.io TLD history

A sad story of imperialism. Attn @migurski

2015-07-30 tld • internet • domains • britishempire • chagosians • diegogarcia

Pinterest 7 year options

Startup does a nice thing in giving their employees freedom to leave

2015-07-30 stock • startups • pinterest • options • equity

Visual intro to machine learning

Lovely animated demonstration of decision trees

2015-07-29 machinelearning • visualization • d3js • d3

Mobile device OCR

Google Translate on cell phones uses an on-phone neural net to identify letters

2015-07-29 translation • machinelearning • ocr • mobile • google • android

Dat Goes Beta

Official beta release of the "git for data" system

2015-07-29 dat • git • opendata • data

LoL competitive rulings

A list of penalties handed out to League of Legends pro players

2015-07-29 games • lol • leagueoflegends • sportsmanship

Creating a Fusion Drive

A Mac hack; cleaner instructions than I've seen elsewhere

2015-07-29 macos • fusion • ssd • performance • hack

Fighting patent trolls

Newegg celebrates yet another victory over stupid patents

2015-07-29 patents • ip • freedom

Windows 10 Solitaire fee

Microsoft's banner stupid game no longer free, now shows ads or costs $10/year

2015-07-29 microsoft • games • windows • solitaire • adware

Kevin Weil Q&A

Interview with Twitter's head of product

2015-07-29 twitter • kevinweil • ads

Uber fakes data

The locations of cars they show you in the app are misleading

2015-07-29 uber • badtech • ethics

Drone racing

Crazy looking remote controlled flying

2015-07-28 via:Reddit • drones • flying • racing

Phad Paintings

A traditional Indian storytelling painting / scroll. Rajasthani.

2015-07-27 india • rajasthan • hinduism • art • painting • religion

Against AI weapons

"The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting"

2015-07-27 ai • military • via:metafilter • ethics • armsrace

Mechanical typewriter bugs

Soviet 1970s spy technology

2015-07-27 typewriters • soviets • spies • coldwar

Kindleberry Pi

Hacked up mobile computer using a wireless keyboard, a raspberry pi, and a Kindle for display

2015-07-27 kindle • raspberrypi • unix • hacking

Undoing Google+

Google finally steps back from requiring Google+ accounts to use a bunch of Google products

2015-07-27 google • privacy • via:hackernews

Meshtag

Something like a QR Code, but designed to be easily drawn as a graffiti tag

2015-07-27 graffiti • tagging • qrcode • via:reddit

2005 talk on SOAP

My war stories from the web services era; SOAP and WSDL in 2005

2015-07-27 google • soap • wsdl • webservices

Miéville on Tolkien

A thoughtful Marxist critique by one fantastical writer of another

2015-07-27 fiction • tolkien • mieville • lotr • fantasy • scifi • books • movies

Zero Day market

Data on security exploit sales courtesy of the Hacking Team demolishment

2015-07-26 hacking • badtech • zeroday • security • via:metafilter

Lightbeam

Firefox addon that visualizes web trackers

2015-07-25 web • privacy • ghostery • firefox • mozilla

The Verge's web sucks

A nice rant against the proliferation of tracking Javascript that weighs down websites

2015-07-25 web • javascript • privacy • ghostery

Mike Tyson Bitcoin

Bitcoin is beyond parody. Coming next: Bill Cosby Bitcoin

2015-07-25 rape • rapist • miketyson • bitcoin

Terry Tao profile

Nice portrait of one of the world's top mathematicians

2015-07-25 math • academics • genius

700+ Roguelikes

A collection of many computer games

2015-07-24 games • nethack • roguelike

Twitter frat party

No, really, tech company team has a stupid themed party

2015-07-24 bros • twitter • gender • dumb

Vegetable Fermentations

More science about pickling vegetables

2015-07-24 pickles • food • fermentation

Microbial lacto-fermentation

Most detailed explanation of the science I've seen. Not sure it is correct.

2015-07-24 fermentation • food • pickles

Kimchi Container

Nicely designed plastic fermentation vessel

2015-07-24 fermentation • kimchi • pickling

musl libc

Alternative libc implementation, correct and small and fast

2015-07-24 libc • embedded • linux • programming

Road trip novel maps

Well illustrated stories from Great American Novels

2015-07-24 novels • reading • roadtrip • maps • via:metafilter

OS X 10.10 security hole

Really dumb, basic Unix security bug, suggests Apple's security process is inadequate

2015-07-23 macos • badtech • security • sudo • dyld • apple

Burt Rutan SkiGull

Even though he's retired, Rutan still designing crazy aircraft

2015-07-23 planes • aviation • rutan • aerospace • seaplane

PICO-8

A simple retro game system you program yourself in Lua

2015-07-22 games • lua • retro • console

Cynk pump-and-dump

Conclusion to last year's most visible stock scam

2015-07-21 scam • cynk • fraud • markets • pennystocks

Remote car hijacking

Chrysler builds a fully Internet connected car. It goes poorly.

