The astonishing secrets of fungal life raise profound questions

A new study out of Norway suggests that handwriting and drawing engages the brain far more than typing on a keyboard, after measuring the brain activity of children and young adults performing these tasks.

A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.

Detergent containers and pill bottles could soon order their own refills

We're announcing additional, significant product and enforcement updates that will increase context and encourage more thoughtful consideration before Tweets are amplified.

Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it. Update …

Following these steps, you will add hardware acceleration decoding capabilities to the Chromium web browser.
This is an extension to the tutorial about DRM for Chromium on the Raspberry Pi. Videos from Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+, Youtube, etc. can be…

It took Soraya Bagheri a day to learn that 450 shares of Moderna Inc. had been liquidated in her Robinhood account and that $10,000 in withdrawals were pending. But after alerting the online brokerage to what she believed was a theft in progress, she received…

+400 YC-backed startups have closed their doors in the last 15 years. Here are some of their biggest failures.

Reverse Engineer some Japanese and learn the makeup of the language. Japanese Complete is your ticket to fluent comprehension of Japanese.

A Canadian seed store inadvertently crossed the line with a seemingly innocent advert for onions.

Mockapetris considers the current state of the DNS and its future in a world where countries are seeking to build their own intranets.

With cloud companies booming during the pandemic, one of the category’s recent public-company success stories is set to make a splash by spending billions to acquire one of its up-and-comers.

Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm. Contribute to facebook/zstd development by creating an account on GitHub.

This case confirms that vitamin D intoxication is possible, albeit with a high dose. The doses used in clinical practice are far lower than these and, therefore, intoxication rarely occurs even in those individuals whose baseline vitamin D serum levels have…

In Dan Hockenmaier's and Lenny Rachitsky's experience, founders are often surprised to learn that there are very few routes to scalable new customer acquisition. Here, this duo unpacks the three ways to drive consumer startup growth, offering a detailed framework…

Even when running under a Windows 98 VM, Delphi 2 can compile large .pas files at 1.2 million lines per second. TCC comes in at 0.7 million lines per second. This is on a 2.5 GHz Skylake laptop.