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They're fun, and they everyone you learn a lot from different fields (fx. CAN, recovering keystrokes from a keyboard's captured traffic, CSS exfiltration, etc). You'll also meet a lot of smart people and maybe make some friends.
If you'd like to have some fun this weekend, one of the most well put together (in terms of challenges) CTFs is running: https://xmas.htsp.ro/home
CTFtime is the main hub for CTFs: https://ctftime.org/calendar/
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Edit (0) - Last year's challenges and write-ups: https://ctftime.org/event/926/tasks/
If you know other people that have some spare computing power on their hands, or some available time and are willing to take a shot at the most critical puzzle of the moment, please share.
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I have some questions for the community (this is why this is an Ask HN): - are there other ways developers can help in finding a solution? - is there some kind of programmable way to accomplish what fold.it does, with comparable ease? it would be very nice to be able to express the protein as code, instead of manually designing it with the mouse. - do you know some good resources for people to learn from scratch how to design solutions for this? much of what is available is for specialists in the field, but maybe there are some easier to consume tutorials / references / handbooks
Additional resources: - https://twitch.tv/FoldIt - https://www.rcsb.org/news?year=2020&article=5e3c4bcba5007a04a313edcc