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SEEKING WORK - Designer/Front-end Engineer - Remote Location: Bangalore, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: HTML/CSS/JS, Node, WordPress, Figma, Adobe Photosho…

When drugs targeting the gut have effects in the brain, serotonin receptors are usually involved and it's 5-HT4 this time. Taking carbidopa (or benserazide, another peripheral deca…

SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com Email: vijay@dffrnt.com Experience: 15 years Branding & identity designer, full-stack web developer focused on help…

SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com Email: vijay@dffrnt.com Experience: 14+ years Branding & identity designer, full-stack web developer focused on hel…

I rolled out my own Firefox/Chrome web extension to tweak the native UI. Nothing drastic, just a gentle tweak of the CSS. Screenshots: https://twitter.com/vjk2005/status/1343664202…

I have a private HN client that does this and more but I don't want to release it and destroy what we have here. I've gone a step further and removed username display next to comme…

Only some of them are on a daily schedule so actual pill count/day is low. Niacin (vitamin B3) for example leads to diabetes and liver damage when taken upwards of 4g/day. So I tak…

No condition and no medical diagnosis. For the past few years I've been afflicted by periods of existential crisis and L-DOPA short circuits this. Much better mood, focus and most …

Vitamins (B-K) + calcium + fish and cod liver oil: several years. L-citrulline, zinc: 2+ years. Ashwagandha, Boswellia: slightly more than a year. L-DOPA, niacin, L-taurine: a few …

It's been a few months now. L-DOPA tolerance is dose-dependant, term-dependent as well as drug-dependant. After looking for ways to work around this, I found L-DOPA from Mucuna pru…

Supplements, especially L-DOPA (amazing mood improvement and libido boost), L-citrulline (libido and energy boost) and niacin. There are other supplements¹ in my stack but these th…

SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com Email: vijay@dffrnt.com Experience: 14 years Branding & identity designer, full-stack web developer focused on help…

• Magnetism. There are plenty of videos out there calling it the result of a relativistic charge imbalance. But I've never been able to use this point-of-view to practical use case…

SEEKING WORK • INDIA • REMOTE OKAY Portfolio: https://dffrnt.com Email: vijay@dffrnt.com Experience: 14 years Branding and Identity designer for startups. From logos and collateral…

This was a compelling read on the buyback issue from earlier this year: https://hbr.org/2020/01/why-stock-buybacks-are-dangerous-for...

SEEKING WORK — Remote okay I’m Vijay, full-stack designer and developer from South India, freelancing at https://dffrnt.com . Designed the award-winning branding for io.js, which e…

I'd buy Tesla Powerwalls¹ and charge 'em up. One of them can store upto 13.5 kWh of energy and going by your comment below (190 kWh/30 days = 6.3 kWh/day, which seems in line with …

Perhaps a real-time version of this can be embedded into the diving goggles(AR) for murk-free dives.

yutru here; I ran into Raste earlier on EU CTF and was wondering how that happened... now I know : ) Thanks for making this post Jan, I hope it brings some of the old timers out of…

I assume you're talking about celiac disease? If you have already sought professional help I don't think there's anything new I can tell you besides the usual suspects like "grit y…

I want to call attention to the "oxidized" part of "oxidized LDL" as that's what makes LDL so dangerous. While pathologies of LDL and fat hog the limelight, it's important to keep …

This happened to me back in college when I was into NFS Underground which gave players points for swiping as close to oncoming cars as possible ("Near Miss"). After a few long and …

Tangential: I looked at other "Hacker News for X" sites and a lot of those links are now dead — https://hn.algolia.com/?query="hacker%20news%20for"&sort=byP... Only lobsters and Pr…

Something I remembered just now that was actually one of the reasons I was glad I stopped when I did: do be careful racing up and down the stairs in 20 seconds multiple times a day…

Swimming ticks all the right boxes for me but the nearest pool is a bit far from here and I wasn't sure about the quality of water and general upkeep. If those variables can be con…