Stories by ColinWright

Bjarne Stroustrup on Dennis Ritchie: They said it couldn't be done, & he did it

Bunny the Fuzzer - A general purpose protocol-blind fuzzer for C programs

Living in a Bug-Free World (image)

Tell HN: Five years old today. Or yesterday. Or roughly now.

Benford's Law and the Decreasing Reliability of Accounting Data

CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...

Technical language in a non-technical setting (humor, video)

Users find bugs in Facebook app for iPad

What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology.

Cyber attack tests for Olympic Games computer systems

DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program Approaches Milestones

Study: A Fold in the Brain is Linked to Keeping Reality and Imagination Separate

Healthworkers freak out politicians by doing trials & challenging prejudices

Mostly Lost: A children's book that teaches programming without a computer

Blackout in Italy: "First time Wikipedia worldwide has done something like this"

Make a Dodecahedron from Post-it Notes

Could technology make car insurance cheaper?

Goodstein's theorem - only provable using trans-finites

Amanda Knox: What's in a face?

Basic explanation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography