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1•neuling•40s ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

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1•aqeisi•1m ago•1 comments

Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/
1•y1n0•3m ago•0 comments

AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

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2•bundie•8m ago•0 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

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3•gnabgib•8m ago•0 comments

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1980s Farm Crisis

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2•rolph•36m ago•1 comments

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

1•solarisos•37m ago•2 comments

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Portable C Compiler

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1•Ginsabo•41m ago•0 comments

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Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

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3•rolph•43m ago•1 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
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1•petethomas•50m ago•0 comments

'AI' is a dick move, redux

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5•cratermoon•51m ago•0 comments

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1•otoolep•51m ago•0 comments

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

1•cfata•51m ago•1 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
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AlphaFace: High Fidelity and Real-Time Face Swapper Robust to Facial Pose

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16429
1•PaulHoule•58m ago•0 comments

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1•erickhill•1h ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam

5•Philpax•1h ago•1 comments
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Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity

https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-startups-are-handing-out-free-nicotine-pouches-to-boost-productivity-e42d3cbe
15•iancmceachern•1mo ago

Comments

diydsp•1mo ago
>custom-made vending machines for Palantir
Fizz43•1mo ago
Why is the American tech culture so comically evil. Even if this does boost productivity surely we would think that offering workers addictive substances like nicotine pouches is unacceptable behavior. I cant imagine any of the places I've worked at thinking this was an acceptable idea let alone a good idea.

Maybe im just out of touch.

iancmceachern•1mo ago
I worked at one, with famous folks, where the CEO took Nicotine and Caffeine pills, had them in the cabinet. When I mentioned that nicotine was bad for you, he was surprised.

He had 2 PHDs

peterfirefly•1mo ago
Nicotine itself seems to be remarkably benign. Smoking is bad, snuff is bad.
iancmceachern•1mo ago
Except for the cardiovascular damage.
Lapsa•1mo ago
source please. afaik nicotine on itself is near negligibly harmful
treesknees•1mo ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11350241/

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.10...

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/nicotine-pouches/index.html

Lapsa•1mo ago
I still don't see it. bunch of word salad. writing "safer nicotine products" in quotation marks and emphasizing that they ain't safe as if nobody's noticing a straw man argument. from what I gathered - whole thing is based upon Swedish research that states death is 2 times more likely (!!!) AFTER the heart attack while explicitly stating: "No increased risk of MI incidence has been observed in previous studies". because funky data extrapolation. oh well - at least they ain't crying that nicotine is the cause of cancer...
treesknees•1mo ago
You likely didn’t read the sources. If you are already convinced of your (incorrect) position and assumptions despite ample evidence, why ask for sources?

From the second link:

>In this policy statement, 12 evidence-based key messages that highlight the CV [cardio vascular] toxicity of nicotine are presented, irrespective of delivery system.

So it doesn’t matter if it’s smoking, patches, gum, pouches, whatever. Nicotine is addictive and harmful. Perhaps not as harmful when it’s not combined with tobacco and all the other substances that come with cigarettes, but it’s not benign or harmless.

Lapsa•1mo ago
you likely didn't read that I did read sources and sources sources are based upon likely likely
hulitu•1mo ago
> When I mentioned that nicotine was bad for you, he was surprised.

You should have give him radium. /s

> He had 2 PHDs

A lot of politicians have a doctoral degree. It doesn't help.

salawat•1mo ago
The love of money is the root of all evil. The tech industry is obsessed with tapping and creating new value flows to intermediate. It should be fairly obvious.
peterfirefly•1mo ago
I've heard some of them also have free coffee.
bdangubic•1mo ago
pay so low workers can’t afford to buy nicotine pouches on their own?
nis0s•1mo ago
At some point, we have to figure out how to work smarter, not harder. I am not sure working longer pays more dividends, but working better definitely would.

How do you optimize for better work? It’s unclear to me how the answer lies in caffeine, nicotine, or cocaine. Yes, you’re more active, but are your energies being spent in the right direction or activities? This is where leadership is important, and no amount of nicotine in the world will fix bad leadership or direction.