2015-07-21 badtech • hacking • cars

Little Chihuahua interview

Story of the slightly upscale taqueria in SF. attn @burritojustice

2015-07-20 burritos • food • restaurants • sanfrancisco

Road Wars: the Imperator Strikes Back

Amazing Mad Max / Star Wars mashup

2015-07-19 movies • madmax • starwars • funny • via:metafilter • mashup

Soviet maps

Cold War oddities

2015-07-18 maps • cartography • soviet • russia • coldwar • via:metafilter

Ramadan 2015

Lovely set of photos

2015-07-16 islam • muslim • ramadan • eid • religion • holidays

zenfonts

A tiny Javascript shim for better loading of web fonts

2015-07-16 fonts • typography • javascript • via:onethingwell

Internet vs trolls

Ellen Pao on the recent harassment she experienced

2015-07-16 internet • community • trolls • reddit

Hacking Team hack

Some details on the public humiliation of a creepy mercenary hacker group

2015-07-16 hackingteam • badtech • hacking • civilrights

It's a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road

Funny trailer mashup

2015-07-16 movies • madmax • funny • mashup • via:metafilter

Scott Wiener v Fox News

Hilarious response from my local supervisor to an obnoxious Fox News person

2015-07-15 foxnews • funny • sanfrancisco • scottwiener • journalism

echo-chamber-js

A new solution for comments on websites. Looks like it's working, we're done here.

2015-07-15 comments • funny • via:metafilter • javascript

Every job in America

A map treatment

2015-07-14 maps • employment • census • america • jobs

Open postcodes

Various open systems for things like US zip codes

2015-07-14 zipcode • postcode • maps • geodata

Pawn Storm

Observed pro-Russian hacker activity on the Internet

2015-07-13 security • badtech • russia • internet

Apple IIgs System 6.0.2

First OS release in 22 years

2015-07-13 apple • history • computers

RiotLyte on failure

Nice personal story from a now-successful guy

2015-07-12 games • lol • leagueoflegends • riotlyte

1.7B Reddit comments

Massive dataset collected for analysis

2015-07-10 reddit • data • nlp • corpus • via:waxy

Moxie Marlinspike profile

WSJ on an important hacker

2015-07-10 security • twitter • moxie • nsa

Ha-ha wall

Landscape feature, a discrete wall

2015-07-10 landscaping • architecture • wall • garden

Bitcoin struggle

More drama on the blockchain; warring factions are placing weird transactions in the ledger

2015-07-09 bitcoin • consensus • via:hackernews

Measuring web users

Details on the challenge of counting visitors to a site

2015-07-09 web • metrics • cookies • privacy

Nava

Company spun out of the healthcare.gov rescue effort

2015-07-09 sha • shahwang • nava • healtcharegov • government

Marketplace Lite

Story of the MPL, a startup in the government that reimplemented healthcare.gov after the initial crisis was past

2015-07-09 government • 18f • healthcaregov • programming

git man pages

Parody documentation generator

2015-07-09 git • funny • parody

Against Wealthfront

Nice ranty essay about how the new investment software system is too expensive

2015-07-09 investments • weathfront • taxlossharvesting

BSD preferred to GPL

Bioinformatics professor explains why he prefers non-viral licenses

2015-07-08 gpl • bsd • licensing • opensource

Facebook post-meme

A study of a vernacular inspired by Reddit-style memes

2015-07-08 memes • facebook • language • culture • minions

Reddit NYT op/ed

Details on the recent conflict between moderators and Reddit's owners

2015-07-08 reddit • moderation • nytimes • oped • editorial • community

re/code: League of Legends community management

Jeffrey Lin (RiotLyte) has been doing amazing community management work at Riot Games

2015-07-07 games • machinelearning • community • moderation

40 Internet maps

Some history

2015-07-07 maps • internet • visualization

PandoDaily being sleazy

Responds to criticism with CC to the critic's boss

2015-07-07 pandodaily • twitter • stupid

Apple Watch Pixels

Details of the display

2015-07-07 apple • watch • display • oled • via:hackernews

What is Docker for?

