We applied six times trying to get into Y Combinator.

The popularity of these secret clubs peaked in the 18th and 19th centuries

Whoa @Patreon laid off their ENTIRE security team.

Wouldn’t trust my data there. Also there’s some amazing talent to scoop up.

Ramanujan came up with an approximation for factorial that resembles Stirling's famous approximation but is much more accurate. As with Stirling's approximation, the relative error in Ramanujan's approximation decreases as n gets larger. Typically these approximations…

The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?

it seems that the good times for online minecraft play are over. when microsoft required each minecraft account to be linked with a microsoft account, i reluctantly created 3 microsoft accounts fo...

On the tactile beauty of the best job that no longer exists.

Gibson’s Bakery said the liberal arts college had falsely accused it of racism after a Black student was caught shoplifting.

In industry-standard tests of AI inference, NVIDIA H100 GPUs set world records, A100 GPUs showed leadership in mainstream performance and Jetson AGX Orin led in edge computing.

This article introduces a kind of eBPF program that may be used to monitor userspace programs. It first introduces you to eBPF and uprobes and then explores the flaws that we found in uprobes.

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if it doesn't come bursting out of you

We asked writers, critics and musicians including Meshell Ndegeocello and Angel Bat Dawid to tell us what moves them in Coltrane’s spiritual jazz.

And why is it worth $163B? Every year companies spend $41B on enterprise resource planning software, commonly known as ERP. How did ERP get so big? And how does it work?

The main casualty of the catsup war was flavor.