The world’s premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy — until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

Domestication of world's most common farm animal had been debated since Charles Darwin

Update: This post was discussed on Hacker News. As jordybg points out, USB boot is no longer “beta” and is available in the latest (2020-06-15) “stable” firmware release.
Almost two months ago, I started building a four node Raspberry Pi 4 cluster for a…

Research bears out what our grandparents said: Don’t eat too



close to bedtime if you want to sleep well. Plus other recipes for a



solid eight hours.

As work progresses on Godot 4.0 at a steady pace, a novel method of creating full-scene global illumination has been added in the master branch.

A journey in fixing browser history

Ibrahim Diallo describes what life as a black software engineer has been like for him.

One line summary: Use lru_cache decorator

It would cost many billions of dollars, the potential rewards are unclear—and the money could be better spent researching threats such as climate change and emerging viruses

Facebook got itself into a sensitive data scandal when it did shady business with Cambridge Analytica, Instagram confirmed a security issue exposing user accounts and phone numbers, but these apps are basically online security havens compared to TikTok, according…

I was a huge Archimedes fan and still have an A310, an A5000, a RiscPC and a RasPi running RISC OS. But no, I have to disagree. RISC OS was a hastily-done rescue effort after Acorn PARC failed to make ARX work well enough. I helped to arrange this talk by…

What are the chances, after all, that the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak should occur within literal walking distance of the leading research and collection centre in the world for SARS-like bat coronaviruses? This article explains the specific lab accident…

Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

This article will be the first in an occasional recurring series of articles that point out little-known historical character stories in Unicode.
The character in question is U+213a, ROTATED CAPITAL Q. It is a Capital Q turned 90° counter-clockwise.

This complete guide explains all about Linux system calls with sample codes and results.