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pixel_popping··on Is BPC-157 legal in 2026? What the FDA found
It's a great drug, I've used it extensively back in 2012-2014 (stacked with TB500) subq, no side effects for me, but fixed numerous accumulated issues in shoulders and arms.
pixel_popping··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
It wouldn't be so bad tbh, would avoid all the leaks and regrets that comes with it. In term of awareness, I would say that a late teen is fully aware of his/her actions but might not calculate consequences properly.
pixel_popping··on Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
They can't consent but it does make sense that it's true, I would genuinely bet that more nudes are being shared between 17-year olds than some freak, as this is common to the point where I feel a very large portion of all existing teens have done it.
pixel_popping··on Gemini 3.6 Flash
Where it will end up anyway.
pixel_popping··on 5 Cups of coffee per day (up to 400 mg of caffeine/day) is safe for most adults
With Fable 5 that did a websearch, specific drinks do have a bit lower content than Energy drinks yes, but most have a higher content, and if we are talking about Redbulls, then virtually every Starbucks drink is higher:

1 Monster = "Big can" (16 oz)

Size-by-Size Comparison ~8–10 oz (Small / Short)

Starbucks Short Pike Place 180 mg ≈ 1.1 Monsters

Starbucks Short Blonde 180 mg ≈ 1.1 Monsters

Starbucks Short Latte/Cappuccino 75 mg ≈ 0.5 Monster

Dunkin’ Small Original 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

McCafé Small Coffee 109 mg ≈ 0.7 Monster

Peet’s Small Brewed 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Monster (for scale) 160 mg = 1.0

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~12 oz (Tall / Medium-small)

Starbucks Tall Blonde 270 mg ≈ 1.7 Monsters

Starbucks Tall Pike Place 260 mg ≈ 1.6 Monsters

Starbucks Tall Cold Brew 155 mg ≈ 1.0 Monster

Starbucks Tall Americano 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Starbucks Tall Latte 75 mg ≈ 0.5 Monster

Dunkin’ Small–Med iced/coffee 150–210 ≈ 0.9–1.3

McCafé Medium Coffee 145 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Costa Medio coffee ~280 mg ≈ 1.75 Monsters

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~16 oz (Grande / Medium)

Starbucks Grande Blonde 360 mg ≈ 2.25 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Pike Place 310 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Cold Brew 205 mg ≈ 1.3 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Nitro Cold Brew 280 mg ≈ 1.75 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Americano 225 mg ≈ 1.4 Monsters

Starbucks Grande Latte 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Dunkin’ Medium Original 210 mg ≈ 1.3 Monsters

Dunkin’ Medium Cold Brew 260 mg ≈ 1.6 Monsters

McCafé Large Coffee 180 mg ≈ 1.1 Monsters

Peet’s Medium Brewed 240–270 ≈ 1.5–1.7

Tim Hortons Large ~270 mg ≈ 1.7 Monsters

Monster 16 oz 160 mg = 1.0

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~20–24 oz (Venti / Large / XL)

Starbucks Venti Blonde (hot 20 oz) 475 mg ≈ 3.0 Monsters

Starbucks Venti Pike Place (20 oz) 410 mg ≈ 2.6 Monsters

Starbucks Venti Cold Brew (24 oz) 310 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters

Starbucks Venti Americano (20 oz) 300 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters

Starbucks Venti Latte (20 oz) 150 mg ≈ 0.9 Monster

Dunkin’ Large Original 300 mg ≈ 1.9 Monsters

Dunkin’ Large Cold Brew 347 mg ≈ 2.2 Monsters

Dunkin’ XL (24 oz) 360 mg ≈ 2.25 Monsters

Costa Massimo 350–400+ ≈ 2.2–2.5

Monster 24 oz 240 mg = 1.5

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pixel_popping··on Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)
I'm not religious but I'd still consider it a spiritual experience, when you land a "breakthrough" and see the world interconnecting, end-up in the "pixel" (we are one), it's clearly something that we can't experience without substance, to me it feels very spiritual in the sense that it's showing you a very different understanding of the world where you can't even describe it with words.

