Incremental is a library that gives you a way of building complex computations that can update efficiently in response to their inputs changing, inspired by the work of Umut Acar et. al. on self-adjusting computations. Incremental can be useful in … Read more
Crypto’s most infamous collapse is back in the spotlight, and this time the blast radius reaches deep into Wall Street. A new lawsuit doesn’t just revisit the $40 billion Terra-Luna meltdown; it questions whether one of the world’s most sophisticated … Read more
About a week ago, vandals began defacing the map in South Korea. Over the course of that week, I rolled back hundreds of changes, and with the help of the site’s moderators, I banned over 50 malicious accounts. In fact, … Read more
A general view of the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) building is seen in the business district of Mumbai, India, on July 1, 2025. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has temporarily barred … Read more
A “build system” is one of the most important tools in a developer’s toolbox. Roughly, it figures out how to create runnable programs from a bunch of different source files by calling out to the compiler, setting up and executing … Read more
As Jane Street’s lawsuit against Millennium and two former employees shows, Wall Street’s most profitable trading machine isn’t keen on letting its secrets slip out. However, it has begun in recent years to supplement its capital with some debt, and … Read more
Have you ever wanted to radically alter the ambiance of your neighborhood? Perhaps you’ve always dreamed of turning your sleepy suburban road into a bustling inner-city street. Or maybe you’ve always wanted to dig up your nearby traffic heavy roads … Read more
Nathan Anderson. Photo: Philip Montgomery This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One day, a man with dreams of riches placed a truck on top of a … Read more
Transcript What is an exchange? We’re going to talk about it from the perspective of the data structures, and the messages that get passed around to do what an exchange does. And so the first data structure we’re going to … Read more
Last year, it was almost impossible to miss posters for cryptocurrencies plastered all over London’s public transportation network. Crypto was booming, and commuters were subjected to nearly 40,000 crypto advertisements from 13 different companies in the span of six months. … Read more