I learned English—and Western culture—watching American movies in smoky minibuses.

Earlier this year, Samsung was busted for using stock photos to show off capabilities of Galaxy A8’s camera. And now they did it again –...

Make website screenshots and mobile emulations from the command line. - vladocar/screenshoteer

Flutter, Google’s UI toolkit for building mobile Android and iOS applications, hit its version 1.0 release today. In addition, Google also today announced a set of new third-party integrations with the likes of Square and others, as well as a couple of new…

Tumblr has decided to ban all NSFW content from its network. Although we understand the reasons why…

Drive in India? We will explain everything you need to know how to Drive at India! Carefully made video will explain everything necessary to survive.

Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Vault 1.0. Vault is a tool to manage secrets and protect sensitive data for any infrastructure and application.

Vault 1.0 is focused on renovating Vault's infrastructure to support high…

Here are some of our favorite Hacker News comments from August to November: A thread on bad codebases ranging from war stories to horror stories, developing Crash Bandicoot for PS1, meeting Ricky Jay, Victorian culinary trading cards, and a TV meteorologist…

China announced an array of punishments that could restrict companies’ access to borrowing and state-funding support over intellectual-property theft, a key sticking point in its trade conflict with the U.S.

Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning | Since we originally proposed the need for a first-class language, compiler and ecosystem for machine learning (ML), there have been plenty of interesting developments in the field. Not only have the…

PingCAP, a leading distributed database company that created the popular MySQL-compatible cloud-native NewSQL database TiDB, announces that TiDB 2.1 is ready for General Availability.

Translated from the Chinese by Thomas Moran. The first thing I should do, of course, is explain what I mean by “chaohuan,” which we are rendering in English as “ultra-unreal.” The literal meaning o…

This article outlines some of the consistency issues NoSQL databases have with distributed transactions, showing how FaunaDB has solved the problems using the Calvin protocol and a virtual clock.

Have you ever been curious about how exactly an optimizing compiler works? If yes, we invite you to take a brief look into compiler internals with a story about a tricky bug in the Excelsior JET AOT compiler.

How to hack a Bird scooter Learn how to use a Bird scooter conversion kit to hack the Xiaomi M365 Bird scooter. Convert a Bird scooter into a personal scooter. Came across a conversion kit on eBay to...

Facebook will now freely allow developers to build competitors to its features upon its own platform. Today Facebook announced it will drop Platform Policy section 4.1, which stipulates “Add something unique to the community. Don’t replicate core functionality…