Why isn’t CPU time more valuable?

The hard part in becoming a command line wizard

The Soviet license plate game and Kolmogorov complexity

Naming elliptic curves used in cryptography

Queueing theory: The science of waiting in line

Projecting Unicode to ASCII

John D Cook: I disagree with Linus Torvalds about C++ (2009)

87% of Americans Can Be Identified by Zip Code, Birthday and Gender

New prime record: 51st Mersenne prime

Uncomfortable privacy research