Hacker News with Generative AI: Longevity

Great Whales Can Live a Lot Longer Than We Thought – If We Leave Them Alone (theguardian.com)
Bowhead whales may not be the only species that can live to 200 years old. Researchers have found that the industrial hunting of great whales has masked the ability of these underwater giants to also live to great ages

Marine Biology, Longevity, Conservation, Environmental Impact, Whales

4 points by m463 14 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time? (ycombinator.com)
3-4 years ago, several HN submissions of the Framework laptop got 1k-2k+ upvotes. I'd like to ask those of you who got the laptop: does it live up to the hype? Will it last you longer than any other laptop? Did any paint points emerge? If you had no laptop today, would you buy the Framework laptop again?

Hardware, Laptops, User Experience, Longevity

106 points by encroach 17 days ago | 82 comments

Scientists explore longevity drugs for dogs that could also 'extend human life' (theguardian.com)
Researchers say drugs may be able to increase lifespan by extending health and thus shortening the rate of ageing

Science, Longevity, Animals, Health, Aging

21 points by pseudolus 23 days ago | 2 comments

I Track My Health Data in Markdown: Lessons in Digital Longevity (ycombinator.com)
I’ve spent years tracking my sleep, diet, and exercise with apps and wearables. But here’s the problem: when an app gets discontinued or stops syncing, the data—and all the insights—disappear.

Health Data, Markdown, Data Storage, Longevity

17 points by biohackerking 34 days ago | 16 comments

Do people reach 100 by surviving, delaying, or avoiding diseases? (springer.com)
Centenarians are perceived as pioneers of longevity, possessing the secrets to surpassing age 100. It remains unclear whether they achieve this by surviving, delaying, or avoiding diseases to a greater extent than their shorter-lived peers.

Longevity, Health, Gerontology, Disease, Aging

22 points by therabbithole 37 days ago | 13 comments

Want to Live Longer? You Better Start Moving–All Day Long (outsideonline.com)
Scientists crunched the numbers to come up with the single best predictor of how long you’ll live—and arrived at a surprisingly low-tech answer

Health, Longevity, Exercise, Science

4 points by thehoff 45 days ago | 0 comments

‘With brain preservation, nobody has to die’ (theguardian.com)
A brilliant young scientist believes that if we preserve our brains, they could be revived in the future, helping us live for centuries

Brain Preservation, Longevity, Science

118 points by bookofjoe 46 days ago | 476 comments

Live longer -Adults need at min. 150 to 300 minutes of moderate aerobic activity (cnn.com)

Health, Exercise, Longevity

42 points by priyankanath 62 days ago | 31 comments

Is NAD your best shot at longevity? (ft.com)
In the top compartment of my fridge, next to a slightly shrivelled garlic bulb, is a vial of clear liquid. Should I pluck up the courage to inject myself in the stomach every other day, it will reportedly reverse the ageing of my cells, return my metabolism to that of a 20-year-old, improve brain fog and fill me with energy. Oh, and maybe tackle my crow’s feet.

Longevity, Health, Science, Anti-Aging

19 points by bookofjoe 66 days ago | 4 comments

Scientists can tweak one gene to extend lifespans by up to 30% (bgr.com)
Researchers have identified a particular cellular protein that affects aging. They’ve also managed to tweak this gene to produce it in fruit flies, extending their lives by up to 30 percent. The hope is that this discovery could further efforts to slow human aging and extend our lifespans.

Aging, Genetics, Longevity, Biology, Science

7 points by aard 72 days ago | 2 comments

114-year-old woman is now believed to be oldest living person in North America (apnews.com)
A 114-year-old Pennsylvania woman is now believed to be the oldest living person in North America.

Supercentenarians, North America, Pennsylvania, Records, Longevity

9 points by geox 80 days ago | 0 comments

Rapamycin and Anti-Aging: What to Know (nytimes.com)
In March, Robert Berger, 69, a self-proclaimed “better-living-through-chemistry type of person,” started taking a small dose of rapamycin once a week with the goal of increasing his “health span” — the amount of time he might live without serious disease.

Health, Anti-Aging, Medicine, Longevity

6 points by bookofjoe 84 days ago | 2 comments

Woman, 82, still rides same bike she was given at 13 (telegraph.co.uk)
An 82-year-old Dutch woman is still riding the same bicycle she was given nearly seven decades ago when she was 13.

