Ask HN: What did you find that was awesome this week?

Mz · on Jan 29, 2011

I've been dog sick all week, apparently from iron toxicity. Why is this awesome? Because I was so anemic my entire life that I didn't get regular (monthly) periods until age 40. I took iron supplements for years and only stopped needing them a few months ago. As best I can figure, all this crazy alternative health stuff I do has fundamentally changed something in a big way. My best guess: All those years I took iron, I was absorbing it but not utilizing it efficiently. So I ended up high iron, probably while still anemic for a time. Now my body functions better and suddenly is wigging out over the iron overload. It's been kicking my ass. And I think it's the most amazing thing.

That's my awesome find this week.

(Prepares to regret this post. I should know better than to hang out online after a week like this week. :-/ Now onto the next thread. ;-) )

atgm · on Jan 29, 2011

Congratulations! Here's hoping for a great long-term change!

Mz · on Jan 29, 2011

Thanks. I've already seen lots of great long-term change. This is just a different order of magnitude than I expected after 10 years of this journey to wellness.

atgm · on Jan 29, 2011

Duck penises: http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/2010/01/friday_weird_scie...

I'm not kidding, either. Read the article -- it's pretty amazing how both male and female ducks have evolved to accommodate/discourage each other.

rdl · on Jan 30, 2011

The Asahi beer vending machines in Japan (which you put a glass into, and it tilts then pours then adds extra foam).

Also, interesting hacker types at the Quora party. Especially amusing watching Yishan (a former director of engineering at FB) riding a mechanical bull, then talking with someone about ksplice and kernel security.

_b8r0 · on Jan 30, 2011

I wrote my first 'proper' module for Immunity CANVAS this week. There's no real decent documentation so I had to pretty much reverse engineer it from scratch, and learnt heaps of python tricks (and faux pas) in the process.

Also I found out that what felt like I was having a heart attack was actually pericarditis. That doesn't sound awesome, but it's treatable and way better than the alternative.

anigbrowl · on Jan 29, 2011

72/80 is a good score if you're using a T-scale: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Normal_Distributi...

jcr · on Jan 29, 2011

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komlenic · on Jan 29, 2011

https://domize.com/

b0o · on Jan 29, 2011

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/sms-suicide-bomber/

this taught me much.

sz · on Jan 29, 2011

GHC has an API! http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/As_a_library

dholowiski · on Jan 29, 2011

A job!

bartonfink · on Jan 29, 2011

Two St. Bernard / Lab puppies at a puppy rescue.