Stories by raldi

All sophisticated life on Earth may owe its existence to one freakish event

The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013)

What if we called it the Flax Age instead of the Iron Age?

Marchetti's constant

I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees

Net Neutrality is now the law throughout California

United States National Radio Quiet Zone

HN discussion: Facebook acquires Instagram (2012)

Driving a NES way beyond its limits by putting a Raspberry Pi in the cartridge

“I think it's fair to say that Silicon Valley is dead.” (1993)

The Great Slate: connecting techies with progressive candidates around the USA

A video game-playing AI beat Q*bert in a way no one’s ever seen before

Why homelessness in San Francisco appears to be growing when, in fact, it isn’t

The last day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times (1978 documentary)

California’s wildfires aren’t “natural” – humans made them worse at every step

Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012)

Taking a full course of antibiotics doesn’t help prevent spread of resistance

Taking a full course of antibiotics doesn't help prevent resistance

Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012)

Babies On Display: When a Hospital Couldn't Save Them, a Sideshow Did (2015)

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