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Kepler Orrery IV
Exoplanets visualized for scale; Kepler is biased towards finding very tight systems
2015-11-30 space • kepler • visualization • via:reddit
HTTP/2 easter egg
Handshake magic number is "PRISM", a reference to US/British mass spying
2015-11-30 prism • via:hackernews • http • http2 • funny
Sous Vide map
Odd but useful visualization of cooking times and temperatures
2015-11-30 cooking • sousvide • via:gah • visualization
Tristan shipping news
Arrivals and departures from a remote island community
2015-11-30 tristan • tristandacunha • travel • ocean • atlantic
Tristan da Cunha
Nice little profile of a remote island community
2015-11-30 tristan • geography • culture • remote • atlantic
miniNodes
Leasable ARM servers running Linux. $10/mo!
2015-11-29 servers • hosting • linux • arm
4K pirate rips
Another copy protection scheme bypassed
2015-11-29 tv • scene • piracy • 4k
Open mapping for government
Great talk by @pramsey on governments staying relevant in the world of Google Maps, OpenStreetmap, OpenAddresses
2015-11-28 maps • data • government • openaddresses
Donald Trump’s Police State
"rabid brown shirts in Dockers"
2015-11-27 trump • facism • politics
Alpha Centauri Redux
Writeup of a student project to redesign an old game's UI
2015-11-27 games • ui • hci • civilization • alphacentauri
Mapping Daesh
Observations on the politics of various map portrayals of Islamic State
2015-11-27 Daesh • maps • politics
reverseanimalrescue
Heart warming stories turn sinister when you reverse the video
2015-11-27 gif • movie • funny • animals
CIA vs crypto
CIA cynically used the Paris attacks to advance their anti-privacy agenda
2015-11-26 privacy • encryption • crypto • freedom • cia • snowden
Macbook charger teardown
Details of Apple's engineering and profit margins
2015-11-25 apple • electronics • charger • voltage
Slack site previews
Details of how Slack presents page previews
2015-11-25 slack • preview • web • developer • html
jm_links
Justin Mason's excellent linkblog
2015-11-25 linkblog • blog • jmason • taint
Finland bear map
Lovely take on a chloropleth
2015-11-25 maps • chloropleth • via:reddit • bears • finland • visualization
Loading Screen Jam
Game developers celebrate the ending of a stupid patent
2015-11-25 games • patents • namco
Seven Southern dishes
Nice roundup of American food
2015-11-25 southern • via:metafilter • south • food • cooking • soulfood
BitBalloon
Simple static hosting site with some API features for dynamic bits. $7/mo
2015-11-25 hosting • blog • web • internet
Internet security history
From May, long detailed article
2015-11-25 internet • history • security • arpanet • morrisworm
Google Star Wars ad
Never seen this massive a co-branding thing at Google
2015-11-25 google • starwars • ads
TileReduce 3
MapBox's open source infrastructure for working on geodata in parallel
2015-11-24 maps • opensource • code • tiles
Nagle on delayed ACK
Awesome HN comment by a networking legend
2015-11-24 nagle • tcp • performance • via:jm
Trump's facism
Documenting a "skid" towards more overtly facist ideas
2015-11-24 facism • politics • trump
Trump victim speaks
Mercutio Southall talks
2015-11-24 facism • blacklivesmatter • trump • politics
Mob violence at Trump rally
3 days old now, but I hadn't seen the video complete with Trump cheering them on in the background
2015-11-24 trump • politics • facism • blacklivesmatter
AlphaDraft
Gambling on eSports
2015-11-24 gambling • esports • lol • games
Can I blog safely?
