Alexander the Great’s death is an unsolved mystery. Was he a victim of natural causes, felled by some kind of fever, or did his marshals assas­sinate him, angered by his tyrannical ways? An autopsy…

A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors - sharkdp/pastel

Clever tricks work around major hurdles, but it's not a route to high performance.

A serverless workflow that posts any new #1 articles on Hacker News to Slack

“With great power comes great responsibility.” – Uncle Ben Remember PowerPC? Nah, me neither. But now it can be yours. For free. Srsly.  IBM has released the Power Architecture instruction set to the Linux Foundation, making it freely available to anyone…

New study confirms Bontrager’s WaveCel material is more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS.

It takes a year of advance planning and up to 10 loads to move a single monster turbine.

Software APIs help different tools communicate with one another, let developers access essential services without having to code it themselves and are critical components for driving a platform-driven strategy. Yet they require solid documentation to help…

Another dangerous malware-laced app has been found on Google Play—this time with over 100m installs. If it's on your device, uninstall it immediately.

A Potential Privacy Model for the Web: Sharding Web Identity - michaelkleber/privacy-model

google@play-store: sudo rm -rf org.mtransit.android*

John Carmack is a computer programmer, video game developer and engineer. He co-founded id Software and was the lead programmer of its video games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels. Currently he is the CTO at Oculus.

It’s been 3 years since the giant, 36,000-ton New Safe Confinement (better known as The Arch) was put over the damaged old sarcophagus that helps contain the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster. A symbolic moment that also summed up my 10 years of work…

Feross Aboukhadijeh is a computer security researcher, teacher, web developer, designer, long distance runner, gamer, music lover, and builder of websites that (sometimes) go viral.

I rely on Google Calendar to tell me where I am supposed to be, when and with whom. When the service collapsed for an afternoon last month, it felt like a teachable moment. For a few seconds, I pan…

The discovery of an ancient skull in Ethiopia underlines the complexity in the evolution of humans.