Fresh evidence of an unknown particle that could carry a fifth force of nature gives the NA64 collaboration at CERN a new incentive to continue its searches. In 2015, a team of scientists spotted an unexpected glitch, or “anomaly”, in a nuclear transition…

A look at the obscure SEGA SC-3000, a personal computer from 1983.

When Canadian blockchain whiz Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly last year, hundreds of millions of dollars in investor funds vanished into the crypto ether. But when the banks, the law, and the forces of Reddit tried to track down the cash, it turned out the…

In Amazon’s US chart of its most popular processors, AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X takes the top position. The 8-core/16-thread processor is down to just $159 for Black Friday, which works out at just under $20 per core. It’s followed by…

Three months ago, I quit my job at Google to start my own company. This past week, I decided that I wanted to get a feel for how much it…

This is why i don't trust frameworks claiming to be fast b/c they score 👍 benchmarks. This is React in concurrent mode, facing an impossible(!) amount of load (2000 state-connected comps getting re-rendered with fresh props 60 frames/sec). The scheduler makes…

A LISP that runs wherever Bash is. Contribute to chr15m/flk development by creating an account on GitHub.

While a government commission recently proposed to phase out coal in Germany by 2038, voters would prefer a phase-out by 2025. Policymakers may underestimate public willingness to support an expedited transition away from high-carbon sources of energy.

TL;DR: If the cloud didn’t eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects? Marc Andresseesssen’s “software is eating the world” has given rise to an entire technolog…

ANCAP chief James Goodwin says angular design and steel construction of Tesla Cybertruck electric ute may pose safety risks to other road users such as pedestrians.

A styled version of programmersstone.com that is easier to read on the web.

This is a thread about a font that's appeared in a lot of video games over the years, and how it was surprisingly challenging to track down its true origin. And no, it's probably not the one you're thinking of (though that one has an interesting story as…

Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

CDs and DVDs were sold to consumers as these virtually indestructible platters, but the truth, as exemplified by the “disc rot” phenomenon, is more complicated.

Many elementary school teachers are anxious about teaching math, and studies show their students learn less from them. Math should be taught by specialists starting in kindergarten.

Jacob Collier is the internet’s favorite musical virtuoso. Here’s his mostly acapella arrangement of a Christmas carol called “In The Bleak Midwinter.” The most remarkable p…

One thing I like to do to improve the command-line programs I maintain is to make them aware of whether they're being run interactively. In this post …