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• Hacker News1Libghostty 1.0libghostty-vt 1.0 is released as a stable, portable C library for terminal emulation extracted from Ghostty, with a committed ABI stability policy, separate release cycle, and packaging tooling. It already powers JetBrains IDE terminals (12.5M+ users), Neovim's pending PR, and many other products and bindings.Rex and Ghostty positioning:Commenters debate whether Rex will replace Ghostty. Ghostty is seen as a technical demo for libghostty, while Rex may become a paid product adding server, agent integration, and session persistence.Libghostty as an embeddable terminal engine:Users praise libghostty for letting developers build terminals in IDEs, Emacs, and agent tools with less work. It separates the objective terminal engine from subjective UI features.Ghostty versus iTerm2 and kitty:Users defend iTerm2 for tmux integration, vertical tabs, and font rendering. Others switched to Ghostty or kitty to avoid intrusive updates and for better performance.
• Reddit science1Scientists found a way to help the brain wash out waste while we're awake, which it mostly does while we sleep: a short-acting blood pressure drug plus whole-body vibration. In 29 healthy adults, Alzheimer's-linked proteins like beta-amyloid rose in the blood, a sign they were cleared from the brainUniversity of Oulu researchers developed a vasomechanical treatment combining blood pressure-lowering medication with whole-body vibration that boosts the brain's natural waste clearance while awake. In a study of 29 healthy adults, harmful proteins such as beta-amyloid were cleared more efficiently, offering potential for preventing dementia-related diseases.Sleep deprivation and worker exploitation:Many fear the treatment could be used to cut workers' sleep and boost productivity, citing capitalism and history showing efficiency gains favor employers. Others note it could help parents and people hurt by noisy neighbors.Doubts about amyloid plaques as the cause:Commenters debate whether amyloid plaques cause Alzheimer's or merely reflect it, citing a fabricated 2006 Nature study and past drug failures. Key question: does plaque removal improve cognition?Hope from people with sleep and health problems:People with sleep apnea, insomnia, fibromyalgia, or worries about cognitive decline say they hope the approach helps them. Some note the vibration device costs about 3,000 euros, prompting DIY ideas.
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