Researchers have investigated a unique leather scale armor found in the tomb of a horse rider in Northwest China. Design and construction details of the armor indicate that it originated in the Neo-Assyrian Empire between the 6th and 8th century BCE before…

Leaked memo shows Amazon Music’s senior leadership didn’t want to go along with Amazon’s plan to manage out the bottom 6% of their workforce.

An exclusive excerpt from a16z general partner Andrew Chen’s new book, The Cold Start Problem

On the occasion of Peter Kropotkin's birthday, we present an account of his escape from prison in Tsarist Russia.

Facebook has admitted in a court of law that such fact checks are not factual at all, but merely opinions. People send me stuff. As we have previously reported, journalist…

For decades, the idea that insects have feelings was considered a heretical joke – but as the evidence piles up, scientists are rapidly reconsidering.

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Ray tracing 25 scenes in 25 days with POV-Ray. Contribute to spcask/pov-ray-tracing development by creating an account on GitHub.

How much does it matter to be born into a productive, industrialized economy?

@fly4dat Tesla Full Self Driving beta causes an accident. Resposting a portion in case the original at youtu.be/7VhrG-7SBZg gets taken down (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285663…). This is clear fair use under the DMCA exception for news reporting. ogc.ha…

How a video game that imagined a bleak future came to model dystopia, in more ways than one.

Magnus Carlsen picked up a fourth win at the World Championship match in Dubai to secure overall victory with three games to spare. Playing black, the world champion saw Ian Nepomniachtchi all but self-destructing for a third time in the match. This was Carlsen’s…

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