How to Design Flowers(asimov.press)
38 points by surprisetalk | 2 comments
Asimov Press podcast episode and transcript interviewing plant biologist Nick Desnoyer about engineering novel flowers, including a paintable petunia called Paintunia.
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How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?(quantamagazine.org)
57 points by marojejian | 9 comments
Quanta Magazine 'The Joy of Why' episode in which biologist Toby Kiers explains how fungal networks trade nutrients with plants and store carbon underground.
Lace and Labor: Lessons from the actual Luddites(articlesofinterest.substack.com)
49 points by surprisetalk | 3 comments
A Substack post accompanying an Articles Of Interest podcast episode on lace, the Luddites, and historical fears of automation replacing labor.
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like(simonwillison.net)
728 points by e12e | 823 comments
Simon Willison blog post recapping a Heavybit podcast appearance, reflecting that vibe coding and responsible agentic engineering are converging in his own work.
Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?(freakonomics.com)
406 points by chiefalchemist | 282 comments
A Freakonomics Radio podcast episode on why research into Alzheimer's disease has made so little progress; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
Non-Zero-Sum Games(nonzerosum.games)
417 points by 8organicbits | 185 comments
Homepage of Non-Zero-Sum Games, an illustrated "world-help" website and podcast exploring cooperative, win-win game theory ideas.
Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed(scientificamerican.com)
692 points by headalgorithm | 802 comments
Scientific American podcast episode on how to cope with outrage fatigue and stay informed without burning out amid overwhelming news.
Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories(hnup.date)
581 points by yunusabd | 173 comments
HN Update is a web player for an hourly AI-generated audio news broadcast summarizing top Hacker News stories.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/7/10/8f5f6b45-2b79-402f-a98a-ce1374a470a5.jpg)
Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video](youtube.com)
365 points by zdw | 84 comments
YouTube video from the Book Overflow channel in which Brian Kernighan reflects on his book "The Practice of Programming."
Leaving LinkedIn(corecursive.com)
408 points by wyclif | 273 comments
CoRecursive podcast episode #098 in which Chris Krycho talks about leaving LinkedIn and choosing engineering excellence over expediency.
Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week(latent.space)
848 points by swyx | 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.