They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. It turns out many ordinary medications don’t just affect our bodies – they affect our brains.

Despite warnings from security researchers, the number of exposed images has risen.

The $30 thumb drives were a fraud. They show up as 1TB, but lsusb reports it as a 4GB USB 2 device. I should have bought a $45 1TB hard drive. Amusingly, the quick test program I wrote was reporting all-good, because each 1GB file written was still in cache…

Music mogul Merck Mercuriadis raised hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the rights to hits by Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars. Is he…

Objectives To assess the association between mortality and the day of elective surgical procedure.

Design Retrospective analysis of national hospital administrative data.

Setting All acute and specialist English hospitals carrying out elective surgery over…

The images were horrifying. A gasoline tanker truck exploding into a fireball. A freeway connector ramp collapsing into a cloud of flames and hot cinders. More than 160 feet of roadway completely missing from the upper deck. Twisted, fire-blackened girders…

Researchers have been rerouting human wastewater from a city to grow trees in Egypt—and it could lead to more than 36 forest sanctuaries in the desert.

Holiday shoppers warned that Honey, a popular browser extension, was a “security risk.”

functional neural networks in ocaml. Contribute to liaopeiyuan/zeta development by creating an account on GitHub.

Trying out the BLAKE3 cryptographic hash function (HN discussion).

Most people sit through countless orientations on the first few days of their job, but one teen discovered a planet - on his third day.
Wolf Cukier, 17, of Scarsdale, New York, had wrapped up his junior year of high school when he headed off to intern in…

Naturally, this is creating some consternation among customers

I have tremendous respect for Paul Graham. His essays – repackaged in the book Hackers and Painters – are among the best writing I've found on software engineering. Not all of them are so great, of course, but the majority are well worth your time. That's…

Learn how to use the HTML autocomplete, inputmode and pattern attributes to improve the user experience of logging in.

A cross-platform PETSCII image editor.