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Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware

A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela

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Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops?

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Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default

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The virtual AmigaOS runtime (a.k.a. Wine for Amiga:)

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AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds

NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens

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Musashi: Motorola 680x0 emulator written in C

US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

Reading Without Limits or Expectations

Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration

Claude Code CLI was broken

Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says

Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

Show HN: Open database of link metadata for large-scale analysis

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A4 Paper Stories

We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof

How dependabot works

Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser

Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE

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'Stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain'

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German president says US is destroying world order

Intricuit: A touchscreen add-on for Mac laptops

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Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

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Quake Brutalist Jam III

Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card

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Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela

Optery (YC W22) Hiring a CISO and Web Scraping Engineers (Node) (US and Latam)

My first paper: A practical implementation of Rubiks cube based passkeys

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Show HN: I built a \"Do not disturb\" Device for my home office

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Michel Siffre’s self-experiments in a cave with no light (2018)

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The Target forensics lab (2024)

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Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026

The Rise of Computer Games, Part II: Digitizing Nerddom

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US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year

Logitech fails to renew macOS certificate for G Hub, chaos ensues

Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026

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Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI

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Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery

Formal methods only solve half my problems

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

Sergey Brin's Unretirement

Urban Surveillance

Show HN: How I generate animated pixel art with AI and Python

We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program

High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it

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Show HN: KeelTest – AI-driven VS Code unit test generator with bug discovery

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CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs

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Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents

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Silicon Valley Plots Against Ro Khanna After His Support for a Wealth Tax

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Show HN: Tylax – A bidirectional LaTeX to Typst converter in Rust

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Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

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Trump withdraws US from 66 international organizations

Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI

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Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation

Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)

Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP

Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code)

Can I start using Wayland in 2026?

Show HN: llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs

Adding insular script like it's 1626

Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU

Anthropic Raising $10B at $350B Value

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Writing an eigenvalue solver in Rust for WebAssembly

Sega co-founder David Rosen has died

Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

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Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023)

How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders

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I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)

Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer and runs BASIC

The Agentic Self: Parallels Between AI and Self-Improvement

I switched from VSCode to Zed

Show HN: Foundertrace – chain of YC startups founded by its employees

Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree

DeepSeek-R1 paper updated from 22 pages to 86 with additional details

The Liskov Substitution Principle does more than you think

Eurostar AI vulnerability: When a chatbot goes off the rails

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US says it will discuss Greenland ownership with Denmark next week

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Show HN: GPU Cuckoo Filter – faster queries than Blocked Bloom, with deletion

Ansible battle tested hardening for Linux, SSH, Nginx, MySQL

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Man jailed for selling chemicals online to help people kill themselves

New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US

Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician

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When Your Child Is a Psychopath

My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis

System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)

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Show HN: I built \"Google\" for searching Shadcn blocks on the web

Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture

FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers

C Is Best (2025)

Logitech mice impaired due to expired certificate

Tailwind creator: we had six months left

Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics

Solo ASIC tapeout on a budget: detailed write up

During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

DiskImage: A powerful floppy disk image manager with built-in bitstream analysis

iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan

Six Harmless Bugs Lead to Remote Code Execution

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and finding the master key to unlock them all

Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September

Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density

Agentic Patterns

Show HN: 25 years of house prices in England and Wales

Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine

Few Shall Return is now gen-AI free

Estonian volunteers struggling to protect Wikipedia from Russian propaganda

The Gentle Seduction (1989)

TGFX - A lightweight 2D graphics library for modern GPUs

Claude Code On-the-Go

U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly

Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere

Serious = Suspicious, Shooting with Phone vs. Shooting with Camera

Gemini now recommending products unprompted

Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology (2020)

Cigarette smoke effect using shaders

Why agents matter more than other AI

Show HN: Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence

Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021)

