Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey(science.org)

26 points by vishnugupta 2 years ago | 34 comments

Leonard Rome's lab discovered an odd component of cells in the 1980s: Vaults(science.org)

54 points by JPLeRouzic 2 years ago | 6 comments

NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders(science.org)

171 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 326 comments

Fluoxetine promotes metabolic defenses to protect from sepsis-induced lethality(science.org)

128 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 70 comments

Prevention of HIV(science.org)

605 points by etiam 2 years ago | 251 comments

A Science.org blog post about HIV prevention; the capture shows only a Cloudflare human-verification challenge.

The Anatomy of Brainwashing(science.org)

36 points by wjb3 2 years ago | 7 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf](cses.fi)

302 points by vinhnx 23 days ago | 79 comments

PDF of the Competitive Programmer's Handbook by Antti Laaksonen (July 2018 draft), a free book on algorithms for programming contests.

Now That's an Impurity Story(science.org)

36 points by dcminter 24 days ago | 2 comments

A Science.org blog post (likely Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline) about a chemical impurity story; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases(seangoedecke.com)

695 points by BerislavLopac 1 year ago | 307 comments

Blog post by Sean Goedecke on common mistakes engineers make when working in large, decade-old codebases with hundreds of contributors.

Things Every Hacker Once Knew (2017)(catb.org)

327 points by prakhar897 3 years ago | 172 comments

Eric S. Raymond's essay on obsolete computing lore once common among hackers, covering modems, RS232, octal, terminals, ASCII, and pre-Internet networks.

Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)(geoffreylitt.com)

552 points by mufty 2 years ago | 275 comments

A 2019 blog post by Geoffrey Litt arguing that browser extensions are underrated as a way for users to customize and modify the software they use.

Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week(latent.space)

848 points by swyx 3 years ago | 214 comments

Latent Space podcast episode with Replit's Reza Shabani about training Replit's open-source code LLM in one week and evaluating it.