The Sun is ready for its close-up. Sunny Side Up The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun's roiling surface, taken by its Solar Orbiter last year from a front-row vantag

For years, Google has been the default search engine on Apple’s Safari browser, but recent developments have made it clear that the search giant is no longer the best option for Apple. With deteriora

Right now, asyncio is one of the trendier topics in Python, and rightfully so – It’s a great way to handle I/O-bound programs! When I was learning about asyncio, It took me a while to understand how i

In looking up at the sky during these early weeks of spring, you may very well see a flock of birds moving in unison as they migrate north. But how do these creatures fly in such a coordinated and see

Frank Stella, whose laconic pinstripe “black paintings” of the late 1950s closed the door on Abstract Expressionism and pointed the way to an era of cool minimalism, died on Saturday at his home in th

Refactor Utilities for refactoring and upgrading Ruby code based on ASTs. Consider reading ASTs in Ruby - Pattern Matching as a primer for using this gem, as it will introduce concepts of pattern ma

Last week, Apple began requiring iOS developers justify the use of a specific set of APIs that could be used for device fingerprinting. Yet the iGiant doesn't appear to be making much effort to ensure

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Boeing’s Starliner launch tonight has been postponed “out of an abundance of caution” scarcely two hours before the historic liftoff. The scrub is reportedly due to an issue with the oxygen relief val

Proton Mail has come under scrutiny for its role in a legal request involving the Spanish authorities and a member of the Catalan independence organization, Democratic Tsunami. Proton Mail is a secur

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — About a year ago, veterinarian Melissa Ezell started noticing subtle changes at the midsized animal clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, where she works. Hollowed Out This story is one i

XML processing was all the rage 15 years ago; while it's less prominent these days, it's still an important task in some application domains. In this post I'm going to compare the speed of stream-proc

We're going to speed up some numpy code by 100x using "unsafe Python." Which is not quite the same as unsafe Rust, but it's a bit similar, and I'm not sure what else to call it... you'll see. It's not

Welcome to the Clowder Project! The Clowder Project is an online reference work and wiki for category theory and ma­the­ma­ti­cs. It is built using Gerby, created by Pieter Belmans and Raymond Cheng,

Two college freshmen who, during their final year of high school, found a new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which mathematicians for generations thought was impossible – ha

Edd Gent is a freelance science and technology writer based in Bengaluru, India. His writing focuses on emerging technologies across computing, engineering, energy and bioscience. He's on Twitter at @

Whenever I'm coding in multiple languages, I end up mixing the syntax and making syntactical errors. For example, I would end up writing "def" in NodeJS or "function" in Python. (Same with manipulatin

Spanish police have arrested more than 100 people who stole €850,000 (more than $900,000) through WhatsApp by pretending to be their victims’ family members in urgent need of help. According to a sta

Territory Humankind produces more and more code everyday, meanwhile a single person’s ability to comprehend it stays constant. We want to make everyone better at understanding these vast territories.

The modular/upgradeable Framework Laptops employ an open-source embedded controller (EC) firmware derived from Google's Chrome OS EC project. This is great for open-source fans and allows re-using muc

Palm apps These apps run on Palm OS devices, and emulators such as Cloudpilot. To install on a device, if you’re using Palm Desktop you can simply double-click each PRC/PDB file. If you’re on Linux,

We now have traffic being transmitted outside the VPN’s encrypted tunnel. This technique can also be used against an already established VPN connection once the VPN user’s host needs to renew a lease

Research News Quantum Gravity Gets a New Test A proposed experiment could bring scientists closer to answering the long-standing question of whether gravity is a classical or a quantum phenomenon.

I am happy to announce that we are experimenting with bringing back a version of Stack Overflow Jobs! The first iteration of Stack Overflow Jobs brought a lot of value to the developer community. At

I find myself rereading Antifragile, Black Swan, Lean Startup, and $100M Offers All of them have significantly shaped my worldview, and I'd love to know HN's favorite nonfiction books

We love complex, deep discussions. We've seen or been part of many discussions — strategic discussions at work, discussions on AI alignment, technical design documents, public policy, etc. For us, th

Gas stoves, found in more than 40 million U.S. homes, are likely giving some children asthma, new research suggests. A study published Friday suggests that around 50,000 current cases of pediatric as

After much deliberation, the winners of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition are finally selected. There are two different award categories. The winners of the first category are those submission

The following snapshots of Nukefix screens show how the computer program Nukefix can provide answers to difficult questions about the probability of a nuclear use and how to abolish or reduce nuclear

Clojure: managing throughput with virtual threads 06 May 2024 Before the introduction of Java 21 virtual threads we were heavy users of claypoole a fantastic library for simple but effective parallel

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Stop Expecting Tech Companies To Provide ‘Consequences’ For Criminal Behavior; That’s Not Their Job from the stop-blaming-the-tools dept Whose job is it to provide consequences when someone breaks t

This article was originally published in German and has been automatically translated. The streaming media libraries of the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF are also growing together technically: The

I posted this question on my Twitter and got a lot of interesting replies[1] Curious to hear what HN is building for private use. [1] https://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge/status/1786658603769991375

It all started on a beach in southwestern England in the early 2000s. Richard Thompson, then a senior lecturer at Plymouth University (where he now serves as professor of marine biology), was leading

A few days ago I finally swatted a VGA emulation bug that I had known about for several years, but couldn’t identify until recently. The problem affected only Windows 3.1 running in Standard mode. It