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Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 23:29:55

‍ “Men would rather pop Viagra forever than let a leech near their body,” Dr. Andrei Dokukin says with only a hint of hyperbole. From his Long Beach, California, clinic, Dokukin is one of the only medical doctors in America practicing leech therapy (also known as hirudotherapy) for internal medicine and non-surgical conditions. While his clients are treated for chronic pain, arthritis, and circulatory issues, rather than erectile dysfunction, Dokukin notes that ED could, in fact, be successfull

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 18, #329

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 03:45:41

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. I always struggle with the puzzles that focus on one single player's team history, unless they're an athlete I really follow closely. Guess what? The blue group today is like that. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Editi

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Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-16 02:14:27

Anthropic's latest feature for two of its Claude AI models could be the beginning of the end for the AI jailbreaking community. The company announced in a post on its website that the Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models now have the power to end a conversation with users. According to Anthropic, this feature will only be used in "rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions." To clarify, Anthropic said those two Claude models could exit harmful conversations, like "requests

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Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 18:24:30

OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it poses harm or is being abused. This only applies to Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, the two most powerful models available via paid plans and API. On the other hand, Claude Sonnet 4, which is the company's most used model, won't be getting this feature. Anthropic describes this move as a "model welfare." "In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a pr

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 18, #533

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 02:00:03

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a fun one, involving a category of well-known words. But one of them still stumped me. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 18, #1521

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 02:00:04

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle sure has plenty of vowels. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on. Today's Wordle hints Before we show you today's Wordle answer, we'll give you some

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 18, #799

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 02:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a tricky one. Frequent travelers might solve the blue group fairly easily. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score

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These 5 Posture Corrector Picks Will Straighten You Out (2025)

wired.com Boutayna Chokrane 2025-12-15 17:00:00

Compare Top 5 Posture Correctors How We Test Posture Correctors AccordionItemContainerButton LargeChevron We tested each posture corrector, wearing them through the routines of daily life—from sitting at a desk to running errands and working out—for both short and long periods, over several months. No one wants to feel like they’re strapped into armor, so we evaluated wearability by focusing on comfort, breathable materials, and adjustability. Material quality was a priority, and we kept an eye

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Changing these 12 settings on my Android phone extended its battery life by hours

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-15 21:00:19

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was constantly tweaking device settings to squeeze every bit of juice out of their batteries. Thanks to this micromanaging, I successfully pushed the batteries on all my past smartph

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SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 03:42:00

Annali da Samarcanda Alberto Marnetto's Notebook SuperSight: a graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's Stunts Clickbait disclaimer: Stunts was actually created by Distinctive Software; Brøderbund was only the publisher. But nobody heard about Distinctive, and I wanted to be sure this article does not get confused with the one about Disney's Stunt Island. Sorry about that. Part I This series will tell about the creation of SuperSight, a mod for Stunts intended to bring the game’s 3D engin

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Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 14:00:40

💜 Wan ｜ 🖥️ GitHub | 🤗 Hugging Face | 🤖 ModelScope | 📑 Paper | 📑 Blog | 💬 Discord 📕 使用指南(中文) | 📘 User Guide(English) | 💬 WeChat(微信) Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models We are excited to introduce Wan2.2, a major upgrade to our foundational video models. With Wan2.2, we have focused on incorporating the following innovations: 👍 Effective MoE Architecture : Wan2.2 introduces a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture into video diffusion models. By separating the denoising

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Does OLAP Need an ORM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-16 03:03:21

TL;DR · ORMs have proven to be useful for many developers in the OLTP/transactional stack (Postgres, MySQL, etc). · OLAP/analytical databases like ClickHouse could potentially benefit from ORM abstractions. · Existing transactional ORMs probably shouldn’t be extended to OLAP due to fundamental differences in semantic meaning between OLTP and OLAP. · Moose OLAP (part of MooseStack) is an open source, MIT-licensed implementation of an ORM-like interface for ClickHouse, inspired by tran

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Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 16:44:42

How? Enter Porffor Porffor is my JS engine/runtime that compiles JavaScript ahead-of-time to WebAssembly and native binaries. What does that actually mean? You can compile JS files to tiny (<1MB), fast (millisecond-level) binaries: ~$ bat hi.js ─────┬────────────────────────────────────── 1 │ console.log ( "hello blog!" ) ─────┴────────────────────────────────────── ~$ porf native hi.js hi [ 271ms ] compiled hi.js -> hi ( 12.9KB ) ~$ du -h hi 16K hi ~$ ./hi hello blog! Node and Bun offer “com

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We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 10:31:05

We recently used Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B to embed millions of text documents while sustaining near-100% GPU utilization the whole way. That’s usually the gold standard that machine learning engineers aim for… but here’s the twist: in the time it took to write this blog post, we found a way to make the same workload 3× faster, and it didn’t involve maxing out GPU utilization at all. That story’s for another post, but first, here’s the recipe that got us to near-100%. The workload Here at the Daft

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IQ Tests Results for AI

news.ycombinator.com Maxim Lott 2025-12-15 18:36:22

Does this site show that AIs are biased? As of 2023, every major AI is economically left-wing and also relatively socially libertarian. Some AIs are much more like that than others, however, with Claude tending towards being one of the most moderate models, and Google’s Bard being one of the most extreme-left models. An AI’s political bias is shaped by two main things:

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LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 21:20:20

LL3M uses a team of large language models to write Python code that creates and edits 3D assets in Blender. Given user text instructions, the agents are capable of creating expressive shapes from scratch, and realizing complex, precise geometric manipulations in code. Whereas previous uses of code-writing LLMs for 3D creation have focused on specific subtasks or constrained procedural programs and primitives, our method is able to create unconstrained assets with geometry, layout, and appearance

