This is not just kidding around with mind-bending science experiments for its own sake; dozens of applications exist for spider silk.

THREAD - History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: a thread about the **Anti-Mask League** of 1919. I'm not kidding I went HAM researching this So, starting in Sept 2018 San Francisco suffered from Spanish Flu pandemic. Initial mask wearing was good …

This startling finding suggests that between 48,000 and 81,000 people were infected in Santa Clara County by early April. The results represent the first large-scale community-based prevalence stud…

In Minnesota, the country's last stronghold of native Ojibwe speakers, Anton Treuer is racing to preserve knowledge.

I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …

🎥 Proxy livestreams from websockets to external RTMP endpoints. - chuabingquan/pxy

Several months back, I’ve started a new job and immediately found myself perform some repetitive micro-workflows like: Copying an ID, pasting it on the browser URL’s bar, typing some url, and hitting enter Copying a millisecond-from-epoch number, visiting…

HR Tech firms are laying off, but is this the end of the cycle? Not at all - this is a reset badly needed, and smart firms will thrive.

Psilocybin mushrooms have been found to have minimal harmful effects and could potentially benefit those with depression. But they remain illegal even though they offer a groundbreaking alternative to ...

:unlock: Lip Reading - Cross Audio-Visual Recognition using 3D Architectures - astorfi/lip-reading-deeplearning

We go on a journey to find the best dairy fat the world has to offer. But then there's the price tag.

The evolution of the C++ programming language and some ways to work with the fact that this doesn't fit so well with the Qt philosophy..

The FM broadcast in the United States starts at 88.0 MHz and ends at 108.0 MHz.  The band is divided into 100 channels, each 200 kHz (0.2 MHz) wide.  The center frequency is located at 1/2 the bandwidth of the FM Channel, or 100 kHz (0.1 MHz) up from the…

As promised, I’m rereading the “Build” essay by Marc Andreessen with fresh eyes. Somewhat fresh eyes since I woke up at 0430 thinking about it, but I have some tea and I’m ready to go. Let’s start from the beginning. Every Western institution was unprepared…

Kim Yong-hee has been ​staging sit-ins and hunger strikes at the top of an 82-foot-tall traffic camera tower overlooking the busiest intersection in Seoul — for more than 300 days and counting.

Ardan Labs is trusted by small startups and Fortune 500 companies to train their engineers and develop business software solutions and applications.

Cat ladders, shelves and other feline-oriented designs are commonplace features inside domestic spaces, but in places like Bern, Switzerland, they reach out into the public sphere as well, merging with architecture to create community-driven cat infrastructure.…

I started my first company 15 years go, and I still can’t manage. I suspect that very few people can. With AngelList, we want a team of self-managing people who ship code. Here’s what we do: Keep the team small. All doers, no talkers. Absolutely no middle…