Stories by ColinWright

The Riemann Hypothesis Explained

The Daring Fireball Tootbot Is Once Again Fully Operational

Escher's “Ascending and Descending” in Lego

OneWeb: London startup launches first big batch of satellites

Volume of a Sphere

DHS Buys Phone Location Data, Skirting Fourth Amendment

Russian Peasant Multiplication Explained and Generalised

The most important skill a programmer can learn

Some Boeing 737s can't land on some runways with true heading 270 [pdf]

We retired Python 2 and improved developer happiness

NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north

Writing a DSL in Lua (2015)

A Quantum Computation Course

Discussing the “Gig Economy” not everyone is convinced

Threads on WhatsApp Security

Common sense can get you killed (2010, but timeless)

Two satellites in close shave over US city of Pittsburgh

You Don't Need to See My ID

Astonishing Twitter Thread with Tim Gowers

Tell HN: There is a flame-war detection system