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Why Aren't People Going to Local and Regional In-Person Events Anymore?

news.ycombinator.com Brent Ozar 2025-10-30 13:17:22

Steve Jones recently posted an update about SQL Saturday’s status, and it includes some news we need to talk about: However, this year the number may stagnate or even decline slightly. Running events has become challenging for many communities. Organizers are busy, space is hard to find, and costs are rising…. The biggest challenge in running events is finding space at a reasonable cost. Many Microsoft offices are closing, which were strong supporters of events in the past. Steve gives a coupl

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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 17:28:45

Shiffman, the author of Why Sharks Matter, described early Twitter recently on the blog Southern Fried Science as "the world's most interesting cocktail party." "Then it stopped being useful," Shiffman told Ars. "I was worried for a while that this incredibly powerful way of changing the world using expertise was gone. It's not gone. It just moved. It's a little different now, and it's not as powerful as it was, but it's not gone. It was for me personally, immensely reassuring that so many othe

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The Top Diseases We Choose to Stay Ignorant About, According to Scientists

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-30 17:55:15

The old adage “ignorance is bliss” feels especially fitting when it comes to healthcare. In fact, new research reveals that one in three people avoids—or is likely to avoid—medical information. In a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine earlier this month, researchers investigated data from 92 studies involving 564,497 participants from 25 countries. Despite the fact that successful treatment often depends on early detection, their results indicate that many people are reluctant

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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-30 17:11:02

Shiffman, the author of Why Sharks Matter, described early Twitter recently on the blog Southern Fried Science as "the world's most interesting cocktail party." "Then it stopped being useful," Shiffman told Ars. "I was worried for a while that this incredibly powerful way of changing the world using expertise was gone. It's not gone. It just moved. It's a little different now, and it's not as powerful as it was, but it's not gone. It was for me personally, immensely reassuring that so many othe

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Londoners told to wear headphones on public transit

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-30 21:05:47

You would think certain things would be blindingly obvious, among them “if you are listening to music or a video on your phone on public transit, wear headphones.” But anyone who regularly uses transit services can tell you that this is definitely not the case. London has now decided to take executive action with a PR campaign … I’m not sure exactly what caused it, but at some point a number of years ago, people seemed to switch from holding phones to their ear to make calls, to holding them f

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Titles matter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 13:45:21

Titles matter Recently, I saw a post on Bluesky that did not sit well with me at all. I’m not going to link to it directly or mention the author, because I don’t want to direct any negativity their way. That’s not why I’m writing this. I do, however, want to respond to the core of what was said (and which some were agreeing with). That core sentiment of the post was this: Somebody who generates websites using AI prompting is also a web developer. The qualification is “do you build websites”,

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A Pill to Fight Obesity Is on the Verge of Approval

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-31 16:20:02

The next big obesity medication coming down the pipeline will likely come in pill form. Eli Lilly has just released the latest positive Phase III trial results of its experimental oral GLP-1 drug, orforglipron. On Tuesday morning, Eli Lilly reported that orforglipron met the benchmarks of the company’s Phase III ATTAIN-2 study. People taking orforglipron experienced substantial improvements in weight loss and blood sugar control compared to those taking a placebo, the study showed. Armed with d

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Titles Matter

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-31 18:45:21

Titles matter Recently, I saw a post on Bluesky that did not sit well with me at all. I’m not going to link to it directly or mention the author, because I don’t want to direct any negativity their way. That’s not why I’m writing this. I do, however, want to respond to the core of what was said (and which some were agreeing with). That core sentiment of the post was this: Somebody who generates websites using AI prompting is also a web developer. The qualification is “do you build websites”,

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One universal antiviral to rule them all?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 06:07:42

For a few dozen people in the world, the downside of living with a rare immune condition comes with a surprising superpower—the ability to fight off all viruses. Columbia immunologist Dusan Bogunovic discovered the individuals’ antiviral powers about 15 years ago, soon after he identified the genetic mutation that causes the condition. At first, the condition only seemed to increase vulnerability to some bacterial infections. But as more patients were identified, its unexpected antiviral benef

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Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 15:52:13

“It’s like the discovery of the New World,” David Reich tells me. “Everything is new, nobody’s looked at it in this way before, so how can things not be interesting?” The excitement surrounding David Reich’s ancient genetics lab at Harvard Medical School is almost palpable. Journals like Science and Nature are unstinting in their praise of the work being done in the Reich Laboratory. Reich and his colleagues are rewriting the history of the human species. Like a scientific Cecil B. DeMille, the

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One Universal Antiviral to Rule Them All?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-01 16:07:42

For a few dozen people in the world, the downside of living with a rare immune condition comes with a surprising superpower—the ability to fight off all viruses. Columbia immunologist Dusan Bogunovic discovered the individuals’ antiviral powers about 15 years ago, soon after he identified the genetic mutation that causes the condition. At first, the condition only seemed to increase vulnerability to some bacterial infections. But as more patients were identified, its unexpected antiviral benef

