Ken Shirriff's blog

Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a his...

Microprocessors have become immensely more complex thanks to Moore's Law, but one thing that has been lost is the ability to fully under...

As a long-time reader of Hacker News, I keep seeing some comments they don't really contribute to the conversation. Since the discussio...

Today's Forbes billionaires list inspired me to visualize the wealth inequality in the United States. Use the Forbes list and other sou...

Recently I was at a multi-day volleyball tournament, which gave me plenty of time to ponder the mathematics of the game. At different point...

I recently wound up on CNN for a couple seconds doing some Arduino hacking as part of a segment on Google's workshops. Click the image ...

I attended a very interesting talk "All Questions Answered" by the famous computer science professor Don Knuth in March, where he ...

The last launch of the Endeavour space shuttle has been delayed 48 hours (update: indefinitely ) due to a problem with the APU heater and t...

You may have heard about Firesheep , a new Firefox browser add-on that lets anyone easily snoop over Wi-Fi and hijack your identity for serv...