Sad, detailed discussion from women about how to blog non-anonymously and avoid harassment
2015-11-24 women • feminism • blogging • gamergate
eSports economics
Pro LoL team owner NMEChachi talks about the financial reality of running a professional gaming team
2015-11-23 games • lol • esports • budget
Shackleton photos
Beautiful images from an amazing tale of polar survival
2015-11-22 shackleton • geographic • polar • antarctica • photos
Time scale BART map
Transit map scaled to travel time
2015-11-22 maps • travel • transit • bart
15 Asian unicorns
$1B startups, mostly China and India
2015-11-22 china • india • via:hackernews • startups
Nancy Jo Sales calls out Tinder
Righteous response to Tinder CEO's sleazy suggestion of having some personal dirt on a journalist
2015-11-21 journalism • tinder
Food tracker
Excellent visualization of people trying to lose weight
2015-11-20 loseit • visualization • diet • weight • health
1978 video graphics
Beautiful, very retro demo reel of video effects
2015-11-20 video • effects • fx • graphics • 70s
/r/cripplingalcoholism
Disturbing subreddit for folks embracing their destructive lifestyle
2015-11-20 drinking • drunk • reddit • addiction
A Thank-You Note to Megan Smith
Nice article about women and tech
2015-11-20 feminism • women • mit • medialab • megansmith
VATSIM profile
Nice article about the Air Traffic Control simulation game people play supporting flight simulator players
2015-11-19 games • vatsim • atc • flying • aviation
Tinder CEO interview
Awkward douchebag interview the week of the IPO
2015-11-19 tinder • ipo • match • dating • sex
No crypto in Paris attack
Earliest scaremongering articles turn out to be unfounded
2015-11-19 civilrights • crypto • terrorism • paris
Paris | Tom Lee
Friend of mine was in the middle of the Paris attacks, his personal story
2015-11-18 paris • france • terrorism
NYT unpublishing
More details on the newspaper removing a badly written article about the Paris attacks and encryption
2015-11-18 journalism • encryption • syria • france • politics • terrorism
Toyplot
Another Python charting library; this one strives to do simple things well in Jupyter Notebooks
2015-11-18 notebooks • python • ipython • jupyter • plotting • charting • visualization
US healthcare spending
We spend 2x as much as any other nation, have a lower life expectancy
2015-11-18 health • healthcare • obamacare • usa
Making a cave to age cheese
Project for modifying a small fridge to be warm and humid enough
2015-11-17 cheese • affinage • refrigerator • aging • food
1B NYC trips
Taxi and Uber data collected and visualized
2015-11-17 transit • newyork • nyc • taxis • uber • maps • visualization • via:hackernews
Anti-crypto backlash
Roundup of the intelligence community using the Paris attacks as an excuse to once again try to restrict crypto
2015-11-17 cryptography • crypto • privacy • terrorism • civilrights
Moschino Barbie
Barbie ad features a young boy proclaming Barbie "so fierce"
2015-11-17 gay • lgbt • barbie • toys • gender • funny
Afterbirth ARG
More details on the crazy game event from Binding of Isaac
2015-11-16 games • bindingofisaac • arg
NYT unpublishes article
Bad NYTimes article gets yanked from site, no explanation
2015-11-16 nytimes • nyt • terrorism • snowden • journalism
New bar in Nevada City
Upscale cocktail lounge in the Sierra
2015-11-16 grassvalley • nevadacity • nevadacounty • cocktails • bar
The Mystery of ISIS
Bleak and depressing framing of ISIS/IS/ISIL/Daesh
2015-11-15 terrorism • middleeast • isis • daesh
English is not normal
Linguistically accurate article about how the English language is unusual
2015-11-15 language • english • linguistics • via:metafilter
Ultrasonic tracking
Unethical advertisers invent a new surreptitious way to track you
2015-11-15 tracking • sound • tv • ads • advertising • badtech • cookies
Binding of Isaac unlock
Cool real world event for a video game
2015-11-14 twitter • games • bindingofisaac
Riot's API strategy
League of Legends developer talks about their API
2015-11-13 api • riot • games • leagueoflegends • lol
Guy Fieri wine
Hilarious and odd commentary on the TV personality
2015-11-13 food • wine • via:metafilter • funny • guyfieri
0.30000000000000004.com
Simple summary of floating point handling in various languages
2015-11-13 math • floatingpoint • programming
Virtual Stepfather (NSFW)
Profane and vulgar, also hilarious
2015-11-13 via:reddit • youdontsurf • stockphoto • games • funny • parody • shutterstock
Misattributed paternity
Rates for people having the wrong idea who the father is
2015-11-13 paternity • family • genetics • 23andme
Not today death!
