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Aluminum foil (2021)

https://dernocua.github.io/notes/aluminum-foil.html
127•firephox•3h ago•44 comments

1k Words: A Writing Contest

https://writingclub.world/1picture1000words
31•surprisetalk•1h ago•11 comments

Road to Elm 1.0

https://elm-lang.org/news/faster-builds
208•wolfadex•5h ago•86 comments

Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability

https://andonlabs.com/blog/fable5-vending-bench
100•optimalsolver•4h ago•50 comments

Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

https://www.map.signalbox.io
313•scrlk•7h ago•122 comments

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
77•LabsLucas•2h ago•69 comments

Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto)

1•david-venegas•30m ago

Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys

https://clojure.org/news/2026/07/02/clojure-1-13-alpha1
111•FelipeCortez•3d ago•20 comments

Egypt Is Building a New Nile

https://www.theb1m.com/video/egypt-is-building-a-new-nile
14•geox•2d ago•0 comments

Should DayQuil Be Legal?

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/should-dayquil-be-legal
44•paulpauper•1h ago•54 comments

Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web

https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cleaning-the-web/
7•snyy•58m ago•0 comments

Multilingual experience linked to delayed aging

https://fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/details/presentations/5474
35•bookofjoe•1h ago•22 comments

Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Nintendo-Switch-2/Information-about-upcoming-battery-relat...
182•akyuu•3h ago•120 comments

When 2+2=5

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/ai-browsers-can-be-lulled-into-a-dream-world-where-guard...
48•noashavit•3d ago•19 comments

Introduction to Genomics for Engineers

https://learngenomics.dev/docs/biological-foundations/cells-genomes-dna-chromosomes/
159•yreg•4d ago•25 comments

What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stochastic-parrot
101•digital55•2h ago•119 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2073933490513752151
387•mfiguiere•15h ago•341 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
97•dijksterhuis•2h ago•68 comments

Car touchscreens are cheap, not good

https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/car-touchscreens-are-cheap-not-good/
62•citelao•1h ago•60 comments

How Kalshi Infects the News

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kalshi-cnn-cnbc
152•everybodyknows•3h ago•109 comments

Apricot Computers: An underrated British brand

https://dfarq.homeip.net/apricot-computers-an-underrated-british-brand/
53•giuliomagnifico•5d ago•15 comments

Lost and Found

https://walzr.com/lost-and-found
25•walz•15h ago•6 comments

Union Busters Coming After Me

https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/union-busters-coming-after-me
41•anothermathbozo•59m ago•5 comments

Has_not_been_viewed_much

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/has-not-been-viewed-much/
429•wxw•17h ago•118 comments

Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped

https://www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/castro-podcasts-things-i-got-wrong-support
271•dabluck•14h ago•166 comments

DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-closing-abbott-labs-case-spurs-wider-corporate-crim...
61•petethomas•2h ago•10 comments

Show HN: I Built LangGraph for Swift

https://github.com/christopherkarani/Swarm
7•christkarani•2h ago•2 comments

Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres?

https://postgresisenough.dev/
86•b-man•2h ago•56 comments

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/
95•bookofjoe•4h ago•27 comments

The Complete Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide

https://www.joshuaclifton.com/juggle/
57•mrauha•4d ago•6 comments
Open in hackernews

Multilingual Experience Linked to Delayed Aging in Populations and Individuals

https://fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/details/presentations/5474
35•bookofjoe•1h ago

Comments

thisoneisreal•56m ago
One thing I've never seen discussed on this topic (possible I just missed it, I only read popular accounts) is whether speaking multiple languages is a proxy for higher sociability / stronger social ties. That's a known dimension that improves health and aging and I wonder if just being able or interested in speaking with a broader swath of people is what helps more than the cognitive demands of switching.
comrade1234•23m ago
Learning German hasn't made me more sociable.
westurner•22m ago
But there was neurogenesis.

And, just thinking about other cultures

elpakal•22m ago
Raised multilingual here (as in father spoke one, mother spoke another, living abroad and US back and forth). I don't know about the stronger social ties but I have found that thinking in a different language helps me get to sleep easier. There are times when I'm spinning around in webs in English (work, life etc) at night, and when I switch over to Spanish thoughts I fall asleep easier.

Maybe just stuff like that is enough to make a difference.