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Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole

wired.com Katie Drummond 2025-11-01 21:00:00

What you're basically telling everyone is: You can go over there and talk about Jigglypuff, and go over here and spew your racist, hateful crap. And it normalizes the latter. There are plenty of places on the internet to go find that stuff. Just not at our Javits Center, so to speak. The other thing that real life does really nicely, if we keep pushing this analogy, is if you show up in the Pokémon Con and you start spewing really crazy stuff, you get a response from the people around you. At

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Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

news.ycombinator.com Paul Arnold 2025-11-02 22:17:44

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Dataset characterization and measures of reading. Credit: iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113288 If you love nothing more than devouring a page-turner in your free time, you're becoming a rare breed. Reading for pleasure among adults in the United States has fallen dramatically in the last two decades. A n

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Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections

news.ycombinator.com Laura Kelley 2025-11-02 22:19:21

A new study led by researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that although many technologies claim to clean indoor air and prevent the spread of viruses like COVID-19 and the flu, most have not been tested on people and their potential risks are not yet fully understood. Published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the research

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Most Air Purifiers Haven’t Been Tested on Humans. That’s a Problem

gizmodo.com Amiran Baduashvili 2025-11-04 14:50:51

Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people—and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects. That’s the upshot of a detailed review of nearly 700 studies that we co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Many respiratory viruses, such as covid-19 and influenza, can spread through indoor air. Technologies such as HEPA filters, ultraviolet light, and special ventilation designs—collectively kno

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From Hackathon to YC

news.ycombinator.com Neha Suresh 2025-11-04 20:08:26

This story is being published in the Product Hunt Weekly Newsletter. If you'd like to read more stories like this, subscribe here. 🌟 Hey everyone, I’m Neha, the founder of @April — an AI executive assistant that keeps your inbox, calendar, and meeting prep under control so you can finally get your time back. April exists because of a hackathon I almost skipped, my car crashing into a pillar… and a YC interview I never saw coming. The Hackathon That Changed Everything It's the end of May 2025.

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Former Meta exec Nick Clegg offers careful criticism of ‘cloyingly conformist’ Silicon Valley

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-04 23:32:56

In Brief Meta’s former policy chief Nick Clegg seems to be walking a tightrope as he promotes his upcoming book, “How to Save the Internet.” Unlike certain other Meta employee memoirs, “How to Save the Internet” doesn’t sound like a tell-all or a scathing critique. And in an interview with the Guardian, Clegg (who previously led the U.K.’s Liberal Democrats) seems to distance himself from Silicon Valley without quite disavowing his former employer. “I really do believe that, despite its imper

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Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-04 17:45:22

In a blog post this week, Microsoft's head of AI Mustafa Suleyman responded to the drastic rise in mental health crises stemming from AI use, calling for caution "about what happens in the run up towards superintelligence." At the core of Suleyman's argument isn't the dystopian threat of AI gaining consciousness — an idea currently grounded more in fantasy than scientific evidence, according to many researchers — but the belief that it already is. "My central worry is that many people will sta

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What if every city had a London Overground?

news.ycombinator.com Jessica Furseth 2025-11-01 17:11:37

An underground train network is the pinnacle of public transport—right now, in New York and Chicago, Paris and Berlin, Tokyo and Beijing, people are being whisked through a network of tunnels, deep below the bustling city. In London, which has the oldest rapid transit system in the world, the Tube isn’t just public transportation—it’s famous as the beating heart of the city, assisting up to five million passenger journeys a day. Formally known as the London Underground, the Tube’s logo is soon r

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AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-04 03:00:05

Microsoft AI's CEO Mustafa Suleyman is clear: AI is not human and does not possess a truly human consciousness. But the warp-speed advancement of generative AI is making that harder and harder to recognize. The consequences are potentially disastrous, he wrote Tuesday in an essay on his personal blog. Suleyman's 4,600-word treatise is a timely reaction to a growing phenomenon of AI users ascribing human-like qualities of consciousness to AI tools. It's not an unreasonable reaction; it's human n

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Meta to unveil Hypernova smart glasses with a display, wristband at Connect next month

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez Lora Kolodny Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-05 04:14:39

In this article META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta is planning to use its annual Connect conference next month to announce a deeper push into smart glasses, including the launch of the company's first consumer-ready glasses with a display, CNBC has learned. That's one of the two new devices Meta

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Meta set to unveil first consumer-ready smart glasses with a display, wristband next month

cnbc.com Salvador Rodriguez Lora Kolodny Jonathan Vanian 2025-11-05 14:29:49

In this article META Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Sept. 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Meta is planning to use its annual Connect conference next month to announce a deeper push into smart glasses, including the launch of the company's first consumer-ready glasses with a display, CNBC has learned. That's one of the two new devices Meta

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OpenAI Chairman Says AI Is Destroying His Sense of Who He Is

