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Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming

https://codecrafters.io/blog/programming-project-ideas
94•vitaelabitur•2h ago•24 comments

A faster heart for F-Droid. Our new server is here

https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
259•kasabali•7h ago•108 comments

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-s...
220•birdculture•6h ago•51 comments

Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite

https://hackerbook.dosaygo.com
311•keepamovin•8h ago•99 comments

A Vulnerability in Libsodium

https://00f.net/2025/12/30/libsodium-vulnerability/
199•raggi•8h ago•22 comments

Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers

https://vptdigital.com/blog/honey-detecting-testers/
103•AkshatJ27•3h ago•20 comments

Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/11/electrolysis-can-solve-one-of-our-bigges...
121•PaulHoule•7h ago•24 comments

OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/30/openais-cash-burn-will-be-one-of-the-big-bubble-ques...
154•1vuio0pswjnm7•3h ago•192 comments

Sabotaging Bitcoin

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/12/sabotaging-bitcoin.html
70•zdw•4h ago•35 comments

Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF

https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf
107•lulzx•5h ago•46 comments

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux

https://loss32.org/
202•akka47•1d ago•302 comments

Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels

https://github.com/torokernel/torokernel
118•ignoramous•8h ago•104 comments

Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)

https://audio-database.com/MITSUBISHI-DIATONE/diatonesp/d-160-e.html
14•anigbrowl•1d ago•6 comments

Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)

https://www.gkbrk.com/hotel-music
167•bayesnet•1w ago•22 comments

Escaping containment: A security analysis of FreeBSD jails [video]

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-freebsd-jails
47•todsacerdoti•6h ago•1 comments

Non-Zero-Sum Games

https://nonzerosum.games/
324•8organicbits•13h ago•167 comments

Professional software developers don't vibe, they control

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012
106•dpflan•5h ago•148 comments

Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline

https://foodmedcenter.org/2026-center-for-food-as-medicine-longevity-airline-water-study/
8•azinman2•1h ago•0 comments

Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo

https://www.kasava.dev/blog/everything-as-code-monorepo
171•benbeingbin•5h ago•164 comments

The British empire's resilient subsea telegraph network

https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-british-empires-resilient-subsea.html
161•giuliomagnifico•12h ago•42 comments

Approachable Swift Concurrency

https://fuckingapproachableswiftconcurrency.com/en/
158•wrxd•12h ago•68 comments

Braid Math Article

https://mathvoices.ams.org/mathmedia/tonys-take-april-2022/
12•marysminefnuf•1w ago•0 comments

Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts

https://hsu.cy/2025/12/times-new-american/
212•firexcy•12h ago•133 comments

Coase's Penguin, Or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm [pdf]

https://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.PDF
7•loughnane•3h ago•0 comments

Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V

https://mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-gpu-zink/
67•michalwilczynsk•11h ago•8 comments

Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a69878870/human-new-tooth-regrowth-trials-japan-t...
73•rmason•4h ago•36 comments

Hive (YC S14) Is Hiring a Staff Software Engineer (Data Systems)

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hive.co/cb0dc490-0e32-4734-8d91-8b56a31ed497
1•patman_h•11h ago

Go away Python

https://lorentz.app/blog-item.html?id=go-shebang
335•baalimago•16h ago•326 comments

What Happened to Abit Motherboards

https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-abit-motherboards/
78•zdw•10h ago•61 comments

Netflix Open Content

https://opencontent.netflix.com/
583•tosh•15h ago•117 comments
Open in hackernews

Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a69878870/human-new-tooth-regrowth-trials-japan-timeline/
73•rmason•4h ago

Comments

Fraterkes•2h ago
Confused a bit by the article: it mentions human trials began in september 2024, but also that the trials that might prove it working are yet to start?
magicalhippo•2h ago
I think it's just poorly written. If you go to the source[1] the trial period was planned from September 2024 to August 2025, and the submission says people are "undergoing" a trial. Perhaps it got delayed, or, more likely IMHO, the trial period is over and they're studying the data so haven't made reached a conclusion yet.

[1]: https://www.kitano-hp.or.jp/info/20240503

MajesticHobo2•1h ago
It’s a phase 1 clinical trial designed only to assess safety and determine the appropriate dosage. Future trials will focus on efficacy.
zingababba•2h ago
I've been taking vitamin k2 mk4 at 45mg a day for over a year now. My teeth feel gr8. Now I need to get some of this stuff to have super human chompers.
epicureanideal•2h ago
What changes in your subjective sensation of your teeth with K2?
giardini•30m ago
This guy's been downvoted badly but he's right - vitamin k2 make your teeth into "superteeth".

I started K2 about 10 years ago. Next dental checkup (about a year too late) the dental tech said my teeth appeared recently-cleaned. This has continued since then. No cavities, little cleaning required other than regular brushing, flossing and taking k2.

terribleperson•24m ago
Why mk4 over mk7?
bumblehean•2h ago
Aren't the shape/size/placement/etc. of human teeth fairly unique across different individuals? At least unique enough to use dental records to identify bodies.

