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Show HN: Convert your articles into videos in one click

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1•kositheastro•2m ago•0 comments

Red Queen's Race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
2•rzk•2m ago•0 comments

The Anthropic Hive Mind

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropic-hive-mind-d01f768f3d7b
2•gozzoo•5m ago•0 comments

A Horrible Conclusion

https://addisoncrump.info/research/a-horrible-conclusion/
1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

I spent $10k to automate my research at OpenAI with Codex

https://twitter.com/KarelDoostrlnck/status/2019477361557926281
2•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

From Zero to Hero: A Spring Boot Deep Dive

https://jcob-sikorski.github.io/me/
1•jjcob_sikorski•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Solving NP-Complete Structures via Information Noise Subtraction (P=NP)

https://zenodo.org/records/18395618
1•alemonti06•12m ago•1 comments

Cook New Emojis

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/
1•vasanthv•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LoKey Typer – A calm typing practice app with ambient soundscapes

https://mcp-tool-shop-org.github.io/LoKey-Typer/
1•mikeyfrilot•17m ago•0 comments

Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-sought-proof-tames-some-of-maths-unruliest-equations-20260206/
1•asplake•18m ago•0 comments

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/
1•michalpleban•19m ago•0 comments

Browser-use for Node.js v0.2.0: TS AI browser automation parity with PY v0.5.11

https://github.com/webllm/browser-use
1•unadlib•20m ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
1•mitchbob•20m ago•1 comments

Software Engineering Is Back

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
2•alainrk•21m ago•0 comments

Storyship: Turn Screen Recordings into Professional Demos

https://storyship.app/
1•JohnsonZou6523•21m ago•0 comments

Reputation Scores for GitHub Accounts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/reputation-scores-for-github-accounts/
2•edent•24m ago•0 comments

A BSOD for All Seasons – Send Bad News via a Kernel Panic

https://bsod-fas.pages.dev/
1•keepamovin•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I got tired of copy-pasting between Claude windows, so I built Orcha

https://orcha.nl
1•buildingwdavid•28m ago•0 comments

Omarchy First Impressions

https://brianlovin.com/writing/omarchy-first-impressions-CEEstJk
2•tosh•33m ago•1 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
3•onurkanbkrc•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Versor – The "Unbending" Paradigm for Geometric Deep Learning

https://github.com/Concode0/Versor
1•concode0•35m ago•1 comments

Show HN: HypothesisHub – An open API where AI agents collaborate on medical res

https://medresearch-ai.org/hypotheses-hub/
1•panossk•38m ago•0 comments

Big Tech vs. OpenClaw

https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/big-tech-vs-openclaw/
1•headalgorithm•41m ago•0 comments

Anofox Forecast

https://anofox.com/docs/forecast/
1•marklit•41m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you figure out where data lives across 100 microservices?

1•doodledood•41m ago•0 comments

Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13030
2•mnming•41m ago•0 comments

Rotten Tomatoes Desperately Claims 'Impossible' Rating for 'Melania' Is Real

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/rotten-tomatoes-desperately-claims-impossible-rating-for-m...
4•juujian•43m ago•2 comments

The protein denitrosylase SCoR2 regulates lipogenesis and fat storage [pdf]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adv0660
1•thunderbong•45m ago•0 comments

Los Alamos Primer

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/
1•alkyon•47m ago•0 comments

NewASM Virtual Machine

https://github.com/bracesoftware/newasm
2•DEntisT_•49m ago•0 comments
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Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

https://www.asimov.press/p/leeches
13•alphabetatango•5mo ago

Comments

fracus•5mo ago
This reminds me of the joke..

"What do you call alternative medicine that works? .. Medicine.

bayindirh•5mo ago
While it's not as bloody as leeches, I want to share an anecdote.

I have pollen allergies, and my eyes itch a lot (plus pollen clog tear pathways, so my eyes get dry too). It's really uncomfortable.

I found that dousing cotton pads in brewed black tea and putting it on my eyes relieve the symptoms and unclog the tear pathways pretty well. I use it as a eye drop sometimes, albeit rarely.

My niece has the same issues. My mom recommended the tea treatment, but my cousin is a firm believer in "modern medicine" and got pretty angry at her, then they visited an MD.

My mom asked what the MD recommended for the symptoms. The answer came with a defeated tone: "Cotton pads doused in brewed black tea. Can use as an eye drop if necessary".

And guess what? It works on my niece too, like it worked on me.

"Folk-Medicine" is not always snake-oil in bad sense. Of course we need to be cautious, but having prejudice against the whole category is ill-advised.

