#decide

Major trial challenges how doctors decide who really needs statins

A study of nearly 5,800 adults found that heart scans measuring calcium buildup in the arteries led to the same observed rate of major cardiovascular events as traditional risk assessments, despite recommending statins to far fewer patients. Surprisingly, patients advised to take statins based on their scans were nearly three times as likely to stick with their medication, raising intriguing questions about how doctors should identify and treat heart disease risk.

ScienceDaily · EN

Show HN: OOO - YT, but you decide what gets recommended

Hi HN! I recently saw HackerTube, which Andrej Karpathy posted here, and really liked it. Instead of YouTube’s algorithm, it uses videos recommended on HN as the pool. Using it, I liked that I only watched and got recommended actually worthwhile videos, not clickbait Shorts or sensational stuff that makes me curious about things I never cared about. But it’s limited to videos that got posted on HN, so I built a new service called OOO. Like HackerTube, videos play in an iframe. The difference is that users can upload their own collections, and when you subscribe to collections, only those becom

Show HN · EN

How bosses and enemies decide what to do in video games

A beginner’s guide to how enemy AI works in video games: states, senses, telegraphed attacks, and boss phases, plus how designers keep enemies fair and fun.

Unity Blog · EN