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Nine life lessons from the happiest man in the world

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/aug/14/life-lessons-from-happiest-man-in-the-world-tiny-changes-meditation
1•herbertl•1h ago

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paulpauper•1h ago
In other tests conducted when he was 41 years old, his brain reportedly “resembled that of a 33-year-old”. He also laughs a lot.

This is an utterly meaningless statistic. The fact the media keeps pushing dubious science, leads to people being swindled in the pursuit of miracle cures based on equally dubious science.

Guillotine found near US Capitol, California man arrested

https://apnews.com/article/guillotine-capitol-police-california-arrest-cf3c9f181382bfc3fb9c5c47f4...
1•CircuitSeuss•50s ago•0 comments

Global snakebite envenoming and mortality are higher than previously reported

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-global-snakebite-envenoming-mortality-incidence.html
1•croes•2m ago•0 comments

Threejs Browser World of Tanks

https://cot.kevinliu.studio/
1•kl01•3m ago•0 comments

Nintendo fan loses nearly complete NES collection in 'heartbreaking' theft

https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-game-collection-stolen-from-washington-home/
1•croes•7m ago•0 comments

Cookie started its life as a plastic bottle

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2026/august/this-cookie-started-its-life-as-a-plastic-bot...
1•red369•9m ago•0 comments

What the Vancouver Stock Exchange Can Teach Us About Rounding Numbers in VBA

https://nolongerset.com/vse-rounding-in-vba/
1•kristianp•13m ago•0 comments

Latent space exploration and sperm whale language

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/8/250829/483032/Approaching-an-unknown-communi...
1•HR01•23m ago•0 comments

They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket–But None of It Was Real

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-social-media-bets-prediction-market-441cdeb5
2•bushwart•24m ago•2 comments

Read your writes: WAIT FOR in PostgreSQL 19

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgresql-19-wait-for-read-your-writes
1•thunderbong•24m ago•0 comments

How I Automated CodeWarrior with Claude, AppleScript, and SSH

https://www.patreon.com/MacSurf/posts/how-i-automated-167688725
2•mplsllc•31m ago•0 comments

The 'Do or Die' Days

https://shagbark.substack.com/p/the-do-or-die-days
1•herbertl•31m ago•0 comments

MouseHunt – cat-vs-mouse RTS that runs in the browser

https://ghassen1302.itch.io/mousehunt
3•ghassen13021302•36m ago•0 comments

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-oz...
5•Anon84•38m ago•3 comments

Powerful US utilities fund 'grassroots' groups to sway cities away from

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/07/us-utilities-fund-groups-against-public-power-lobby
3•newsomix9xl•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A batch settlement layer for tokenized NYSE stocks

https://github.com/niumeta/niumeta
1•niumeta_TZ•41m ago•0 comments

Utilities Break California Lobbying Record Under Newsom While Former Aides Lead

https://consumerwatchdog.org/energy/utilities-break-california-lobbying-record-under-newsom-while...
1•newsomix9xl•42m ago•1 comments

Microsoft's Maia 200 AI Accelerator at Hot Chips 2026

https://www.servethehome.com/microsofts-maia-200-accelerator-at-hot-chips-2026/
1•pella•45m ago•0 comments

Life may have inherited metabolism from geochemistry

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aef3128
1•jumploops•51m ago•0 comments

Japan to undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War II

https://www.reuters.com/world/japan-rushes-rearm-with-eye-2027-chinas-taiwan-ambitions-2022-10-18/
3•cwwc•55m ago•1 comments

Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables
3•rguiscard•57m ago•0 comments

As-Album – A Web Component Because Sometimes You Just Want to Post Pictures

https://sheep.horse/2026/8/as-album_-_a_web_component_because_sometimes_you_j.html
1•leephillips•1h ago•0 comments

Lego Skylines [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBg8TQQrCQ
2•duck•1h ago•0 comments

A scorer that finds "alive but invisible" GitHub repos, not by stars

https://capuz.github.io/silentstars/
2•fcapuz2•1h ago•0 comments

Hacker News now has an active (official) X account

https://twitter.com/hackernews/status/2092359322433191997
11•n2d4•1h ago•10 comments

America's Desert Metropolis Is on the Short List to Lose Water

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/arizona-canals-colorado-river.html
1•littlexsparkee•1h ago•1 comments

AI Realist Radar:GPT‑5.6 Sol Pricing, Stripe's OpenRouter Deal

https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/ai-realist-radar-gpt56-sol-pricing
1•Airealist•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hacker News keeps flagging my startup – A multi-Platform search engine

https://www.bluhe.ai/search?q=YC%20startups
1•dhavd•1h ago•0 comments

Smart Toilets – Any serious opinions?

https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/toilets/best-smart-toilets-a5030436405/
1•josefritzishere•1h ago•1 comments

Let Me Click

https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/let-me-click/
3•herbertl•1h ago•1 comments

Nine life lessons from the happiest man in the world

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/aug/14/life-lessons-from-happiest-ma...
2•herbertl•1h ago•1 comments