To have a breakthrough, you need to be very focused on that said goal, I advise closed eyes, headset on, perfect temperature, perfect comfort, whole playlist curated and completely let-go until you reach the absolute "void" and then keep going even if you are scared, then you'll reach the point where you completely disconnect with reality and basically just "die", then you'll have some sort of "orgasm" where you simultaneously laugh and cry and so-on and see the world very strangely, interconnected, it's one of the most profound experience an individual can have imo. It's difficult and often can't be done during the first few trips. You need to completely "surrender".

PS: I know, sounds insane said that way, I'm a very logical and rational person but still can acknowledge that something is quite magical in a way we don't quite yet understand.

pixel_popping··on 5 Cups of coffee per day (up to 400 mg of caffeine/day) is safe for most adults
It's not high, as per the same article, drinking 2 of those a day would be fine right? The ones you've listed also are always the big cans (for most) which to be a fair comparison with commercial coffees would also be large jugs.

The comparison isn't versus Soda which are considered not caffeinated by most people but against regular coffees, commercial coffees specifically (as home-made energy drinks are relatively healthy, similar to home made coffees).

Now pull the average Starbucks coffee list, it's likely higher in average.

pixel_popping··on 5 Cups of coffee per day (up to 400 mg of caffeine/day) is safe for most adults
> However, higher amounts of caffeine, such as levels found in energy drinks including energy shots, may increase the risk of high blood pressure and/or irregular heart rhythm or arrhythmia.

Energy drinks don't have much caffeine in them, way lower than almost any drink at Starbucks and so-on, it's exhausting to see this myth continuing especially when it's websites specialized in Health, I'm not saying energy drinks are healthy, but it's time to stop saying they are "high caffeine, high whatever" because it's not the case, except the ones that are made to be hardcore but those are rare. For the majority of them, they are just a soda, with caffeine.

pixel_popping··on Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
So you are against a child learning by himself with a book?
pixel_popping··on Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)
You might want to consider retrying it in a "spiritual/meditative setting", i.e cozy with headset on, music pre-curated (nothing off-tune and so-on) and closed eyes then get lost to eventually breakthrough, strictly only with people you deeply trust.
pixel_popping··on Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)
Absolutely, Set and setting is critical while using psychs, ensure that no random events can happen, cut off all phones, doorbell and anything that can make abrupt noises to not derail you. Do not do it if you don't feel like it that day, or if the weather is unpredictable.
pixel_popping··on A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology
and depending who is the initial maker, might turn out to be a bad model.
pixel_popping··on Ask HN: How can I publish a paid app to Google Play without giving up my privacy
It's not because Play Store do this by default that it's "right", it is wrong to not be able to conceal identity but we might not agree. Btw, even for corporation, it does not have to be a legal person either, it's typical to have another corporation being the director and/or shareholder (often offshore) which can have a nominee director/shareholder on top, all legal.

You can absolutely incorporate in the US without exposing your name to the registries.

Putting your address online publicly FOREVER is straight reckless, that Play Store forces you or not.

pixel_popping··on Ask HN: How can I publish a paid app to Google Play without giving up my privacy
You said that it's dishonest to sell something without identifying yourself, which isn't.
pixel_popping··on Ask HN: How can I publish a paid app to Google Play without giving up my privacy
It's not dishonest to hide your identity online at all, why do you think there is many ways to setup a company legally and hide director, ownership, shareholders? Hiding identity doesn't mean being anonymous, we have a concept of a UBO for a reason.

Exposing your name and particularly your address publicly is just plain stupid in most scenarios, virtually zero point in doing so.

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Papa?
pixel_popping··on A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology
it's a new model, human-sol-ultra, highly advisable to use in loops.
pixel_popping··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
.is is a very resilient TLD indeed, and it's well known in some communities.
pixel_popping··on Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
not true, Claude code on its own often create artifacts and straight up upload private stuff to Anthropic, without asking for it.
pixel_popping··on Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number
Why do people even need a Google account? There is a ton of alternatives that are privacy respecting. If you need throwaway accounts, you buy them, that's <$1 (For example for Youtube usage), you wouldn't want to link every videos you've watched in your life with your real identity, that seems reckless, at least to me, virtually no point of using your "real account" with those use cases.
pixel_popping··on Modern decor may be straining people's brains
In case you own the website:

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You don't have permission to access this resource. From Singapore.

pixel_popping··on New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
I doubt so, I think a large amount of serious companies do it as well because it's a very simple way to earn much more money (and strangely improve the service), many businesses (even "good") often rely solely on this, Gym businesses is the typical example of this and many gyms will just not be able to make money at all if people actually used their membership correctly, literally space-wise, it can't fit, many businesses are entirely based on "failure", however, we can acknowledge that some Gyms are exceptional in quality, but will still bank on the fact that the user will just stop going, ideally as soon as possible.

