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Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (wiley.com)
500 points by randycupertino 3 days ago | 397 comments
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At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (smithsonianmag.com)
297 points by gmays 3 days ago | 128 comments
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AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them (davidepiffer.com)
629 points by rzk 3 days ago | 505 comments
4.
RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (dmitry.gr)
393 points by dmitrygr 4 days ago | 451 comments
5.
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
276 points by felixbraun 3 days ago | 65 comments
6.
A spectre is haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)
280 points by sensanaty 3 days ago | 122 comments
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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (acc.org)
339 points by theanonymousone 3 days ago | 322 comments
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AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (science.org)
186 points by AnodicElegy 3 days ago | 92 comments
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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel (sankalp.bearblog.dev)
455 points by tosh 3 days ago | 93 comments
10.
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist (conic.al)
390 points by rdl 3 days ago | 189 comments
11.
Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding (bargi.org)
336 points by allenb 3 days ago | 202 comments
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Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum (baselashraf81.github.io)
241 points by BaselAshraf81 8 days ago | 103 comments
13.
The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves (linebender.org)
200 points by raphlinus 9 days ago | 43 comments
14.
Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia (usgs.gov)
224 points by Bender 3 days ago | 56 comments
15.
Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (stapelberg.ch)
123 points by ingve 3 days ago | 38 comments
16.
 [dupe] eigendrum (eigendrum.com)
216 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago | 1 comment
17.
In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace (popularmechanics.com)
132 points by bookofjoe 6 days ago | 102 comments
18.
Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018) (arxiv.org)
145 points by E-Reverance 3 days ago | 80 comments
19.
Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II (codeberg.page)
103 points by uecker 3 days ago | 47 comments
20.
Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin (32bits.substack.com)
133 points by bbayles 6 days ago | 33 comments
21.
Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)
136 points by chatchan 3 days ago | 63 comments
22.
This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever (ieee.org)
68 points by Jimmc414 7 days ago | 19 comments
23.
Racket v9.3 (racket-lang.org)
143 points by privong 4 days ago | 20 comments
24.
The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (ploopy.co)
146 points by big_toast 3 days ago | 70 comments
25.
The Color of White Light (ludens.cl)
97 points by xk3 7 days ago | 50 comments
26.
Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737 (wired.com)
126 points by _tk_ 5 days ago | 103 comments
27.
2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization (disneyresearch.com)
79 points by Jimmc414 3 days ago | 6 comments
28.
A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms (nature.com)
197 points by jeffreyrogers 3 days ago | 85 comments
29.
An image can overflow (master.dev)
61 points by ibobev 7 days ago | 20 comments
30.
Möbius strips and differential equations (hidden-phenomena.com)
85 points by mbustamanter 8 days ago | 23 comments

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