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Does anybody know how this compares performance-wise to Numba ( http://numba.pydata.org/ ) which seems like a pretty similar effort? Numba translates to LLVM bytecode rather than C…

When I last looked up double-entry bookkeeping for Django for some projects I was working on, I came across Oscar and specifically https://github.com/tangentlabs/django-oscar-accou…

Some technical details about how this works: In the demo, the computer vision and gesture recognition algorithms are running on a Windows 8 tablet, connected to the glasses via a U…

This is one of the most elaborate hacks I've ever heard of. Programming via adding items to your inventory in Pokemon. Incredible.

Hey I'm Peter Brook, an engineer at Facebook hacking our Android code. Reading over some of these responses, I feel like there are some popular misconceptions about Facebook that a…

What website is more important/frequently visited and starts with n? I always type n unless I was very recently browsing the new york times

Holy shit. Stuxnet was just confirmed as being developed by the US and Israel.

Very cool tool, I can easily see this becoming a standard tool for learning assembly!

Leave it to TorrentFreak to take a couple sentences of hypothesis from a thoroughly researched analysis and blow it into a story. Reading the original piece, it is clear that the s…

I first used XBMC back when it was XBMP and I was looking around for better dashes than evoX on my xbox. Good times getting those t3ch builds and pushing them to the xbox, occasion…

The site looks very nice, and the idea looks interesting. Another small typo: "Also until we get create a proper login system". How do you determine what are "healthy" and "unhealt…