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Star Citizen update
$77M spent on the game and it still doesn't exist
2015-03-31 games • starcitizen • scam • crowdfunding
Privacy Badger
EFF's browser extension for blocking trackers. It has a learning component
2015-03-31 eff • privacy • cookies • tracking
GreatFire statement on China DDOS
More details of Chinese attacks against GreatFire, Amazon, and GitHub
2015-03-31 github • amazon • china • greatfire • ddos • security • badtech
Riot Games and Reddit
Details of how the League of Legends company influences the 650,000 member subreddit about the game
2015-03-31 games • moderation • lol • riot • marketing • reddit
Amazon Dash button
Simple pushbutton to order more of any product automatically
2015-03-31 amazon • dash • funny • via:Waxy
Minimal Maps
Lovely thematic maps of the United States
2015-03-30 maps • data • unitedstates
Choose boring technology
Words of wisdom on engineering choices
2015-03-30 programming • technology • etsy • architecture
Library of Babel
A universal library, in the Borgesian sense
2015-03-30 borges • via:reddit • books • funny
MapBox Tippecanoe
Vector tile generation tool
2015-03-30 gis • maps • mapbox • vectortiles
April Fools is for sociopaths
Excellent critique by John Oliver
2015-03-30 aprilfools • via:kottke • funny
Art of Escape
3 day course in learning evasion and escape techniques
2015-03-30 sanfrancisco • via:metafilter • spycraft • evasion
63 pass FORTRAN compiler
Code from the long long ago when memory was precious. IBM 1401 compiler.
2015-03-30 history • computers • programming • compiler • fortran • mainframe • ibm • via:hackernews
DDoS visualization
Global statistics; the attack types graph is particularly interesting
2015-03-29 internet • badtech • ddos
China vs GitHub
3 days in now to a massive DDoS attack, apparently by the Chinese government
2015-03-29 china • github • ddos
OpenAddresses praise
Nice essay explaining why the geodatabase is so valuable
2015-03-28 maps • openaddresses • opensource
C9 Hai profile
Interview with a pro League of Legends player
2015-03-27 hai • c9 • cloud9 • lol • games • esports
Git from the inside out
How git works, how it tracks data
2015-03-26 git • scm • software • via:hackernews
Homes without broadband
Sad, insane story of an underserved residential area
2015-03-26 network • broadband • isp • competition • via:metafilter
A visit to Naypyidaw
Myanmar's artificial capital city is empty
2015-03-26 burma • myanmar • abandoned • city • Naypyidaw
RIP FoundationDB
Apple buys promising open source database, yanks it offline
2015-03-25 foundationdb • apple • opensource
Raffi Krikorian to Uber
Old friend and former Twitter VP heading up "advanced technologies" for Uber
2015-03-25 uber • cmu • raffi • twitter • engineering
Google and FTC
Includes details on the Adwords API licensing making competition difficult
2015-03-25 adwords • api • google • ads • antitrust • monopoly • ftc
Chris Sacca profile
Angel investor, financier, former Googler
2015-03-25 sacca • startups • financing • twitter • investment • venturecapital
Oslo vs IOC
Ridiculous Olympic Committee requests
2015-03-24 olympics • corruption • oslo
Bazel build tool
Google's internal make replacement, now open source
2015-03-24 build • make • google • bazel • blaze • ant
terrain.party
DEM tool to make Cities: Skylines game maps from real world data
2015-03-24 games • citiesskylines • dem • maps
Goldman's plan for the White House
Blogger / Twitter product guy heads to the White House, his words on why and what he's doing
2015-03-24 goldman • twitter • blogger • whitehouse • government
WWII B-17 pilot IAmA
Great set of answers from a World War 2 bomber pilot. he's hilarious.
2015-03-23 pilot • aviation • ww2 • history • b17
There is No Now
Nice simple paper about problems of time synchronization
2015-03-23 via:metafilter • distributed • ntp • time • systems
Neutral typeface
A font designed to be unnoticed
2015-03-22 fonts • text • sansserif • neutral • typography
Chinese Mobile App UI Trends
Invaluably detailed info for how Chinese mobile apps differ from US
2015-03-21 china • internet • product • mobile
RiotLyte interview
More details on how League of Legends is trying to shape its community
2015-03-21 riot • games • lol • behavior • community
Solar power during eclipse
Neat graphs show the effect of the eclipse on German solar electricity generation
2015-03-21 power • solar • eclipse • germany
Eclipse + ISS
Phenomenal astrophotograph
2015-03-21 photos • sun • astronomy • eclipse • iss • astrophotography
Powerline ethernet
New AV2 standard promises decent speeds for routing network over your home power lines
2015-03-21 ethernet • network • hardware-cellphones
Tangram map library
Slippy maps in WebGL with shader support
2015-03-20 maps • visualization • graphics • fun • webgl • glsl
1918 Portland traffic
Lovely old traffic visualization. Attn @enf!
