DynamoDB is a powerful yet tricky beast. While it enables insane scalability , it has some stringent limitations that you need to be aware of. It is also impossible to go with such a NoSQL database…

Join Karl Warr - a New Zealand ocean fisherman - on his journey to improve fishing for his customers & the oceans.

Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks - sherlock-project/sherlock

The game Airmash was announced on Dec 10 2017 on Hacker News by a user named fivesigma. The game became very succesful in the year to come. But it would have a very rocky history.

GNU's framework for secure p2p networking

Raspberry Pi 4 just got a lot cooler! The last four months of firmware updates have taken over half a watt out of idle power and nearly a watt out of fully loaded power

Here's one example of where it might have paid to physically line up in the wee, dark hours of Thanksgiving Day to score a Black Friday deal.

Can open source software pass a professional designer's test for work-readiness?

> Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science miscommunications and hypes could maybe be avoided. — Sebastian Risi (@risi1979) October 28, 2019 [https://twitt…

The museum was trying to pretend that it owned a copyright in the scan of a 3,000-year-old sculpture created 3,000 miles away.

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Belarus kept old factories, jobs, and social services alive after communism. Now that model is under threat from Russia.

Pizza delivery. Event planning. Bill splitting. We see many of these at Pioneer. I call them “incombustible ideas”. Founders relentlessly try to ignite them, but they just don’t light up.

We can all get a bit hungry if it has been hours since we last ate. But spare a thought for how hungry Angus Barbieri must have been after he went 382 days without eating. That’s not a typo. In 1965, 27-year-old Angus really did fast for one year and 17 days.…

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The three antennas on the Dutch-Chinese radio telescope, which is currently located behind the moon, have been unfolded. This was ...

The study says wind farm operators are likely to benefit from the uptick in wind speeds since faster wind means more efficient wind turbines.

In the Chinese city of Yiwu, situated nearly 250 km from Shanghai, the long halls of the ‘International Trade City’ stretch along the…