Yelp rebuilds corrupted Cassandra cluster using its data streaming architecture(infoq.com)

81 points by rgancarz 3 years ago | 35 comments

How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?(latin.stackexchange.com)

408 points by micouay 3 years ago | 282 comments

A Latin Stack Exchange answer about translating the phrase "She said goodbye too many times before" into Latin.

How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)(whyy.org)

85 points by bkudria 2 years ago | 90 comments

CAP twelve years later: How the "rules" have changed (2012)(infoq.com)

70 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 40 comments

Coding on Copilot: Data suggests downward pressure on code quality(gitclear.com)

68 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 34 comments

The Wonders of Postgres Logical Decoding Messages(infoq.com)

26 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 1 comments

Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears(nature.com)

355 points by mdhb 1 year ago | 243 comments

Nature news article reporting that scientific conferences are relocating or pausing US meetings because foreign researchers fear border and travel problems.

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics(openai.com)

545 points by davidbarker 9 months ago | 369 comments

OpenAI post announcing that GPT-5.2 derived a new result in theoretical physics; the captured page shows only a loading logo.

Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation(wsj.com)

52 points by JumpCrisscross 8 days ago | 36 comments

Wall Street Journal article on major investors doubting Anthropic's IPO can reach a $1.5 trillion valuation; the page showed a device verification screen.

How to Assemble Science(aeon.co)

6 points by karakoram 1 month ago | 0 comments

An Aeon essay on how humanity can make sense of the vast amount of new scientific knowledge produced daily by synthesizing existing research.

How the U.S. became a science superpower(steveblank.com)

420 points by groseje 1 year ago | 407 comments

Steve Blank blog post on how WWII-era science advisors and policy choices made the U.S. a science and engineering superpower while Britain fell behind.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.