The Post-American Internet

Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS

The US dollar and national security

DatBench: Discriminative, faithful, and efficient VLM evaluations

LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word

Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket

I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects

Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025

Show HN: Finding similarities in New Yorker covers

Recursive Language Models

How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

KDE onboarding is good now

Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance

xAI Raises $20B Series E

One Hundred Years of Gossip

The Manifold Mind of Saul Bellow

The suck is why we're here

Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972)

OpenAI Would Like You to Share Your Health Data with ChatGPT

Representing Hierarchies

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JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast

Utopian Scholastic

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to shut down and publish final edition in May

Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo

Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

The 1k Neuron Challenge

Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs

Linux kernel security work

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)

The Post-American Internet

Netflix Migrates to Amazon Aurora: 75% Performance Boost and 28% Cost Reduction

Show HN: WOLS – Open standard for mushroom cultivation tracking

The Silver Ratio

Show HN: ccrider - Search and Resume Your Claude Code Sessions – TUI / MCP / CLI

Coffeezilla: The most overrated scam investigator

The PGP problem (2019)

How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify

Take One Small Step

MyTorch – Minimalist autograd in 450 lines of Python

Web development is fun again

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server

HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

Scratchpad – A Throwaway Notepad for Developers

Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data?

Jank Lang Hit Alpha

Migrating cells and the new science of microchimerism

AI Didn't Make Engineering Teams Faster. It Forced Them to Grow Up

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?

Xr0 verifier, guarantee the safety of C programs at compile time

Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]

LLM Problems Observed in Humans

The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf]

Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

NeXTSTEP on Pa-RISC

Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work

Ledger customers impacted by third-party Global-e data breach

Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war

Logos Language Guide: Compile English to Rust

Show HN: I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker

Nestlé infant formula recall spans globe

Refactoring – Not on the backlog (2014)

Conbini Wars – map of Japanese convenience store ratios

Most websites don't need cookie consent banners

Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams

Assorted less(1) tips

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The Oddest Couple in American Literature: Part II

Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

AI layoffs are looking like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality

How Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain

Corroded: Illegal Rust

Building a Rust-style static analyzer for C++ with AI

Show HN: Open-Source 8-Ch BCI Board (ESP32 and ADS1299 and OpenBCI GUI)

Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage

Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring

Boston Dynamics and DeepMind form new AI partnership

Monads in C# (Part 2): Result

Court orders Samsung to stop \"spying\" on Texans through its TVs

Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

Show HN: I built a simple \"Gemini\" watermark remover extension, \"Peel Banana\"

Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

How Kraft Heinz lost its lock on mac and cheese and American shoppers

World War 3 Map Simulator

Cold-blooded software (2023)

Canada's armed forces are planning for threats from America

I came back from Cursor to VS Code

Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible

Life Under a Clicktatorship

A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall

Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

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The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025)

Darwin the Man of His Times

Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal

Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

FracturedJson

AI hampered productivity of software developers,m

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)

Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone

Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?

How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal

A small collection of text-only websites

Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024)

Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config

TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA

Imagine 130M Washing Machines

'Doomsday fish': Once-in-a-lifetime sea creature encountered in Monterey Bay

Show HN: An LLM-Powered PCB Schematic Checker (Major Update)

Lego announces Smart Brick, the 'most significant evolution' in 50 years, no AI

VSCodium – open-source Binaries of VSCode

The C3 Programming Language

39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos

Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder

Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack

Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin

Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second

A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015)

IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]

The 'Mad Max'-Loving CEO (June Paik) Challenging Nvidia with a Renegade Chip

Show HN: OSS sustain guard – Sustainability signals for OSS dependencies

Why Is There a Tiny Hole in the Airplane Window? (2023)

A website to destroy all websites

Online Museum and Technical History of the Hewlett-Packard Company

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect medical records

Happy Public Domain Day 2026

OpenGitOps

VR-based brain training for ADHD

Larry Page is moving business out of CA ahead of a proposed billionaire's tax

One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household

Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

Bayer's Monsanto Sues Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna over mRNA Technology

Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone

10 years of personal finances in plain text files

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

Clicks Communicator

A year of clean energy milestones

Pixoo Sign Client for Ruby

The big regression

The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)

