• Biology students should default to Python or R instead of C++ for first programming languages, because high-performance libraries already exist and higher-level languages eliminate entire classes of bugs.  
• Releasing even mediocre code on GitHub is framed as a reproducible “user interface to your ideas,” and writing reusable snippets for lab results is an under-used route to scientific reputation.  
• Paperbot and libgen mirrors remain the channel’s primary mechanism for retrieving pay-walled papers, including the Science DNA-data-storage article and several virology/immunology reports.  
• A Hacker News comment argues that engineering humans to thrive on Venus is more rational and socially acceptable in the long run than terra-forming entire planets, despite current taboos against human genetic experimentation.  
• A proposed cryonics research program suggests first evolving rabbits or dogs to survive freeze-thaw cycles, then porting the discovered genetic changes into human embryos; participants note the absence of any serious large-scale thawing research.  
• The LessWrong claim that “general intelligence is NP-hard, therefore impossible” is mocked with the counter-argument that AI already solves NP-hard problems and that human brains are an existence proof.  
• DIY biology hardware links include L-com’s connector catalog for lab automation, and there is discussion of building an IRC bot that automatically tests pay-walled paper mirrors.