The Khronos Group announces the release of the Vulkan 1.2…

Lower-altitude resorts may be left almost bare by the end of the century.

Our nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, hosts a temperate terrestrial planet. We detected in radial velocities evidence of a possible second planet with minimum mass m c sin i c = 5.8 ± 1.9 M ⊕ and orbital period <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"…

In C++, the most basic memory allocation code is just a call to the new operator:
char *buf = new char[s];

According to a textbook interpretation, we just allocated s bytes1.

If you benchmark this line of code, you might find that it almost entirely…

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The dendritic arms of some human neurons can perform logic operations that once seemed to require whole neural networks.

v1.2 - added comments from HN v1.3 - added “What does fits mean ?” v1.4 - added the conclusion When something very basic goes wrong, I have this hierarchy of potential culprits: the compiler buggy hardware OS vendor last and least me, because I don’t make…

Posted by Jason Hickey, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research The weather can affect a person’s daily routine in both mundane and se...

A different kind of wealth distribution in 17th-century Amsterdam paved the way for its quintessential home design.

An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW. - trojan-gfw/trojan

An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW. - trojan-gfw/trojan

the real reason zsh beats bash • how I got twice as fast in python • autocompleting all the things • maximizing user-interface bandwidth

Through an unprecedented series of technical, business, and cultural innovations, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation spawned hundreds of ventures that established Silicon Valley as a world center of entrepreneurial activity and technological leadership.…

Dan Katz, licensed psychologist and psychotherapist, explains why Thomas Erikson’s success with his book Surrounded by Idiots is one of…

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How much plastic ends up in the ocean? Where does it come from?

Our composition models are poor and don’t scale well.