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The quest to replace passwords
Research paper
2015-01-31
passwords • authentication • login
libguestfs
Manipulate VM disk images without having to boot the VM
2015-01-31
vm • filesystem • fuse • via:onethingwell • software
LoL server peering
Details of the online realtime game's network design
2015-01-31
games • lol • leagueoflegends • peering • networks
huptime
Restart servers with no downtime; some bind/accept clever hack
2015-01-26
uptime • reliability • devops • networking • servers
Microsoft BASIC for 6502
Source code for the BASIC that drove the Apple ][
2015-01-24
basic • microsoft • billgates • 6502 • assembly • code • programming • history
Wayland
An eventual replacement for X11 for Linux graphics
2015-01-24
graphics • x11 • windows • ui
Catsup
Nice long article on the history and etymology of the condiment
2015-01-23
language • ketchup • catsup • etymology • history • food
sample(1)
Like cat, but returns just a random sample
2015-01-23
via:onethingwell • unix • commandline • statistics
Chaturbate
NSFWish summary of the culture of an Internet sexcam site
2015-01-23
sex • chaturbate • culture • internet • pornography • nsfw
Bees with Machine Guns
HTTP load generator using EC2 micro instance
2015-01-23
loadtesting • ddos • aws • performance • testing
Can I have A pet fox?
Details on efforts to domesticate or tame foxes
2015-01-23
fox • pets • canids • foxes
bashplotlib
ASCII graphs for quickie data visualization
2015-01-23
python • graphs • visualization
Fear China
Something weird is going on with Chinese internet, creating DDOS attacks
2015-01-23
badtech • china • ddos • network
nPlayer iOS
Alternate video player that does many formats. Better than VLC?
2015-01-23
video • ios • ipad • vlc
Google+ users
Some plausible stats
2015-01-22
google • google+ • facebook • ghosttown
Minipedia
A new offline Wikipedia reader for iOS
2015-01-22
minipedia • wikipedia • offline • ios
Galileo Offline Maps
New OSM map downloader, quite nice
2015-01-22
maps • offline • ios • iphone
Pirating the 2015 Oscars
Academy members only get DVD quality screeners, so pirates have moved on to HD sources
2015-01-22
movies • piracy • oscars • waxy
healthcare.gov privacy debacle
Government website is sending data to DoubleClick. WTF?
2015-01-21
ads • privacy • healthcare • badtech
Hyperion (moon)
One of Saturn's moons is quite bizarre, including chaotic rotation.
2015-01-21
saturn • moon • astronomy
Keurig Freedom Clip
Simple hack to fake out the stupid K-Cup DRM
2015-01-21
coffee • keurig • drm
The Hobbit: 4 hour edit
Someone cut the 3 movies down to 1 very long movie
2015-01-19
movies • hobbit • tolkein • thehobbit • via:reddit • lotr
Clever Little Clock
A battery powered clock that magically improves your AV system, merely by being in the same room
2015-01-17
audiophile • batshitinsane • av • funny • via:metafilter
Hermione Granger and the Goddamn Patriarchy
Hilarious re-consideration of Harry Potter
2015-01-17
funny • harrypotter • books • feminism
Internet Resistance
Fun looking art class at CMU
2015-01-17
cmu • art • internet • 4chan
Against DNSSEC
Arguments that DNSSEC is a flawed system that provides no extra security
2015-01-15
dnssec • security • crypto
Swiss franc 20% appreciation
Details on currency exchange and how rates shift dramatically
2015-01-15
europe • currency • forex • switzerland • finance
CA High Speed Rail collection
Index of thoughtful articles from James Fallows
2015-01-15
transportation • california • trains • hsr
NSA regret
Some inadequate words of contrition for subverting national securtiy
2015-01-14
nsa • crypto • badtech • snowden
Madrone Cabins
Friend recommends this as a nice cabin camping experience north of SF
2015-01-14
camping • redwoods • vacation
GTA: Clockwork Orange
Scenes from the movie re-created in Grand Theft Auto: Online
2015-01-14
games • funny • movies • clockworkorange • gtav • gta5 • grandtheftauto
@wnd_go
A choose your own adventure story in Twitter accounts
2015-01-14
twitter • via:metafilter • books • clever • chooseyourownadventure
Google Domains
Google has a product now for a simple company website
2015-01-13
Google • business • dns • domain
100 Charts Project
Data visualization project showing demographic changes over time
2015-01-12
demographics • charts • visualization • economics
What's new in CPUs since the 80s?
Overview of modern CPU architecture geegaws
2015-01-12
cpu • architecture • computing • via:hackernews
Chilling Effects withdraws
They've blocked themselves from being indexed on search engines.