Life Stories, Longevity, Bicycles

120 points by tcfhgj 91 days ago | 164 comments

Building the hundred-year web service with Htmx (youtube.com)

Web Development, Longevity, Htmx, Web Services

6 points by todsacerdoti 96 days ago | 0 comments

Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why (nature.com)
Cutting calorie intake can lead to a leaner body — and a longer life, an effect often chalked up to the weight loss and metabolic changes caused by consuming less food. Now, one of the biggest studies1 of dietary restrictions ever conducted in laboratory animals challenges the conventional wisdom about how dietary restriction boosts longevity.

Health, Science, Research, Longevity, Mice

219 points by XzetaU8 97 days ago | 162 comments

Why everything you think about living to 100 might be wrong (theguardian.com)
While healthy eating and regular workouts are certainly good for us, many scientists now believe that genes rather than lifestyle are the determining factor in how long we live

Health, Longevity, Genetics, Science

19 points by incompatible 97 days ago | 0 comments

Dietary restriction impacts health and lifespan of genetically diverse mice (nature.com)
Caloric restriction (CR) delays the onset of age-related diseases and extends lifespan in multiple species1.

Science, Longevity, Genetics, Mice, Health

17 points by mlhpdx 100 days ago | 1 comments

Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why (nature.com)
Cutting calorie intake can lead to a leaner body — and a longer life, an effect often chalked up to the weight loss and metabolic changes caused by consuming less food.

Health, Longevity, Diet, Animal Studies, Science

8 points by pseudolus 100 days ago | 0 comments

Regardless of age, quitting cigarette smoking will add years to your life (newatlas.com)
A new study has found that, whether you do it at 35 or 75, quitting cigarette smoking will add years to your life.

Health, Smoking, Longevity

29 points by yusufaytas 101 days ago | 48 comments

Implausibility of life extension in humans in the twenty-first century (nature.com)
Over the course of the twentieth century, human life expectancy at birth rose in high-income nations by approximately 30 years, largely driven by advances in public health and medicine.

Life Expectancy, Health, Science, Longevity

9 points by rntn 103 days ago | 3 comments

Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years? (2021) (ploum.net)
Could we build a computer designed to last at least fifty years?

Computer Hardware, Technology, Sustainability, Longevity

152 points by andai 103 days ago | 127 comments

New research says "blue zones" can be explained by flawed data (independent.co.uk)
They were supposed to be real-life fountains of youth. In March 2000 the term “Blue Zone” was first used to describe Sardinia, an Italian island that appeared to be home to a statistically improbable number of people living past the age of 100.

Science, Longevity, Data Analysis, Health, Demographics

245 points by cpncrunch 106 days ago | 178 comments

Sam Altman invested $180M into a company trying to delay death (technologyreview.com)
Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out.

Biotechnology, Longevity, Investments, Venture Capital

5 points by olalonde 114 days ago | 0 comments

Why I still blog after 15 years (jonashietala.se)
Time flies when you’re having fun.

Blogging, Personal Experiences, Longevity, Time Management

493 points by lawn 115 days ago | 226 comments

No Data Lasts Forever (lilysthings.org)
No matter what you do, no data will last forever. You hard drive will fail. Your backup drives will fail. Tech companies will go under and sell off their assets. Optical Discs will rot. Books will decompose. Even if none of these things happen, a natural or manmade disaster could come by and destroy it all anyway.

Data Storage, Digital Preservation, Longevity

31 points by todsacerdoti 117 days ago | 14 comments

Demographer's work debunking regions of exceptional lifespan wins Ig Nobel Prize (ucl.ac.uk)
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the data about the world’s oldest people and patterns of extreme longevity.

Demography, Science, Awards, Research, Longevity

45 points by _qua 120 days ago | 7 comments

"Blue Zones" exhibit patterns indicative of pension fraud (biorxiv.org)
The observation of individuals attaining remarkable ages, and their concentration into geographic sub-regions or ‘blue zones’, has generated considerable scientific interest.

Science, Longevity, Fraud

65 points by cwwc 125 days ago | 7 comments

My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures (louwrentius.com)
My 4U 71 TiB ZFS NAS built with twenty-four 4 TB drives is over 10 years old and still going strong.

NAS, Hardware, Storage, Data Storage, Longevity

419 points by louwrentius 126 days ago | 299 comments

Slashing calories: Can it lengthen your life? (2003) (seattletimes.com)

Health, Nutrition, Longevity

4 points by paulpauper 137 days ago | 1 comments

The Blue Zone Distraction (cremieux.xyz)

Health, Longevity, Lifestyle

4 points by paulpauper 141 days ago | 0 comments