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.

A Letter from a Web Developer

5-min read US university presidents and chancellors, enough already. It’s time to end the consensual hallucination between university leadership, parents, and students that in-person classes will resume in the fall. The bold statements from presidents and…

Munich-based Wirecard, founded in 1999, was established with the intention of assisting websites with credit card payment collections from custo...

The path to conducting better nutrition science entails recognising previous and inherent limitations and challenges and building on recent developments and opportunities, say Tim Spector and Christopher Gardner

No other scientific field is so influenced…

The maverick director on the myths surrounding his movies — and his latest film, about a Japanese rent-a-family business

A group of techies has borrowed a meme-and-emoji combination to purportedly design an invite-only app that has use that nobody's figured out.

A naturalist cuts through the myths surrounding the invasive plant