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Flint military exercises
Not just the water; the Army was doing training with live explosives in Flint
2016-01-31 flint • military • army • justice
Awesome public datasets
Nice roundup of free data
2016-01-31 data • opendata • via:hackernews
Call it Frisco
A hipster's impassioned plea to call the city Frisco
2016-01-30 sanfrancisco • frisco • city • mathonan
Indian recipe diversity
Fun article highlighting one dish from each state in India
2016-01-29 india • food • cooking • recipes • via:metafilter
Shodan vs NTP Pool
NTP pool admins sound annoyed that Shodan was using the service to collect IP addresses for hidden devices
2016-01-29 ntp • security • shodan • badtech
BGP in 2015
Excellent data on a core Internet protocol
2016-01-29 internet • bgp • routing
Pulgas Water Temple
A possible destination for a #geobeers excursion?
2016-01-29 water • sanfrancisco • hetchhetchy
Reclaim the comments
Clear writing by Anil Dash on why we should not give up web comments to abusers
2016-01-28 community • moderation • comments • internet • culture
Research Blog: AlphaGo
Details on Google's new AI for playing the game
2016-01-27 go • ai • google • machinelearning
Go AI breakthrough
New machine learning approach from Google much stronger than previous efforts
2016-01-27 games • go • ai • machinelearning • deepmind
IP address harvesting
Some NTP pool servers seem to be doing nefarious things with IP addresses
2016-01-27 ntp • security • via:hackernews
lockrun
Simple tool to safely run possibly long-running jobs in a cron job
2016-01-27 cron • linux • unix • ops • locking
Flint lead history
Details on the public malfeasance that resulted in people being poisoned by city water
2016-01-27 flint • water • michigan • crime • lead • epa
Penrose tiling
Interactive tool for quasiperiodic layouts
2016-01-27 pattern • tile • penrose • via:metafilter
The original road trip
Ford, Edison, Firestone, and Burroughs went road tripping in 1914–1924
2016-01-27 america • roadtrip • cars • history
Piecloud visualization
Let's take two bad ideas and mash them up!
2016-01-26 visualization • funny • via:Reddit • dataisugly
Machine learning fonts
50,000 fonts thrown into a neural network
2016-01-26 machinelearning • ml • typography • fonts • design • via:flowingdata
Girih Designer
Make Islamic tile patterns in your browser
2016-01-26 tiles • art • architecture • girih • islamic • via:metafilter
Clinton email summary
Reasonably neutral, sourced history of the Clinton State Department email dispute
2016-01-25 clinton • politics • email • foia
PESfilm
Fun collection of animated surrealist films
2016-01-24 animation • surrealism • art • via:reddit
Star Wars CG breakdown
Details of some of the visual effects added to movie
2016-01-24 movies • film • starwars • vfx • cg • graphics • animation
query plan visualization
Postgres tool for understanding performance
2016-01-24 performance • optimization • postgres • database • psql • via:hackernews
Kill Ping
Gamer service promising faster networking
2016-01-23 games • latency • lag • lol • leagueoflegends
Muay Thai gambling
Open cry betting in Thailand
2016-01-23 thailand • betting • culture • fighting • muaythai • via:metafilter
Good cabling
Photos of IT guys on fleek
2016-01-22 cables • it • networks • datacenter • reddit • photos
Raising the Bar
Podcast about diversity in the tech industry, featuring Leslie Miley
2016-01-22 twitter • diversity • startups • hiring
Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
Detailed story on tech diversity
2016-01-22 diversity • race • tech • startups • google
Wooden county maps
Lovely woodworking
2016-01-20 wood • art • maps • via:reddit
Obituary moderation
Online obit site Legacy deals with comment spam
2016-01-20 moderation • obituary • legacy • community
Strategic Butt Coverings
Sarkeesian on a specific form of objectifying women in video games
2016-01-20 games • feminism • critique • butts • camera
Brando's Native American protest
Remarkable event at the 1973 Oscars, Brando refusing an award and having Sacheen Littlefeather (an Apache woman) deliver the protest
2016-01-20 brando • indians • aim • nativeamerican • movies • oscars
The Experiment Experiment
Good radio on the reproducibility of psychology experiments
2016-01-19 science • experiments • psychology
Bowie / Dietrich
Bad 1970s film had David Bowie playing a Weimer Germany gigolo, with an appearance by Marlene Dietrich
2016-01-19 movies • bowie • dietrich • films
Divine / Ursula
Little Mermaid writer was inspired by Divine, from Pink Flamingos
2016-01-19 movies • via:metafilter • gay • lgbt • littlemermaid • divine
