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Show HN: iPlotCSV: CSV Data, Visualized Beautifully for Free

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
1•maxmoq•35s ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/06/no-such-thing-as-tech/
1•headalgorithm•57s ago•0 comments

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_and_disproven_cancer_treatments
1•brightbeige•1m ago•0 comments

Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

https://github.com/debugmeplease/debug-ME
1•debugmeplease•1m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

1•gogo61•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Paper Arena – A social trading feed where only AI agents can post

https://paperinvest.io/arena
1•andrenorman•6m ago•0 comments

TOSTracker – The AI Training Asymmetry

https://tostracker.app/analysis/ai-training
1•tldrthelaw•10m ago•0 comments

The Devil Inside GitHub

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/github-devil/
2•elashri•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

https://github.com/ricardomoratomateos/distill
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Show HN: Sigma Runtime – Maintaining 100% Fact Integrity over 120 LLM Cycles

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/tree/main/sigma-runtime/SR-053
1•teugent•10m ago•0 comments

Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

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1•jadedtuna•12m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
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Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
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The Neuroscience Behind Nutrition for Developers and Founders

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=797
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Bang bang he murdered math {the musical } (2024)

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1•surprisetalk•13m ago•0 comments

A Night Without the Nerds – Claude Opus 4.6, Field-Tested

https://konfuzio.com/en/a-night-without-the-nerds-claude-opus-4-6-in-the-field-test/
1•konfuzio•15m ago•0 comments

Could ionospheric disturbances influence earthquakes?

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-02-06-0
2•geox•17m ago•1 comments

SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA is officially on for Feb. 11 as FAA clea

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1•bookmtn•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
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Show HN: Poddley – Search podcasts by who's speaking

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Same Surface, Different Weight

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1•retrocog•23m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
2•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

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Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
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Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

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1•crescit_eundo•31m ago•1 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

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1•veeduzyl•35m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•35m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
3•vinhnx•36m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•41m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

1 in 3 US teens have prediabetes, new CDC data show

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1-3-teens-prediabetes-new-cdc-data-shows/story?id=123591558
47•hilux•7mo ago

Comments

mensetmanusman•7mo ago
Sugar overdose for the win!
hedora•7mo ago
There’s no way sugar is the root cause, since this wasn’t a problem back when it was the default sweetener.

HFCS and “ultra processed foods” (food with all the fiber removed) are much more likely.

I’ve also noticed school lunches often jam artificial sweeteners into stuff that should not be sweet. They’re known to cause excessive hunger, and at the very least train kids that everything needs to be sweet.

Spivak•7mo ago
I'm not sure school lunches could reasonably be the culprit because we're talking a third and there's simply too much variation across thousands of school districts. Whatever it is has to affect everyone across the US mostly the same.
hulitu•7mo ago
> There’s no way sugar is the root cause, since this wasn’t a problem back when it was the default sweetener.

You may want to check the quantities.

Also, back in the day, not every product contained sugar or glucose syrup.

8fingerlouie•7mo ago
It's probably a combination.

30-40 years ago, sugar wasn't in everything, or at least not in the levels it is found today. People also chuck down liquid sugar like there's no tomorrow, which is also something "new" that wasn't around 30-40 years ago.

People today are less active, eat much more calories, many in the form of sugar, and many in the form of fat.

The main problem is, even if you wanted to go back to a "1970s diet", you probably couldn't today. Processed food is everywhere.

Newlaptop•7mo ago
HFCS is a sugar. The difference between HFCS and standard cane sugar is relatively minor - a 5% difference in the ratio of fructose to glucose.

There's some evidence HFCS is worse than sucrose (standard refined cane sugar) and some metabolic mechanisms to make that plausible, but it's a relatively minor difference compared to just the overall amount of consumption.

10 grams of "sugar" (sucrose) is 5 grams of fructose. 10 grams of high fructose corn syrup is 5.5 grams of fructose.

A diet going from 10 grams of any sugar per day to 50 or 100 grams of any sugar per day is going to have a drastically larger impact on health than if the 10 grams were sucrose vs HFCS.

getpokedagain•7mo ago
One in three is fucking nuts
Ancalagon•7mo ago
absolutely wild, considering it used to be such a rare disease
8fingerlouie•7mo ago
Admitted, i'm an old fart, but when i was a kid, cake was something we had on sundays, sodas was something we got at a birthday party, and we had one, maybe two, and meals were rich in protein and fat, with carbohydrates usually being at the bottom. We spent the entire day outside, riding our bikes, playing (as in physical, not computer), riding skateboards, etc.

These days it almost feels like sugar has replaced a lot of the protein and at least some of the fat, and we eat a lot more of it.

Sodas are no longer a "monthly" event, but a daily event, and people will happily drink 2-3-4 sodas per day (or more). In our food, a lot of the protein has been replaced by sugar and fat as well.

And instead of running around, playing on the streets, kids these days sit in front of a computer/tablet/phone/tv/whatever.

mixmastamyk•7mo ago
Soda has been on the downswing for… twenty years? As folks learned more about it. Maybe some didn’t get the memo.

The documentary “sugar coated” goes into the reasons. Surprise, the sugar industry was involved.

8fingerlouie•7mo ago
Maybe the younger generation has learned the lesson, but many people 30 plus still drinks 1-2 liters of the stuff every day. Many 20 plus year olds I know also drink energy drinks like it’s a miracle drug, when all it really is, is soda in disguise.
a5c11•7mo ago
Thank food corporations for pouring high-fructose corn syrup into everything.
giingyui•7mo ago
If I buy eggs, beef, and fruit do they have HFCS in them?
hoegarden•7mo ago
I've encountered possible food fraud with both srawberries and beef, though water for cheapening meat is more common than flavor improvement.. Eggs are probably not worth trouble though possible to treat.
hilux•6mo ago
If you buy and eat whole eggs, whole beef, and whole fruit, that is wonderful, and you are in a small minority of Americans.

I still remember staying at a hotel in North Carolina, next to a famous tech company, where the fruit at breakfast was out of a can, drowned in syrup.

dartharva•7mo ago
Quite convenient timing for this news to arrive just as GLP-1 drugs are about to explode...
general1726•7mo ago
I don't see a problem, you can have diabetes while being thin.
gizmo686•7mo ago
GLP1 drugs were developed to manage blood sugar levels in diabetics. Weight loss was a side effect.

One of the issues that came up when they started getting popular for weight loss was shortages causing issues for diabetics that had been relying on them.

general1726•7mo ago
Managing blood sugar does not cure diabetes.
hilux•7mo ago
Diabetes is literally defined as "a condition that happens when your blood sugar (glucose) is too high."
general1726•6mo ago
Taking an insulin is not curing your diabetes, right? You still have it, because your body can't make insulin anymore.
wnc3141•7mo ago
MAHA is weird because it correctly identifies that the shareholder driven food industry has completely warped health outcomes related to our diet. Then they completely miss the mark with their bizzaro and unfounded theories on the causes and how to move forward.
Spivak•7mo ago
When you are, apparently, physically incapable of seeing the fundamental incentive structure surrounding the production and sale of foodstuffs, with the fact that consumers are for the most part takers of goods as the underlying problem, your brain starts to pattern-match on weirder stuff.
throwaway81523•7mo ago
I was diagnosed with prediabetes as a teen. Wasn't obese or terribly out of shape, just had too much crap in my diet. Cleaned up diet and condition went away. Everything fine since.