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‘Edited’ human embryos reveal secrets of our development — and fuel ethical debate (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-25 | by Ledford | tags: gene editing, human embryos, base editing

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US funding uncertainties threaten to sink key global oceanography projects (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-25 | by Witze | tags: argo floats, ocean observatories initiative, woods hole oceanographic institution

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Base editing reveals an essential role for NANOG in human embryogenesis (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-25 | by Bower | tags: base editing, nanog, human embryogenesis

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‘Supergirl’ Star Milly Alcock, Writer Ana Nogueira on What Excited Them Most About Kara’s Story (gizmodo.com)

2026-06-22 | get Supergirl Action Figure → | tags: supergirl, milly alcock, ana nogueira

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Get a 4TB SSD for $399 this Prime Day — 9.7 cents per GB is as good as it gets thanks to the AI pricing crisis (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-22 | by Stephen Warwick | get Samsung 870 EVO 4TB SSD → | tags: team group, t-force g50, innogrit

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I Stored a Website in a Favicon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-20 | get Favicon Editor Tool → | tags: favicon, steganography, html payload

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Old-school crime: man gets suspended jail sentence for burning and selling pirated CDs (techspot.com)

2026-06-19 | by Rob Thubron | get Pirated CD Case → | tags: british phonographic industry, napster, music cds

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Anthropic’s Dire Marketing Worked Too Well (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-06-16 | get AI Safety Awareness Book → | tags: anthropic, spacex, cursor

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Flip TABLE: storing arbitrary data in iNaturalist (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | get iNaturalist Data Storage Guide → | tags: inaturalist, flip table, strava

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Sextortionist sentenced to 33 years for targeting 145 children (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-05-28 | tags: facebook, instagram, sextortion

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Bottom-Up Synthesis of Molecular Nanodiamond from Nanographene (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-26 | by Liang | get Nanodiamond Synthesis Kit → | tags: nanodiamonds, nanographene, silicon-vacancy

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At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-13 | by Dolgin | get COVID-19 Antiviral Pills → | tags: xocova, ensitrelvir, shionogi

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Prehistoric Artificial Islands Beneath Scottish Waters Are Finally Giving Up Their Secrets (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-06 | get Scottish Underwater Drone → | tags: prehistoric islands, scottish waters, crannogs

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Write some software, give it away for free (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get Open Source Software License → | tags: nonograph, open source, software development

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Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get AI Model Training Kit → | tags: nanogpt, gpt-2, pytorch

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Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-01 | by Hannah Richter | get Deep-sea Exploration Kit → | tags: orpheus, woods hole oceanographic institution, deep-sea mining

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Shrdlu (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-29 | tags: shrdlu, terry winograd, mit

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Scientists Use AI to Map Ocean Currents in Incredible Detail (cnet.com)

2026-04-15 | by See Full Bio | get Ocean Currents Map Kit → | tags: goflow, uc san diego, ocean currents

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Author Correction: HER2 expression identifies dynamic functional states within circulating breast cancer cells (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-15 | by Jordan | get HER2 Breast Cancer Sticker → | tags: her2, circulating breast cancer, ctc

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Tumour promotion through the lens of evolution (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-15 | by Lopez-Bigas | get Evolutionary Biology Book → | tags: clonal evolution, cancer research, tumor microenvironment

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The Problem That Built an Industry (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-11 | by Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe | get Tech Industry History Book → | tags: sabre, american airlines, containerdays

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Demons and pinball are a perfect match (theverge.com)

2026-04-11 | by Andrew Webster | get Pinball Machine with Demons → | tags: wii u, devil’s crush, playdate

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Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-10 | by Raphael Boyd | tags: pornography, stepfamily, incest

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Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-09 | tags: deepfakes, driver’s license, pennsylvania police

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Show HN: Unicode Steganography (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | by Patrick Vuscan | get Unicode Steganography Tool → | tags: unicode steganography, patrick vuscan, llm safety

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Devils on the Moon brings the score-chasing of pinball to the Playdate (engadget.com)

2026-04-05 | get Pinball Playdate Accessory → | tags: devils on the moon, playdate, pinball

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A chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of chelicerates (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Lerosey-Aubril | get Chelicerate Fossil Model → | tags: chelicerates, cambrian, pycnogonida

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I’ve loved OnePlus since the beginning, but its death now feels inevitable (androidauthority.com)

2026-03-25 | tags: oneplus, android, cyanogenmod

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NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-19 | get NanoGPT Model Card → | tags: nanogpt, ensemble, scaling laws

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Daily briefing: Funding calls plummet as NIH turns away from agency-directed science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-18 | by Graham | get NIH Funding Guidebook → | tags: nih, gilles brassard, quantum information