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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-diseas...

46•theanonymousone•1h ago•20 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432

305•randycupertino•6h ago•202 comments

Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died

https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-signal-processing

18•Jimmc414•1h ago•1 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas

44•felixbraun•1h ago•13 comments

Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history

https://horn.gg/blog/engineers-will-do-anything-to-avoid-learning-from-history/

17•madrox•40m ago•9 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians

343•rzk•4h ago•298 comments

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really

56•AnodicElegy•3h ago•33 comments

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve...

190•gmays•8h ago•64 comments

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV

201•dmitrygr•1d ago•282 comments

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/

370•tosh•11h ago•83 comments

Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD

https://github.com/christensen143/claude-trofeo-hud

7•christensen143•1h ago•0 comments

A spectre is haunting Unicode

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

141•sensanaty•8h ago•42 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/

6•ingve•1h ago•0 comments

The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

31•firefax•1h ago•4 comments

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer

1•wweissbluth•4h ago

Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf]

https://xescu.re/keeta-consensus.pdf

3•xescure•59m ago•1 comments

Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/

239•allenb•12h ago•165 comments

Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game

https://geek-fighter.vercel.app/

43•tareqismail•5d ago•18 comments

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

https://github.com/wmww/tawc

25•schmorptron•4h ago•1 comments

Pizza Box Project Stack

https://cblgh.org/posts/2026-07-31-pizza-box-project-stack/

21•surprisetalk•4d ago•3 comments

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/16/2d-gaussian-splatting-for-bezier-spline-line-art-ve...

53•Jimmc414•22h ago•4 comments

BriskDB

https://github.com/schapman1974/briskdb

37•schapman1974•4h ago•10 comments

Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum

https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/

186•BaselAshraf81•5d ago•87 comments

The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves

https://linebender.org/blog/hyperbezier/

175•raphlinus•5d ago•31 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-f...

11•dgellow•3h ago•2 comments

A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x

139•jeffreyrogers•6h ago•66 comments

Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL

https://printytron.com

56•statenjason•8h ago•26 comments

Triple Product Rule of Partial Derivatives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_product_rule

7•srean•33m ago•1 comments

An image can overflow

https://master.dev/blog/something-nobody-told-you-about-the-image-element-it-can-overflow/

6•ibobev•4d ago•0 comments

The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake

https://www.core77.com/posts/144869

103•Bowes-Lyon•5h ago•47 comments

Open in hackernews

The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

31•firefax•1h ago

Comments

lanstin•27m ago

Someone needs to write a book with a story of how this might have happened.

valryon•12m ago

Not sure if you're sarcastic but it's the starting point of the Three body problem.

jdb1729•11m ago

Four dozen + 1 = 7^2 years ago, our fathers received a signal...

thataccount•3m ago

Ah yes. Used that image on a book I wrote once.