In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs. Along with his co-founder and brother John, he built online payments company Stripe into a $36 billion behemoth in a decade. (Patrick…

By Michelle Brenner

@TimSweeneyEpic @isostandards @mikko The value of standards is in their adoption. ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them, making it impractical for millions of hobbyist programmers to access to them and be able to even understand what the…

Amazon Assistant browser extension delegates its wide range of privileges to Amazon web services. The potential for misuse is enormous.

This article is part of a 3-part series on trimodal compensation:

* Part 1: The trimodal nature of software engineering salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021, this article)
* Part 2: The trimodal nature of tech compensation revisited (2024, this…

Fun fact, facebook knows when you read their emails (assuming you have html enabled and show images). This is at the bottom of every email that faceboo... - Carl Chatfield - Google+

“At the heart of our mental chess game lies a profound lesson: The difference between being content or distraught is a matter of perspective.”

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) explored and catalogued the biodiversity of the viral species found in 28,060 public human gut metagenomes and 2,898 bacterial isolate genomes cultured from…

@madebygoogle @gmail @GooglePay @Android @androidcentral @AndroidAuth @AndroidPolice My near decade old @Google account was disabled. Can't pay @googlefi or @googlefiberhelp bills. Years of @googledrive files and memories gone. Please, help me get this seen…

BY BEN HOROWITZ A lot of people have been asking me what my upcoming book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, will be like. Here's a piece that I wrote for the book that did not make the cut. I still think it's a pretty good story and gives you a flavor. I…

A Tesla regulatory counsel told the California DMV that it will remain a hands-on system.

Sometimes when a complex story takes us by surprise or knocks us back on our heels, it pays to revisit the events in a somewhat linear fashion. Here's a brief timeline of what we know leading up to last week's…

Last month's power failures in Texas highlighted grid reliability concerns.

Much of climate research is focused on implausible scenarios of the future, but implementing a course correction will be difficult

When considering data privacy and protections, there is no data more important than personal data, whether that’s medical, financial, or even social. The discussions around access to our data, or even our metadata, becomes about who knows what, and if my…

Dishes will be modified for vehicles, vessels, and aircraft, SpaceX tells FCC.

Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.