DNA reveals the real killers that brought down Napoleon's army(gavi.org)

60 points by janandonly 1 year ago | 55 comments

The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol(rasmussenretorts.substack.com)

7 points by us-merul 1 year ago | 3 comments

At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo(bbc.com)

62 points by saikatsg 5 months ago | 19 comments

First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources(public.substack.com)

603 points by larsiusprime 3 years ago | 569 comments

A Public (Substack) article claiming US government sources identified Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists doing gain-of-function research as the first COVID-19 cases.

The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure(writingruxandrabio.com)

132 points by item 7 months ago | 157 comments

Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?(blog.jovono.com)

28 points by ejz 2 years ago | 44 comments

What Is PID 0?(blog.dave.tf)

344 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.

alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv(alphaxiv.org)

519 points by sahebjot 2 years ago | 172 comments

Homepage of alphaXiv, a Stanford project that adds open discussion and comments on top of arXiv research papers.

GPT-5.3-Codex(openai.com)

1442 points by meetpateltech 8 months ago | 567 comments

OpenAI announcement introducing GPT-5.3-Codex, a model expanding Codex across a wider range of professional computer work.

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix(fly.io)

602 points by wut42 1 year ago | 256 comments

Fly.io blog post announcing Phoenix.new, a remote AI runtime and coding agent for building Elixir Phoenix applications in the browser.

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning(techcommunity.microsoft.com)

399 points by lappa 1 year ago | 136 comments

Microsoft AI Platform Blog post announcing Phi-4, a small language model specializing in complex reasoning.