Last week we celebrated the end of YC's S23 batch. It seems like a good time to share some thoughts on the batch, and on the ways YC has changed in the last year.

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The booming popularity of countertops made of engineered stone has driven a new epidemic of silicosis, an incurable lung disease, researchers have found.

The blog is now closed, but you can read the full story about the successful Osiris-Rex sample touchdown here

A team of researchers, led by a University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa planetary scientist, discovered that high energy electrons in Earth's plasma sheet are contributing to weathering processes on the ...

Use your Kindle Paperwhite as a writing device. Contribute to rberenguel/PiWrite development by creating an account on GitHub.

Escape the maze of nested code. Embrace simplicity with the early return approach.

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Back in the late 1970s, the most popular memory chip was Mostek's MK4116, holding a whopping (for the time) 16 kilobits. It provided stor...

It’s getting harder than ever to find a home in Australia with less than 1% of rental properties available for occupancy. That’s sending rents soaring to eye-watering levels, deepening a cost-of-living crunch.

The population growth of Greater Sydney is…

The warnings have taken on a new urgency after Canada alleged that India was involved in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

After being accused of stealing one another's photo, Ron Risman and Eric Gendron, both from New England, learned that they had captured the exact same millisecond in time, from the same location, using different cameras, to create virtually identical images.

In a previous post, I talked about the One-Time Pad, as an example of cryptography that’s achievable without a computer.It’s a very simple, yet perfectly sec...

Today, hundreds of millions of people in dozens of nations around the world suffer from hookworm infection.

EU CAPTCHA is a test intended to distinguish human from machine input. It prevents the use of bots/machines (e.g. for automated account creation) in the framework of services provided by EU...

Introduction Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream. Its relative obscurity is partially attributable to the cargo cult of “scale”. The scalability cult has decreed that there are several queue technologies with greater “scalability”…

Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell noscripting, and a small...

Tiny, flittering swimmer wasn’t a worm, a mollusk, or a crustacean. What was it?