“We will make decisions that hurt the business if they help people’s well-being and health,” says Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri. To that end, next week Instagram will expand to some users in the United States its test of hiding Like counts from everyone but…

A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.

A diet high in added sugar, impossible to escape in processed foods, has been linked to diabetes, heart disease and possibly cancer

Recent revelations in India show that the threat from the company’s spyware to activists and journalists isn’t limited to autocratic regimes.

Science and literature alike are readers of the world. And, sooner or later, both lead us to the unreadable, the boundary at which the unintelligible begins.

Load Balancers plays a key role in Web Architecture. In this post we are going to develop a simple load balancer with power of Go

The internet is often derided as the place productivity and well-being go to die. But if it can democratize expertise that judgment might start to look premature.

In response to the call for blogs about the vision for Rust for 2020, I’m going to write about GUI. I believe the time is right for a native GUI toolkit written in Rust, and that such a thing would fill a very important niche. There is a demand for performance…

I’m depressed. I’m depressed because the word on the street is that Boeing will not be moving forward with its so-called “new midsize airplane,” or NMA, also known as the 797. That’s the rumor, at any rate. If built, the 797 would bridge the range and capacity…

Hear from Andrej Karpathy on how Tesla is using PyTorch to develop full self-driving capabilities for its vehicles, including AutoPilot and Smart Summon.

In my spare time I’m an emergency services volunteer, and one of the tasks our unit has is to run the radio network and keep track of what’s happening. This can be a pretty stressful job, especially when there’s lots of radio traffic, and it’s not unusual…

I did the Y Combinator interview. It's for entry to the Winter 2020 batch. I'm excited, but also a bit divided. Here are my notes.

A 1992 memo that sent to comp.sys.m6809 informing the community about a set of undocumented enhancements found in the Hitachi 6309 microprocessor.

New service allows customers to pay for postal workers to check on their elderly relatives

Sometimes I have a picture of a software design in my head and I just want to draw it. If I don’t need to collaborate with anyone remotely I might just draw it freehand. For collaborations an…