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Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery about Prime Numbers
On December 24th, 2014 with 28 comments
Blackmoore writes:Found in Wired: Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About...
Facebook's "Year in Review" App: Not Just Annoying, It's Cruel
On December 31st, 2014 with 33 comments
"gewg_" writes: Tech writer Eric Meyer calls out the designers and programmers...
Hy - Lisp for Python
On January 6th, 2015 with 35 comments
yanom writes:You've probably heard of Clojure, the Lisp language that has...
Pokémon Plays Twitch: How a Robot Got IRC Running on an Unmodified SNES
On January 8th, 2015 with 12 comments
n1 writes:Ars Technica reports:The highlight of last year's Awesome Games Done...
OpenNTPD 5.7p1 Released
On January 10th, 2015 with 24 comments
ghost writes:A new, portable version of OpenNTPD has just been released!...
Jepsen: a Tool to Test Network Partions in Distributed Systems
On January 12th, 2015 with 6 comments
mtrycz writes:We've recently had a story on Mozilla's new rr tool, so I...
biicode: A New Open Source Dependency Manager For C/C++ Libraries
On January 26th, 2015 with 16 comments
ticho writes:When Daniel Pfeifer gave a talk about dependency management in...
Arduino IDE 1.6 released
On February 10th, 2015 with 13 comments
dyingtolive writes:"After almost two years “in the making” we’re thrilled to...
Meyer on Feature-Based Agile Development:
On February 22nd, 2015 with 25 comments
tonyPick writes:Up on ACM queue is an article by Bertrand Meyer on the...
What a Lot of Bots We've Got
On March 5th, 2015 with 6 comments
The Editors write:Programmers should be lazy people, at least to the extent...
Linux Kernel Leadership Tries New Way to Resolve Conflict
On March 12th, 2015 with 32 comments
fliptop writes:"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen" could be...
AMD Mantle API Reference Released
On March 20th, 2015 with 13 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:AMD has released the programming guide for their...
Google Claims VP9 Success as New Video Codecs Appear
On April 7th, 2015 with 27 comments
takyon writes:According to Google, YouTube users have now watched a combined...
The Failure of Agile Software Development - and How to Fix It
On May 8th, 2015 with 24 comments
AndyTheAbsurd writes:Andy Hunt - one of the originators of the Agile...
Chinese Baidu's Supercomputer Beats Google At Image Recognition
On May 16th, 2015 with 24 comments
kaszz writes:Using the ImageNet object classification benchmark, Baidu’s Minwa...
Announcing GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub
On May 31st, 2015 with 56 comments
An Anonymous Coward suggests the following story: Chris Ball, about whom I...
Using OpenGL to Protect Software Assets
On June 5th, 2015 with 35 comments
middlemen writes:Game piracy is a real problem for independent game...
Apple's Swift Language Might Actually be Good
On June 14th, 2015 with 49 comments
Robotron writes:
The hype around Swift is near non-existent by Apple...
PHP Development Team Announces PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 2
On June 25th, 2015 with 35 comments
DarkMorph writes:Although the first alpha build of PHP7 was released just two...
Automatic Code Repair
On July 6th, 2015 with 29 comments
"exec" writes:MIT computer scientists have devised a new system that repairs...
GitHub Bans "WebM for Retards" and All its Forks From its Platform
On July 25th, 2015 with 81 comments
Marneus68 writes: GitHub, the git repository hosting service, recently...
They Grow Up Fast: Apple Quietly Bulks Up Swift and Xcode in Year Two
On July 27th, 2015 with 9 comments
Phoenix666 writes:When we first looked at Swift last summer, we predicted it...
Report: New Apple TV and SDK Due in September, Maybe for Real This Time
On August 1st, 2015 with 3 comments
Phoenix666 writes:One of the things Apple was supposed to announce at WWDC in...
Ubuntu’s Shuttered Cloud Storage System Now Open Source
On August 13th, 2015 with 26 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Canonical gave up on operating its Ubuntu One cloud storage...
Stephen Hawking’s Speech System Open-Sourced by Intel
On August 18th, 2015 with 9 comments
Locust-Of-Control writes:From the Canadian Developer Connection blog: Intel...
Github’s Top Coding Languages Show Open Source is Everywhere
On August 22nd, 2015 with 33 comments
Phoenix666 writes:Think of it as a map of the rapidly changing world of...
The Secret of AirBnB’s Pricing Algorithm
On August 25th, 2015 with 4 comments
Phoenix666 writes:In the online world, a number of companies use algorithms to...
Microsoft Releases Sneak Preview of Sharepoint 2016
On August 29th, 2015 with 14 comments
zafiro17 writes:Work in just about any big office and you have almost...
Bug in Visual Studio GitHub Commit Tool Leads to $6,500 Amazon Web Services Bill
On September 2nd, 2015 with 25 comments
We had two different reports concerning a bug in a GitHub addon to Visual...
You Don't Have to Be Good at Math to Learn to Code
On September 3rd, 2015 with 91 comments
HughPickens.com writes:Olga Khazan writes in The Atlantic that learning to...
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