news, !paper 2026-08-15

629 AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them / davidepiffer.com / 505

623 Asus Bike Booster / asus.com / 447

500 Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk / alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com / 397

455 Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel / sankalp.bearblog.dev / 93

449 Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter / severe-weather.eu / 368

393 RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better / dmitry.gr / 451

390 The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist / conic.al / 189

339 Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI / acc.org / 322

336 Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding / allen.bargi.org / 202

317 Software Engineering fundamentals matter more / rhonabwy.com / 241

297 At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis / smithsonianmag.com / 128

280 A spectre is haunting Unicode / dampfkraft.com / 122

276 Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) / henrikkarlsson.xyz / 65

241 Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum / baselashraf81.github.io / 103

200 The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves / linebender.org / 43

197 A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms / nature.com / 85

186 AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward / science.org / 92

175 Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history / horn.gg / 115

169 LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models / huggingface.co / 40

141 The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake / core77.com / 62

136 Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations / chenxiachan.github.io / 63

134 The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts / 404media.co / 85

128 I Remain a Skeptic / blog.jsbarretto.com / 128

126 Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737 / wired.com / 103

123 Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug / michael.stapelberg.ch / 38

121 Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves / bbc.com / 137

118 Cloudflare's AI Psychosis / opensauce.it / 101

114 Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018) / tinkerings.org / 31

103 Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II / uecker.codeberg.page / 47

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