Making cryptocurrency mining illegal won’t stop all mining, but it will seriously disrupt it.

Lithium-ion battery maker Northvolt has raised $2.75 billion in equity to expand capacity at the factory it is building in northern Sweden to meet increasing demand for electric cars.

Let’s Encrypt is well-known for issuing certificates that are valid for only 90 days. Since the very first certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt’s infrastructure, those certificates have been given a 90 day validity period by our CA software by taking the…

Research suggests that when the rich bank, the rest borrow.

This investigation into email tracking attempts to deconstruct tracking links and pixels and highlight the data that is being collected. It covers Mailchimp, …

This version is almost entirely bug-fixing and quality-of-life improvements,
plus a few balance tweaks. The game was also set up to automatically build and
run tests on Github.

many bugfixes and ...

Notes, minutes, letters and meetings will be ‘French-first’ when France takes over European Council’s presidency

Course materials for Dartmouth course: Human Memory (PSYC 51.09) - ContextLab/human-memory

#fuckapple, a thread I cofounded @fanhouseapp 8 months ago to empower creators to monetize their content. We pay creators 90% of earnings. Now, Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse from the app store unless we give them 30% of creator earnings. This is…

It’s just a good use of technologies Apple had already built.

In Nazi-occupied Paris, “Dr. Eugène” offered Jews an alternative to deportation, slavery, and death camps. But the escape network was not what it seemed.

Hacker News web site source code mirror. Contribute to wting/hackernews development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alex Wellerstein’s book, Restricted Data, confirms what Jeremy Bernstein has long believed to be true: the information needed to make a nuclear weapon has been in circulation for a long time.

Open source packages are the “roads and bridges” of software, but unlike real roads and bridges, open source is often invisible.

New audio technique can track bats in flight and help localise sources of ultrasonic sound.

A $9 billion oil pipeline that became a symbol of the rising political clout of climate change advocates and a flash point in U.S.-Canada relations was officially canceled on Wednesday.