Writing a faster wc utility in Go

Archaeology has traditionally had a fundamental bias against fabric. Fabrics are after all highly perishable, withering away within months or years, and only rarely leaving traces behind for those …

A guide for kleptocrats worried by foreign prosecutors

La Repubblica has had access to the video and audio recordings of the Spanish company, UC Global, which spied on the WikiLeaks founder, his team of journalists…

Quantum computers could crack the codes that secure the world’s digital information but racing to a solution could create more threats, according to Dr. Deborah Frincke.

Scientific Reports - Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG

Technical founders share stories and advice about how software engineers can stand out from the applicant pool.

But the best advice I could give for any project is: create a solution that you need and share it. If it helps someone else solve the same problem, thereby saving time and agony, others will appreciate it.

The current outer surface of the Great Pyramid at Giza is made of rough limestone blocks, colored a dark sandy brown from hundreds of years of pollution and weathering. But when it was first built, there was a smooth lay

I asked several indie hackers about the skills they've found most crucial for running profitable Internet businesses. Their answers are below. An Abilit...

How Flexport uses RuboCop cops to programmatically enforce Rails Engine isolation.

A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance.

As a computer engineer who has spent half a decade working with caches at Intel and Sun, I’ve learnt a thing or two about cache-coherency. This was one of the hardest concepts to learn back in coll…

PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4

Slack has just recently rolled out a “WYSIWYG text input” widget to its Web browser interface.
(Apparently, the phased rollout started at the beginning of November 2019, but it’s just now starting to
hit the workspaces that I participate in.) The user experience…

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I’ve been at dinners before with developers that admitted developers, themselves included, can be a bit opinionated. In one case one said for example, “I love Postgres, but I have no idea why.” They were sitting at the wrong table to use Postgres as an example……