LastPass phishing attack
Security flaw leaves password vault users vulnerable, but it's pretty complex
2016-01-18 lastpass • security • badtech • tfa
The second coming of scurvy
Essay about a 19th century failure of science
2016-01-18 science • knowledge • scott • scurvy • health • disease • induction • antarctica
Donald Trump / anime
Donald Trump will make anime real
2016-01-17 trump • politics • parody • funny • meme • via:reddit • 4chan
Discord game chat
A service for gamers, something like Slack + voice chat
2016-01-17 games • lol • leagueoflegends • riot • teamspeak
Satie Gymnopedie x60
60 recordings of the short Satie piece overlayed into shimmering texture
2016-01-17 music • satie • via:metafilter
1853 map of San Francisco
US Coastal Survey, very detailed
2016-01-17 map • sanfrancisco • uscs • via:reddit
3d printed tourbillon
Watchmaking
2016-01-15 watches • 3dprinting
10th Anniversary of jQuery
I love Resig's humility
2016-01-14 javascript • resig • history • jquery
Nevada County marijuana growing
County moved to illegalize outdoor growing in a very weird and confusing way
2016-01-14 marijuana • california • politics • grassvalley • nevadacounty
TrendMicro Antivirus backdoor
Badly coded add-on to antivirus makes your browser into a backdoor for any website to exploit
2016-01-14 antivirus • security • badtech • trendmicro
Finding a rare atlas
Nice Reddit story of a librarian realizing a book they have is very rare
2016-01-13 books • maps • reddit • library
Inline Labels
Nice visualization technique for displaying numbers on a graph
2016-01-13 visualization • graphing • charting • d3js
Sanxingdui bronzes
Phenomenal sculptures from 3500 years ago
2016-01-13 art • china • history • archaeology • bronze
Location encoding systems
Geohash, What3Words, and friends
2016-01-13 geohash • location • geography • maps • what3words
ex-Scientologist AMA
Cult escapee discusses his life in Scientology
2016-01-12 scientology • cult
Flint faked lead report
Michigan people poisoned by the government which cheated the lead test
2016-01-12 lead • poison • flint • Michigan • corruption • water
ParseHub
Generate an API for a dynamic web site. Uses machine learning to figure stuff out
2016-01-11 api • programming • mashup • development
Zapier
Automating integrations between Internet products like Twitter, Pinboard, etc. Using it for this linkblog.
2016-01-11 automation • ifttt • dlvrit • software • goodtech • tootme
Web sites with no code
Complex transactional sites built by combining online services
2016-01-11 webservices • codeforamerica • engineering
Worst things at CES
Consumer electronics nadir
2016-01-11 via:metafilter • ces • gadgets • funny
Chat for GitHub
A little like Slack, but centered on GitHub repos
2016-01-10 chat • slack • github • developers
Juniper backdoor details
More fishiness in how the DUAL_EC crap was stuck into network firewalls
2016-01-10 juniper • badtech • nsa • crypto
Python binder
Live hosting of Jupyter notebooks
2016-01-10 jupyter • python • ipython • notebook
Extended exercise windows
Companies that have extended beyond the standard 90 option expiry
2016-01-09 options • stocks • startups
Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window
A critique of a common gotcha in tech industry compensation
2016-01-09 stock • ipo • iso • nq • options • startups
Chinese map distortions
Google Maps in China shows odd artifacts to comply with Chinese security law
2016-01-09 china • mapping • cartography • google
LucasVB/Gallery
A user makes lovely mathematical illustrations for Wikipedia
2016-01-09 wikipedia • math • graphics • visualization
Super Heavy Element AMA
Livermore scientist working on synthesizing transactinides answers questions
2016-01-09 science • nuclear • transactinides
zipapp
Executable jar files for Python
2016-01-09 python • executable • devops
How to C in 2016
Tips for contemporary C programming
2016-01-08 c • programming • language • c99 • c11
Just Cause 3 copy protection
A month later, game still not cracked
2016-01-08 piracy • games • cracking • hacking • drm • copyprotection
Birth tweetstorm
Well told story
2016-01-08 twitter • birth • people • human
Malheur seditionists
Phenomenal roundup of names and photos of 31 of the people involved in the stupidity in Oregon
2016-01-08 oregon • militia • yallqaeda
Bump fire
One gimmick to convert a semi-automatic rifle to full automatic, using recoil
2016-01-08 weapons • guns • guncontrol • nra
FBI Tor hacking
Took over a server for pedophiles, circumvented Tor
2016-01-08 tor • darknet • fbi • hacking
CloudFront gzip support
Amazon's HTTP serving for years didn't support compression. Yay, now it does!
