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Pancreatic cancer researchers' latest breakthrough could help tumors disappear

https://nypost.com/2026/01/30/health/pancreatic-cancer-breakthrough-tumors-disappear-in-mice/
13•abunuwas•1h ago

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derektank•1h ago
This is a mouse model, so treatment toxicity as always remains a question mark in humans. Additionally, protein degraders like SD36 are very new, I don’t think any are FDA approved at this point, and figuring out e.g. dosing for human clinical trials will require more research on e.g. bioavailability, stability, etc. in humans.
anovikov•1h ago
...in mice
epistasis•1h ago
Please do not get your science reporting from the NYPost. 99% chance it's some random press release fetched when an editor says "hey let's try to do a feel good science story" and it will not be placed into context of what the actual chances for success are; that only comes from Phase 3 clinical trials in humans.

And often the first trials are not very impressive, just barely enough to get approval, and then slowly more effective use of the treatment is found through more trials later on.

It's a slow pace of discovery, with few "holy shit this is amazing moments" that are recognizable to anyone who's not in the thick of knowing what typical treatments and outcomes are for a specific type of cancer.

Maybe the NYPost is trying to turn a corner towards doing serious journalism, but this is not it. The first time they mention KRAS it has a typo as KRS which tells you the author knows jack shit about anything related to the topic. That's not a typo that survives a basic proofreading. KRAS is a major player in cancer, not just pancreatic cancer.

Apple: Our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free (1976)

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
36•janandonly•1h ago•15 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
151•doener•4h ago•28 comments

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/
523•l1am0•9h ago•194 comments

What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
258•SatvikBeri•9h ago•110 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android...
108•mikece•3d ago•28 comments

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/GOWiDwp-research-engineer-at-clearspace
1•anteloper•13m ago

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
122•yannick2k•8h ago•54 comments

The Book of PF, 4th edition

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
164•0x54MUR41•11h ago•34 comments

Amiga Unix (Amix)

https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home
71•donatj•7h ago•28 comments

Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:3f463773q
29•speckx•5d ago•6 comments

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
812•cbeuw•1d ago•474 comments

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

10•CzaxTanmay•2d ago•3 comments

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

https://www.visualjj.com/
108•demail•4d ago•41 comments

List animals until failure

https://rose.systems/animalist/
273•l1n•17h ago•148 comments

The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqx8NNT4xY
144•doppp•5d ago•103 comments

A web server on a single floppy disk

http://floppy.ddns.net/
59•ActionRetro•3d ago•25 comments

Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sprint-marathon-aging-muscle-stem.html
20•bikenaga•1h ago•4 comments

In praise of –dry-run

https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
255•ingve•22h ago•140 comments

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20...
143•marojejian•18h ago•66 comments

Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-kerouac-on-the-road-first-draft-scroll-to-be-a...
23•mitchbob•1d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown

https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
6•dhruv3006•3h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code

https://github.com/zuckermanai/zuckerman
45•ddaniel10•5h ago•32 comments

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/
208•ColinWright•21h ago•100 comments

Real engineering failures instead of success stories

https://failhub.substack.com/p/failhub-issue-1
19•birdculture•2h ago•4 comments

Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/DataDog/pg_tracing
112•tanelpoder•3d ago•14 comments

Opentrees.org (2024)

https://opentrees.org/#pos=1/-37.8/145
132•surprisetalk•4d ago•12 comments

Outsourcing thinking

https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260130-outsourcing-thinking/index.html
222•todsacerdoti•21h ago•194 comments

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/road_sign_hijack_ai/
180•breve•22h ago•160 comments

Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples

https://lab174.com/blog/202601-nonograms/
88•merelysounds•4d ago•24 comments

Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-coffee-agent-substitute-electron-microscopy.html
40•PaulHoule•3d ago•27 comments