Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It(nytimes.com)

83 points by gumby 27 days ago | 31 comments

A New York Times science article about the molluscum contagiosum virus that acquired a human gene; the capture shows a bot-block page instead.

Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth's Inner Core(nytimes.com)

71 points by Hooke 10 months ago | 14 comments

Some Like It Literary(nytimes.com)

21 points by samclemens 5 months ago | 3 comments

Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders(nytimes.com)

66 points by lordleft 9 months ago | 62 comments

A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous(nytimes.com)

212 points by JumpCrisscross 5 months ago | 152 comments

White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot's 5th Anniversary(nytimes.com)

19 points by throw0101c 9 months ago | 2 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs(discourse.haskell.org)

291 points by signa11 1 month ago | 307 comments

A Haskell Discourse forum post discussing how programmers can keep enjoying programming amid the rise of LLM coding tools and AI burnout.

With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits(quantamagazine.org)

496 points by LegionMammal978 2 years ago | 127 comments

Quanta Magazine article on how a collaborative team of amateur programmers proved the value of the fifth busy beaver number, BB(5).

Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays(buttondown.email)

325 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 271 comments

A Computer Things newsletter post by Hillel Wayne offering career advice to early-career software developers beyond typical advice essays.

The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind(theguardian.com)

5 points by shadow28 21 days ago | 2 comments

Guardian article reporting that women hold a small share of new AI jobs while being overrepresented in roles at high risk of AI disruption.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.

Small programming tricks(will-keleher.com)

606 points by signa11 1 month ago | 266 comments

A blog post arguing that small nuggets of programming knowledge boost productivity, sharing examples like fzf-powered ctrl+r and python3 -m http.server.