Your Healthcare Integration Is Only as Good as Its Data Mapping Decisions
Ask anyone who has sat through a failed healthcare integration what went wrong, and the answer almost never traces back to the interface engine or the network layer. It traces back to data mapping decisions made too early, with too little information, and never...
4 quick software tweaks to extend your phone’s battery life by 30 percent
Modern smartphones don’t run out of juice mid-afternoon because their batteries are defective. They run out because dozens of invisible background services are constantly running full-throttle in your pocket. Apps are pinging GPS satellites, pulling fresh data over...
Why one of the most common brain disorders is also one of the most misunderstood
“It’s all in your head.” By the time many people with functional neurological disorder arrive in our clinic, they have heard these five words more times than they can count. They are told their brain scan was normal. Their electroencephalogram, a test that measures...
These practices improve your well-being and actually stick
Below, Matt Bloom shares five key insights from his new book, Lasting Wellbeing: Science-Based Practices for Tranquility, Authenticity, Meaning, and Joy. Matt is a social psychologist and emeritus professor of business at the University of Notre Dame where, for almost...
What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
Article URL: https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317760 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Researchers Hack an Airline Analog
Modern airliners are rather complicated feats of engineering. Innumerable safety-critical components are connected with tens of miles of wiring, complex digital buses, and dozens (perhaps hundreds) of computers. But, as hackers, we know that any computer can be hacked...
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has weighed in on the difference between a pull request description and comments embedded in the code. Both matter, but they serve very different purposes. As Chen noted on his The Old New Thing dev blog: "The PR description is...
Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
Article URL: https://github.com/jitpass/jit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317546 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
Falstad Math and Physics Simulations Go to Source Article URL: https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316872 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx3012 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316685 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn’t stand up to scrutiny
Article URL: https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316611 Points: 31 # Comments: 11
The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US
Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/12/the-us-forgot-the-lessons-of-iraq-now-its-desperate-for-ideas-on-iran-01033217 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317234 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them
In this age of neural net “AI”, even the most skeptical of Butlerians have to agree that these machine learning models can be very, very good at pattern recognition if nothing else. NASA is on the same page, and to take advantage of that pattern recognition, they’ve...
‘Holiday hoarding’ is a workplace crisis
There is a certain irony in writing this piece during the summer. This is usually when offices begin to thin out, when conversations drift toward flight deals and city-break plans, and when out-of-office auto-replies get drafted by the dozens. Yet leaders might look...
The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators
Article URL: https://breck.lol/plMakers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316888 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
I checked 30 frontier model cards. Here are the benchmarks labs report
Article URL: https://koutian.is-a.dev/benchmark-radar/?view=leaderboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316791 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn’t stand up to scrutiny: Nassim Taleb
Article URL: https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316611 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stimulated-geologic-hydrogen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316395 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns
Article URL: https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315995 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
It’s How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13328 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316242 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
Article URL: https://www.micdrop.gg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315742 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA
Article URL: https://github.com/PhillipChaffee/big-pickle-swe-atlas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315563 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI
Article URL: https://waku.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315709 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
The complete AI SEO playbook: from zero to 4.6M impressions in 3 months
Article URL: https://github.com/TraceCohenTech/ai-seo-playbook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315620 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Turning Energy Drinks Into Rocket Fuel
Sometimes claimed to give you wings, energy drinks can, at the very least, be used to make rockets fly. This is what [Nate Scovill] did in a recent video, where cans of the sugary stuff are processed to give a rocket its proverbial wings. The basic concept is...
ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year
Article URL: https://aicharts.grok.me/c/market-share Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315630 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Tea5767-Radio-Tuner
Article URL: https://github.com/turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315456 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record
Article URL: https://abc7.com/story/credit-card-debt-rises-126-trillion-nearing-time-record/19667289/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315232 Points: 14 # Comments: 7
The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314962 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)
Article URL: https://sugartrack-beta.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314884 Points: 4 # Comments: 1