The height of skyscrapers is limited by physical, economic and regulatory barriers, but we should want to overcome them and build taller. Here's how we can do it.

One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’...

Our success is based on scientific discovery, so it's not surprising how much faith we put into it. But we now trust science so implicitly that our trust undermines the institution itself.

I've always been curious about the story of Bell Labs – how it was formed, why it was successful, its challenges and struggles, innovation engine, people, its organizational structure, operations, and its legacy. The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner is an excellent…

The FSF has an unfortunate relationship with firmware, resulting in policies that made sense in the late 1980s, but actively harm users today, through recommending obsolescent equipment, requiring increased complexity in RYF-certified hardware designs and…

Party like a Sumerian: reinterpreting the ‘sceptres’ from the Maikop kurgan - Volume 96 Issue 385

Researchers thought the mineral was impossible to find on Earth's surface.

For Bitcoin, there’s only been one constant recently: decline after decline after decline. And the superlatives have piled up really quickly.

At Contentsquare, we gather hundreds of metrics about user interactions on the websites of our customers. Having all this information can easily become cumbersome and hard to exploit. To make user…

I have been surprised about is how little fan fair has been given to what I consider Go’s most important feature.

What a shared rejection spreadsheet taught me about success

Scriptable desktop app to correct the perspective of images - ad-si/Perspec

Sam Zeloof combines 1970s-era machines with homemade designs. His creations show what’s possible for small-scale silicon tinkerers.

I’ve been implementing the same (or as similar as possible) trading orderbook algorithm in various languages recently and one thing I…

Last week I had a thought: “What’s the simplest Lisp interpreter I could write, which supports macros?"

A weekend of Clojure hacking and some confusion later, a REPL was born. In this essay, we’ll...