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Gigster (YC S15) Is Looking for Full Stack Engineers

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will build and extend communication and management platforms and you will devise intelligent systems that combine algorithms with the crowd to automate project...

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Obituary: Great Barrier Reef

For most of its life, the reef was the world’s largest living structure, and the only one visible from space.    Illustration: Andrew Holder The Great Barrier Reef of Australia passed away in 2016...

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Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product

The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram provided user data access to Geofeedia, a developer of a social media monitoring product that we have seen...

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Nuclear Pulse Propulsion – Orion and Beyond (2000) [pdf]

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Keras.js – Run trained Keras models in your browser

README.mdRun trained Keras models in your browser, GPU-powered using WebGL. Models are serialized directly from the Keras JSON-format configuration file and associated HDF5 weights.Interactive...

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Robot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats

When we use our muscles, they produce heat as a byproduct. When we use them a lot, we need to actively cool them, which is why we sweat. By sweating, we pump water out of our bodies, and as that water...

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Static types in Python

Over the last few years, static type checkers have become available for popular dynamic languages like PHP (Hack) and JavaScript (Flow and TypeScript), and have seen wide adoption. Two years ago, a...

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An Open Source, Self-Hosted Heroku

Running our own Heroku… It shouldn't be that hard, right?We have a small set of servers we use to run our internal applications. Nothing too complex, just monitoring, our ELK stack, Jenkins, and a few...

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PHP 7 deployment at Dailymotion

In march 2015, we started to think that code refactoring and architecture improvements, will not be the only way to optimize the response time on dailymotion.com. This is the core problem of websites...

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How to speed up the Rust compiler

Rust is a great language, and Mozilla plans to use it extensively in Firefox. However, the Rust compiler (rustc) is quite slow and compile times are a pain point for many Rust users. Recently I’ve been...

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Flynn: open source PaaS

Flynn is an open source platform (PaaS) for running applications in production.It does everything you need, out of the box:Creates running applications directly from your code so there's no need to...

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Maslow CNC

Maslow is a large (4'x8') CNC cutting machine designed to let you "print" big, useful things out of wood and other flat materials. Print a tiny house, a kayak, a tree house, some furniture, or anything...

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KDE 1 Released by KDE Restoration Project

From the Research deps of KDE ProjectThe KDE project is proud to announce his first public release,  after 20 years of hard development from a team of multi cultural developers around the world.Was an...

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Kibo Blockchain Lotto

Today, the key problem of any service or product is the need to have a large user base at the start of the project. As we have had this problem in mind since the very start of working on KIBO, we have...

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Common prostate cancer treatment linked to later dementia, researcher says

The team looked at deidentified records from Stanford Medicine’s clinical-research data warehouse for nearly 10,000 patients with prostate cancer. Of the 1,829 who received androgen deprivation...

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Samsung Foundry Announces 10nm SoC in Mass-Production

Today Samsung announced mass production of a SoC built on its third-generation 10nm "10LPE" manufacturing node. It was only this January that Samsung announced mass production of its 14LPP process that...

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I Won $104M for Blowing the Whistle But Was the Only One Who Went to Jail

Bradley C. Birkenfeld, 51, blew the whistle on the Swiss bank UBS for helping Americans avoid paying taxes, leading to about $15 billion in recovered tax money, fines and penalties. He spent two and a...

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Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri

Apple is making a visible push in the direction of AI today by hiring Carnegie Mellon University professor Ruslan Salakhutdinov for what appears to be a newly minted position: director of AI...

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No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content

No Man’s Sky is a space exploration game which uses procedural generation technology in order to create game environment and assets (textures, models, terrains etc). I was very excited since this game...

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Codebender is closing down

TLDR: The codebender.cc website is being deprecated as we move our focus on new stuff When we started codebender on February 2012, more than 4 years ago, we never expected it to become this popular and...

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