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Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (wiley.com)
410 points by randycupertino 15 hours ago | 284 comments
2.
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist (conic.al)
377 points by rdl 1 day ago | 181 comments
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AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (davidepiffer.com)
473 points by rzk 13 hours ago | 407 comments
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At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (smithsonianmag.com)
249 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 86 comments
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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (sankalp.bearblog.dev)
415 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 91 comments
6.
Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding (bargi.org)
297 points by allenb 20 hours ago | 189 comments
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Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum (baselashraf81.github.io)
218 points by BaselAshraf81 5 days ago | 99 comments
8.
RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
283 points by dmitrygr 1 day ago | 344 comments
9.
The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves (linebender.org)
193 points by raphlinus 6 days ago | 40 comments
10.
Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia (usgs.gov)
216 points by Bender 1 day ago | 55 comments
11.
A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)
209 points by sensanaty 16 hours ago | 71 comments
12.
 [dupe] eigendrum (eigendrum.com)
214 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 1 comment
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In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace (popularmechanics.com)
124 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 84 comments
14.
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)
231 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 168 comments
15.
Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018) (arxiv.org)
138 points by E-Reverance 1 day ago | 78 comments
16.
Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (codeberg.page)
93 points by uecker 23 hours ago | 45 comments
17.
AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)
130 points by AnodicElegy 12 hours ago | 66 comments
18.
Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin (32bits.substack.com)
126 points by bbayles 3 days ago | 32 comments
19.
Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
117 points by chatchan 1 day ago | 55 comments
20.
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
150 points by felixbraun 10 hours ago | 34 comments
21.
This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever (ieee.org)
65 points by Jimmc414 4 days ago | 19 comments
22.
Racket v9.3 (racket-lang.org)
135 points by privong 1 day ago | 18 comments
23.
The Color of White Light (ludens.cl)
92 points by xk3 4 days ago | 46 comments
24.
Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737 (wired.com)
122 points by _tk_ 2 days ago | 98 comments
25.
The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (ploopy.co)
139 points by big_toast 1 day ago | 68 comments
26.
2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization (disneyresearch.com)
68 points by Jimmc414 1 day ago | 4 comments
27.
A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms (nature.com)
166 points by jeffreyrogers 14 hours ago | 78 comments
28.
Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (stapelberg.ch)
62 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 21 comments
29.
Möbius strips and differential equations (hidden-phenomena.com)
72 points by mbustamanter 5 days ago | 14 comments
30.
Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents (stephen-cresswell.com)
60 points by scresswell 17 hours ago | 27 comments

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