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Re:What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026) on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:47AM (#49549280)
Heartwarming read, may her soul rest in peace.

Hope I’m able to write a fitting tribute for mine too someday. It’s been hard (emotionally) to put into words the impact she had on us and the world around her.

Re:Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:23AM (#49152318)
This is really lovely! I saw a couple weeks back where someone made a custom app on their remarkable with an LLM responding to handwritten text

Makes me think that I should get my remarkable modded as well to post things I write to my website directly, incorporating some ideas from this. Thank you for sharing!

Re:Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain on Friday June 26, 2026 @05:11PM (#48692018)
You can already do this with EEGs for low-ish cost
Re:Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:45PM (#48688773)
Yeah, they’re using butterfly network chips for the ultrasound but with some additions.

(IV with microbubbles that they can trace as it flows through the brain & some extra imaging algorithms)

Re:Book Dedications on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @09:11PM (#48378463)
These are really beautiful. I stumbled on it this morning when I woke up & took a nap afterwards…ended up dreaming about my mum and giving her a warm goodbye hug.

Thank you for sharing

Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:52PM (#48303383)
I agree with the premise of time away being easier. I don’t think the models/harnesses are there yet. There’s still a good amount of human input required to generate quality work.

So yes, take the day off but the models still need you to steer them when you’re back

Re:Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:38PM (#48273977)
what’s the recommended for scenarios like this? Add a skill scanner that admins can configure?
Great suggestion. Thank you for sharing!
Re:Be Wary of Bluesky on Saturday February 21, 2026 @08:45PM (#47107236)
I always wondered why people don’t adopt protocols like Nostr as much? At least with nostr you know you can use your private key on any other platform that supports it as a valid auth.

The other problem of who owns the relay where the data is stored still exists. One way to solve this is a scheduled query of your data and keeping a local dump

Re:Ask HN: Do You Prepare for Job Interviews? If So, How? on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @09:25AM (#43984254)
Did this with ChatGPT[1] and it was quite helpful. That said using neetcode.io is what I found most helpful

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/682499c9-0578-800e-aa5f-664a9a6a74...

Re:OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:34PM (#43488762)
context: a future I'd want re:coding experience is receiving pull requests for the issues I have in my code repo

...based on code generated from an agent that understands it.

...I think cursor editor gets closer to this experience but for a single task

We should definitely aim to do more studies that account for different people's conditions. As long as limitations are called out then it's fine imo.

A core reason why we need to do as many trials as possible for different interventions is that there's no one-size-fit all approach. I believe that some things will work for some and not others.

The bottleneck is in having a standard framework to validate the impact of interventions and understanding "whether or not it works for you" with empirical evidence (not anecdotes)

Your points are valid. However, I think it's important that we have standard frameworks for evaluating the impact of new interventions that aim to improve wellbeing (lifestyle changes, pills, neuromodulation)

The number of years a person has lived is a good metric but that means if we're trying something new now, we need to wait for X years before saying this has an effect. X in your example being someone reaching 120years.

We can't wait that long :)

Yeah, it depends but to answer the "does it help me" question, we need a framework to measure individual changes over multiple cold plunges.

Now that we have this. We can use it as a reference for future longitudinal studies with larger groups of people.

Agreed! I had a similar feeling of accomplishment when I did my first cold plunge too.
Some participants were doing cold plunges for the first time and others had done it before.

For participant 7 (who is an experienced cold plunger) we could see clear changes in their alpha power (dropping during the stroop task - attention & rising during resting state/cold plunge - being more relaxed)

yep, this trial was to see if there were any neural effects. We plan to do a follow up study with a much larger cohort of people and also over many days. This will provide extra context for solid conclusions
haha yep that's correct. Observing how a single individual responds over time along side other contextual metrics of behavior, productivity will help nail down "why a person responds well vs. doesn't"

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