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-06 17:26:44

For being poised to become the richest startup in history, OpenAI's architects seem strikingly ambivalent about its work. The company's CEO is constantly afraid of the technology he's unleashing on the world, a longstanding investor has been driven to what his peers say are signs of psychosis, and even its chairman is panicking about losing his identity to the machine. Speaking on the podcast "Acquired" earlier this week, the chair of OpenAI's board, Bret Taylor, expressed his anxiety that AI

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I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours

technologyreview.com Antonio Regalado 2025-11-07 12:00:00

This process, called forensic investigative genetic genealogy, or FIGG, has since helped solve hundreds of murders and sexual assaults. Still, while the technology is potent, it’s incompletely realized. It operates via a mishmash of private labs and unregulated websites, like FamilyTree, which give users a choice to opt into or out of police searches. The number of profiles available for search by police hovers around 1.5 million, not yet enough to find matches in all cases. To do my bit to inc

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Is moderate drinking healthy? Scientists say the idea is outdated

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 14:46:44

In brief Stanford Medicine experts argue that the long-held belief in moderate drinking’s health benefits is now considered misleading. With recent studies linking alcohol to increased cancer risk, researchers stress the importance of public awareness regarding alcohol consumption. New findings highlight that individual health factors significantly influence alcohol’s effects, prompting calls for reevaluating guidelines on drinking and health. Whether it’s a glass of red wine with dinner or a

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Airlines Sued for Selling ‘Window’ Seats Without a Window View

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-11-08 09:20:44

Have you ever paid for a window seat on an airplane that didn’t actually have a window? You could be part of a class action lawsuit in the near future. Delta and United Airlines have been sued this week in federal court for misrepresenting their seat offerings online. The plaintiffs note that when people buy tickets through competitors like Alaska Airlines and American Airlines, the website will flag when a window seat doesn’t actually have a window. Delta and United don’t tell consumers when t

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Missouri Man Dies After Water Skiing Leads to Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-08 23:55:40

A Missouri man’s lake outing has ended in tragedy. Local health officials announced this week that a resident died from a rare but nearly always fatal brain amoeba infection likely caught while water skiing. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services disclosed the resident’s death Wednesday, following its initial report of the case last week (though few details about the case were released, several outlets reported the resident was a man). Officials are still investigating the source

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Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-11-09 14:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. One of the biggest topics in AI these days is agents — the idea that AI is going to move from chatbots to reliably completing tasks for us in the real world. But the problem with agents is that they really aren’t all that reliable right now. There’s a lot of work happening in the AI industry to try to fix that, and that brings me to my guest today: David Luan, the head of Amazon’s

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The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

wired.com Richard Warnica 2025-11-10 09:30:00

Not long before he decided to leave NASA, Steve Rader, an engineer who spent 36 years at the Johnson Space Center, held a retreat for leaders in his department at his home in downtown Houston. It had been a trying few months for Rader and his team. “I will say, I don't cry a lot,” he tells me in a recent phone call. That changed after Trump took office. “You can ask my wife, from the first few months I cried.” After decades working on projects like the Space Shuttle and International Space Stat

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AI Assistants Are Just Alexa All Over Again

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-11 14:30:38

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into the development of artificial intelligence models and the infrastructure needed to support them, all with the promise that AI will eventually take over everything. But in the average person’s day-to-day life, AI has yet to serve as much more than a slightly smarter Siri. According to new data collected by polling firm YouGov, even though companies have made a big to-do about infusing smart assistants with AI brains, people have barely changed

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Why Aren't People Going to Local and Regional In-Person Events Anymore?

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

The Top Diseases We Choose to Stay Ignorant About, According to Scientists

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

Londoners told to wear headphones on public transit

Titles matter

A Pill to Fight Obesity Is on the Verge of Approval

Titles Matter

One universal antiviral to rule them all?

Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)

One Universal Antiviral to Rule Them All?

Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole

Reading for pleasure plummets by 40% in the US

Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections

Most Air Purifiers Haven’t Been Tested on Humans. That’s a Problem

From Hackathon to YC

Former Meta exec Nick Clegg offers careful criticism of ‘cloyingly conformist’ Silicon Valley

Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

What if every city had a London Overground?

AI Isn't Human and We Need to Stop Treating It That Way, Says Microsoft AI CEO

Meta to unveil Hypernova smart glasses with a display, wristband at Connect next month

Meta set to unveil first consumer-ready smart glasses with a display, wristband next month

OpenAI Chairman Says AI Is Destroying His Sense of Who He Is

I gave the police access to my DNA—and maybe some of yours

Is moderate drinking healthy? Scientists say the idea is outdated

Airlines Sued for Selling ‘Window’ Seats Without a Window View

Missouri Man Dies After Water Skiing Leads to Brain-Eating Amoeba Infection

Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race

The Destruction of NASA Would Be a Blow to Our Collective Imagination

AI Assistants Are Just Alexa All Over Again

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