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A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can … Read More ›

Explore the surprisingly different security standards we apply to webhooks versus traditional API requests.

A research team led by Waterloo Engineering has developed a faster, cheaper way to create large-scale, three-dimensional (3D) computer models of urban areas, technology that could impact fields including ...

Drug combination targeting lax airways is nearing an FDA submission

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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he "Pray no one dies" after revealing that piracy blocking denies access to critical resources in Spain.

Consequences continue to be meted out over the massive corporate wrongdoing.

Discussions involve companies co-owned by JPMorgan and others, as lenders brace for the possibility that stablecoins could siphon away deposits and transactions.

Hacker News was written in the Arc lisp dialect, a dialect created by Paul Graham. Arc was implemented on top of Racket, but that has now changed. HN runs on top of SBCL since (at least) September of 2024.But why? For performance reasons. I recently noticed…

An honest look at why Nix's complex but powerful approach to package management and reproducible environments is worth considering.

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💡Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool

I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the…