A new paper formulates and suggests laboratory experiments to confirm mass-energy-information equivalence.

Quora, a 10-year-old question-and-answer startup based in Mountain View, is laying off staff in its Bay Area and New York offices, the company’s CEO announced on the site today. Like other startup leaders being pushed by investors to focus more heavily on…

I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS magic

PandaPy has the speed of NumPy and the usability of Pandas 10x to 50x faster (by @firmai) - GitHub - firmai/pandapy: PandaPy has the speed of NumPy and the usability of Pandas 10x to 50x faster (b...

Convert the venerable AT&T UNIX PC font to the modern BDF bitmap format - brandon-rhodes/unixpc-font-bdf

CDC provides credible COVID-19 health information to the U.S.

Like most people, I’m afraid of death. I take calculated steps to talk about death without actually using the word. I sometimes skip songs like Buddy Holly’s That’ll be the Day or avoid driving dow…

A lightweight macOS window and app manager noscriptable with JavaScript - kasper/phoenix

It’s a shame so few of us are taught the basics of how to interact constructively with each other. If you never were, we’re here to help.

JetBrains has added further destinations to the IntelliJ-based roadmap it sketched out last year, promising more localization, machine learning and Git integration amongst a range of other goodies for the Java IDE. In December, the Prague-based firm’s CTO…

The long read: My life seemed to be getting busier, faster: I felt constantly short of time – so I stepped outside it for a day and a night and did nothing

As a reviewer you’re responsible for improving safety, enforcing broadly agreed upon standards and should use the opportunity to teach and learn from your colleagues.

Earlier this year, I slowly stumbled across something that I don’t think is well-known in comparative public transportation: European cities have much higher public transport ridership than s…