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Show HN: I built a clawdbot that texts like your crush

https://14.israelfirew.co
1•IsruAlpha•49s ago•0 comments

Scientists reverse Alzheimer's in mice and restore memory (2025)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251224032354.htm
1•walterbell•3m ago•0 comments

Compiling Prolog to Forth [pdf]

https://vfxforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4/no4/article4.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cymatica – an experimental, meditative audiovisual app

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cymatica-sounds-visualizer/id6748863721
1•_august•6m ago•0 comments

GitBlack: Tracing America's Foundation

https://gitblack.vercel.app/
1•martialg•6m ago•0 comments

Horizon-LM: A RAM-Centric Architecture for LLM Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04816
1•chrsw•7m ago•0 comments

We just ordered shawarma and fries from Cursor [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WALQOiugbWc
1•jeffreyjin•7m ago•1 comments

Correctio

https://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/C/correctio.htm
1•grantpitt•8m ago•0 comments

Trying to make an Automated Ecologist: A first pass through the Biotime dataset

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-an-automated-ecologist
1•crescit_eundo•12m ago•0 comments

Watch Ukraine's Minigun-Firing, Drone-Hunting Turboprop in Action

https://www.twz.com/air/watch-ukraines-minigun-firing-drone-hunting-turboprop-in-action
1•breve•13m ago•0 comments

Free Trial: AI Interviewer

https://ai-interviewer.nuvoice.ai/
1•sijain2•13m ago•0 comments

FDA Intends to Take Action Against Non-FDA-Approved GLP-1 Drugs

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-intends-take-action-against-non-fda-appro...
8•randycupertino•14m ago•2 comments

Supernote e-ink devices for writing like paper

https://supernote.eu/choose-your-product/
3•janandonly•16m ago•0 comments

We are QA Engineers now

https://serce.me/posts/2026-02-05-we-are-qa-engineers-now
1•SerCe•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Measuring how AI agent teams improve issue resolution on SWE-Verified

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01465
2•NBenkovich•17m ago•0 comments

Adversarial Reasoning: Multiagent World Models for Closing the Simulation Gap

https://www.latent.space/p/adversarial-reasoning
1•swyx•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley.com – Follow people, not podcasts

https://poddley.com/guests/ana-kasparian/episodes
1•onesandofgrain•25m ago•0 comments

Layoffs Surge 118% in January – The Highest Since 2009

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/layoff-and-hiring-announcements-hit-their-worst-january-levels-si...
8•karakoram•25m ago•0 comments

Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad

https://p114.homemade.systems/
1•mwenge•26m ago•1 comments

DicePit – Real-time multiplayer Knucklebones in the browser

https://dicepit.pages.dev/
1•r1z4•26m ago•1 comments

Turn-Based Structural Triggers: Prompt-Free Backdoors in Multi-Turn LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14340
2•PaulHoule•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Agent Tool That Keeps You in the Loop

https://github.com/dshearer/misatay
2•dshearer•28m ago•0 comments

Why Every R Package Wrapping External Tools Needs a Sitrep() Function

https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/sitrep-functions/
1•todsacerdoti•29m ago•0 comments

Achieving Ultra-Fast AI Chat Widgets

https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-02-06-chat-widgets
1•thoughtfulchris•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runtime Fence – Kill switch for AI agents

https://github.com/RunTimeAdmin/ai-agent-killswitch
1•ccie14019•33m ago•1 comments

Researchers surprised by the brain benefits of cannabis usage in adults over 40

https://nypost.com/2026/02/07/health/cannabis-may-benefit-aging-brains-study-finds/
2•SirLJ•35m ago•0 comments

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist, apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/
4•randycupertino•36m ago•2 comments

USS Preble Used Helios Laser to Zap Four Drones in Expanding Testing

https://www.twz.com/sea/uss-preble-used-helios-laser-to-zap-four-drones-in-expanding-testing
3•breve•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Animated beach scene, made with CSS

https://ahmed-machine.github.io/beach-scene/
1•ahmedoo•42m ago•0 comments

An update on unredacting select Epstein files – DBC12.pdf liberated

https://neosmart.net/blog/efta00400459-has-been-cracked-dbc12-pdf-liberated/
3•ks2048•42m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data

https://news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-research-team-digitizes-more-than-100-years-of-canadian-infectious-disease-data/
158•XzetaU8•1mo ago

Comments

toomuchtodo•1mo ago
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1...

https://canmod.net/digitization/

water-your-self•1mo ago
Second link is the database
akudha•1mo ago
What useful tools can be made from such a dataset?

The other day I came across this pricing dataset https://oria-data.trillianthealth.com/ (this is just for pricing though)

There must be some gem datasets like these - I wish I had the time (and expertise) to explore

tim-tday•1mo ago
Do you want computer viruses? Because that’s how you get computer viruses.
rumplecat•1mo ago
Interesting that they manually transcribed the data to Excel. It would also be interesting to know how they mapped from the excel files to the final dataset. I wonder if LLMs could do the switch from scans to structured data more efficiently, and how much of a hit to accuracy would be involved.
arjie•1mo ago
This is very cool. I wonder if in their process they stored raw scans as well or if the transcriptions were from the source material directly. The former would be fantastic if possible since perhaps present or future OCR technology could be used to cross-reference for both improving the dataset for human error but also improving OCR as a labeled dataset.

It also seems like a huge effort to try to come up with a data model here for the normalized dataset. They mentioned it in the article as an aside but it seems like a pretty tough task.

And my last thought is perhaps there is a sadness in our loss of population level insight into health with the advent of modern privacy concerns. A big source for genomics data is the UK Biobank which ties all sorts of information to a genome. I’m sure that someone could come up with dangers that this presents but it’s been a gift to so many researchers over time, and to so many people who suffer from genetic disease. I hope that in time people will be willing to volunteer sufficient information to be able to do population-level science, even knowing the dangers inherent.

If you’re in the US, All of US accepts participation and I found that doing so was quite easy. They will give you all the scary warnings, which are good to consider but I hope many will find it worthwhile even knowing the risks.