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Hmm no there's no little evidence to support the body getting used to external melatonin and not making its own in response


On the plus side, LLM slop like this in readmes are a great indicator that you can just close the tab and carry on with life - nothing of value lost


+1. I think there's an interesting idea here but an AI slop writeup on an AI slop website is very tiring


I think it's a bit different in this case. There are plenty of modern synthesisers, from Korg and others

This is intended to be a faithful recreation of a classic synth, for collectors / rich enthusiasts


This is awful, but why is this on hacker news


It's a great demonstration of how public health communication fails: the most important part is at the tail of the article, below two advertisements, and it's about as obscure as one could write it:

Any direct human contact with a bat is an indication for rabies postexposure prophylaxi - medical treatment given immediately after potential exposure to a rabid animal.

The article should have also recommended they safely isolate the animal to have it tested for rabies.


To raise awareness?


> Now an international team, led by Flinders University, have found that in a small number of people, the immune system can accidentally confuse a normal adenovirus protein with a human blood protein termed platelet factor 4 (or PF4).

Seems to have been a legitimate, very rare, side effect

https://www.flinders.edu.au/research/articles/covid-vaccine-...


It's worth clarifying that the adenovirus-based (viral vector) vaccines that article is discussing were a completely different technology from the mRNA vaccines.


The mRNA vaccines also had a cloth problem (as in, it was extremely rare), that practically disappeared with a change on the application procedure.


Can you elaborate? What was the change?


I am quite curious too. I had heard that, despite arm vascular being very consistent among individuals, it does still vary. And I think for most vaccines I guess it doesn't matter if you hit something other than muscle. Maybe for the mRNA vaccines it does matter? I'm baselessly speculating though. Wish other person hadn't been so vague.


Not 100% sure but I think it was this: Never inject into a vein. Always inject into a muscle.


In an intramuscular injection this is always tested by the nurse and this complication is far rarer than a nerve injury by the syringe. But in billions of cases anything can happen.


Yes, they mandated a test to check if it was being injected into a vein.


Pretty common test as well, pull the plunger back on the syringe if blood comes up you hit a vein.

A lot of drugs have this test, particularly drugs that should be injected in fat or muscle.


This is a really great watch from Benn Jordan on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

Some wild things happening with those, and infrasound. Colossus is shown 4 mins in



The debunk is extremely sketchy on many points.

https://www.bearlythinking.com/p/andy-masley-doesnt-understa...


That post is mentioned at the bottom of what I linked.

He has a full post response here: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/to-be-clear-i-do-understand-ho...


Interesting, I read this series of posts and as someone who does not have a dog in this fight but does have a more than passing background in both audio engineering and datacenter engineering, the response Masley gives here to the very first criticism is fundamentally incorrect. I haven't read the rest of this, but his claim about sound intensity what it would imply about energy is on its face untrue.

When you take a measurement of a sound, you are measuring both its pressure and its intensity, that is what is implied by a measurement in decibels. The measurement is taken from the point of the measurement device/listener in relation to the source/generator. If the measured value is potentially harmful, there is no such implication about needing to redirect additional energy to make it harmful, it's already been measured as potentially harmful at the point of measurement.

It's basically nonsense. My most charitable interpretation of his very first responsive argument is he's saying that a datacenter would need to intentionally direct energy towards increasing the intensity of its sound output to make Jordan's original measurements meaningful. That's neither how measurement works, nor how sound works, nor even how datacenters work. Things like sound and heat are BYPRODUCTS and not the point of the datacenter, both have an intensity, and that intensity is measurable, and any energy which is expended towards that intensity is energy that was wasted away from doing computations.

I stopped reading after this. I don't know if Masley is out of his element or just practicing motivated reasoning and thinks his readers are stupid. Either way, his rebuttal already failed on the first point.


How i know Masley is trash:

> Jordan is suspiciously lurching to the extremely high energy end of the light spectrum when we know that the low energy end (comparable to infrasound) doesn’t have negative impacts on us if we can’t detect its presence.

Masley spouts the falsifiable propaganda that any photon (light/emf) below ionizing radiation energy can only cause “heat” and can have no other possible harm effects.

Many science-minded people (though more accurately in this case, billiard-world materialists) have become quite militant defenders of this idea (ostensibly fighting off the hoardes of tinfoil hatters and quantum aquarians sensitive to 5g).

This point is very plausible military industrial propaganda. There were numerous studies with evidence (starting from the 60s) such as - non ionizing radiation (eg hv powerlines) might cause lots of cancer, and it’s weaponized (sub-thermal) usage can microwave the brains of enemy spies. THOSE studies have come out in declassified and leaked docs.

Now we have several plausible and serious theories of mechanism for low-f light disrupting biology that lean into quantum biology. While the iceberg of quantum biology understanding is still in its early decades, the mounting downstream evidence of health and medical issues are established public knowledge.


Canvas is not Canva. Is this a bot reply


Interesting - Claude immediately refuses

     API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request, which appears
     to violate our Usage Policy (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup). Please
     double press esc to edit your last message or start a new session for
     Claude Code to assist with a different task. If you are seeing this refusal
     epeatedly, try running /model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 to switch models.


Opus 4.7 I assume? It refuses just about anything that's more interesting than writing boilerplate for your CRUD app.


Curious: which model, challenge and language? (also, have you tried --dangerously-skip-permissions)


I tested with Gemma4 and it sent it into an endless loop.


Hopefully not a security incident


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