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A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can … Read More ›

Explore the surprisingly different security standards we apply to webhooks versus traditional API requests.

A research team led by Waterloo Engineering has developed a faster, cheaper way to create large-scale, three-dimensional (3D) computer models of urban areas, technology that could impact fields including ...

Drug combination targeting lax airways is nearing an FDA submission

How to use the `timeout` command to terminate processes after a specified time and how to combine it with `until` for smarter shell scripting.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.

Discussions involve companies co-owned by JPMorgan and others, as lenders brace for the possibility that stablecoins could siphon away deposits and transactions.

Hacker News was written in the Arc lisp dialect, a dialect created by Paul Graham. Arc was implemented on top of Racket, but that has now changed. HN runs on top of SBCL since a few months.But why? For performance reasons. I recently noticed that Hacker News…

An honest look at why Nix's complex but powerful approach to package management and reproducible environments is worth considering.

AI, chatbots, and the end of the link economy.

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

💡Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool

I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the…

Horizontal scaling for PostgreSQL with automatic sharding. - pgdogdev/pgdog

The file was unencrypted. No password protection. No security. Just a plain text file with millions of sensitive pieces of data.

Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn keeps putting his foot in it when it comes to conversations about AI.