The Google for Startups Effective Founders Project dives deep into the leadership strategies of the most successful startups around the world.

The amazing Gregorio Naçu posted the article noscript graphic this week to bring attention to the venerable 6502 processor and poke fun at Apple's M2 chip marketing slides. He's doing probably the most ambitious single-person Commodore 64 project I know of and…

Update Feb 2017 - you can now support this amazing guy via patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prof_abrasive

A detailed look into Dr Abrasive's lab and what it took to engineer a plug-in-flash-card for the Sega Saturn.

Update: Dr Abrasive now has a twitter!…

When it comes to database performance, many think they are solving technical problems, but are solving a money problem. There are 2 phases to database-cost management, and understanding which phase you are in will help you understand your options for growth.

🚨🚨🚨 There's a major story in the NYT today about one of our members & his lawsuit against Google. It's about a literal *cult* w/in Google that dominated his former team. But it's not just a salacious story, this is really about workers' rights & TVCs. ny…

I implemented a method of generating Voronoi diagrams on the GPU. It runs in real time with WebGL. Play with some fun demos, or read an explanation of how it works.

The 2022 Cloud Report is the only cloud performance report to compare AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.

Remains of more than 140 people found at site in Buckinghamshire, along with trove of personal items

Companies looking to raise money turn to venture capital for a variety of reasons. Top among them is generally access to capital, but often on the list is the hope that raising capital from experienced (and well-networked) investors will have other positive…

Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today - dspinellis/unix-history-repo

The U.S. health system now produces debt on a mass scale, a new investigation shows. Patients face gut-wrenching sacrifices.

For all the new readers who’ve joined since my post about effective altruism and elections, welcome! I’m now back to my usual biology beat, although this one is also influenced by my effective altruism bent. After all, one of the major reasons I started a…

I just discovered an annoying behavior of Safari on iOS: full-screen videos can overlap each other and make it hard to close them without force closing Safari.