Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

When I was in high school, my teacher once told us a crazy story.

Councilman testimony: https://youtu.be/Jh2wfR7wyS0?t=3145
Flock wiki with patent links & other info: https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Flock_License_Plate_Readers

Other videos on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkVbIsAWN2luf9…

Now it looks like the White House is physically being destroyed."

In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake.

A Silicon Valley firm has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build out a social media surveillance dragnet. Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.

At thousands of uploads/second, S3’s per-request fees dominated costs. We built N3, a Rust in-memory landing zone with S3 as overflow.

I’ve been watching the Zig language for a while now, given that it was created for writing audio software (low-level, no allocations, real time). I never paid too much attention though, it seemed a little weird to me and I didn’t see the real need. Then I…

Main Bottleneck in the Rendering Loop The primary bottleneck is at /vscode/src/vs/base/browser/dom.ts:365 - the animation frame queue sorts on every iteration inside the while loop: while (currentQ...

Implementations of the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite in Oberon, C++, C, Pascal, Micron and Luon - rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet

The 1975 Sphere Computer from Utah. Images, resources, documentation, virtual Sphere emulator, and book updates!

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers have developed algorithms that improve the precision of location tracking in smartwatches, a world-first development.

An efficient unique-line counter (25x over `sort | uniq -c`) - noamteyssier/hist-rs

Bring Microsoft Recall to Linux! Contribute to rolflobker/recall-for-linux development by creating an account on GitHub.

Private and secure Android browser with support for browser extensions. - jqssun/android-helium-browser