Right to repair and other efforts to liberate technology from monopolistic corporations is a precondition for winning many vital societal battles.

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Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we had to overcome to support them.

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Nepal’s village landscapes were once dominated by bamboo and mud-walled houses and Tharu homes were decorated with beautiful mokha art. However, modernisation is killing this artform.

A couple who owned a controlling interest in a foreign corporation argue that a controversial Trump-era tax is unconstitutional under the 16th Amendment.

Doing for AI what we did for the web

viaLibri is the world's largest search engine for old, rare & second-hand books.

The following is a conversation between Clyde Kruskal and Bill Gasarch. CLYDE:  Bill, a student, Ian Roberts,  asked me if there are any non...

Dropbase helps developers build and prototype web apps faster with AI. Dropbase is local-first and self hosted. - DropbaseHQ/dropbase

Since the release of my preprint with Tim, Ben, and Freddie proving the Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa (PFR) conjecture over $latex {\mathbb F}_2$, I (together with Yael Dillies and Bhavik Mehta) have st…

Trickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial.

A note from the author
You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled "Driver".


This article is about the standard test brain image. For the original…

The long read: When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice. This is the story of the most dramatic 72 hours of their lives