Why did Europe move ahead of the rest of the world in the early modern period? Books on 'the great divergence,' recommended by Davis Kedrosky

Discover when and why you should use ractors, and build a ractor in Ruby.

PLDB: a Programming Language DataBase. Contribute to breck7/pldb development by creating an account on GitHub.

See all the popular styles and methods of sharpening pencils and learn a few tricks too.

An interactive TypeScript tutorial for beginners. Contribute to total-typenoscript/beginners-typenoscript-tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.

The American chestnut tree used to grow throughout the eastern U.S., but was devastated by a blight in the early 20th century.

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

A few states have been amending or repealing “pay-to-stay” laws that require former prisoners to reimburse states for the cost of their jail stays, sometimes at daily rates exceeding what they would have paid to stay in a luxury hotel.

Snapchat relied on microservices and a multicloud strategy to overhaul its technology approach as it grew.

At Hot Chips 34, Intel hinted at how its vision for chiplets may disrupt the largely structured industry that we have seen for decades

Controversial study suggests diet, not social life, drove brain evolution

The First edition of the Unix Programming Environment guide.

A place to explore piano chords freely and interactively

Project MKUltra: An Investigation into the CIA's Mind Control Program, Part II

Secure messaging app Signal isn’t the only platform dealing with the aftermath of the recent Twilio data breach.

The Penguin Random House trial is ripping the lid off publishing