HPsquared•8m ago
That's nice, like the brain switching to "home mode" maybe?
barrenko•8m ago
Learned some french recently, heavy bouts of insomnia due to moving / stress - I will try this advice exactly this night.
TFNA•55m ago
Sadly, this beneficial activity doesn’t look promising in the longterm. Real-time interpretation of foreign languages through earbuds is already available in its nascent phase, and China at least has begun cutting foreign-language programmes at its unis because such AI translation is seen as the way of future. Once this tool becomes adopted enough societally, the learning of foreign languages is going to become a very niche hobby. It’s already becoming a niche hobby when many developed-country Gen Z are content with traveling and working abroad with only a knowledge of English alongside their native language.
asveikau•37m ago
I think any multilingual person will be skeptical of your analysis. Translation is not a substitute for understanding the original. It's good that we have translations, but it isn't the same. As you get into consuming art, literature, poetry, commentary, this is relevant.
TFNA•35m ago
Learning a foreign language in order to get more out of art, literature, or poetry is already a very niche hobby and one risks being accused of snobbism or privilege for suggesting it. Art, literature (of the kind where learning the original language could be important), and poetry themselves are niche hobbies.
asveikau•34m ago
I don't know your history, but this sounds like a monolingual person not understanding and being arrogant about it. It's not a niche hobby if that's literally your life. Many people are not multilingual as a hobby, or as a choice.
TFNA•29m ago
ChrisArchitect•17m ago
> Dr Amoruso said: “In simple terms, people who spoke more languages tended to have brains that looked younger than expected for their chronological age. The effect was not only related to the number of languages spoken. Higher language proficiency and earlier acquisition of a second language were also associated with more delayed brain ageing. This suggests that multilingual experience matters as a gradient: it is not simply about being bilingual or not, but about the depth and duration of language experience.”

https://www.fens.org/news-activities/news/speaking-another-l...

Did you not notice that I specified “developed-country Gen Z above” and also China? That was to leave a carve-out for the still very vibrant everyday multilingualism of the Indian Subcontinent, sub-Saharan Africa, etc. But for East Asia, Europe and most of Latin America, the trends speak for themselves. I am not monolingual, nor are many educated people of my generation, but younger people in my country are likely to learn only English alongside their native language (and then stop being curious).
tekno45•21m ago
they think art is a niche hobby and not the basis of human culture. I wouldn't listen too intently to them.
TFNA•19m ago
Art is perennial and omnipresent in human societies, but the sort of art that operates through a language foreign to the aficionado’s own, and learning that language would be beneficial to appreciation of it, is obviously going to be a niche subset of art.
fer•11m ago
Culture is not only art. An LLM won't help you naturally drop you a "cuidao chacho que toy mu loco" nor "в жёлтом доме по тебе скучают", nor will it translate it into something that carries the exact meaning to you in English, nor reference any equivalent cultural element, for the foreseeable future. You'll need embeddings common life experiences, and even intonation can completely change the meaning even retaining the emphasis.

It will help you communicate, but not partake.

amunozo•27m ago
This has been said for ages and, as a person in a very multilingual environment, I still cannot see it happening, no matter how good the translations are. I may be wrong, but talking through translation earbuds seems dystopic and uncomfortable.
yulker•5m ago
there's also no substitute for the reduced inferential distance when two people speak the same language. the literal meaning of words encodes just a subset of the communication
aiisjustanif•24m ago
> Once this tool becomes adopted enough societally, the learning of foreign languages is going to become a very niche hobby.

That could a long time or it could be a very different implementation than the one you describe. Half of the world knowing 2 or more languages and that has been growing over time. I don’t see the evidence that technology will soon close the gap of speaking and understanding another language when in comes to communicating with family, music, business, participating in community events, volunteering, or even intimacy.

drtgh•18m ago
> China at least has begun cutting foreign-language programs because such AI translation is seen as the way of future. Once this tool becomes adopted enough societally, the learning of foreign languages is going to become a very niche hobby.

If this happens, professional or reliable translations will only be accessible to those who can afford/pay them, leaving everyone else stuck with the errors produced by LLMs.

To use machine translation, one have to know the language to review the output; otherwise, you're doomed to mistakes. Whatever you do with LLMs, the same thing will happen.

I would name all the marketing surrounding the A"I" as the LLM's blindness virus, or something similar.

feverzsj•5m ago
China does this, because significant amount of foreign companies has left or plan to leave China.