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This blog post is one of those things that just blew up. From a tiny observation at work about odd behaviors of spinlocks I spent months trying to find good benchmarks, (still not entirely successf…

A wacky JVM adventure, starring sun.misc.Unsafe

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. merchandise-trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed for a third month in November to the smallest shortfall in three years as exports increased and imports declined, the latest sign that economic growth is holding up at the end of the…

A music player for the TS80 soldering iron. Contribute to joric/ts80player development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nature Biotechnology - In one year, George Church’s group spun out 16 different startups. What explains the lab’s incredible output of entrepreneurs?

An impressive number of transformations in both compilers and in ordinary programming are special cases of a transformation called “defunctionalization.” This post explains what it is a…

An alternative solution to the FizzBuzz kata.

It began with the fallout from the global financial meltdown and ended with two women sharing the Booker. Which noscripts shaped the last 10 years?

It could have killed millions--and served as the ultimate Cold War terror weapon.

Zaosong Zheng, a promising cancer researcher, confessed that he had planned to take the stolen samples to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, and publish the results under his own name.

The Doomsday Algorithm gives the day of the week for any date
(and you can do it in your head)

The presidential candidate Andrew Yang held a fundraiser attended by tech workers at the Bay Area house of the tech investor Sam Altman, a supporter.

The year of treating the untreatable: 2019 breakthroughs that could transform medicine.