion works on octopuses too (phys.org)

4 months ago | amichail | phys.org | frontpage

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Ask HN: Are puzzle games more important now given what modern AI does for us?

4 months ago | amichail | ycombinator.com | newest