A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or...

Von Neumann on how games featuring partial information, chance, and deception will make you a better decision-maker.

The story of debugging a mysterious Julia segfault.

This Medical News article discusses the puzzling phenomenon of “long-haulers,” patients who haven’t returned to full health weeks or even months after what sometimes is a mild case of COVID-19.

One activist called Facebook "a roiling cauldron of lies, violence and danger."

‘Ninja bomb’, which uses 100lb of dense material and six attached blades, has been deployed in targeted assassinations

In this episode we'll explore the Redis AOF implementation.

Magawa, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, was recognized with a prestigious honor for his work detecting mines and explosives in Cambodia.

Listen now (2 min) | This installment of The Pomp Letter is free for everyone. I send this email to our investors daily. If you would also like to receive it every morning, join the 75,000 other investors today. To investors, One of the recurring themes in…

As has been noticed, several Google services were down for some users from 6:00 to 6:23 p.m. PDT. A pool of servers that route traffic to application backends crashed, and users on that particular pool experienced the outage. GCP was not affected.

Take control of your Reminders with Strongweek, the weekly, monthly, yearly planner app for IOS - now with homescreen widgets and Apple Reminders sync. Forget due dates. Focus on what you need to get done this week.

This week we continue our four-part (I, II, III, IVa, IVb, addendum) look at pre-modern iron and steel production. Last week we prospected our iron ore and extracted it from the ground and did some…

A security drone for your home may seem like a cool idea but do the benefits outweigh the risks?

Last Updated: June 7, 2023Originally written by Jaakko PiipponenThis post is aimed at CEOs and founders who are looking to upgrade their SaaS Financial

Apple Inc. will let users of Facebook Inc.’s online events product use the social network’s own payment method through the end of the year, temporarily bypassing the iPhone maker’s typical 30% cut.

Urban legend says that Mona Lisa's eyes will follow you as you move around the room. This interactive digital portrait brings the phenomenon to life..

My job these days is teaching TLA+ and formal methods: specifying designs to find bugs in them. But just knowing the syntax isn’t enough to write specs, and it helps to have examples to draw from. I recently read Chris Siebenmann’s Even in Go, concurrency…

In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision…