Inside the global network of astronomers searching the skies for classified government satellites.

My (anti-)application video for YC120 2019: https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-120/

Scientists have discovered the culprit: how the sun squeezes Earth’s magnetic tail

Workers in Sweden have a statutory right to take six months off and start their own business. Swedish start-ups include Spotify and Skype.

Alex Petrov talks about modern storage system approaches, discussing storage internals, and evaluation techniques to choose a database with the optimal read, write or memory overhead, best suitable for a certain data.

Modern, native client with intuitive GUI tools to create, access, query & edit multiple relational databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, MariaDB, CockroachDB, Vertica, Cassandra, and Redis.

We are excited to announce the Cilium 1.4 release. The release introduces several new features as well as optimization and scalabilit...

Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof. - sveinbjornt/Sloth

Drinking two or more diet sodas a day is linked to an increased risk of stroke, heart attacks and early death in women over 50, a new study says. The risk was highest for obese and African American women.

Innovative cultures are generally depicted as pretty fun. They’re characterized by a tolerance for failure and a willingness to experiment. They’re seen as being psychologically safe, highly collaborative, and nonhierarchical. And research suggests that these…

You may be interested in my new arXiv paper, joint work with Xi Cheng, an undergraduate at UC Davis (now heading to Cornell for grad school); Bohdan Khomtchouk, a post doc in biology at Stanford; a…

Byron Reese recently sat down with  Scott Aaronson to discuss Quantum Computing. Aaronson is the David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of…

The Bible is a refractory book, never behaving quite as we expect it to. Indeed, much of the creativity of Jewish tradition has been devoted to harmonizing the actual Bible with Judaism’s changing expectations of what it should be. The rabbinic genre of midrash…