I'm not saying it's right, but the reality is that probably half the gyms would close immediately if this is enforced.

pixel_popping··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
I understand that you want Russia to have access to it without interruption but until there is some sort of "International law" regarding those newer ways of providing Internet, politics will win.
pixel_popping··on GPT-5.6-Sol just accidentally deleted almost ALL of my Mac's files
Clearly, additionally, there is many ways to secure this, and Fable could clearly do the same mistake.
pixel_popping··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
What are you even talking about? The last few years, AI has made an insanely big jump in capabilities, performance, accuracy. It destroyed the carrier of a ton of writers and can generate images that are good enough to bamboozle people into thinking it's human made, that sounds like an insanely big leap to me, and yes it can be very creative and in music as well, I would bet it beats already 90% of musicians (most musicians are not that competent).
pixel_popping··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
We aren't even living in the US :p - little harmless hallucination from model.

PS: Those animals are from her collection of plush toys which I've individually put as a Sprite for AI usage, I got about 50 plush toys (1 a week in average), mostly used to benchmark her to see if she can recognize the animals from the books she is reading, and she does, all of them, it's a very useful purchase.

pixel_popping··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
Just run a loop with another agent that watch the transcript and trigger tool to refocus on the main agent or re-run agent entirely with follow up prompt not visible to the user so it gradually goes back to the right topic.
pixel_popping··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
If I may, the argument of "screen" isn't necessarily the right one, the right way might not be the only right way, I have an almost 2-year old daughter and I've bought an e-ink (colored) tablet to show her family pictures, stories and so-on (very sparingly, maybe about 15min a day), we also generate books with images and short stories about what went during this week with the pictures we have and apply a child style to it, and it has been really great so far. It's not about "paper", it's about the software itself and the hardware not being toxic/addictive. In my side, she has a whole library in her playpen with already about 30 books (multiple languages), I would never put her on Youtube or anything like it, but carefully curating the content and showing it on eink, I see absolutely no problem.

Example of page we generate (average "book" has 4-8 pages like this): https://ibb.co/Ld9mp10v

She loves it, she is engaged into it, this is from an LLM, I don't see the problem with it, I also don't see how it's a problem to generate LLM-made written stories as well, they can be great, personalized and better in many scenarios than random books. I will definitely build learning materials entirely made by AI as well.

Now regarding this project, I feel it's indeed quite dangerous, but I feel as a complementary learning thing, it could be great, for example post-school, 30min of this daily to consolidate learning might be beneficial, I will do so at quite a young age, but with my own softwares & devices of course, not that.

pixel_popping··on Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease
Agreed, but many drugs have a direct effect, not subtle and it's pretty much immediate to know, let say a user try that new sub-q injectable from a shady forum that discuss X compound that is supposed to cure acne, then follow protocols from other users, then do their report, often with photos, it's useful even if it's not standard, as you have a clear picture of before/after usage of that drug (it's probably fair to say that the acne clearing is that isn't placebo effect), it's useful even after a drug is authorized on the market as well as it gives additional user reports of efficiency. Realistically, some data is better than none.

Saying that wouldn't be useful is kinda like saying HN/Reddit isn't useful because it's all anecdotal, that applies to almost all topics in life.

Lastly, let's not pretend that most doctors do actually follow properly a patient blood before/during/after a course of a drug, in most cases, doctor will just ask How did it go, any side effects?... That's a new "data" for the doc, all anecdotal, almost the same value as a "trusted" rando on Reddit.

pixel_popping··on Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease
Why not? How does a report of someone taking X drug and doing bloodwork every week and posting it for everyone to see is nothing?
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