There’s an old startup mantra — probably from the early Airbnb or Y Combinator days — that goes: “Do things that don’t scale.”

Yubin Archive's mission to "eliminate educational inequality" in South Korea, by providing free access to expensive books, appears to be over.

Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand.

Office suites for HP-UX and PA-RISC were developed in the mid-1990s to fill the gap between technical engineering and integration into the wider office environment.

Psychologically Plausible Deep Learning with Differentiable Tversky Similarity

Unpredictability can help computer scientists solve otherwise intractable problems.

A personality experiment. You may not like it. It may not like you.

Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech. Contribute to superstarryeyes/lue development by creating an account on GitHub.

The new Processor Trace instrument has flown under the radar with this years WWDC announcements but many developers will find it truly indispensable.

Evidence from a 500-year-old <em>khipu</em> suggests commoners helped craft the Inca’s intricate knotted records

IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 Princeton NuEnergy launched the first U.S. commercial-scale battery recycling facility in Chester, South Carolina, achieving a recycling yield of over 97%. 💡 The facility, fully compliant with regulatory standards, is set to expand its capacity…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE06Tw9UWM8
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-internal-documents-show-how-divided-the-eu-member-states-are/
https://www.iccl.ie/news/an-garda-siochana-unlawfully-retains-files-on-innocent…

One in 18,000 people in the UK have Williams Syndrome, meaning they are empathetic and friendly, but can have learning disabilities and anxiety.

Spoiler: I have data from the story in the title of this post, it's mostly what I expected it to be, I've just added it to HIBP where I've called it "Data Troll", and I'm going to give everyone a lot more context below. Here goes: