Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,323 posts.
A new study from the University of California, Davis, Genome Center, UC San Francisco and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub shows no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated people who tested positive for the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. It also found no significant difference between infected…
Explains and debunks the most broadcast accusations against Richard Stallman, providing evidence of outright fabrication, exaggeration, or deceit.
Focus on debugging your application rather than debugging your programming language knowledge.
Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy+ is a widely cited report that analyzes the cost competitiveness of renewables, energy storage, and system considerations.
Transport accounts for around one-fifth of global CO₂ emissions. Three-quarters of this is from road transport.
The United States trails far behind other high-income countries on measures of health care affordability, administrative efficiency, equity, and outcomes.
Podman exists to offer a daemonless container engine for managing OCI-compliant containers on your Linux system. Users love it for its ease of adoption a...
Explore data on where our electricity comes from and how this is changing.
It’s no secret that the Ethereum blockchain is a highly adversarial environment. If a smart contract can be exploited for profit, it eventually will be. But this unforgiving environment pales in comparison to the mempool. If the chain itself is a battleground, the mempool is something worse: a dark forest.
Federal statistics show dramatic declines in U.S. violent and property crime rates since the early 1990s.
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
Americans' estimates of both the risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19 and the efficacy of the vaccine for the disease vary widely by their political affiliation and vaccination status.
Explore data on how energy production and use varies across the world.