2015-03-20 maps • portland • traffic • via:metafilter
A Medium critique
Counterpoint to the excellent Web publishing company
2015-03-20 medium • publishing • blogging
Rocket: the making of a space raccoon
Notes on the Guardians of the Galaxy character, some excellent animation
2015-03-20 movies • guardiansofthegalaxy • mcu • rocket • racoon • animation • graphics
Google skewed search results
FTC found Google deliberately manipulated ranking to favor its own lower quality properties
2015-03-20 google • search • seo
Pyramiden photos
More from the abandoned Russian town in Svalbard
2015-03-19 svalbard • russia • sovietunion • pyramiden • via:metafilter
Yield curves
Nicely done 3d chart
2015-03-19 visualization • yield • debt • finance • 3dchart
Shower with your dad simulator
Parody games go ++
2015-03-19 games • dad • shower • funny • daddicks
Mercedes' self driving car
Lovely concept vehicle ad
2015-03-19 mercedes • cars • ai • selfdriving • ad
The end of Tex-Mex?
Bemoaning the loss of the traditional slightly trashy cuisine
2015-03-19 food • cooking • texmex • houston
Reed sexism controversy
Remarkably good student paper article from my alma mater
2015-03-19 reed • feminism
Textures.js
Add patterns to SVG and D3 graphics
2015-03-19 d3js • d3 • svg • visualization
Voyager images
Photographs and diagrams sent on the Golden Record in to deep space
2015-03-19 space • voyager • anthropology • goldenrecord
.gov web analytics
Details of web traffic, shows the mass crush ordering Covid tests
2015-03-19 government • usps • covid • website • development • analytics • tootme
Pyramiden, Svalbard
An abandoned Russian coal mining town in the far, far north
2015-03-19 russia • sovietunion • svalbard • spitsbergen • via:metafilter
Tab Closed; Didn't Read
A gallery of shame
2015-03-18 via:jwz • ads • advertising • popups
Schock: reporting matters
Details of how journalism resulted in rooting out a corrupt politician
2015-03-18 politics • journalism • reporting • schock • gay
Groups.io Update
Mark Fletcher's new mailing list service is adding good features
2015-03-17 email • mailinglists • googlegroups • yahoogroups • mailman
The Book of Shaders
Promising interactive primer on GL shader programming
2015-03-17 gl • graphics • opengl • glsl • shaders • programming • visualization
Alternate Brewer schemes
Tools and theories for designing color schemes like the Brewer scales, but different.
2015-03-17 hsl • hsv • lab • colorbrewer • design
YouTube loudness normalization
Third party claims YouTube has been adjusting audio for consistent volume
2015-03-17 music • loudness • volume • youtube
Netanyahu goes racist
Crazy rhetoric in Israeli elections
2015-03-17 israel • politics
Silent Protagonists
Borderlands game developer talks about the problems of having the main character not talk
2015-03-17 games • borderlands • narrative
MIT's ongoing suicide problem
4 students have committed suicide in the last year
2015-03-17 mit • via:hackernews • depression • suicide • mentalhealth • health
GDC talk on LoL community management
Riot's PhD updates us on what they're doing to fight and ban trolls
2015-03-16 riot • lol • leagueoflegends • gdc
GPSD time HOWTO
Notes on rolling your own GPS-driven accurate clock
2015-03-16 gps • ntp • time
On "My Immortal"
Is the world's worst fanfic satire? Or just fanfic?
2015-03-15 via:metafilter • fanfic • funny
moot interview
Details from the 4chan creator, trying to move on
2015-03-14 4chan • moot
Dalek Relaxation Tape
It's funny
2015-03-14 via:jwz • daleks • doctorwho • funny
Fotopigeon
Mail a printed photo a day to someone.
