We’re pleased to announce the availability of Managed CockroachDB, the fully hosted and fully managed service run by Cockroach Labs that makes deploying, scaling, and managing effortless.

Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2018. "Our community and business continue to grow quickly, and now more than 2 billion people use at least one of our services every day," said Mark Zuckerberg…

Assuming this all works out, the image in this tweet is also a valid ZIP archive, containing a multipart RAR archive, containing the complete works of Shakespeare. This technique also survives twitter's thumbnailer :P

A Chinese dissident smuggled a letter into decorations he was forced to make. Years later, a woman in the US discovered it.

Huge thank you to Joe Wallin, Kevin McArdle, and Rich Thornett for their help with this post and project. This is a post about the technical decisions we’ve made on a new “funding structure for bootstrappers” and a call for feedback from the founder community.…

Uber developed Peloton to help us balance resource use, elastically share resources, and plan for future capacity needs.

Hot spots have been discovered orbiting just outside the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center. Their motions have given us the closest look at that

Sharing my salary history to help women understand what they should be making.

Let’s look how to make the product page faster (& increase the conversion)

The relatively new R Notebooks improve the workflows of common data analysis in ways Jupyter Notebooks can't.

A native functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F# developers. - giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe

It casts rogue grievances as legitimate obsessions and gives prejudices the shimmer of ideals.

Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank that now boasts more than a million customers, has raised £85 million in Series E funding. The round is led by U.S. venture capital firm General Catalyst and Accel. Existing backers Passion Capital, Goodwater, Thrive Capital…

 Far from expanding Chinese soft power, the Belt and Road Initiative appears to be achieving the opposite.

In the “bizarre and horrifying world” of the early modern Caribbean, maroons and pirates both prized their freedom above all else. And sometimes they worked together to safeguard it.

Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.

A talk for Craftsman Guild on my team's use of Clojure at Netflix. Describes good, bad, and ugly lessons learned from going from a pure-Java codebase to Clojure in production.