Year: 2026

Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Adventist Health Study-2 Cohort Linked with Medicare Data

Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Adventist Health Study-2 Cohort Linked with Medicare Data

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Background: A substantial knowledge gap remains regarding the relationship between modifiable dietary factors and Alzheimer's disease risk. Eggs are a source of key nutrients that support brain health. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between egg consumption and the incidence of Alzheimer's disease. Methods: Data were drawn from the Adventist Health Study-2, a large, prospective cohort of United States Seventh-day Adventists, linked with Medicare records to identify Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Diet and lifestyle factors were assessed using a validated food…
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Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray โ€“ Texas A&M Stories

Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray โ€“ Texas A&M Stories

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: New therapy is turning back the clock in aging brains, healing inflammation, restoring memory and reshaping the future of brain age-related therapies Credit: Getty Images Picture this: your brain is a high-performance engine. Over decades, it doesnโ€™t just wear down, it also starts to run hot. Tiny โ€œfiresโ€ of inflammation smolder deep within the brainโ€™s memory center, creating a persistent brain fog that makes it harder to think, form new memories or even adapt to new environments, all the while increasing the risk to…
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I tried Rips, the Card-Pack app where users spend thousands chasing expensive Pokemon

I tried Rips, the Card-Pack app where users spend thousands chasing expensive Pokemon

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Pack Leader ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: After it tripled My money by pulling expensive Pokรฉmon cards from digital packs on the Rips app, I knew immediately what I had to do next: keep ripping. It's time to install, boost your volatility settings and start spending real money to unlock more expensive packs.These digital card packs, equipped for quick redundancy and even faster rewards, are growing in popularity. People have downloaded the Rips app more than 6 million times since its launch in October 2025,…
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New bacterial species discovered in NASAโ€™s cleanrooms

New bacterial species discovered in NASAโ€™s cleanrooms

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: You have full access to this article via your institution. Many bacterial species resist cleaning chemicals and cling to sterile surfaces by producing sticky films in NASA's cleanrooms. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASAโ€™s cleanrooms are sterilised by reducing humidity, through intense cleaning, and radiation exposure. Yet, some microbes persist in these rooms, an international research team has found1. The team has identified 26 new bacterial species in the cleanrooms where the Phoenix Mars Lander was assembled before its lift-off. The team, which included researcher Karthik Raman at…
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How did Trump help China manufacture the cheapest electric car in America?

How did Trump help China manufacture the cheapest electric car in America?

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Environment,Gear,New Roadmap โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Everyone is worried about Affordability right now, including companies that make cars. Especially companies that manufacture electric cars, whose average price reaches $55,000.That makes America's newest and cheapest electric truck a welcome addition to the market โ€” and an odd duck. The small modular offering from Michigan-based auto startup Slate was officially unveiled last week, and it costs just under $25,000 for its base model, and the base model doesn't get you much. You'll have to pay more for everything from power…
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GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering at 516/1034/1552 may be leading to degraded performance on complex tasks ยท Issue #30364 ยท openai/codex ยท GitHub

GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering at 516/1034/1552 may be leading to degraded performance on complex tasks ยท Issue #30364 ยท openai/codex ยท GitHub

โœจ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Summary I found an aggregate pattern in Codex token_count metadata: gpt-5.5 responses disproportionately land at exactly reasoning_output_tokens = 516, with additional fixed-boundary spikes around 1034 and 1552. This appears model-specific and coincides with lower overall reasoning-token intensity, which may help explain degraded performance on complex/high-stakes Codex tasks. This is related to #29353, which reported a task-level reproduction where gpt-5.5 runs ending at exactly 516 reasoning tokens returned the wrong answer. This issue adds aggregate evidence across a larger Feb-Jun window. I am not claiming…
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Bublue BuVortex V5 Pool Skimmer Review: An unwieldy cleaner

Bublue BuVortex V5 Pool Skimmer Review: An unwieldy cleaner

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from WIRED ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Home,Product Review โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The cylinder is surrounded by four arms that help the device float and stay upright. One of the arms contains the power port and on/off button, as well as a Bluetooth button used to initiate pairing with the Bublue mobile app. The only additional component is a mesh filter located below the filter basket. This filter, in turn, is installed within a circular frame, which holds it in place. Finally, there are five parts to the machine, a…
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Better Models: Worse Tools | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

Better Models: Worse Tools | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: written on July 04, 2026 A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Piโ€™s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The edit itself is usually correct but the arguments do not match the schema as the model invents made-up keys and Pi thus rejects the tool call and asks to try again. That…
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A new Google commercial imagines the Declaration of Independence written with the help of artificial intelligence

A new Google commercial imagines the Declaration of Independence written with the help of artificial intelligence

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,gemini,Google ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new Google commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline โ€œCollective project, but make it 1776,โ€ the ad depicts a largely unseen intermediate draft of Thomas Jefferson when he receives a teasing text from Ben Franklin, triggering a Google-centric collaboration. Edits are suggested in Google Docs, the meeting is scheduled in Google Calendar and conducted remotely via Google Meet (with each guest…
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers

โœจ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: In early 2025 I predicted that AI will create many, many more programmers, and that new programming jobs would look different. In March I checked in and found startups substituting compute for labor at record rates, with the wave of new jobs nowhere in sight. This post is the next check-in, and I have good news and bad news. The bad news: AI has torched the market for junior programmers. The good news: the long tail of new programmers I predicted has materialized, but with…
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