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Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

Article URL: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314403 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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

Article URL: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235 Points: 31 # Comments: 6

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Humazon

Article URL: https://hughhowey.com/humazon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313941 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-026-01496-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367 Points: 48 # Comments: 31

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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

Article URL: https://github.com/wmww/tawc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313068 Points: 15 # Comments: 1

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

Article URL: https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312845 Points: 324 # Comments: 278

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Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

Article URL: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311651 Points: 288 # Comments: 190

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A spectre is haunting Unicode

Article URL: https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310926 Points: 132 # Comments: 38

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Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL

Article URL: https://printytron.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310829 Points: 53 # Comments: 19

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

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-diagnosis-180989235/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310682 Points: 182 # Comments: 63

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Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

Article URL: https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309451 Points: 230 # Comments: 165

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Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

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So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367 Points: 30 # Comments: 15

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First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists

Article URL: https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biotechnology/human-trial-chemogenetic-brain-therapy/104/web/2026/08 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313097 Points: 17 # Comments: 30

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Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313047 Points: 0 # Comments: 0