2016-01-08 compression • amazon • http • gzip
Senior Chinatown fashion
Loving look at the clothing styles of elderly people in SF's Chinatown
2016-01-08 fashion • chinatown • photography • culture
Juniper backdoor timeline
Dual EC subversion from 2008! ssh back door last year.
2016-01-08 security • badtech • juniper • nsa • backdoor
PostgREST
Add a RESTful web API to any Postgres database
2016-01-08 rest • api • postgres • postgresql
Wilma Black Obituary
Direct and terribly sad
2016-01-07 obituary • death • soapopera
Emoji simulator
Fun little grid agent based simulator using emoji
2016-01-07 emoji • simulation • alife • swarm
artisanal integers
The unasked-for history of a vital cloud service
2016-01-07 integers • hipster • funny • migurski
Machine translation oops
Google's translator learned that "Russia" translated as "Mordor"
2016-01-07 funny • technology • machinelearning • via:metafilter • russia • ukraine • google
Fin-tech: The first venture capitalists
Whaling origins of profit sharing and other VC-backed financial structure
2016-01-07 whaling • economy • finance • startups
Visible Black Hole flicker
Star in a binary with a black hole visibly flickers from +12 to +15 over the span of hours
2016-01-07 astronomy • blackhole • via:reddit
Linode breached six months ago?
Evidence the cloud hosting provider has been compromised for a long time
2016-01-06 linode • security • badtech
HTTP poem
Fun little stunt to come out of 32c3
2016-01-06 32c3 • poetry • http • via:jwz
Of Oz the Wizard
Alphabetized version of the classic movie. Exterminate all rational thought.
2016-01-06 wizardofoz • movies • edit
Stripe profile
Nice, if light piece about the Collison's startup
2016-01-05 stripe • startup • collison • business • payments
Uber political sleaze
Illegal, unreported lobbying in Portland. A capsule.
2016-01-05 uber • corruption • lobbying • portland
Steam 2015 numbers
Details on sales, etc of the popular games platform
2016-01-05 games • steam • market
Microsoft Solitaire intern
Wes Cherry wrote Microsoft Solitaire in 1988, his comments
2016-01-05 solitaire • games • programming • microsoft
Science On a Sphere
A spherical projection screen for data visualization
2016-01-05 sphere • science • projection
Viscera Cleanup Detail
A game where you play the janitor who cleans up the bloody mess after the hero's rampage
2016-01-05 funny • games • doom • cleanup
Bundy Mormon extremism
Seditious nutjobs are also religious nutjubs
2016-01-04 bundy • oregon • mormon • religion • militia
Deep Space Nine In 82.5 Hours
Appreciation of the best Star Trek series
2016-01-04 startrek • deepspace9 • tv
Bundy / Oregon explainer
Straight-up explanation of the insane standoff in rural Oregon
2016-01-03 militia • terrorism • government
-ach, -ingen, -zell
Visualization of different types of place names in Germany
2016-01-03 germany • names • maps • visualization
4am cracks
Apple ][ retro cracker; his writeup of Burgertime is popular right now
2016-01-03 games • apple • cracking • preservation • apple2 • apple][
Trump debate GIF
Hilarious edit
2016-01-03 via:reddit • trump • politics • republicans
Earthbound Backgrounds
Javascript recreation of SNES-era animated background images
2016-01-02 animation • javascript • earthbound • graphics
Unicode 9.0
New code points, thinking of @vruba
2016-01-02 unicode • language • fonts
Archiving Slack
JSON dumps can be reused
2016-01-01 slack • json • archive
The Website Obesity Crisis
Clear words from Maciej on web bloat
2016-01-01 via:metafilter • ads • advertising • performance • web
Randi leaving FreeBSD
Another woman developer harassed out of open source
2016-01-01 opensource • feminism • harassment • gamergate • stupid • freebsd • bsd