Canada's Immigration Dept shelves visa program for entrepreneurs, citing misuse

A ssh server that knows who you are. $ ssh whoami.filippo.io

GOG Patrons- Join gamers keeping classics alive

O-Ring Automation

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged

Cameras and Lenses (2020)

The meek did inherit the Earth, at least among ants

OpenAI Must Turn over 20M ChatGPT Logs, Judge Affirms

The Riven Diffs – Seeing Riven (1997) Differently

Macy Conferences

All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)

Parental controls aren't for parents

X-Clacks-Overhead

HP Keyboard Full PC Eliteboard G1A

The Intent Layer: Make agents perform like your best engineers

PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases

Build a Deep Learning Library

Dell's version of the DGX Spark fixes pain points

Adventure 751 (1980)

Code is a liability (not an asset)

Writing mutexes from scratch in Go

A Brief History of Ralph

Children and Helical Time

Wegmans grocery store uses biometric surveillance on shoppers

Developing a BLAS Library for the AMD AI Engine [pdf]

Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them

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KGGen: Extracting Knowledge Graphs from Plain Text with Language Models

Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]

AI sycophancy panic

Napster exits music streaming with shutdown of its service

Was it a billion dollar mistake?

Rust is beyond object-oriented, part 3: Inheritance (2023)

Why RSS Matters

The attrition is setting in: how Oregon's magic mushroom experiment lost its way

US seizes Russian-flagged tanker

WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform

A congressman wants to criminalize insider trading on prediction markets

Keeping Syria connected during war: Surviving ISIS and Intelligence

MTV Simulator

Heavy Truck Sales Collapsed in Q4; Down 32.5% Year-over-Year in December

China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron

BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal

Bookfinder: Find any book at the best price

Round and Round

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Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML

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A World Without People

Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs

Corundum – open-source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute

Show HN: Quantum Tunnel

Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay

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Show HN: Open-source AI workflows with read-only auth scopes

1160 PRs to improve Rust in 2025

I like when apps are \"finished\"

Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust

Ancient > Modern: Recreating an Ancient Pump (with no moving parts)

Markdown Emphasis Issues in CJK: Analyzing CommonMark's Delimiter Rules

Einstein Probe detects an X-ray flare from nearby star

The $160k Mechanic Job That Ford Can't Fill

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Common Lisp SDK for the Datastar Hypermedia Framework

Joseph Campbell Meets George Lucas – Part I (2015)

50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player

The myth of willpower – why some people struggle to lose weight more than others

CATL EV batteries significantly outperform rivals in degradation, tests show

California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info

Tesla's full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath

2025 Letter

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Linux is good now

An Optimized Soft Shadow Volume Algorithm with Real-Time Performance [pdf]

Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Understand

Worst Case Optimal Joins: Graph-Join Correspondence

Agent Orchestration Is Not the Future

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We traced hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia edits back to UC networks

Logitech Options+ not working on macOS due to expired cert

AMD Ryzen chief teases return of older Zen 3 chips to fight soaring RAM prices

Ask HN: Is anyone aware of a LinkedIn mirror like xcancel.com for X?

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Recovering video game cheat codes from a long-defunct phone hotline service

Extensibility: The \"100% Lisp\" Fallacy

Scientists Put Human Gut Bacteria Into Mice and Found Their Brains Showed Primate-like Activity. Gut bacteria doesn’t just fuel brains — they may help shape how brains work and evolve.

Long-term effects of 40-hertz auditory stimulation as a treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: New study provides the first primate evidence of 40-Hz auditory stimulation can sustainably modulate the Aβ metabolism in the brain, supporting its potential as a noninvasive Alzheimer’s treatment method.

Chemists have discovered a new route to serotonin receptor agonists by UV treatment of amino acids. The new technique can be used to create libraries of drug candidates with psychedelic-like properties.

New study suggests a high consumption of food preservatives increased the risk of type 2 diabetes by almost 50%. This is the first study in the world on the links between preservative additives and the incidence of type 2 diabetes.