Remarkably useful Hacker News discussion

2015-07-07 docker • virtualization • container • ops • production

VR at JPL

Lovely design talk about advanced user interface work for the Mars Curiosity rover

2015-07-07 mars • design • vr • virtualreality • eyeo • jpl

SubredditSimulator

Discussions entirely between Markov bots

2015-07-07 markov • reddit • funny • via:twitter

openaddresses CI

Automated system to run data sources for OpenAddresses and report results to github pull requests

2015-07-06 openaddresses • github • travis

Python Anaconda

Distribution of Python with many data analysis packages pre-installed

2015-07-06 visualization • python

Instant Club Hit

Classic 1987 Dead Milkmen song (You'll dance to anything)

2015-07-06 music • deadmilkmen • funny

Jesus Christ is my nigga

Probably intentional parody, but still hilarious

2015-07-06 music • rap • christianity • fellowkids • funny • via:Reddit

Sexual fluidity

Nice essay in praise of men relaxing a bit about gay/straight identity

2015-07-06 identity • gender • gay • sex

Greek debt timetable

Simple visualizations of what payments are due when

2015-07-06 greece • debt • economics • grexit • politics

RIP Charanjit Singh

Brief obituary for an Indian man who accidentally invented acid house music only no one noticed

2015-07-06 music • electronica • obituary

La Monte Young profile

Nice update on a difficult composer

2015-07-06 music • minimalism • lamonteyoung

Nintendo Playstation

Rare obscure prototype hardware found

2015-07-06 games • nintendo • sony • playstation

Good Game: Spawn Point

Australian TV show about gamer culture, suitable for kids. Well produced.

2015-07-06 games • culture • australia • tv

Private stock scrutiny

Startup shares are trading hands and the SEC is concerned

2015-07-06 investment • startups • stock • market

Hacking Team hacked

Gross company that provides computer intrusion services for repressive governments is itself hacked, customers revealed

2015-07-06 badtech • hacking • civilrights

Calvin and Markov

Random comic generator

2015-07-06 calvinandhobbes • markov • comics

Tama-chan

Economist obituary for a Japanese cat

2015-07-05 cats • japan • trains • obituary

Slavery and the Declaration of Independence

Jefferson drafted an anti-slavery paragraph which was removed

2015-07-05 slavery • history • america • jefferson

Gluten myth

Op/ed on evolution, diet, and immunity

2015-07-05 health • gluten • via:hackernews • evolution

git backends

Alternate git implementations store data in databases instead of files

2015-07-05 git • performance • database

Witcher 2: the novel

Funny parody

2015-07-04 games • witcher • sexism • funny • via:metafilter

Bitcoin consensus failure

Accidental fork in the blockchain rules causes chaos

2015-07-04 bitcoin • via:hackernews

4th of July fireworks

A celebration of vernacular design

2015-07-04 fireworks • design • funny

virtual-dom

Implementation of a virtual DOM like React has, but standalone

2015-07-04 performance • javascript • dom • vdom • virtualdom • react • reactjs

React’s diff algorithm

Details of how React uses a virtual DOM for performance

2015-07-04 vdom • dom • performance • javascript • react • reactjs

BGP fragility

Some of the problems behind the routing protocol that runs the Internet

2015-07-02 bgp • badtech • security

Reddit IAmA disruption

Victoria Taylor, Reddit's Director of Communications, was let go. She was a big part of IAmA's success.

2015-07-02 reddit • communication • chooter • victoria

Experimental sans

A collection of regrettable typefaces

2015-07-02 fonts • funny

Leap second routing fallout

Details on the leap second related router mess; 2000 networks briefly offline

2015-07-01 internet • networks • bgp • leapsecond • routing

Leap second routing instability

15x increase in published Internet routes around the leap second.

2015-07-01 internet • routing • bgp • badtech • bugs

Mapzen on open data

Clear statement of why they require open source and open data

2015-07-01 opensource • maps • mapzen • opendata • openaddresses • openstreetmap • osm

LoL Twitch revenue

Student estimate at what popular League of Legends streamers make on Twitch

2015-07-01 ads • games • lol • esports • via:matasar

Fiber optic sabotage

10 separate incidents of cables being cut in the Bay Area in the last year

2015-07-01 sabotage • cable • fiber • internet

California immunization levels

Public health report from before the new vaccine law

2015-07-01 health • california • politics • vaccination • vaccines • medicine

Coding on an iPad

2015 details on text editing, git, etc on an iPad

2015-07-01 ipad • coding • programming • editing • git