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1. Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct (med.stanford.edu)
   703 points by Jerry2 30 days ago | 178 comments
2. Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab (www.nature.com)
   692 points by dataminer 24 days ago | 248 comments
3. Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science (reason.com)
   499 points by Bostonian 15 days ago | 994 comments
4. SICP: The only computer science book worth reading twice? (2010) (simondobson.org)
   466 points by pieterr 17 days ago | 180 comments
5. Show HN: Asterogue, my sci-fi roguelike, is now playable on the web (asterogue.com)
   331 points by chr15m 25 days ago | 95 comments
6. Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad (www.economist.com)
   219 points by Brajeshwar 7 days ago | 425 comments
7. DB48X: High Performance Scientific Calculator, Reinvented (48calc.org)
   201 points by qwezxcrty 29 days ago | 136 comments
8. Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation [pdf] (aidantr.github.io)
   180 points by therabbithole 21 days ago | 47 comments
9. A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom (arstechnica.com)
   115 points by rbanffy 21 days ago | 26 comments
10. A silly science prize changed my career (www.nature.com)
    110 points by sohkamyung 14 days ago | 15 comments
11. Scientific computing with confidence using typed dimensions (laurentrdc.xyz)
    97 points by g0xA52A2A 12 days ago | 47 comments
12. Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets from Frozen Tissues (www.smithsonianmag.com)
    96 points by Brajeshwar 15 days ago | 18 comments
13. Did scientists revive an extinct animal or just breed a less stripey zebra? (www.wsj.com)
    85 points by sbuttgereit 22 days ago | 156 comments
14. A stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom (arstechnica.com)
    76 points by LorenDB 22 days ago | 14 comments
15. A Science of Concurrent Programs (final draft) (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
    76 points by lateforwork 2 days ago | 3 comments
16. Scientists decipher two-photon vision (phys.org)
    70 points by bookofjoe 28 days ago | 13 comments
17. Caving scientists exploring the darkest places on Earth (www.bbc.com)
    68 points by Thevet 9 days ago | 26 comments
18. Statistical challenges and misreadings of literature create unreplicable science [pdf] (stat.columbia.edu)
    67 points by luu 29 days ago | 52 comments
19. Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge (arxiv.org)
    54 points by rntn 19 days ago | 22 comments
20. 'A place of joy': why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky (www.nature.com)
    53 points by rbanffy 10 days ago | 44 comments
21. The reproducibility crisis and other problems in science: John Ioannidis [video] (www.youtube.com)
    53 points by domofutu 3 days ago | 43 comments
22. Scientists discover laser light can cast a shadow (phys.org)
    53 points by passwordoops 18 days ago | 21 comments
23. Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the 21st Century (So Far) (www.powells.com)
    53 points by kaycebasques 2 days ago | 20 comments
24. The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor (acoup.blog)
    48 points by Tomte 4 days ago | 11 comments
25. 45% of U.S. Data Scientists Work at Just 20 Companies (www.index42.com)
    44 points by Gaussian 22 days ago | 9 comments
26. Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts (freespeechforpeople.org)
    37 points by miles 12 days ago | 12 comments
27. The Saga of a Celebrated Scientist – and His Rodent Dystopia (www.chronicle.com)
    30 points by Petiver 30 days ago | 17 comments
28. Like 'old Twitter': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky (www.science.org)
    30 points by epistasis 13 days ago | 11 comments
29. Bad science as genre fiction (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
    29 points by nabla9 25 days ago | 10 comments
30. Trust in scientists hasn't recovered from Covid. Some humility could help (arstechnica.com)
    28 points by hn_acker 14 days ago | 81 comments