A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s during an archaeological dig.

Our phones are being overrun.

We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message
gimme gimme gimme

in stderr, which wasn't expected. Why are...

YC is at our best when backing founders with an ethos of building for others,
including strong open source developers like the founders of Continue
[https://continue.dev] and many others.

Earlier this week, a startup in the current batch, PearAI, was criticized…

Always have a comma in your password, that way if it is part of a leak it will break the CSV file.

IR-2024-258, Oct. 3, 2024 — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that Direct File will be available for the 2025 tax filing season in double the number of states than last year’s pilot, and it will cover a wider range of tax situations, greatly expanding…

This special issue of Quanta Magazine explores the ultimate scientific quest: the search for the fundamental nature of reality.

The first rescue was of two women who were stranded high up on a mountain.

Web Browser Optimized for Rabbit-Holing

The employees accepted a severance package offered to those who disagreed with Matt Mullenweg's direction of WordPress and his fight with WP Engine.

I FINALLY got everything off the cloud

I'm now paying 10x LESS money for BETTER infrastructure

My AWS bill was ~$1,400/mo

I got it down to less than $120/mo for literally better, beefier servers

Fear of managing servers has a price: 10x your monthly infra…

Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Perfctl is particularly elusive and persistent malware employing several sophisticated techniques

Five regions of the planet were claimed to hold the key to living past 100. Research by Dr Saul Newman of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing shows the truth isn’t that simple, writes Kevin E G Perry

How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?

Close to a year ago, I stumbled upon the Kekz Headphones, which seemed like an interesting approach on the whole digital audio device space. They claimed to work without any internet connection and all of the content already on the headphones itself. They…

Opinion: It’s time to take a new approach to monitoring the H5N1 outbreak in dairy cows.

Math is hard enough, why make it harder on students?

Meta Movie Gen is our latest research breakthrough that allows you to use simple text inputs to create videos and sounds, edit existing videos or transform your personal image into a unique video.

A web app that generates code for efficiently approximating mathematical functions of one variable.