I don't see if mentioned in TFA, but if new human teeth can be grown is it expected that the new ones will just grow in "correctly" to fit a person's mouth?

clickety_clack•2h ago
Teeth wear quite a bit too, I wonder will new ones have to be pared down to fit.
throwup238•2h ago
> At least unique enough to use dental records to identify bodies.

Yes but in comparative dental analysis they use ante-mortem dental records to compare with post-mortem remains. It's not like DNA where you can record it once and then use that to match samples decades later in a database. In order to have a high confidence in a match, recent x-rays and records of dental work like fillings, crowns, etc. work best.

And no it is not expected. It's one of the primary challenges with bringing these kinds of drugs to market, as hyperdontia is already relatively common among humans (I had an incisor growing at the roof of my mouth an inch behind my row of teeth). Most successful applications of these tooth regrowth drugs tend to place them near the root of missing teeth hoping that the cellular growth signaling mechanisms are still working.

msuniverse2026•2h ago
Scientists regrowing everything except hair. Fuck my life.
xenospn•2h ago
And limbs.
piskov•2h ago
I would say every tissue: no bones, no organs, eyes, ears, nerves, skin.

Like what can they grow?

janice1999•1h ago
The liver is an exception here - you can grow back a lot of it.
kylecazar•22m ago
Well, I'm personally hoping stem cells pull through for corneal tissue regrowth. I've got significant scarring in one eye. I'd rather not get a donor (cadaver) cornea sewn on if it's avoidable but we'll see.

I think they're making progress.

zaken•2h ago
finasteride + minoxidil
simmerup•2h ago
If you don't have sides that is
piskov•2h ago
Once the follicle is closed/gone, it’s gone.

Minoxidil won’t help grow hair on a patch of bold skin. After that only hair transplantation

socalgal2•1h ago
I'm sure you're correct. That said, I saw a friend who went bald at 28 get all of his hair back from Minoxidil + finasteride. Maybe his folicles weren't closed/gone but he was bald and a year later, was not.

Apparently there's also now-a-days, Micro-needling, Stem Cell Therapy, Platelet-Rich Plasma, and others. No idea how effective they actually are

hsuduebc2•1h ago
Well he even had alopecia or he got hair transplant. There is sadly no other option.
janice1999•1h ago
Just keep your mental health in mind - there's growing concern that the link between finasteride and depression has been underestimated [0].

[0] https://www.psychiatrist.com/jcp/analytical-review-depressio...

cebert•1h ago
I am hoping for advancements in cartilage growth. I underwent microfracture surgery in my knee and will eventually need a replacement unless we make progress in this field. I would prefer to avoid knee replacement if possible because I enjoy being active. I am hopeful we’re getting close.
esseph•46m ago
Anecdotal, but I was going in for carpal tunnel work and ran into an older gentleman, probably early 70s, that had just gone through a knee replacement a week earlier. He was walking around on it and said he wasn't really in any pain.

I was amazed.

YMMV.

cebert•7m ago
I have heard great things about knee replacements. Unfortunately, I’m relatively young (late 30s). If I were to get a replacement now, I’d likely need another one when I’m older. Additionally, I imagine getting an artificial knee replacement would make you no longer a candidate for lab grown replacements. There is an option already where they can grow your cartilage in a lab, but it’s quite expensive and my insurance will not cover it.
m3kw9•2h ago
Growth rate and how you don’t mess it up before it matures are problems
TylerE•2h ago
This is like fusion energy. It's been 4 years away since I've been a child.
amelius•2h ago
I personally regrew my teeth since I was a child. Granted, once.
gambiting•1h ago
Fun fact - all of your adult teeth were already there from the start, hiding under(inside?) the gums. We don't "grow" new teeth when the baby teeth fall out - the adult teeth were always there under them.
dekhn•32m ago
Did they get bigger as you were "Growing up"? Then we grow teeth, you're just being pedantic about whether they're brand new or not.
piskov•2h ago
Let’s hope teeth won’t grow in places they shouldn’t.
wellthisisgreat•1h ago
a haircut made of teeth though, hmm
krater23•1h ago
We all shoult fear the vagina dentata.
RomanPushkin•1h ago
Don't need teeth yet (lol), but curious if anyone is aware of a similar/new ways to restore the enamel?
petermcneeley•1h ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn09kwrg57do
eulgro•44m ago
Mix hair in your toothpaste

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qy0w27213o

throw4847285•1h ago
Popular Mechanics is like Popular Science right? Extremely bullish on new technologies to the degree of taking one study and turning it into a breathless article about how we're 1 year away from flying cars?

Sorry for the cynicism, but I grew up subscribing to Popular Science and I gained a very jaundiced view of this kind of science/technology popularizing