How much does it matter to be born into a productive, industrialized economy?

@fly4dat Tesla Full Self Driving beta causes an accident. Resposting a portion in case the original at youtu.be/7VhrG-7SBZg gets taken down (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285663…). This is clear fair use under the DMCA exception for news reporting. ogc.ha…

How a video game that imagined a bleak future came to model dystopia, in more ways than one.

Magnus Carlsen picked up a fourth win at the World Championship match in Dubai to secure overall victory with three games to spare. Playing black, the world champion saw Ian Nepomniachtchi all but self-destructing for a third time in the match. This was Carlsen’s…

An 8-bit minicomputer with a fully custom architecture - jdah/jdh-8

How Minnesota's geography makes it particularly prone to extreme temperatures.

Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz won regulatory approval to deploy a hands-free driving system in Germany ahead of Tesla Inc., gaining an edge in the race to offer higher levels of automation in one of the world’s most competitive car markets.

And why that is important

a irresponsibly bad logging library. Contribute to bradfitz/jndi development by creating an account on GitHub.

Chess engines were supposed to make classical chess more predictable. Instead, they made the most inventive player of all time more creative.

What if you never take that promotion?