After announcing the largest rounds of layoffs in their history, US big tech companies are now learning how difficult it is to reduce headcount in Europe.

Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way to build software. Also, his battles against XML, against complexity, his battles to say that there's a…

H. G. Wells was a very famous English novelist, and has been referred to as the “Shakespeare of science fiction.” He interviewed Joseph Stalin during his trip to the USSR in 1934.

Generate startup ideas on a particular topic, based on insights from Hacker News comments.

SB Loses Shootout to Manhattan On Nov. 24 Stony Brook’s Women’s Basketball team faced the Manhattan Jasper’s. In a high scoring affair, Stony Brook lost by a final score of 74-68. The Jasper’s held the lead most of the game, including a game high 12 point…

Meta's "Segment Anything" uses AI to isolate objects on command.

Yesterday, President Joe Biden declared that “it remains to be seen” whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “dangerous.” I would beg to differ. I have been writing about th…

Regulator says now-shuttered student-loan assistance company fabricated data to entice JPMorgan Chase into sale.

This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the association between daily alcohol intake and risk of all-cause mortality.

Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.

The Italian ChatGPT ban may end up affecting more European countries including France, Germany and Ireland.

Robert Pogue Harrison approaches Epicurus for different ways of looking at the problems of today....

Welcome to the future of server-side development with WebAssembly!<br />
Today we are introducing **WCGI**, a technology that marries the power of WebA...

I’ve been on a C kick recently as I learn the intricacies involved in low level programming. As a Data Scientist/Python Programmer I work with strings all the time. People say that handling strings in C range anywhere from tricky to downright awful. I was…

A March 27, 2023, decision by a California federal court in a putative class action, Sarcuni v. bZx DAO, has brought into focus how courts might construe the legal existence of decentralized...

Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system, is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faste…

One of our Rust services started to show an odd memory profile. This is the story of how we investigated the issue.