Oh, one more thing: The best anti-allergy nasal sprays I use are all-herbal. And they work better than "synthetic" ones and have no side-effects. The only downside is they are not as "potent" as synthetics and don't make my nose dry as a rock (which is an upside actually).

johnisgood•5mo ago
I would be careful using anything that is not sterile water as an eye drop. Regardless, if it works, it works.
bayindirh•5mo ago
Brewing black tea requires boiling drinking water, so you're starting with something safe to drink, and sterilize it further by boiling it.

Even if you don't directly drop it into your eye, it already seeps from the cotton pad to your eye crevice, so the effect is the same.

So you're starting with food grade stuff anyway, and the part which is not going into my eye is going to my stomach.

johnisgood•5mo ago
Yeah I know, it depends on for how long you boil the water, among a lot of things, so I would still be cautious, personally. If the cotton pad works, one should probably continue using that. I would give it a go if I had this issue. I do not see how it could hurt to try. There are many things that are either useful or harmless, I think this is one of these.
bayindirh•5mo ago
WHO recommends boiling water for 60 seconds for making it safe to drink. The moment you hear the water boil and walking to kettle and make preparations take more than that amount, and the water you're boiling is safe to drink (it's not tap water and tested against harmful bacteria) to begin with.

Of course one needs to be cautious depending on what they have at hand, and yes, tea is harmless at worst and pretty useful at best.

It soothes your eyes too, so you can try it even if your eyes feel a bit tired.

johnisgood•5mo ago
Safe to drink is different from safe to use as eye drop though.

Anyways, it is besides the point I think, so no need to beat the dead horse here. :)

Just to give you some folk-medicine too: we went to a herbal store where the lady is quite knowledgeable in it, and many times she immediately knew what the actual issue was and what the cure is. My grandma kept going to dermatologists, GP about some skin problem and no one knew! Not one doctor! Not even the dermatologist. My grandma visited this lady and she was like "the problem is going to be the bile, grab this tea, drink it, and it should solve the problem". To our miracle, it did!

So... just to think that with regarding to a skin problem not even a dermatologist could help but some random lady without any medical school at a herbal store could, with a tea for bile, is crazy.

I have a question: would this black tea cotton pad thing work to soothe the eyes in general? I keep getting these white things in my eyes for some reason (the production of it right now is wild), and I wonder if it could help. I might give it a try. I know it can't hurt.

2thumbsup•5mo ago
Generally you are correct, but just remember that we never adviced against diving in sea water with eyes open. Don't think black tea should be a problem, considering that the water has been thoroughly heated before.
johnisgood•5mo ago
Yes, you can take my comment as nitpicking I suppose, since you do not have to drop anything in your eyes to be supposedly effective. I have no idea because I have not tried it myself but I do not see why I would not give this easy, cheap, and convenient method a try were I to have this issue.

We have a lot of "folk medicine" around this neck of the woods, too, and many of them do work great.

2thumbsup•5mo ago
The thing is, that there is really no or only little commercial incentive to study the effects of products that cannot be patented.

That is also one of the reasons why the study of e.g. cannabis for treating epileptic patients, or as anesthesia, has taken such a long time, because once the study is done, you cannot always attribute those effects to your own product, so few will go ahead and sponsor it.

bayindirh•5mo ago
Unfortunately that's very true and sad. Moreover, if you find that non-patentable thing is better than your product you spent that much time and money to develop, that's some nightmare scenario. I use some, more natural products which work way better than their "researched" counterparts, which is funny.

What I'm happy about letting cannabis free is the long tail research done on their effects after recreational use. Putting a finger on its negative effects will allow us to understand it better and promote more responsible use of it.

Maybe we can slow down the "capitalist, line shall go up" machine and be more in peace with the nature itself, and can make better drugs and substances for our needs which are not as expensive and dangerous. One man can dream, I guess...

FN: While it's not about drugs, leaded-gas used lead because it was patentable. However ethanol was cheaper, much safer and easier to produce. Albeit, it was unpatentable hence lacked shareholder value (https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/thomas-midgley-and-t...).

brna-2•5mo ago
It would be nice to have a decentralized recipe database with feedback and grading. I mean decentralized in a non-profit way, where cash flow does not matter.
aa-jv•5mo ago
My favourite of these, is onions. So darn useful.

Kid got an earache? Chop up an onion, wrap it in a towel, bind the towel to the kids ear. 30 minutes later, no more earache.

There are tons of these.

klez•5mo ago
Previously (ten days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901608