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Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•24s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•35s ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
1•rolph•3m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•5m ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•8m ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•9m ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
2•rolph•9m ago•0 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•13m ago•0 comments

Old Mexico and her lost provinces (1883)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77881/pg77881-images.html
1•petethomas•16m ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/
2•cratermoon•17m ago•0 comments

The source code was the moat. But not anymore

https://philipotoole.com/the-source-code-was-the-moat-no-longer/
1•otoolep•17m ago•0 comments

Does anyone else feel like their inbox has become their job?

1•cfata•17m ago•0 comments

An AI model that can read and diagnose a brain MRI in seconds

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/ai-model-can-read-and-diagnose-brain-mri-seconds
2•hhs•21m ago•0 comments

Dev with 5 of experience switched to Rails, what should I be careful about?

1•vampiregrey•23m ago•0 comments

AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•24m ago•0 comments

Scientists discover “levitating” time crystals that you can hold in your hand

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/february/scientists-discover--levitating--t...
2•hhs•26m ago•0 comments

Rammstein – Deutschland (C64 Cover, Real SID, 8-bit – 2019) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VReIuv1GFo
1•erickhill•27m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

2•Philpax•27m ago•0 comments

Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ)

https://github.com/pgmq/pgmq
1•Lwrless•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Django-rclone: Database and media backups for Django, powered by rclone

https://github.com/kjnez/django-rclone
1•cui•33m ago•1 comments

NY lawmakers proposed statewide data center moratorium

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/ny-lawmakers-proposed-statewide-data-center-morat...
1•geox•35m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
3•EA-3167•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI agent forgets user preferences every session. This fixes it

https://www.pref0.com/
6•fliellerjulian•37m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
2•DustinEchoes•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SSHcode – Always-On Claude Code/OpenCode over Tailscale and Hetzner

https://github.com/sultanvaliyev/sshcode
1•sultanvaliyev•39m ago•0 comments

Microsoft appointed a quality czar. He has no direct reports and no budget

https://jpcaparas.medium.com/microsoft-appointed-a-quality-czar-he-has-no-direct-reports-and-no-b...
2•RickJWagner•41m ago•0 comments

Multi-agent coordination on Claude Code: 8 production pain points and patterns

https://gist.github.com/sigalovskinick/6cc1cef061f76b7edd198e0ebc863397
1•nikolasi•42m ago•0 comments

Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/technology/washington-post-will-lewis.html
15•jbegley•42m ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

If Placebos Work So Well, Why Not Prescribe Sugar Pills for Everything?

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/tsmp-life-is-made-of-beliefs
3•herbertl•4mo ago

Comments

leakycap•4mo ago
Couldn't we say most homeopathic medication is akin to a placebo?

But to answer your question posed in the title, it's the Hippocratic oath.

JumpCrisscross•4mo ago
Because medicine works better, this is literally how we do drug trials.
dazc•4mo ago
In place of Metformin for diabetes, it could be counter-productive?
vunderba•4mo ago
From the article

> More subtly, doctors can fudge the language by asking patients if they consent to something like “try different medicines, including placebos” to retain the power of self-fulfilling improvement.

Unless your name is Charlie Kelly [1] - that ain't going to work.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2999352

Bender•4mo ago
Placebos may help for psychosomatic issues but I would suggest using something that tastes like medicine and not promote sugar any further. Some of the binders used in pharma drugs taste like medicine.
tjr•4mo ago
Yes please. Aggravatingly, so-called nutrition experts seem to be all over the map with their guidance, ranging from recommending eating only vegetables to eating only meat and all sorts of stops in between, but it seems pretty much everyone even remotely credible agrees that we should eat less sugar.