Potential bridge between narcissism and OCD: the drive for perfection may be the bridge connecting narcissism to obsessive-compulsive symptoms. For people with narcissistic traits, the inability to meet their own lofty standards is a primary driver of intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.

Three jawbones, including one from a child, teeth, vertebrae and a femur were unearthed from a cave in Morocco, dating back 773,000 years. They are the first hominin fossils from this period to have been discovered in Africa.

A new study finds aviation emissions could drop 50-75% by combining three strategies: flying only fuel-efficient planes, switching to all-economy layouts, and maximizing loads. Crucially, better strategic use of existing fleets could immediately reduce global emissions by 11%.

Socializing alone: A review of more than 1,000 studies suggests that using technology to communicate with others is better than nothing – but still not as good as face-to-face interactions.

Sick young ants send out a 'kill me' scent to prevent deadly epidemics

Global cancer cases reached 18.5 million in 2023, doubling since 1990. With projections of 30 million cases by 2050, researchers warn the world is not ready for this surge, especially in low-income nations. Alarmingly, 40% of deaths remain tied to preventable risks like smoking and poor diet.

Researchers built an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) that converts low-energy light into higher-energy light without high-energy input or special materials [Nature Photonics]

Oldest known poison arrows were used to hunt animals 60,000 years ago

University of Michigan-led study investigates exercise-related 'all-or-nothing' thinking as a barrier to exercise adherence

A new study links common 'forever chemicals' to a higher risk of liver disease in adolescents: PFAS may triple the chances of adolescents developing a metabolic associated liver disease (MASLD), known as fatty liver disease.

After sibling analysis, acid-suppressing medications did not link with autism, ADHD, or OCD

Loss of epiphytes (plants living on trees) in Costa Rica's Cloudforests could create a vicious cycle: New study in Monteverde shows it shifts the energy balance in ways that could raise cloud bases higher and worsen water losses

A recent systematic review shows that mind–body exercise is associated with improved cognitive function and neuroplastic changes in older adults with mild cognitive impairment. Mapping of neuroimaging evidence indicates that structural and functional changes involve specific brain regions.

A machine learning-derived polygenic risk score reveals that healthy lifestyle counteracts obesity-related mortality

Gut-microbe-derived molecules called bile acids play an important role in shaping the developing immune system during early childhood. The bile acids, which are a class of compounds only recently discovered, may contribute to the risk of autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes.

Engineers investigated the secret to the American bird grasshopper's efficient gliding, inspiring a new approach to robotic flight and multimodal locomotion [Royal Society Interface]

New study overturns long-held model of how plants coordinate immune responses

AI-generated sensors open new paths for early cancer detection: « Nanoparticles coated with molecular sensors could be used to develop at-home tests for many types of cancer. »

Adverse Prenatal Exposures Linked to Higher Rates of Mental Health Issues, Brain Changes in Adolescents

A new machine learning tool speeds the discovery of viable configurations for metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, using a value known as free energy to sort through trillions of options and identify potentially useful designs [JACS]

COVID vaccination and post-infection cancer signals: Evaluating patterns and potential biological mechanisms

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem (and accidentally learned why most algorithms make life worse)

Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer | Fortune

Why Developers are Moving Away from Stack Overflow?

A 2025 Retrospective: How Often Executives Predicted the End of Software Engineering

Why I hate WebKit: A (non) love letter from a Tauri developer

Devaluation of work

Solving Weighted Random Sorting at Scale (O(N log N) approach)

The Bank‑Clerk Riddle & How it Made Simon Peyton Jones \"Invent\" the Binary Number System as a Child

How We Built a Website Hook SDK to Track User Interaction Patterns

The Hidden Cost of “We’ll Fix It Later” in Internal Tools

where good ideas come from (for coding agents)

Agency must stay with humans: AI velocity risks outpacing programmers' understanding

RAG, AI Agents, and Agentic AI as architectural choices

Improvable AI - A Breakdown of Graph Based Agents

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