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• Hacker News1Cloudflare acquires DenoThe Deno team is joining Cloudflare to build a shared server programming model with Workers and Durable Objects. Deno runtime gets a year of maintenance before development ends, Deno Deploy shuts down in six months with migration help, and JSR continues on Cloudflare.Deno runtime sunset buried in announcement:Users noted Deno development ends after one more year of maintenance, calling it the real headline and criticizing its absence from Cloudflare's post. Some say migrating off is easy, others feel burned and argue for sticking with Node or funding dependencies.Acquihire motives and celld merging into workerd:Commenters see an acquihire aimed at celld, Deno's self-hosted Workers/Durable Objects implementation. Some fear Cloudflare is killing a competitor; Cloudflare staff say celld ideas will merge into open-source workerd to improve self-hosting and reduce lock-in.VC funding, npm compatibility, and dev tool consolidation:Many say Deno lost its way by adopting npm compatibility under VC and Bun pressure, abandoning its clean break from Node. Others blame the lack of a business model, and a thread catalogs a wave of dev tool acquisitions like Bun, uv, Vite, and Astro by AI and cloud firms.
• Reddit science1Research shows doctors’ prescribing habits are heavily influenced by payments, gifts, and free meals from pharmaceutical companies, leading to more expensive, less appropriate and more drugs being prescribed.A Cochrane review of 93 studies finds pharmaceutical payments, gifts, and even free meals lead doctors to prescribe more, costlier, and less appropriate drugs, including opioids, with more meals meaning more prescriptions. Strict conflict-of-interest policies may improve prescribing.Industry practices used to be far worse:Many say pharma perks were far worse before the Sunshine Act and a 2004 industry code banned gifts, trips and pens. Meals and speaker fees persist. Critics wish the review had split pre- and post-reform data, and the opioid crisis is cited as the era's worst consequence.Education versus bribery:Some argue the influence comes less from bribery than from reps becoming doctors' main educators, and note newer drugs are often better. Others counter that subconscious influence through gifts and repetition is still harmful, and that doctors should know better.How widespread payments really are:A claim that most doctors take no pharma money met a JAMA stat that 57% received payments. Others replied that the median was under $100, mostly meals like a $25 sandwich, while a few get millions. Some urge patients to look up their prescribers online.
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