Shanghai, one of the planet’s most populous urban centres, is growing at breakneck speed. But thanks to decades of planning, they’re doing it right. The city is destined for global supremacy

A versatile web framework and library for building client-side and server-side web applications - ivanceras/sauron

When California shifted its bullet train plan into high gear in 2008, it had just 10 employees to manage and oversee design of the largest public construction project in state history.

We present a quasi-experiment to investigate whether, and to what extent, sleep deprivation impacts the performance of novice software developers using the agile practice of test-first development...

How it has sidestepped the mistakes made by its younger, brasher Big Tech brethren.

The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they have kept Google from seeing it.

Unsealed warrant in Massachusetts adds to growing privacy debate

After multiple rare cancers have been diagnosed in Waycross, Georgia, the city grapples with a profound question: What if the industries that gave us life are killing us?

By Ralph Nader April 4, 2019 To understand the enormity of the Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes (Lion Air 610 and Ethiopian Airlines 302) that took a combined total of 346 lives, it is useful to look at past events and anticipate future possible problems. In 2011…

When a writer talks about the sport they play, you can see something of how their mind works in how they have chosen to use their body. Hemingway’s frustrated fascination with machismo was written …

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You can join the discussion on HackerNews here. We crossed the three year mark of developing YugabyteDB in February of 2019. It has been a thrilling journey thus far, but not without its fair share of technical challenges. There were times when we had to…

A $3 billion to $5 billion penalty for privacy violations won’t change anything.