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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/07/catnip-lotion-as-effective-as-deet-at-repelling-mosquitoes-study-finds
6•rbanffy•1h ago

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ggm•1h ago
> Whether or not local cats were more likely to follow lotion wearers was not part of the research, Scofield admitted. “We did not conduct any experiments to see if it is attractive to cats, but given that the active ingredient [nepetalactone] has well-known cat-attractive properties, I would expect they would quite like it,” he said.

To forestall the obvious questions.

nellyedels•27m ago
Interesting d2c startup
nellyedels•26m ago
Also for its cat-attractiveness properties.

I'd try the lotion.

1•dukeoo•27s ago

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending repos to the cloud

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-send...
1•dools•2m ago•0 comments

Mind Training in Daily Life: Nothing Special

https://studybuddhism.com/en/tibetan-buddhism/mind-training/what-is-mind-training/mind-training-i...
1•rramadass•2m ago•0 comments

NeurIPS Mech Interp Workshop is getting more AI slop

https://twitter.com/NeelNanda5/status/2077117795066871908
1•martianvoid•8m ago•0 comments

OpenBAO: Manage, store, and distribute sensitive data

https://openbao.org/
1•poly2it•8m ago•0 comments

Photo Vault. Encrypted. Invisible

https://vault-application.com/
1•janandonly•8m ago•0 comments

Don't Sleep on BitNet (2025)

https://jackson.dev/post/dont-sleep-on-bitnet/
1•thomasjb•11m ago•0 comments

Space cargo costs falling faster than steamship freight in the 1800s

https://www.thetimes.com/business/technology/article/space-cargo-costs-falling-fast-wqqlvsws9
2•TMWNN•14m ago•0 comments

AI in Australia's Interests

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/ai-australias-interests-0
1•softveda•17m ago•0 comments

ConlangCrafter: Constructing Languages with a Multi-Hop LLM Pipeline

https://github.com/morrisalp/ConlangCrafter
1•jbotz•18m ago•1 comments

Financial documents that feel like notes

https://www.typeclerk.com/
1•astonfred•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HumansMap: Explore organizations and people connection graphs

https://humansmap.com/
1•scurnus•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Create Telegram New Rich Messages Without Telegram Premium

https://github.com/rassvetteam/Amethyst-Post-Bot
1•waterflane•27m ago•0 comments

China and the new era of critical minerals diplomacy

https://archive.fo/20260715052604/https://www.ft.com/content/a5018a00-0f96-4b39-b82f-c4ccd5e929f7
2•ironyman•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PDF Recover – Chrome extension for yanking PDFs out of webpages

https://github.com/unprovable/PDFRecover/
1•unprovable•31m ago•1 comments

Soofi: Complete training code for an open-source foundation model

https://github.com/soofi-project/Soofi-Pretraining
2•mnewme•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Question regarding personal knowledge management

1•diarrheaasmr•33m ago•0 comments

BYD can take Toyota's crown without the US market, says top executive

https://www.ft.com/content/ee2919bc-d6f3-4e07-b823-983265b0b8f9
3•JumpCrisscross•34m ago•0 comments

Using Go for Mobile Apps

https://www.davidsobsessions.com/p/one-year-of-gomobile/
2•theHocineSaad•35m ago•0 comments

Why has nobody made a cologne called 'AliExpress Standard Shipping'?

1•omblivion•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AITerm – a macOS terminal with an AI command loop and a safety gate

https://ai-term.com/
1•dmitrik•38m ago•0 comments

Motorola Envoy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Envoy
1•doener•38m ago•0 comments

Language vs. Vectors

https://verantyx.ai
1•kofdai•46m ago•1 comments

Fear of data centers outpaces knowledge about them Do they hurt the environment?

https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2026/06/21/what-environmental-costs-do-data-centers-have/
1•nephihaha•47m ago•0 comments

Three Degrees of Influence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_degrees_of_influence
2•fittingopposite•48m ago•0 comments

Nobel economists, tech leaders warn how AI could threaten jobs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/13/nobel-economists-tech-leaders-warn-how-ai-co...
2•ironyman•48m ago•1 comments

The Great Automatic Grammatizator (1954) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1953-dahl-thegreatautomaticgrammatizator.pdf
2•sam_bristow•48m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How do you do marketing in the age of slop?

4•probst•55m ago•1 comments

Python 3.15's Ultra-Low Overhead Interpreter Profiling Mode – Ken Jin's Blog

https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/ultra-fast-tracing.html
2•rbanffy•56m ago•0 comments

Stacks and Queues in Python – Python Morsels

https://www.pythonmorsels.com/stacks-and-queues/
2•rbanffy•58m ago•0 comments