The history of Unix as seen through the eyes of Rob Pike. You will get an insider's view of the development of some of the key pieces of the modern computing...

Despite the fact that the Linux Kernel is mostly written in C, it makes broad use of some techn [...]

In recent years, compute-intensive artificial intelligence tasks have prompted creation of a wide variety of custom hardware to run these powerful new systems efficiently. Deep learning models, suc…

Ecns.cn is the official English-language website of China News Service (CNS), a state-level news agency sponsored and established by Chinese journalists and renowned overseas Chinese experts on October 1, 1952.As an English-language website, Ecns.cn aims…

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I was a psychotherapist in New York for ten years. I've often been asked my reasons for ending my therapy practice, and here they are.

I touch on the subjects of the screwed…

The move is part of an aggressive campaign against many products containing nicotine, including flavored e-cigarettes. Menthol has long been a concern among African-Americans because of its addictive qualities.

An Observable notebook by Jeremy Ashkenas.

The Adaptive Radix Tree: ARTful Indexing for Main-Memory Databases

Leis et. al., ICDE 2013 [paper]

Tries are an unloved third data structure for
building key-value stores and indexes, after search …

The collapse of a shadow bank has sparked fear and financial contagion

Criticism of Pichai came from Facebook’s former security chief and a Google software engineer.

We have built an efficient and persistent log structured merge (LSM) tree based key-value store, purely in Go language. It is based upon WiscKey paper included in USENIX FAST 2016.

A story about quality from the development of the Multics operating system.

Jeremy Currier and Seth Stephens should be the cybersecurity workers of tomorrow. Instead, they’re at the center of a possible criminal investigation.

From the archives: They don't make them like they used to.