Cloud giant has a lust for Rust so needs top minds and wants them to advance the language

After over 20 years of DNS and PowerDNS, I am moving on. Separate from this page, I am releasing a series of three huge posts on the history of PowerDNS.

Mahesh Bandi, a physicist with the Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit, OIST Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, has found a way to produce N95-type respirator filters that is less expensive and ...

One of the first things you discover as a crime writer is that the range of plausible murder methods is disappointingly small. Basically, it’s stabbing, throat-cutting, strangling, shooting, drowni…

Japan had turned the tide on suicides until the pandemic reality sunk in, now it could prove a worrying harbinger of a mental health crisis festering elsewhere.

64bit multithreaded python data analytics tools for numpy arrays and datasets - rtosholdings/riptable

“It is the most supremely interesting moment in life, the only one in fact when living seems life.”

The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.

This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …

Today, I want to address an issue with statements involving chance. To demonstrate, let’s first consider a statement that doesn’t involve chance:

nFreezer is an encrypted-at-rest backup tool. Contribute to josephernest/nfreezer development by creating an account on GitHub.

A new survey found widespread concern among Americans about government tracking of their whereabouts through their digital devices, with an overwhelming majority saying that a warrant should be required to obtain such data.

Can you imagine best-selling novelist Haruki Murakami leading a coup attempt against Japanese Prime Minister Suga?

Common Lisp Koans is a language learning exercise in the same vein as the ruby koans, python koans and others. It is a port of the prior koans with some modifications to highlight lisp-specific f...

Sometimes, ideas that are a bit scientifically suspect catch on because they are too good to not believe.

“I’d absolutely love to have [an M1 laptop] if it just ran Linux,” Torvalds said.

A Trimap-Free Portrait Matting Solution in Real Time [AAAI 2022] - ZHKKKe/MODNet

Passengers traveling on one Lufthansa route this month can buy a row of economy seats and stretch out across them, replicating the experience of a lie-flat business class bed.