Scientists accidentally discover a genetic code that breaks the rules of life

An r/biology post (u/Akkeri), titled "Scientists accidentally discover genetic code that breaks the rules of life," reports that a pond protist (PL0344) reassigns stop codon TAA to lysine and TAG to glutamic acid. Comments generally pushed back: u/LeonJPancetti noted this is just "two stop codons re-coded to the same/different amino acid," not an upheaval; u/NAh94 and u/Atypicosaurus reminded readers that textbooks never asserted "only these stop codons" and that mitochondria have long been an exception; u/parabuthas criticized ScienceDaily's clickbait. Factually, the genetic code reassignment (and archaeal pyrrolysine) was verified via search (✔); however, "breaking the rules of life" is media rhetoric, and the field views it as a rare exception rather than a paradigm shift.

Checked ✔ (PL0344 reassignments TAA→Lys, TAG→Glu, and archaeal pyrrolysine verified via search; "breaking the rules" is media rhetoric)