Stories by ColinWright

The astounding athletic power of quadcopters (video)

The Irksome Tuesday Boy Problem

UK cops officially detained David Miranda for thoughtcrime

Apollo 13's Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a real problem

"i" was made up to solve sqrt(-1). Don't we need something new for sqrt(i)?

Tell HN: HNSearch still not updating

Tell HN: HNSearch appears not to be updating

Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research

Hash Table Denial of Service Attacks, Revisited

The Nobel Prize in Physics Is Really a Nobel Prize in Math

Buffer security breach has been resolved – here is what you need to know

Dolphin-inspired radar could help detect roadside bombs

Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance

How NASA steers the International Space Station around space junk

False detection on file tcpip.sys

Hacker News Needs Honeypots (2011)

AWK Language Programming - Useful One Line Programs

Linus Says People Must Work More on Technologies and Less on Log-in Screens

Dark energy spacecraft could fly faster than light

A (different) introduction to elliptic curve cryptography