2015-03-14 photos • printing • delivery
PHK on Time
Notes from a guy rewriting ntpd from scratch
2015-03-13 ntp • time • programming • opensource • phk • ntimed
NTP funding
Maintainer of NTP looking for more funding
2015-03-13 time • ntp • opensource • via:metafilter
SF frequent transit
Muni and BART that runs every 12 minutes or faster
2015-03-12 sf • transit • muni • maps • via:metafilter
SSD flash wear
Consumer drives can be written to 1000 times or more before failing
2015-03-12 flash • ssd • via:hackernews
Reddit's moderation problem
Great article about the troublesome but productive community
2015-03-12 reddit • community • moderation • internet • culture
US hillshade map (5000x3136)
Beautiful large JPG
2015-03-11 unitedstates • maps • terrain • hillshade
GeoASCII
Render geodata pictures in ASCII graphics
2015-03-11 ascii • geo • maps • hack
Colorized radio astronomy
Lovely image visualizing some radio astronomical phenomena
2015-03-10 radio • astronomy • imaging
Mario Kart drag show
Featuring the Castro Rainbow Road
2015-03-10 games • mariokart • nintendo • gay • drag • sanfrancisco • fabulous
In Praise of CSV
Excellent essay endorsing the simplest of data formats
2015-03-10 csv • data • json • opendata
Kindle Cover Disasters
Amateur book cover design is terrible. /cc @bookscout
2015-03-10 books • funny • amazon • kindle
RIP FriendFeed
Excellent aggregator basically ended when Facebook bought it, but is now dead for real
2015-03-10 facebook • friendfeed • aggregator • rss
Dal Makhani history
Origins of a popular restaurant dish
2015-03-09 food • cooking • india • dal
1980s Leningrad music
A forgotten era in Soviet dance and experimental video
2015-03-09 music • video • via:metafilter • russia • sovietunion
Map of human migrations
Nice use of an unusual projection
2015-03-08 maps • history • via:vruba • migration
Dal Bukhara
Reconstruction of the famous lentil dish (dal makhani-like) at Bukhara in Delhi
2015-03-08 food • indian • dal • bukhara • recipe
IBM SMS cards
Pre-chip computer designs, modular cards
2015-03-08 ibm • computer • architecture • hardware
Comcast blocks HBO Go
Playstation 4 app does not work for Comcast cable customers. Is it time for an anti-trust action yet?
2015-03-08 playstation • netneutrality • comcast • hbo • via:reddit
The Guy Who Ruined Dogecoin
Cryptocurrency that is more of a joke than the others also victim to a scam
2015-03-06 scam • bitcoin • dogecoin
2010 Redistricting
Algorithmic results for drawing voting districts.
2015-03-06 voting • politics • maps
$1.3B wasted on bad AIDS education
Insane US plan to try to promote abstinence in Africa had no effect
2015-03-05 africa • aids • hiv • religion • stupid
BackerClub
"Exclusive club for Kickstarter Backers". They charge $189 or 2% to be listed
2015-03-05 kickstarter
10 years of OpenStreetMap
Map showing change over time
2015-03-04 maps • osm • openstreetmap
mathowie leaving metafilter
The founder and operator of my favorite online community is moving on
2015-03-04 metafilter • community • mathowie • haughey • culture • internet
B4-XVI beforesixteen
Hip-hop vs. Renaissance art
2015-03-04 hiphop • art
turkopticon
Mechanical Turk workers review employers
2015-03-04 labor • jobs • amazon • mechanicalturk
Gibber
Browser programming environment for visual and audio art
2015-03-04 processing • music • art • livecoding • javascript • via:metafilter
Coded life of William Prestwood
Diaries of an 19th century American farmer and his many trysts
2015-03-04 sex • diary • via:metafilter
Kleiner Perkins update
Report from Ellen Pao's lawsuit alleging gender discrimination
2015-03-04 gender • sexism • vc • venturecapital • kleiner • doerr
Code for America, Mapzen, and OpenAddresses
Update on a fun geodata project
2015-03-04 maps • geodata • gis • openaddresses
Notch interview
Post-billions, sounds like he's doing poorly
2015-03-04 minecraft • notch • billionaire • games
School for Poetic Computation
Art / code program in New York
2015-03-03 coding • design • art • programming
Al3x and Jacobin
Wealthy engineer allies with democratic socialism; thoughtful piece
2015-03-03 jacobin • socialism • politics • twitter
Penis size metastudy
Definitive survey of various medical measurements
2015-03-03 via:reddit • penis • sex • science
BuzzFeed's model
Analysis of how BuzzFeed could end up being good for journalism. Wish I shared his optimism.
2015-03-03 journalism • news • buzzfeed • viral
Star Citizen interview
Thoughtful discussion with Chris Roberts about the game you can't play yet with $75M in sales
2015-03-03 games • starcitizen • kickstarter • crowdfunding
Character codes 1874–1968
Thoroughly researched article about the history of Baudot, ASCII, etc
2015-03-03 ascii • computing • history • character • unicode
ASCII history
Some very fiddly little details on the history of character encodings for computers
2015-03-03 ascii • unicode • history • computing • fidonet
Tianya
Chinese website that I'm told is a bit like reddit
2015-03-02 reddit • china • via:metafilter
Infuse
Another movie player for iPad
2015-03-02 vlc • movies • video • ipad • ios • via:metafilter
RIP Google+
Writing on the wall that Google is dismantling their ill-advised product
2015-03-02 google • google+ • plus • photos
Ev / Medium interview
Great insights into how Evan is thinking about Medium, the publishing platform
2015-03-02 medium • publishing • ev • blogging
OneShot
A tool for sharing screenshots and snippets of text on Twitter
2015-03-02 twitter • screenshot • ios • mobile • goldman
New Books Network
Podcasts with authors about new books
2015-03-01 books • reading • podcasts
UTF-8 history
Details on how Ken Thompson designed the text encoding. /cc @migurski
2015-03-01 text • encoding • utf • utf-8 • unicode