The long read: It is sold as a force that can help us cope with the ravages of capitalism, but with its inward focus, mindful meditation may be the enemy of activism

Discover shortcuts to your favorite actions on the websites you love. Posting, linking, designing, recording — it’s all faster with .new links.

Batteries are flying off the shelves.

An HTTP client library for ruby

It's not the first time I'm switching to Ubuntu. I've been, as they say, around the block when it comes to operating systems. I started out on MS, from DOS t...

Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. - gov-takedowns/2019-10-23-GuardiaCivil.md at master · github/gov...

We are at the beginning of a new era, where biology has shifted from empirical science to an engineering discipline. After a millennia of using man-made approaches for controlling or manipulating biology, we have finally begun using nature’s own machinery—through…

When demoing Hyperview to new engineers, there’s one comment that frequently comes up about the HXML data format:

From plane tickets to cellphone bills, monopoly power costs American consumers billions of dollars a year.

El servicio, del que es dueño Microsoft, ha bloqueado el acceso al repositorio donde estaba alojado la web y el APK de la app para que la gente se la pudiera descargar

Emtremely excited to finally share a side-project I've been working on for the past few months: Neural Synesthesia, visualizing music with #GANs! So many ideas left to explore, this journey is just getting started.. More HD renders on my new YT channel: …

Is Stack Exchange in violation of New York labor law, in using volunteer moderators?
I found a New York State Department of Labor - Division of Labor Standards
Frequently Asked Questions document, ...

Taking a look at the very overlooked currentColor CSS value type

Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. SpaceX has been working on some variant of the Big Falcon Rocket for almost a decade, with a publicly announced architecture for thre…

As KiCad’s lead developer, Wayne, and his team have a big vision – to build a best-in-breed PCB design tool. It’s an ambitious goal for an open-source project whose commercial counterparts have seen millions in investment. But KiCad is well on that path.…

Nature Communications - Accurate estimates of global mean sea-level rise are important. Here the authors employ a new digital elevation model (DEM) utilizing neural networks and show that the new...

The Mail from Budapest. This story of pre-war espionage and counterespionage has been summarized from records originating in Czechoslovakia and acquired by American intelligence after World War II. It has all the qualities of a classic except one: it is nearly…

A doc for people who are building things relating to the (probably) upcoming General Election. Take time to read through - you might find a collaborator, tool or dataset that makes your life a lot easier. Initiated by Newspeak House