Lovely death imagery on the Fulton, GA county department of health and wellness
2015-11-12 sculpture • art • death • georgia
Ray casting demo
Fun toy experimenting with simulations of light
2015-11-12 light • toy • webgl • via:reddit
ex-NSA IAMA
Bill Benny, a former tech at NSA, answers questions on Reddit
2015-11-11 nsa • civilrights • surveillance • reddit
Network game challenges
Riot talks in detail about the difficulty of making real time games on the Internet
2015-11-11 games • lol • engineering • networks • logsoflag
SF Prop F vote map
Folks in popular neighborhoods voted to limit AirBNB
2015-11-11 airbnb • maps • propf • sanfrancisco • politics
Torture report languishes
Senate report on CIA torture is not being read because of stupid legal nonsense
2015-11-11 torture • civilrights • cia • government
Square's ratchet
Details of late-stage financing deal terms, various shenanigans
2015-11-11 square • finance • startup
Words for smells
A curious gap in English; more words in other languages
2015-11-11 language • smell • linguistics • via:metafilter
Explaining equity
A transparent company instructs its employees about the value of their options
2015-11-11 startups • options • ethics • business • equity • compensation
Victorian Nipple Rings
A forgotten history
2015-11-10 sex • victorian • via:metafilter • piercing
WSJ profiles Stewart
Another loving portrait of the Slack CEO
2015-11-10 slack • stewart • flickr
The Wrath of Kahm
An unfortunate yeast that can spoil a ferment
2015-11-10 fermenting • food • cooking • pickles
Fossil English
Words that only survive in idioms
2015-11-10 english • language • idiom • via:metafilter
Stewart Butterfield on butter
Folksie wisdom from the Slack founder
2015-11-09 slack • butter • funny
TensorFlow white paper
Description of Google's new machine learning system
2015-11-09 opensource • google • machinelearning • tensorflow
TensorFlow
Google open sources a neural network machine learning system
2015-11-09 machinelearning • google • neuralnetworks • software
ESR is harmful
Good essay on why sexist jerks like Eric S. Raymond are harmful to our community
2015-11-08 esr • sexism • linux • software • opensource • misogyny
California UFO
Strange light in the sky in LA
2015-11-08 la • ufo • twitter
The Weatherman
Negativland member's home page
2015-11-07 negativland • music • weatherman • eccentric
YIFY shutdown
One of the most prolific movie pirating groups, now gone
2015-11-07 yify • movies • torrents • piracy
LDS hates children
Refuses to baptize kids of gay parents
2015-11-06 lgbt • gay • mormon • lds • via:metafilter
Time series monitoring
Reflections on state of the art
2015-11-06 monitoring • ops • graphite • rrdtool
Marijuana v opioids
When marijuana is semi-legal, deaths from opioids goes down. Duh.
2015-11-06 drugs • policy • marijuana • health
Square IPO vs valuation
Significantly lower price than private investors paid
2015-11-06 square • finance • startups • unicorns • ipos • downround
Erlang: the Movie: Just the Calls
A shorter version of the programming language promotional movie
2015-11-05 funny • erlang • programming • hellojoe • hellomike
29 Avenue Rapp
Lovely Art Nouveau door
2015-11-05 art • paris • via:reddit • france • artnouveau
Diversity at Twitter
Thoughtful comments on the challenge of hiring racially diverse engineers
2015-11-03 twitter • diversity • engineering • hiring
The Colors Of Motion
Movie palettes
2015-11-03 color • movie • film • palette • visualization
GTA V - Graphics Study
How the rendering pipeline works for one of the best videogames ever
2015-11-03 games • gta • graphics • programming • via:hackernews
Star Wars Grindr
Your favorite characters as sleazy hookup opportunities
2015-11-02 gay • starwars • funny • grindr
Migurski's code process
Notes on defensive coding for spare-time projects
2015-11-02 openaddresses • coding • engineering • software
Star Citizen update
More on the vaporware game that's raised $100M. My bet is it's basically a scam.
2015-11-01 games • starcitizen
Rural gigabit fiber
Just south of me. Expensive, but will be amazing for those houses
2015-11-01 internet • broadband • spiralinternet • nevadacounty • cpuc
Penny books
Economics of the low end of Amazon book sales
2015-11-01 books • business • amazon