Stories by ColinWright

Word of the day: “tsundoku”: 積ん読

Boolean Algebra Computers

Gyro monorail

SHRDLU

Marvin Minsky: “Why people think computers can't” (1982)

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

The Nature of Software Development

Final exams for kindergartners

Viewing a Video Illegal in the UK? A Twitter Discussion from David Allen Green

Skills to Teach Students in the First Five Days of School

Gmail smartphone app hacked by researchers

General Systemantics

State Machines – Basics of Computer Science

Minecraft IN Minecraft aka “mineception”

Stanford Dropouts Build Excel Spreadsheet That Doesn’t Totally Suck

Ask HN: Did HN just change font?

Maryam Mirzakhani

Effort to model Facebook yields key to famous math problem

Watch ATV-5 docking

Polynomial Square Root By Long Division