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Humazon

Article URL: https://hughhowey.com/humazon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313941 Points: 14 # Comments: 7
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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: 101 # Comments: 68
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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

Article URL: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314579 Points: 21 # Comments: 2
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At what point does an AI tool become a platform?

I've noticed that a lot of AI products don't stay in the category they started in. Something launches as a tool, does one thing well, and that's the whole value proposition. Then a year later people are connecting it to other systems, building workflows around it, sharing it across teams, writing integrations for it, and depending on it for things it wasn't originally designed to do. Looking at some of the bigger AI products today, I'm not even sure "tool" is the right word anymore...
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Who is responsible when an AI agent makes a bad decision?

AI agents are getting better at making decisions and taking actions on their own. But when an agent sends the wrong email, changes the wrong data, or triggers something it shouldn't, who's responsible? The developer? The company? Or the person supervising it? The more autonomy we give them, the more important accountability becomes.
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Compétences ia/ compétence developpeur full stack

Je me suis demandé, mais enfait, les développeurs ne vont pas ètre remplacé, ils auront juste un autre métier qu'est ingénieur informatique! Leur but ne seras plus vraiment de trouver, optimiser, apprendre des languague, écrire, améliorer le code mais plus de trouver des nouveauté au niveau architecture, problème, déléguation de tache etc! Ils changeront juste de boulot, un peu comme les agriculteurs qui ne le font plus à la main pour récolter (dans le pays où je suis), mais juste ou des machine...
The Trump administration is pressuring Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips as AI data centers drain global supply.
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The Trump administration is pressuring Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips as AI data centers drain global supply.

Via WSJ Apple is reportedly testing chips from CXMT and YMTC for devices sold in China. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he told Apple “plainly” that Washington opposes the move. Apple can legally buy standard, off-the-shelf parts from both companies. Sharing product information for customized chips would require a U.S. license. Looks like ram shortage will continue and prices stay high.
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I built a small game discovery toy, not a chatbot wrapper

I'm Eli. GameCombiner embeds 146,288 games as 1024-dimensional vectors built from their genres, user tags and store descriptions, not their titles, and lets you combine two games by taking the mathematical midpoint of their vectors and returning the closest real game to that point. No LLM is choosing the answer, and nothing is generated. The output is always a real catalog entry, and the same pair always returns the same result. Combining is free. If you try it, I would love comments on whet...
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Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments

When I'm asked what to buy if you want to get into making electronic music, I often recommend Elektron's budget-minded Model:Samples and Model:Cycles grooveboxes. They don't grab headlines the way Teenage Engineering's gear or the Telepathic Instruments Orchid do, and even compared to the company's higher-end and more niche musical offerings like the Digitakt, Octatrack, […]
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The Repository Pattern in NestJS: a collection that happens to live in a database

The canonical starting point for a NestJS module backed by TypeORM is the one the framework itself documents: the module declares TypeOrmModule.forFeature([Order]) and the service receives the repository by injection. @ Injectable () export class OrderService { constructor ( @ InjectRepository ( Order ) private readonly repo : Repository < Order > , ) {} } From there the service has find , findOne , save and delete a...
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Dog Days Tracker 🐾 — Track Your Pup's Happy Days!

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition What I Built Dog Days Tracker — A cute app to log your pup's mood, walks, meals & playtime daily! Demo 🔗 Live: https://05unique-dotcom.github.io/dog-days-tracker/dog-days.html 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/05unique-dotcom/dog-days-tracker Code Built with vanilla HTML, CSS & JavaScript. No frameworks, no dependencies — pure code! How I Built It Self-ta...
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I kept rebuilding the same backend for every side project, so I built Kroxt

The problem [1-2 paragraphs: every project needs auth, a database, storage, email — you've built this five times, here's why that got old] What Kroxt does Multi-tenant auth with strict session revocation and brute-force protection Schema-validated MongoDB collections, auto REST CRUD File storage + CDN Serverless functions (JS VM, DB-hook or cron triggered) Realtime WebSocket channels Paystack payments & subscriptions What using it looks like ...
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Drift Detection Was Never the Hard Part — Here's What Production Teams Actually Need Next

When I started building tfdrift, the problem seemed simple: terraform plan tells you what changed, but not how much you should care . Severity classification solved that — and it's been the core of tfdrift since v0.1. But shipping severity classification to real teams surfaced a different set of questions. Not "is this drift dangerous," but: Who suppressed this alert, and why? Is this week's drift normal, or is something actually wrong? Will fixing this blow our cloud budget? ...
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Midnight Fridge Raid — comfort food isn't a dish, it's 2am

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Comfort Food Edition, CSS Art . Inspiration The brief lists a steaming bowl of ramen, a stack of pancakes, a perfectly cut slice of pie — and then, quietly, "or the dish you grew up eating." That last one is the real prompt. Comfort food isn't a recipe. It's a moment , and the most honest one I could think of isn't a plate at all: it's standing barefoot in a dark kitchen at 2am, deciding whether last night's leftovers count as...
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I Added ML Anamoly Detection to My Cybersecurity Tool - Here's What the Numbers Actually Showed

A few weeks ago, I built Log Sentinel, a log analysis dashboard that detects brute force attacks, directory scanning, and error spikes in Apache server logs using rule-based detectors. The rules worked well, but I kept wondering: what would a machine learning model catch that my rules missed? And more importantly, would ML actually be better? I spent two weeks adding an Isolation Forest model to find out. The results were more interesting than I expected. What I built The ML upgrade ...
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Comfort Table — طعم يشبه المنزل 🍲 | Perfect Landing

<!DOCTYPE html> Comfort Table — طعم يشبه المنزل 🍲 *, *::before, *::after { box-sizing: border-box; } :root { --cream: #fdf8f0; --warm-white: #faf3e8; --white: #ffffff; --brown-dark: #3d2a1e; --brown-medium: #6b4c3b; --brown-light: #a8877a; --gold: #d4a373; --gold-light: #f0d5b0; --orange-warm: #e07c4a; --border: rgba(107, 76, 59, .12); --shadow: 0 8px 30px rgba(61, 42, 30, .12); --shadow-hover: 0 12px 40px ...
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Cutting Chai — the comfort food that isn't food, drawn in CSS

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition , CSS Art: Comfort Food What I Built A kulhad of masala chai, steaming, on a wooden table. Whole spices scattered round it — star anise, a cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, cloves — and a biscuit leaning against the cup with one bite already gone. The brief says "the dish you grew up eating" , and for a very large number of people the honest answer isn't a dish at all. It's four o'clock, every day, for as long a...
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Microsoft Fabric Now Encrypts Spark Temporary Data with Customer-Managed Keys;What It Actually Means

Microsoft Fabric has extended customer-managed key (CMK) encryption to cover temporary data generated during Spark job execution. This is not a minor security patch. It closes a significant compliance gap that has prevented regulated industries from adopting cloud analytics platforms. This article explains what was protected before, what is protected now, and why the distinction matters for organizations with strict data governance requirements. What actually changed Fabric's CMK encryp...
Solution to Challenge 3 - Visual Testing with API Mocking
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Solution to Challenge 3 - Visual Testing with API Mocking

Challenge #3 is done — here's my solution to Challenge 3: Visual Testing with API Mocking I'm not a big fan of mock APIs for end-to-end tests, but when testing a dashboard with daily API changes, you need to ensure the charts are displayed correctly. One time, after some charts, one chart wasn't displayed. In another Google Maps integration, with some changes, one button overlaps another button, so I think visual testing is good for detecting those issues automatically. One approach is to moc...