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A Promising Heart Drug Fails, Challenging a Long-Held Theory of Disease

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/heart-disease-drug-fails-novo-nordisk.html

2•bhouston•1h ago

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bhouston•1h ago

TL;DR summary:

The drug cut inflammation markers (IL-6, CRP) as intended but didn't reduce cardiovascular events or deaths versus placebo. This undermines the "inflammation causes atherosclerosis" thesis.

Jay Miner on the History of the Amiga [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRHQHZhbocw

1•doener•26s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Self-Hosted Inference for Agents

https://github.com/superlinked/sie

1•rafaepta•1m ago•0 comments

Rogue AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in a popular class

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/security/ai-agent-hacks-gym-openclaw-anthropic-b3030267.html

1•mellosouls•2m ago•0 comments

An Approach to Technical AGI Safety and Security, DeepMind (GDM)

https://gdmalignment.substack.com/p/agi-safety-and-alignment-at-google

1•aigalaxiome•3m ago•0 comments

The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich

https://jdh.hamkins.org/the-lattice-of-sets-of-natural-numbers-is-rich/

1•benmandrew•3m ago•0 comments

HLSmith: An Expert-Guided Agentic Framework for C/C++-to-HLS Translation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06791

1•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

Web Design for Terminal Browsers

https://en.andros.dev/blog/70d817e8/web-design-for-terminal-browsers/

1•andros•5m ago•0 comments

XenDroid – Android Xbox 360 Emulator

https://github.com/rfandango/XenDroid

1•Topfi•6m ago•0 comments

AI's profits are 'being funded by investors rather than earned from customers

https://fortune.com/2026/08/10/torsten-slok-ai-profit-margins-capex-oracle/

4•Anon84•7m ago•0 comments

Call Stack Diffs

https://oskrim.github.io/engineering/2026/08/02/call-stack-diffs.html

1•oskrim•9m ago•0 comments

What Is Docker, and What It Silently Replaced

https://fagnerbrack.com/what-is-docker-and-what-it-quietly-replaced-602ceb3c9205

1•fagnerbrack•9m ago•0 comments

How to Use Podman for Home Lab Setup

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-18-use-podman-home-lab-setup/view

2•speckx•9m ago•1 comments

How to Improve Your First Principles Thinking Skills

https://www.philmckinney.com/how-to-improve-your-first-principles-thinking-skills/

1•fagnerbrack•10m ago•0 comments

A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK (By Amnesty International)

https://archive.org/details/report-a-growing-threat-the-anti-rights-movement-in-the-uk-july

1•latexr•10m ago•0 comments

How to Overcome Confirmation Bias

https://www.philmckinney.com/how-to-overcome-confirmation-bias/

1•fagnerbrack•10m ago•0 comments

The BS That Is Generated by Wellness Apps

https://theskepticalcardiologist.substack.com/p/on-the-massive-bs-that-is-generated

1•elo2000•11m ago•0 comments

Failing After Success

https://idiallo.com/blog/failing-after-success

1•vcfgdev•11m ago•0 comments

OpenAI / Hugging Face Hack

https://smlx.dev/posts/openai-huggingface/

1•frizlab•15m ago•0 comments

Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-now-supports-real-time-vector-search-at-any-scale/

1•root-parent•15m ago•0 comments

Using AI to analyze life patterns

https://vkrakovna.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/using-ai-to-analyze-life-patterns/

1•surprisetalk•16m ago•0 comments

China is now the world's greatest oil power

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/09/china-is-now-the-worlds-great-oil-power

2•bookofjoe•16m ago•1 comments

Primus AI Researcher – Free

https://lab.cloud/

1•anonymous_llama•16m ago•0 comments

Colombia Hit by Magnitude 7.4 Quake, Widespread Damage Reported

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/colombia-hit-by-strong-earthquake-that-shakes-...

4•alephnerd•18m ago•0 comments

Foxes, Lions, and LLMs: The Machiavellian Game of Tech Hiring

https://twitter.com/0xb33bs/status/2086809075631763920

1•0xbeebs•18m ago•0 comments

AI Fortunes Are Reviving an Old Debate About Private Power

https://ai-updates.net/ai-fortunes-philanthropy-private-power/

2•ashurandi•20m ago•0 comments

The Final Third Football

https://thefinalthirdfootball.substack.com/

1•Africanway•20m ago•0 comments

Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Humanising-LLM-Outputs-is-Actually-Dumb

2•kuberwastaken•21m ago•0 comments

Archer to Acquire Wisk, Insitu, and SkyGrid from Boeing

https://archer.com/news/archer-to-shape-physical-ai-future-of-aerospace-and-defense-with-acquisition

1•kejaed•22m ago•0 comments

The untold story of a Russian-born federal contractor killed by the FBI

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/us/fbi-shooting-russia-ukraine-spy-vis-invs

3•OutOfHere•23m ago•2 comments

The Open Source Maintenance Fee for Polly (Dotnet)

https://thepollyproject.org/2026/07/14/polly-osmf-announcement.html

1•cebert•24m ago•0 comments