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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (01:42) - Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (02:53) - RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (04:08) - Asus Bike Booster (05:12) - At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (06:22) - Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (07:22) - A spectre is haunting Unicode (08:42) - Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (09:57) - Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (11:13) - AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (12:24) - Outro AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brainhttps://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicianshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312845Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia riskhttps://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311651RISC-V: They Should Have Known Betterhttps://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RVhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298035Asus Bike Boosterhttps://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268580At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosishttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-diagnosis-180989235/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310682Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMIhttps://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314403A spectre is haunting Unicodehttps://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310926Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winterhttps://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-fall-winter-2026-2027-forecast-impact-united-states-canada-europe-fa/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313428Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forwardhttps://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-reallyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.