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The Path to Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-path-to-mojo-1-0
1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism

https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/blob/main/README.md
3•sakanakana00•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built Divvy to split restaurant bills from a photo

https://divvyai.app/
3•pieterdy•6m ago•0 comments

Hot Reloading in Rust? Subsecond and Dioxus to the Rescue

https://codethoughts.io/posts/2026-02-07-rust-hot-reloading/
3•Tehnix•7m ago•1 comments

Skim – vibe review your PRs

https://github.com/Haizzz/skim
2•haizzz•8m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning

https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant
3•Nive11•8m ago•4 comments

Tech Edge: A Living Playbook for America's Technology Long Game

https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2026-01/260120_EST_Tech_Edge_0.pdf?Version...
2•hunglee2•12m ago•0 comments

Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
2•chartscout•15m ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
3•AlexeyBrin•18m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
2•machielrey•19m ago•1 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
3•tablets•24m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•28m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•28m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
2•billiob•29m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•34m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•40m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•42m ago•1 comments

Slop News - The Front Page right now but it's only Slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•46m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•48m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
4•tosh•54m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
4•oxxoxoxooo•58m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•58m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
4•goranmoomin•1h ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

4•throwaw12•1h ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
3•senekor•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
2•myk-e•1h ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
4•myk-e•1h ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
6•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/kentucky-organ-donations.html
45•mitchbob•8mo ago

Comments

mitchbob•8mo ago
https://archive.ph/Gx3vU
delichon•8mo ago
Along with the good it can do, people should be made aware of these stories before signing up to be an organ donor. Otherwise the consent isn't truly informed.
jsutter909•8mo ago
Another point for the Charlie Munger maxim, "show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome"
triceratops•8mo ago
What's the incentive? The hospital gets paid for keeping patients on life support too, right?
senkora•8mo ago
The Organ Procurement Organizations are separate entities and have their own incentives. It’s their representatives who are pushing for organ retrieval in dubious cases.
ty6853•8mo ago
You have to love American brand of capitalism, where it is illegal to sell your own organs, but legal to sell someone else's.
triceratops•8mo ago
Yeah that's not great. Why do procurement organizations have "incentives" at all? Are employees there actually getting compensated on number of transplants performed? That's a bit gross IMO. It's a non-profit. You work there for a below-market salary and a feeling of doing something good in the world.
nitwit005•8mo ago
If incentives rule, you should never, ever, under any circumstance, seek medical treatment.

The incentive is to make everyone who shows up at the hospital maximally sick, ideally with illnesses that require as many tests and treatments and possible.

You can't trust your friends or family either. The hospital may have paid them to try to convince you.

opwieurposiu•8mo ago
Are you really dead if some of your organs are living on in someone else's body?

Seems like you would only be "Mostly Dead"

mock-possum•8mo ago
Unless we’re talking about the brain and central the nervous system, your organs aren’t you, they’re yours
onecommentman•8mo ago
You’re just making a guess about that — or so says my pineal gland, thymus gland, heart, solar plexus, adrenal glands, etc.. The brain and nervous system is just the spokesorgan for a carnival of bioenergetic centers that makes Stock Exchanges and Sports events look staid in comparison. You may think your brain is the boss, but what was the organ that made you think that? Your brain may have selfish interests in making you believe it is your essence — due diligence is called for.
triceratops•8mo ago
The surprising thing I learned from this article is a lot of the would-be donors were dying or presumed dead from overdoses. I always thought drug use would taint the organs and make them useless for donation.
pinewurst•8mo ago
Is donor cause of death disclosed to the organ recipients and/or their medical providers?
foxyv•8mo ago
Most opioids do not damage organs. They typically just change our central nervous systems and suppress breathing which is how they ultimately kill. The brain will die long before organs during oxygen depravation.

Alcohol, amphetamines, and other drugs do in fact damage organs before they kill but opioids do not unless they also contain something like Tylenol which is a liver toxin.

SuperNinKenDo•8mo ago
When you consider the growing evidence that we've seen over the years that apparently unresponsive people can be fully aware of their surroundings, this is truly terrifying.

From some of the remarks at the end of the article one really statts to wonder how much survivorship bias there is here... How many procedures went forward despite the medical professionals in the room being uncomfortable...

tredre3•8mo ago
> When you consider the growing evidence that we've seen over the years that apparently unresponsive people can be fully aware of their surroundings, this is truly terrifying.

We're also seeing growing evidence that a fair amount of people regain consciousness under general anaesthesia (but remain fully paralyzed), despite the common wisdom putting it as much less than 1%. What is uncommon is to remember it afterwards, because the drugs cocktail prevents memory formation.

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2022/05/24/durin...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/10/surgery-pati...

tomatotomato37•8mo ago
I've heard in some lighter procedures (think bone setting or dental work) just an amnesic drug is given as apparently not biologically encoding/remembering a traumatic event seems to produce just as good an outlook as blocking the tramua through unconsciousness/painkillers
southernplaces7•8mo ago
>as apparently not biologically encoding/remembering a traumatic event seems to produce just as good an outlook as blocking the tramua through unconsciousness/painkillers

I'll have to look it up, but there is at least one known case of a man who went through conscious but immobilized general anesthesia, through excruciating surgery pain, before the doctors (in this case) realized that they'd forgotten to first give him a certain specific sedative drug as part of his anesthesia cocktail. They rectified this and apparently did so knowing that it would make him forget the trauma he'd just gone through.

However, later, when he woke up from an otherwise successful and complication-free surgery, he soon began to have extremely severe, brutally traumatic anxiety attacks, derived from subconscious memories of what he'd experienced. This went on without resolution to the point where he could no longer socially function at all.. If I remember correctly, he then eventually killed himself as a result.

After his death, his family investigated the last major medical thing he'd gone through (his otherwise routine surgery) and somehow got wind of what the doctors had done, and that they'd known of their own fuckup. The familiy then did manage to gather enough evidence to have the doctors criminally charged, aside from also getting a massive settlement from the hospital itself.

Long story short, I wouldn't count on "just as good an outlook", and especially if I know that, going into such a surgery, the me that feels it before later forgetting what happened will go through a brief living hell of horror.

It's no consolation knowing your future You won't remember a thing if you still have to fully experience that nightmare prima facie.

SuperNinKenDo•8mo ago
Colour me skeptical of that notion. Trauma and anxiety have a way of driving themselves deep, and somebody who has anxiety problems emerge or worsen an indeterminate amount of time post-intervention is unlikely to ever establish the link, let alone then go on to prove it to anybody else if they somehow did stumble upon the answer.
ninininino•8mo ago
I woke up during my wisdom teeth extraction and remember the sound of crunching as they hammered or chiseled or something but luckily I couldn't feel anything or don't remember pain, just psychological distress. Googling the experience it appears to be a fairly common thing enough to read similar stories.

In my opinion, it would be a good idea to explain to a patient what is going to happen so if they do wake up they can know what is going on and be less alarmed by the procedure.

dmitrygr•8mo ago
This is why I will never be an organ donor and watch the news of successful xenotransplants with excitement.
exe34•8mo ago
I'd be pretty pissed to get this close to not having to wake up and then they bungle it up. Now I have to go back to work and pay taxes.
bookofjoe•8mo ago
https://archive.ph/ddtuc