(Hey HN/Reddit/Lobste.rs! I didn't expect this to take off, there are a couple of unclear things in here. The biggest seeming to be my ha...

Excite.com CEO: in 1998, they had opportunity to purchase Google; they compared Google search results with Excite's - no much difference; $750k + 1% Excite s...

Posted by Florian Kainz and Kiran Murthy, Software Engineers, Google Research Taking pictures of outdoor scenes at night has so far been the dom...

Mozilla is set to block the DigiTrust consortium from tracking users in its Firefox browser.

From National Geographic comes a video profiling the durable windmills of Nashtifan, Iran. These windmills constructed over a thousand years ago out of clay, straw and wood are not only still standing; they work just as well as they did when they were first…

1921: Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones -- June 25, 1930

I made a really simple calorie counting × meal planning web app. It’s open-source, and you can use it here if you’d like...

An eyewitness report from the front lines of a frightening new friendship.

Andrei Kozlov was gunned down in 2006, weeks after trying to shutter the world’s biggest money-laundering scam—one reportedly used by Putin’s family and the FSB.

‘Final straw’ was refusal to allow partner to mark dubious claims by far-right parties

Scientists use big data to understand what separates winners from losers

Count me among those who had hoped that when Tim Berners-Lee <https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/> appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics in London, it would be a victory lap just be...

The leading approaches in language modeling are all obsessed with TV shows of my youth - namely Transformers and Sesame Street. Transformers this, Transformers that, and over here a bonfire worth...