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 17, #328

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 14:39:00

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is both fun and tough. The purple category was kind of brilliant, actually. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition has been out of beta for six months, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has ea

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I Test Meal Kits for a Living. Here Are 7 Mistakes That Could Cost You Money (and Meals!)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-16 03:00:05

Meal kits have become the love child of "I want to eat something that didn't come from a drive-through" and "I wouldn't know a good recipe if it kissed me on the mouth." Meal kits are perfect for health-conscious folks who've realized that ordering Thai food five nights a week isn't a nutrition plan and for culinary beginners who think "sautéing" is a French dance move. Here's the plot twist: meal kits actually cost about the same as regular groceries these days. Yes, you read that right. Thank

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Teaching the model: Designing LLM feedback loops that get smarter over time

venturebeat.com Eric Heaton 2025-12-15 15:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Large language models (LLMs) have dazzled with their ability to reason, generate and automate, but what separates a compelling demo from a lasting product isn’t just the model’s initial performance. It’s how well the system learns from real users. Feedback loops are the missing layer in most AI deployments. As LLMs are integrated into ever

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OpenAI is improving ChatGPT voice mode

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 15:15:42

ChatGPT's Voice mode is already pretty good, but OpenAI is working on a new feature that will allow you to control how Voice mode actually works. As you can see in the screenshot below, OpenAI has added "Voice speed" to the ChatGPT web app settings for voice mode. This means you can control how fast ChatGPT can speak. You can lower it to 0.5x or make it as far as 2.0x. There is a slider that allows you to specify the ChatGPT pace. These options are currently hidden. Also, OpenAI has added "c

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OpenAI prepares Chromium-based AI browser to take on Google

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 16:23:03

OpenAI is testing an AI-powered browser that uses Chromium as its underlying engine, and it could debut on macOS first. My sources tell me that OpenAI has already started updating ChatGPT to power the Chrome rival. OpenAI is building an AI-powered tab selection, a new tab page, and a feature that allows the browser to do the browsing for you. It could be similar to Copilot mode in Edge. OpenAI already has Agent mode in ChatGPT. For those unaware, Agent mode in ChatGPT is powered by a Linux t

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AI apps are like music

news.ycombinator.com Mert Deveci 2025-12-15 16:59:28

This is a mental discussion I have been having for the last two months. It is about pricing in AI. I have one actionable recommendation: Kill that damn model picker. I have been coding a specific AI app. Exciting stuff. Product is obvious. I even got a plan for distribution from day 1. Or day 0. Everything clicks. Except one thing. Pricing. It's tormenting me. The Cursor Problem or is it? Everyone describes AI apps the same way: "Cursor for X." Fair enough. Cursor nailed something import

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Dev Compass – Programming Philosophy Quiz

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 17:04:29

Dev Compass Discover your programming philosophy through this compass that maps your preferences along two key dimensions: Abstract Style ↔ Concrete Style and Easy for Humans ↕ Easy for Computers. Answer 20 questions about your coding preferences and see where you fall on the developer compass.

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GPT-5's Voice Mode Can Hold a Decent Conversation, but Please Don't Talk to ChatGPT in Public

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 05:00:05

Sitting in the lobby of the auto body shop waiting for a repair estimate, I realized I'd forgotten my earbuds. Normally, that's not a major issue, but I was talking to my phone. And I wasn't talking to another person. I was talking to ChatGPT. It felt as embarrassing as asking Siri a question from across the room or joining a Zoom meeting sans headphones in an open office. I'm testing the advanced voice mode that comes with GPT-5, OpenAI's latest version of the generative AI model behind ChatGP

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 17, #1520

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 15:00:02

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. I don't think that many people use the answer to today's Wordle puzzle anymore but I use it. That still doesn't mean I had an easy time guessing it though. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints an

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 17, #798

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 15:00:04

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle is a real tough one. Do you still send letters? If you do, you might have a leg up on the green category. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you pla

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 17, #532

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 15:00:08

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tough one. Some very long words are involved. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET'

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I Used an AI-Powered Glucose Monitor for 2 Weeks. Here's What Surprised Me

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-15 17:03:00

I've used my Oura Ring the past few years to track my sleep, recovery and stress. I'm constantly experimenting with the latest health tech, so I was naturally intrigued when Oura Ring recently partnered with Dexcom's Stelo, a continuous glucose monitor designed for people without diabetes. The goal of this collaboration is to help everyday people like me understand how food and general eating habits affect our blood sugar and overall health. "By combining Stelo data with Oura's existing insight

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OpenAI Progress

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 15:47:12

As an AI language model, I can't express personal desires, emotions, or thoughts like a human would. However, in the spirit of your question, I can suggest some interesting questions or topics that a conversation with a future AI model might encompass: New advances and capabilities: I might ask about any major leaps in AI technology since my training data, such as groundbreaking developments in natural language processing, computer vision, or reinforcement learning. Addressing the AI alignment

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How One Wikipedia Editor Unraveled the ‘Single Largest Self-Promotion Operation’ in the Site's History

wired.com Nate Anderson 2025-12-15 14:00:00

Quick—what are the top entries in the category "Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages"? The answer is countries. Turkey tops the list with Wikipedia entries in 332 different languages, while the US is second with 327 and Japan is third with 324. Other common words make their appearance as one looks down the list. "Dog" (275 languages) tops "cat" (273). Jesus (274) beats "Adolf Hitler" (242). And all of them beat "sex" (122), which is also bested by "fever," "Chiang Kai

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