2015-01-12
copyright • dmca
Yerba Buena Island
Excellent photoessay on the oddest part of San Francisco
2015-01-12
sanfrancisco • island • yerbabuena • baybridge
Buzzfeed title success
Ranking of Facebook popularity. Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2s6d1y/30_linkbait_phrases_in_buzzfeed_headlines_you/
2015-01-12
via:Reddit • buzzfeed • viral • marketing • headlines
EFF on harassment
Difficult challenge for a fundamentally libertarian organization
2015-01-12
eff • civilrights • feminism • gamergate • harassment
Palantir leak
Info on the spooky big data company's customers
2015-01-12
palantir • bigdata
August Never Ends
Depressing update from Zoe Quinn about the continued focussed harassment
2015-01-12
gamergate • zoequinn • feminism • games
namebench
benchmark possible DNS servers
2015-01-11
dns • speed • internet • optimization
1937 SF redline map
From the TechCrunch article about East Palo Alto; neighborhoods by security, a tool for mortgage lenders
2015-01-11
maps • sanfrancisco • 1930s • redlining • racism • history
jfire animations
John Firebaugh's design experiments with D3.js
2015-01-10
design • d3js • javascript • art
D&D via Twitter
Dungeon master runs a game via Twitter
2015-01-10
twitter • games • d&d • rpgs • via:metafilter
Being blonde at MIT
Horrible sexism
2015-01-10
women • sexism • mit • feminism • gender
Young love (vulgar)
Stock photo comic from /r/youdontsurf
2015-01-10
funny • youdontsurf • stockphotos • via:reddit
New Muni Metro
A bold plan to fix Muni by making Market its own route
2015-01-09
muni • sfmuni • transit
OpenAddresses: 100m locations
Nice milestone for the open geodata project
2015-01-09
maps • openaddresses • openstreetmap • osm
China astroturfing
Minor hack reveals government propaganda faking Internet buzz
2015-01-09
china • astroturf • propaganda
Address falsehoods
Various street naming assumptions programmers make that are wrong
2015-01-08
maps • addresses • localization
Adaptive map projection
Clever web map changes projections as you zoom and pan
2015-01-07
maps • projections • cartography
Nino Ferrer - Looking For You
Amazing 1974 song, used in a Nicolas Jarr mix
2015-01-07
music • nicolasjarr • 70s
Joe Jamail
Loving profile of a famous Houston plaintiff's lawyer
2015-01-07
houston • torts • jamail • legal • lawyer
Teenager’s View on Social Media
Anecdotes from a 19 year old at U of Texas
2015-01-07
socialmedia • twitter • facebook • teenagers • demographics
Map tiles without Mercator
Notes on how to fake out various map libraries to produce web maps in different projections
2015-01-07
maps • projections • mapnik
Elon Musk AMA
Reddit's crowd interview comes through again
2015-01-06
tesla • spacex • elonmusk • iama • reddit • space
Ev Williams on web metrics
Argues for measuring true influence, not just pageviews or other simple things
2015-01-06
metrics • analytics • maus • attention
Georgia Guidestones
Slightly creepy monument to reason, anonymously funded
2015-01-05
georgia • monument • eschaton
Cuban TV downloads
TV fans pass downloads around on memory sticks
2015-01-05
cuba • tv
parse-gedcom
Javascript code to turn genealogy data into something modern
2015-01-05
genealogy • gedcom • ancestry • javascript
Stewart / Slack profile
Another article about the amazing collaboration startup
2015-01-05
slack • stewart • flickr • startups
git-annex with GitHub
A solution of sorts for large binary files in git
2015-01-04
git • binaries • git-annex • github
USB 3.1 Type C
Yet another USB connector; this one is reversible
2015-01-04
usb • connector
ntpd bug details
How the recent exploit was found
2015-01-03
ntpd • badtech • security
Broken cap tables
The ugly reality of stock options in the tech industry
2015-01-03
startups • options • stock • compensation • equity
Audiophile insanity
"Is it really possible that the sound quality of bit-identical audio files is influenced by their storage medium before being delivered to the hi-fi system's DAC?"
2015-01-03
funny • audiophile • broken • music • batshitinsane
Greenwald on NK/Sony
Righteous takedown of a fawning press
2015-01-03
northkorea • sony • hack • journalism
Keshif
Visual data browser
2015-01-03
HCI • d3j3 • d3 • javascript • infovis • visualization
Laproscopic robots
Watch metallic tentacles peel a grape
2015-01-03
surgery • medical • laproscopy • robots • grimmeathookfuture
Skryim Romance Mod
Ambitious looking dating sim in the RPG
2015-01-02
games • skyrim • mod • dating
Volcano maps
New land brings out the color in cartographers
2015-01-01
via:feltron • maps • color • usgs • volcano
Infinite Sandstorm
Everyone's favorite EDM looped infinitely
2015-01-01
music • funny • sandstorm • darude • via:reddit
Benham's disk
Optical illusion about color
2015-01-01
illusion • cognitive • via:reddit • vision