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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was one of the pivotal geniuses of the 20th century.

An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python - seemoo-lab/opendrop

As far as DIY cryogenics are concerned, dry ice is easy mode. You can get frozen carbon dioxide at WalMart, or from a nozzle that screws onto a CO2 tank. It’s all very ordinary, and not reall…

Mapping the Y Combinator S19 Batch

When venture capitalist Paul Graham unveiled Hacker News in 2007, he'd formulated its goal of stoking "intellectual curiosity." "Paradoxical as it sounds, the thing that makes hackers such good startup founders is that they care about more than business.…

Obey the Law of Locality · ABD: Anything But Dropdowns · Pass the Squint Test · Teach by example

For the past year, a group of teens in Nigeria called the Critics Company have been uploading short sci-fi films to their YouTube channel. Using a smartphone with a busted screen, makeshift equipment, open source 3D tool

The story of the "secret" D-Day rehearsal in Devon that cost 800 US servicemen their lives.

Portugal is using goats to clear the underbrush that fuels wildfires in hard to reach places and abandoned lands. If only it can find shepherds to tend them.

Our aim was to evaluate how human beliefs affect working dog outcomes in an applied environment. We asked whether beliefs of scent detection dog handlers affect team performance and evaluated relative importance of human versus dog influences on handlers’…

Owen Matthews on the colourful life of a Stalin-era secret agent

Facebook’s web codebase currently contains more than 100 million lines of Hack code, and changes thousands of times per day. To handle the sheer volume of code, we build sophisticated systems that …

You should be multi-faceted, never work purely to your technical abilities, think about how you can make your entire company better

SoftBank is planning to lend $20 billion to its employees, including the CEO Masayoshi Son,  with the hope that the employees will reinvest the capital in SoftBank. This according to them, is their own vision venture fund, the Wall Street Journal reported.…

The humans use Arecibo to look for extraterrestrial intelligence. Their desire to make a connection is so strong that they’ve created…

AFP granted warrant to unlock smartphone but decision overturned on grounds device not covered by Crimes Act

Despite many warnings, Kaspersky products will still snoop inside HTTPS connections. This weakens security considerably, with some fallout presented here.

Free movement for EU citizens will end on day one of a no-deal Brexit, under new Home Office plans – despite warnings of chaos and of people trapped in legal limbo.