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  1. Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known (youtube.com)
    20 points 12
  2. Wayback Machine Is Down (web.archive.org)
    24 points 14
  3. Ask HN: What are your recommended, must-watch movies?

    What movie(s) should one watch in this lifetime? IMDB 250?

    2 points 6
  4. Removing the Clitoris in Cases of Masturbation (1862) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
    4 points 1
  5. PG Interviewed on Podcast (podcasts.apple.com)
    2 points 1
  6. Ask HN: What is an RStudio-like IDE for Python?

    I am coming from the R world and used to RStudio. Any recommendations for a good IDE for Python similar to RStudio?

    2 points 2
  7. Number of ants on earth estimated at 20 quadrillion (washingtonpost.com)
    1 points 0
  8. “I quit UVA after three weeks.” -Wolf Prize winning chemist Stuart Schreiber (dneel.substack.com)
    3 points 6
  9. The Uber Files (washingtonpost.com)
    30 points 0
  10. Ask HN: Cheapest and simplest solution for a daily email alert to myself?

    I want to have a cloud-hosted, daily email with RSS feeds, stock prices, weather, web page changes, etc. The idea is to run a few scripts (Python) and then compile the results into an email that hits my inbox every day.…

    3 points 6
  11. Ask HN: Checking Interest Rate vs. Mortgage?

    Why isn’t the interest rate on my savings and checking account increasing as fast as the mortgage borrowers rates?

    9 points 5
  12. Ask HN: Where to Find a Rare Book?

    Hi all, I am searching for this book I used to have a child almost 3 decades ago: Situational Grammar by M. I. Dubrovin. Any ideas for buying a paper or ebook copy will be appreciated.

    3 points 2
  13. Ask HN: Best Alternative to Dropbox?

    Since Dropbox was launched on HN (in a way), it is only appropriate that I ask for alternatives to it here. I have been a paying subcriber for many years now but of late with their own app on Mac, they seem to have made…

    5 points 9
  14. Ask HN: What set of companies are likely in 10y to be what FAANG is today?

    This relates to a recent question/poll asking which FAANG is most likely to disappear/decline in the coming years. Let the guesses roll! And maybe we could revisit this post in 2031.

    5 points 7
  15. Ask HN: How do I protect myself against SIM swap attacks?

    I am on T-mobile in the US if that helps.

    56 points 53
  16. How can I extract tables from a PDF with data on rare disease incidence? (orpha.net)
    3 points 3
  17. MIT professor placed on leave following a sexual harassment investigation (businessinsider.com)
    1 points 0
  18. Evernote's new plans – about to become even more expensive? (evernote.com)
    1 points 3
  19. Ask HN: How to (partially) automate repetitive emails?

    Hi HN, I write a lot of the same emails over and over again (macOS and iOS). What are your tips to automate or speed up this process? On one hand, I want my emails to have my personalized writing style but on the other…

    1 points 0
  20. Ask HN: What is in your pocket everyday?

    What tools, medicines, books (the Constitution?), food items, or other items do you carry on you always?

    16 points 39
  21. Investigation: Ultra-Processed Diets by Hall et al. (2019) (slimemoldtimemold.com)
    1 points 0
  22. Degoogling My Life (thefiringneuron.com)
    128 points 193
  23. Ask HN: Which emails do you find most difficult to write?

    As a side project, I am starting a webpage that will provide pre-written email templates for a small $ amount. Which emails do you have difficulty writing, and would really appreciate having access to a mostly-written…

    1 points 0
  24. The Sacklers’ group chat of pain (the.ink)
    2 points 1
  25. Grave doubts over LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves (newscientist.com)
    1 points 0