So a few months ago, I posted a submission asking the community whether they'd be interested in an HN-type site for hackers interested in bio/med, and received a good amount of replies expressing interest and enthusiasm. And so I finally got round to getting one up. There's not too much, but hopefully enough to grab your attention and even compel you to engage and contribute. It's for anyone interested in the intersection of hacking and life science, from the role of social networks and mobile devices in healthcare to new ways to hack your body.
Many many thanks to Rust who provided the actual code for the site and used it as an opportunity to develop his own open source project for HN-type sites, which can be found at http://www.noostr.com.
This is awesome. I've been hoping to find a curated bio/med related news site. This looks like it is just that. I would echo the other commenters and suggest toning down on the use of bold type.
I'm not a hacker by any means and so I didn't really want to get knee-deep in lisp/arc as I wanted to get something up quickly. Met Rust in #startups who approached me because he wanted to do some open source work and decided doing an HN-type thing would be cool. The language was entirely his choice. I just needed a working site. :P And he did a great job!
Noostr will be on GitHub as soon as we reach a stable release. This is expected to be v0.7 (current is 0.5, with 0.6 in the next 24 hours). I'll certainly remember to post here when it officially goes on GitHub (the source is downloadable from http://noostr.com/ already).
I'm interested in a wide variety of medical subjects, both general and health care IT related. After checking the site, it has a good selection of articles, which should allow a growing community.
Looks good. The only thing difficult in the bio/med community is actually gather some audience. Let's hope to get something, it would be a good resource.
Many many thanks to Rust who provided the actual code for the site and used it as an opportunity to develop his own open source project for HN-type sites, which can be found at http://www.noostr.com.