In today’s fast-paced tech world, the story of Wang Zhengyang, a 13-year-old from Beijing who’s become China’s youngest ...

Hacker Fellows, a program of Invest Detroit Ventures, is taking applications for its 2017 fellowship program. Hacker Fellows is a one-year fellowship for hackers and would-be coders who would like to ...

Some people believe that everyone should be a programmer. But Frank Duff is living proof this notion should be taken with a large grain of salt. In 2003, Duff quit his job as a software developer and ...

More than 6,000 hopefuls from around the world entered Facebook’s programming challenge, the Hacker Cup, in January. Three months later, just 25 finalists went head-to-head in a three-hour battle for ...

While violent crime is generally declining, juvenile crime continues to rise. In an effort to curb this trend, the San Francisco Police Department is joining forces with a privately funded project, ...

Two weeks ago someone ran a poll on Hacker News asking what the readers’ favorite programming language was. Yesterday (April 5) I took a look back at the poll to see who came out on top. I wasn’t ...

Windows and Mac OS X: Hackety Hack is an application designed to teach complete beginners how to program in Ruby, eventually giving you the ability to create actual applications for the desktop and ...