Bryan Cantrill
Oxide Computer Company

February 26, 2020
While our software systems have become increasingly elastic, the physical substrate available to run that software (that is, the computer!) has remained stuck in a bygone era of PC architecture. Hyperscale…

The world's biggest nuclear fusion project has entered its five-year assembly phase.

Far from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout history

Young men can eat twice as much food as they need to feel ‘full’, research shows.

🖥 A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron. I'm sorry. - felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

The TLS - Classics - Roman - Essay | Re-reading Fergus Millar’s The Emperor in the Roman World (1977), an essay by Mary Beard

If you used a computer between 1997 and 2005, you probably burned valuable data to at least one recordable CD (CD-R) or DVD-R. Unfortunately, these have a limited lifespan, and many have already become unreadable. That’s why it’s important to back up your…

⭐️ Companies that don't have a broken hiring process - poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards

An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.

Nuoc mam in Vietnam, nam pla in Thailand, patis in Philippines – Southeast Asian fish sauces bear a startling similarity to garum, prized by ancient Romans. Could their fish sauce have travelled along the ancient Silk Road?

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.

Many AWS customers use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to operate multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters where workloads that belong to different teams or projects run in a shared cluster. Customers like that Kubernetes offers centralized management…

Testimony before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law

Australia’s government plans to increase university tuition fees for humanities subjects and reduce them for ‘job-relevant’ Stem courses. Is it a good idea?

GENEVA (Reuters) - A World Health Organization official on Tuesday described the COVID-19 pandemic as “one big wave” and warned against complacency in the northern hemisphere summer since the infection does not share influenza’s tendency to follow seasons.

Modified gravity theories have never been able to describe the universe’s first light. A new formulation does.

By Daniel Hochman and Derek Schaller

In 2004, researchers at the University of Manchester isolated and characterized graphene. A nearly flat, one-atom-thick crystalline form of carbon, the 2D