A number of people have contacted me about a comment I wrote yesterday on Hacker News asking me to elaborate, e.g.: my impression is that...

Zendaya and Timmy are coming back for Part Two

This paper, written primarily for historians, attempts to explain why political leaders and central bankers continued to adhere to the gold standard as the Great Depression intensified. We do not focus on the effects of the gold standard on the Depression…

During the annual Python core development sprint we held a meeting with Sam Gross, the author of nogil, a fork of Python 3.9 that removes the GIL. This is a non-linear summary of the meeting.

As someone who rides, reviews, and covers news on electric motorcycles, I hear the same thing all the time: “I’d love an electric motorcycle, but they’re all so expensive. Maybe when prices come down.” And I get it. Electric motorcycles really are expensive.…

Nature - Catalogue of billions of phrases from 107 million papers could ease computerized searching of the literature.

Dangerously user-friendly web server for quick prototyping and hackathons - jstrieb/quickserv

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee | Director of Search says Net pioneer's Semantic Web vision could be hamstrung by incompetent Web masters. | July 18, 2006, 5:17 PM PT | Candace Lombardi

It can be difficult to differentiate individual owners from larger groups and exchanges that hold currency for many users, but the NBER was able to skirt this...

U.S. federal investigators today raided the U.S. offices of PAX Technology, a Chinese provider of point-of-sale devices used by millions of businesses and retailers globally. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the raid is tied to reports that PAX's systems may have…

Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.

Can history help us make sense of the term 'RESTful API'?

Newsrooms are embracing quickly formed partnerships to years-long projects.

The renowned author says his genre should inspire solutions. In his new novel, 'Termination Shock,' he tackles our most existential crisis.

A book that describes the core practices a team needs to truly work in an agile way

According to Olso-based photographer and researcher Jon Larsen, the most exotic particles from across the universe are likely hiding in a rain gutter or scattered among debris on rooftops. Larsen, who works in the geosciences department at the University…