David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while also probing the bizarre, the radical and the experimental, has died aged 78. “It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch,” read a Facebook post. “We would appreciate some privacy […]
David Lynch has died
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. Lynch revealed in 2024 that he had been diagnosed with emphysema after a lifetime of smoking, and would likely not be able […]
Same three bands appear in three different presentations with different labels
Nature Communications (2015) – Comments pubmed: 26586091 doi: 10.1038/ncomms9888 issn: 2041-1723 Peisu Zhang, Kotb Abdelmohsen, Yong Liu, Kumiko Tominaga-Yamanaka, Je-Hyun Yoon, Grammatikakis Ioannis, Jennifer L. Martindale, Yongqing Zhang, Kevin G. Becker, In Hong Yang, Myriam Gorospe, Mark P. Mattson
I am offering mentoring: In which I help you
In which I help you What is this? I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful. How will it work? We will meet three times for 30 minutes. During those sessions, I’ll try to help you do whatever it is you’re trying to do. […]
Show HN: DBOS TypeScript – Lightweight Durable Execution Built on Postgres
DBOS Transact is a TypeScript library for ultra-lightweight durable execution. For example: class Example { @DBOS.step() static async step_one() { … } @DBOS.step() static async step_two() { … } @DBOS.workflow() static async workflow() { await Example.step_one() await Example.step_two() } } Durable execution means persisting the execution state of your program while it runs, so if […]
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer (Distributed Systems)
We are a small team based in San Francisco looking to hire our third founding engineer that has a dedicated focus around distributed systems. As a founding engineer, you will have the opportunity to wear multiple hats, directly interact with our customers and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our product. This […]
Let’s Encrypt is offering 6-day and IP address certs
This year we will continue to pursue our commitment to improving the security of the Web PKI by introducing the option to get certificates with six-day lifetimes (“short-lived certificates”). We will also add support for IP addresses in addition to domain names. Our longer-lived certificates, which currently have a lifetime of 90 days, will continue […]
Test-Driven Development with an LLM for Fun and Profit
Welcome to the very first post in a new blog! Here I will discuss software development, SRE work, and other fun stuff. Sometimes an idea is just too good to pass up. I hope this blog will motivate me to turn sparks and little pieces into general knowledge in writing the words down. The other […]
The Conundrum of Life’s Origin
Explore In their attempts to pin down the meaning of “life,” scientists and philosophers have offered dozens of definitions. Lately, researchers more or less agree that, for something to be alive, it has to be able to reproduce and evolve by natural selection. While these attempts might be getting us incrementally closer to understanding what […]
Stanford Researchers Produce Ammonia Fuel from Thin Air
2 min read Alfred Poor is the former editor of Health Tech Insider and a contributor to IEEE Spectrum. Stanford University researchers tested their ammonia production device in different spots, including on campus. Lots of green energy experiments in the lab publish impressive results—but what’s more impressive is when those results come from an actual […]