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What Ozempic Does to the Gut-Brain Axis

What Ozempic Does to the Gut-Brain Axis

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: โ€œIโ€™ve been taking Ozempic to lose weight but now I want to go hiking and play badminton with my friends.โ€ โ€”Bob Janke Researchers rejoiced when Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs worked to shed weight in their patients. But there was an unexpected bonus: Some depressed patients started to feel better. Researchers from Southeast University in China, led by Honghong Yao, think they know why. They pieced together several related observations to solve the mystery. (I apologize in advance for a few gnarly bacterial names…
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kageroumado/adrafinil: Keep your Mac awake only while AI coding agents are working ยท GitHub

kageroumado/adrafinil: Keep your Mac awake only while AI coding agents are working ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: ๆœ็”จๆณจๆ„ ใƒป for machines that keep watch after you've gone to sleep. It's 3 a.m. You're asleep. The agent isn't โ€” it's still mid-thought in a session you started hours ago, and you've closed the lid over it like an eyelid that won't quite shut. caffeinate and Amphetamine are stimulants: they keep the machine wired forever, whether or not anyone's home. Adrafinil is the eugeroic. It does nothing until an agent acquires it, keeps your Mac awake through a closed lid only for as long…
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Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A few weeks ago, I added a silly, funny experiment on this website. I talked about it on this blog post. It was a tiny Town Square at the bottom of every page . When you visit the site, you'll see a small strip populated by stick figures. Each figure represents another visitor currently browsing the website. You can see what page people are reading, walk around and send messages. For example, you could see someone reading the same article as you and start a…
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bikini/exploitarium: A single archive of public exploit PoCs and vulnerability research writeups. At the time I post these, none have been reported. Feel free to report them yourself and take credit for the CVE if handed out lulz. Please do not abuse these. I do this so to allure people into the field, and I’ve always found this is the most efficient way. ยท GitHub

bikini/exploitarium: A single archive of public exploit PoCs and vulnerability research writeups. At the time I post these, none have been reported. Feel free to report them yourself and take credit for the CVE if handed out lulz. Please do not abuse these. I do this so to allure people into the field, and I’ve always found this is the most efficient way. ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: New drops today ;) Biggest thing yet If you wish to collaborate/discuss with me, contact me on discord @ashdfrkl Sharing this repo keeps me motivated to continue dropping my findings for you all. A consolidated archive of my public proof-of-concept and vulnerability research writeups. Most folders contain one of my former standalone PoC repos, preserved with its original README and tracked files. New research entries are added directly here as self-contained folders. Folder Source Tracked entries 7zip-rar5-motw-chain-poc bd9533f532c1e4ee6af783b9bb49d1133c600e2c 3 anydesk-printer-com-impersonation-poc 7491303301093b2d40bee9dadf6b38f757ce78e0 4 c-ares-tcp-uaf-calc-poc direct entry,…
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Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.

Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.

โœจ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Sneaky worms Taenia solium can infect people in two ways: by eating cysts in undercooked meat or ingesting eggs through fecal contamination. The parasite infects pigs, and when they ingest eggs from feces, the worms hatch in the pigsโ€™ guts, bore through the intestines, get into the bloodstream, and migrate into a variety of tissues and muscles. There, they form into encapsulated larvae called cysticerci. If a person eats undercooked meat containing cysticerci, the larvae will develop into adult tapeworms in the personโ€™s intestinal…
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Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

โœจ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctorial silence. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flame warriors; Cryptography and casinos; TSA v dying 95 year old woman's adult diaper; Neoliberalism and Brexit; Beyond solutionism; How Thiel cheated with his Roth; Inequality's stabilizer; Palm Pilot school; Gillmor on PR flacks; "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper; Conservative judge chokes liberal judge; Hollywoodnomics; Rubber…
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Keep calm and carry on!

Keep calm and carry on!

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I have seen a lot of distressed debate in the cybersecurity field following the announcement of Claude Mythos Preview. It was announced as a game changer in the field, miles ahead of its league and opening the pandoraโ€™s box of fully automated hunting and exploitation of zero-days.ย Since then, Mythos and itโ€™s safeguard-heavy equivalent, Fable 5, got released, only to be taken away shortly after. Letโ€™s take the opportunity to reflect on what this model brings and how impactful it is to the industry.Fear, uncertainty, and…
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Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on

๐Ÿš€ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropicโ€™s Mythos. Thatโ€™s the cybersecurity-focused AI model that is reportedly so powerful, the Trump Administration has currently banned it and its more restricted version, Fable 5, from the hands of non-Americans. Earlier the same week Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI startup launched Fugu, a model named after the Japanese word for blowfish. The company says this frontier AI model โ€œstands shoulder-to-shoulder with leading models like Anthropicโ€™s Fable…
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Software Engineer at Nox Metals

Software Engineer at Nox Metals

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now. NOX METALS (YC S25) is the supply chain powering it. We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible. We closed our $13M seed round in June and are accelerating faster than ever.ย  We are hiring software engineers in Detroit to build the intelligent platform that runs our factories. You will write the…
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Introduction โ€” pyNomo Documentation 0.3.2.2 documentation

Introduction โ€” pyNomo Documentation 0.3.2.2 documentation

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: What is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me? A nomogram or nomograph is a diagram that provides an easy, graphical way of calculating the result of a mathematical formula. Sometimes also called an alignment chart, a nomogram consists of a set of numbered scales, usually one for each variable in the formula, arranged so that a straightedge can be placed across known values to find the unknown value that solves the formula. Since an equation in two variables is usually represented by a…
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