Very few think the world is making progress. In this article, we look at the history of global living conditions and show that the world has made immense progress in important aspects.

Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.

How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.

The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 1.1.0, codenamed “Eatoni”.

The 1000 most popular books on Hacker News visualized on an interactive map.

Ruby gem for working with io_uring. Contribute to digital-fabric/iou development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nobody cares about security. There. I said it. I said the thing everyone feels, some people think, but very few have the temerity to say out loud. But before you call me...

Introduction Alice and Bob are at it again, this time playing a game called Binary Search. Alice begins by secretly selecting an integer key from 1 to $latex n=100$, then Bob makes a series of inte…

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AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) buckets are a popular storage service used by software companies and organizations to store public as well as sensitive data. However, the implementation of this servic...

A US study that simulated life and death decisions has shown that humans place excessive trust in artificial intelligence when guiding their choices.

Via testing with a skin stand-in, a trio of physicists at Technical University of Denmark has ranked the types of paper that are the most likely to cause a paper cut. In an article published in Physical ...

Design patterns are these cool things that make you go 'hell yeah' because they make a certain problem easier to deal with. Whether it's applicable to all languages, or due to a language constraint, they're pretty nice. Of course, some people go crazy with…

80% of sleep apnea cases are undiagnosed, and undiagnosed sleep apnea causes $150B of wasted medical spend every year.

A guest post by Steven Glinert.

NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?