[Updated] Using a Dyson hand dryer is like setting off a viral bomb in a bathroom | Ars Technica
Clumping the data from all six heights together, the Dyson produced 60 times more plaques than the warm air dryer and 1,300 times more than paper towels. Of the viruses launched by the jet dryer, 70 percent were at the height of a small child’s face.
(vomit)Building a Regex Search Engine for DNA | Hacker News
The original post is pretty mediocre — a search engine which handles a corpus of “thousands” of plasmids from “a scientist’s personal library”, and which doesn’t handle fuzzy matches? I think that’s called grep — but the HN comments are good
(tags: grep regular-expressions hacker-news strings dna genomics search elasticsearch)