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merricksb··on World’s first drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638956

(252 points/1 day ago/69 comments)

merricksb··on Why has a useless cold medication been allowed on shelves for years?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499106 – The Uselessness of Phenylephrine (2022)/ 226 points/21 hours ago/323 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37485940 – Phenylephrine for colds and allergies don’t work, FDA panel says/57 points/1 day ago/37 comments

merricksb··on Human embryo models grown from stem cells
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37409283
merricksb··on Astro 3.0
Major discussion 23 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37108111

(167 points/129 comments)

merricksb··on Amazon CEO warns remote workers: ‘It’s probably not going to work out for you’
Discussed earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301728

(44 points/4 hours ago/88 comments)

merricksb··on We Don’t Need a New Twitter
Original article in The New Yorker discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37161347

merricksb··on A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in CFS/ME
Research paper on PNAS is paywalled. Article on science.org may be a better link:

https://www.science.org/content/article/protein-disrupts-cel...

merricksb··on Schizophrenia drugs may have been off target for decades, study finds
Same study discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057135

(50 points/3 days ago/51 comments)

merricksb··on Dasung to launch the world’s first color E-ink monitor
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36941942
merricksb··on Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
Earlier discussions:

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 (618 points/4 days ago/442 comments)

Google Chrome Proposal – Web Environment Integrity – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999 – (117 points/7 days ago/94 comments)

Web Environment Integrity Explainer – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785516 (87 points/6 days ago/44 comments)

merricksb··on Robotaxi haters in San Francisco are disabling the AVs with traffic cones
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36624172

merricksb··on FDIC accidentally reveals details about Silicon Valley Bank’s biggest customers
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36445278

(124 points | 1 day ago | 93 comments)

merricksb··on Rivian Adopts NACS and Access to Tesla’s Supercharger Network for Rivian Drivers
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36403494

merricksb··on Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
Other recent related submissions/discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34815391 - "Xerox copier flaw changes numbers in scanned docs (2013)" (theregister.com), 36 points, 3 months ago, 8 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32537073 - "JBIG2 Undetectable Data Corruption: Destroying Our Past, One Character at a Time" (circuitousroot.com), 67 points, 9 months ago, 34 comments

merricksb··on Reddit won’t budge on the API changes that are shutting down apps like Apollo
Earlier submission of original post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36261369

merricksb··on Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
Related:

Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192312 (411 points/10 hours ago/174 comments)

Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36179853 (361 points/1 day ago/254 comments)

How Reddit became the enemy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36177876 (172 points/1 day ago/154 comments)

Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36162235 (406 points/3 days ago/421 comments)

Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083 (1969 points/4 days ago/1310 comments)

merricksb··on 1000W 12V –> 220V Inverter
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hxjHTY...
merricksb··on A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn
Earlier submission about same statement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123082

merricksb··on ReactOS – A free Windows-compatible Operating System
Discussed several times on HN, including 4 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426198

(204 points/4 months ago/129 comments)

merricksb··on The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked
Previous discussion of original tinyapps blog post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993044

(238 points/7 days ago/151 comments)

merricksb··on Wild Lupine and Karner Blue Butterflies (1996) [pdf]
PDF was printed in 2007 but text is originally from this book, published in 1996:

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QdSfb9_fXssC&pg=RA4-PA7...

merricksb··on FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35814081

merricksb··on Shopify offloads logistics business to Flexport
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813763

merricksb··on Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly revenue estimates
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813763

merricksb··on Old smartphones should be usable as single board computers, just like this one
Original article already high on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35747379

(107 points/7 hours ago/51 comments)

merricksb··on Juice launch to Jupiter [video]
Earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35568388

merricksb··on DPReview is being shut down by Amazon today
Previous discussions:

DPReview Will Remain Available as an Archive After It Closes – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35394758 – 124 points|4 days ago|8 comments

DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’ – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35455797 – 208 points|6 days ago|123 comments

DPReview is being archived by the Archive Team – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35263635 – 478 points|20 days ago|71 comments

DPReview.com to close – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248296 – 845 points|21 days ago|369 comments

merricksb··on Where Do Stolen Bikes Go?
Big discussion about 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822281

(197 points | 51 days ago | 299 comments)

merricksb··on Chat with Open Large Language Models
Discussed two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35378683

merricksb··on John Deere urged to surrender source code under GPL
Big discussion of original article 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35183073

(438 points/2 days ago/114 comments)

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