Researchers have been rerouting human wastewater from a city to grow trees in Egypt—and it could lead to more than 36 forest sanctuaries in the desert.

Holiday shoppers warned that Honey, a popular browser extension, was a “security risk.”

functional neural networks in ocaml. Contribute to liaopeiyuan/zeta development by creating an account on GitHub.

Trying out the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function (HN discussion).

Most people sit through countless orientations on the first few days of their job, but one teen discovered a planet - on his third day.
Wolf Cukier, 17, of Scarsdale, New York, had wrapped up his junior year of high school when he headed off to intern in…

Naturally, this is creating some consternation among customers

I have tremendous respect for Paul Graham. His essays – repackaged in the book Hackers and Painters – are among the best writing I've found on software engineering. Not all of them are so great, of course, but the majority are well worth your time. That's…

Learn how to use the HTML autocomplete, inputmode and pattern attributes to improve the user experience of logging in.

A cross-platform PETSCII image editor.

The tech giant has been pushing into health care, striking deals that grant it access to troves of patient data. The challenge: convincing the public and potential partners that it can be trusted with our most personal information.

Let clean code guide you. Then let it go.

Motherboard on Thursday revealed that a “secretive” U.S. government vendor whose surveillance products are not publicly advertised has been marketing hidden cameras disguised as seemingly ordinary objects—vacuum cleaners, tree stumps, and tombstones—to the…

Ever-faster processors led to bloated software, but physical limits may force a return to the concise code of the past

Tony Hoare introduced Null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 "simply because it was so easy to implement", says Mr. Hoare. He talks about that decision considering it "my billion-dollar mistake".

What if you could reboot an
entire server in seconds in response to an active attack and get a brand
new memory layout? While not feasible under linux it's an uniquely
unikernel feature.