YouTube-like Short IDs as Postgres Primary Keys. Contribute to turbo/pg-shortkey development by creating an account on GitHub.

Squeeze on cars continues in '15-minute city' under Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo

An upgrade to a popular CSS framework and a discussion of what happens when big corporations support college courses and supply curriculum.

Reddit averaged 52 million daily active users in October, up 44% from the same month a year earlier.

This year although we’re not reporting from Hawaii, Qualcomm’s Tech Summit is still happening in digital form, representing the company’s most important launch event of the year as it showcases the new flagship products that will power next year’s smartphones.…

Timnit Gebru, a critic of some of the firm's policies, says she was dismissed over an internal email.

Learning how to learn: how to make your ROI on reading explode. Featuring meta-learning, mental models, mind mapping, active recall and the Feynman technique.

Scientists are finally starting to understand the centuries-old mystery of “ballooning.”

An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating them for the modern day.

A study from Korea showing why indoor dining is unsafe and why airborne transmission matters. Case B infected case A from 6.5m (~21 feet!) away in *just five minutes*, and case C from 4.8m (15 feet!). Footage shows no interaction—and only those in line of…

It is the first bill of its kind taken up by either chamber of Congress but faces an uncertain future.