Basically hyperventilation + long breath holds. Probably similar to what free divers do without the mammalian dive reflex due to the cold water. Or like a dangerous game kids used to do when I was in school where you hyperventilate and then have someone press on your chest until you pass out.

But anyway, I'm not sure if the science would back it up, but Wim Hof describes it as over oxygenating the blood and then stopping and letting CO2 ramp up or something. Whether it is significantly dropping the CO2 or increasing oxygen during the hyperventilation phase, isn't it kind of the same thing? Adjusting the ratio.

Anecdotally, when I was doing it regularly I seemed to not get sick at all.

I grew up in the 90s and didn't even fully understand what it was, but I remember the fear around it. I remember people in Ireland worrying about Sellafield nuclear power plant in the UK and talking about things like wind direction if there was an incident. And the government posting out iodine tablets to homes.

The title is unfortunate, and doesn't really reflect the book IMO.

It sounds like a seedy way to manipulate people and get what you want.

I think a more appropriate title would be "Treat people with kindness and decency and your life will probably be better as a result." Or "A manual for interacting with fellow humans".

I need to reread it actually.

Edit: It has been decades since I read it, but that is my recollection of it at least.

https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues...

https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues...

This is HUGE news, I would have skimmed over "Copy Fail".

The blog post might be a better place to link to also, it has more details on the exploit.

https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions

There are also some good threads on which distros are vulnerable and mitigations on the github page.

https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues

> I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in

> And stops my mind from wandering

> Where it will go

You can't buy antihistamines either, only in pharmacies and they are quite expensive. I remember you could get them in Tesco or Asda for like £2.

For ibuprofen you need to go to a pharmacy.

Not as convenient for unit tests cause you have to run the test with LD_PRELOAD.

These are just frequencies of light, but the subjective experience of them is so much more.

And the whole thing of my perception of "red" or what I call "red" could be very different to someone else's subjective perception. But we would both call it red and associate it with the same thing, fire, love, heat, danger etc.

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using...

It has a mermaid WYSIWYG editor and once the diagram is inserted you can edit it, move objects, add text just like you had drawn it directly in excalidraw.

I usually enter mermaid and then move things around to my liking rather than drawing from scratch.

You can also paste csv in, it's been a while since I've done it but I think it even generates a chart.

Calibre web support, opds catalogue, wallabag, ssh. And it supports so many file formats.

I'd imagine the built in reader has improved a lot over the years, but at the time reading technical pdfs on it was not feasible. KOReader allowed me to rotate to landscape and reflow the pdf text.

I almost got the Clara BW for Christmas, I thought my Clara HD was dead, wasn't sure if it was the battery or screen but it was failing to properly clear and update the screen. Someone actually bought the BW for me but I ended up returning it after I managed to recover the Clara HD.

I was kind of looking forward to the waterproofing, but seems my old one is not yet ready to give up.

I've had my Kobo Clara HD for almost 8 years and I still use it daily with KOReader. It's so easy to install KOReader and it's really repairable. I replaced the SD card at one point, and another time I thought it was broken or needed a new battery but came back to life after reseating cables.

Before that I had a kindle and you had to jump through a lot of hoops to install KOreader, and I remember you had to be careful not to upgrade the firmware so it could be jailbroken.

Like I said I've had the Kobo for 8 years, so I hope this is still the case.

Really in the spirit of "hacker" news IMO.

I get the motivation, it's less avoiding the 1.50 per month and more like a challenge to work around it!