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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,197 posts.
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Perceived Physical Activity and Mortality: Study
A study of over 60,000 people who were followed for as long as two decades found that people’s perceptions about their level of activity have a more significant effect on their longevity than the...
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Recovering from AI addiction
Welcome to Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous! We’re glad you’ve found us, and we hope our community can be as helpful to you as it has been for us. ITAA is a Twelve-Step fellowship of individuals who support each other in recovering from internet and technology addiction. This includes social media addiction…
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Do We Worship Complexity?
Complexity is the most important challenge in software development. So it is important to always strive to eliminate complexity. But sometimes we worship complexity - and that can make complexity problems unsolvable.
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Sleeping longer than 6.5 hours/day can help you lose weight: study
According to a recent study, sleeping an extra hour could help you lose weight if you're not sleeping enough to begin with
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Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (2013)
A new study shows that, contrary to established dogma, key immune cells in healthy adults somehow acquire "memory" of microbes that have never entered their bodies.
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Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
In a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.
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Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
Whitney Mallett dives into the recent history of German Bold Italic (GBI), a 1997 song by Towa Tei's featuring Kylie Minogue, who sang from the perspective of a new typeface.
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Comedy Theory (2022)
Create and run awesome TTRPG adventures. Games, tools, and resources for storytellers, roleplayers, improvisers, and game masters.
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How is team-member-1 doing?
People asked how team-member-1 is doing after the DB incident of Jan 31st - Feb 1st. We're here to tell you that.
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How to Start with Machine Learning
In this article, I'd like to tell you how to start with machine learning, and what to do to learn algorithms that will help you to build smart apps.
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“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases
A new type of vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) has shown in the lab setting that
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Stem cells shown safe, beneficial for chronic stroke patients
People disabled by a stroke demonstrated substantial recovery long after the event when modified adult stem cells were injected into their brains.
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Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing
If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.
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Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc?
News and updates about CoCalc
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Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge
Today Apple revealed the 10 winning Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge photographs shot all over the world on iPhone 13 Pro.
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The Programming Books That Meant The Most To Me
There are so many programming books out there, but most focus on specific technologies and their half-life is incredibly short. Others focus on process or culture. Very few focus on the timeless principles of writing good code, period. The following five books had the biggest influence on my progra…
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How I think about debt
Japan has 140 businesses that are at least 500 years old.