National Tracing Center

US law forbids a searchable database of guns. This is the paper/microfiche altenrative

2016-08-31 guns • crime • nra • gunculture • violence • cops

Women headphones history

That offensive "how to talk to a woman wearing headphones" article has a long and strange history

2016-08-30 headphones • sexism • rapeculture • women

mkcert.org

Web tool for generating subsets of Mozilla's trusted certificates

2016-08-30 mozilla • ssl • certificates • trust • security

Rape culture; headphone edition

How to be a creepy, intrusive man

2016-08-30 rapeculture • feminism • headphones • privacy

Monero cryptocurrency

Bitcoin variant designed for untraceability

2016-08-30 money • drugs • bitcoin • monero

WoSign SSL disaster

Chinese company issues many fake SSL certificates

2016-08-30 ssl • badtech • security • via:hackernews

Lunch Train

Slack bot for coordinating going to lunch

2016-08-30 lunch • slack • via:metafilter • bot

Etiquette for Trimmigrants

Nevada County itinerant marijuana workers pamphletted to act politely

2016-08-29 marijuana • pot • nevadacounty • funny • drugs

P2P videoconferencing

Notes from Pluot about sharing videoconference streams

2016-08-28 p2p • peertopeer • pluto • videoconference

Torpedo juice

Navy poisoned sailors drinking the weapons fuel

2016-08-28 drinks • navy • military • alcohol

State pension funds

Details on how bad the underfunding problem is

2016-08-26 politics • pension • finance • states • california

NSA hoards vulnerabilities

Federal agency more interested in spying on people than protecting them

2016-08-26 security • badtech • nsa

Trump / Andy

Perhaps this is the explanation for the Trump candidacy

2016-08-26 trump • andykaufman • funny • politics

Python attrs

A library automating some tedious boilerplate for value classes

2016-08-26 python • values • via:hackernews • namedtuple

NSO malware company owned by US firm

Francisco Partners, a US private equity company, owns the malware company involved in the iOS hack today

2016-08-26 ios • badtech • franciscopartners • nso

iOS hacks in the wild

UAE and an Israeli company use zero day exploits against human rights activist

2016-08-26 badtech • virus • iphone • uae • israel • humanrights • hacking

The Glorious Horror of TECO

Excellent overview of a forgotten programmable editor

2016-08-25 via:hackernews • editor • teco • emacs • programming

Uber finances

$1.2B lost in six months

2016-08-25 uber • monopoly • startups • finance

CA vaccination working

Nevada County reports new law means kids are now being vaccinated

2016-08-25 health • vaccination • nevadacounty • california

Microsoft REST guidelines

Suggestions for how to build a good HTTP API

2016-08-25 rest • microsoft • api • http • programming

Ongoing attacks on Leslie Jones

Racist monsters continue to harass African-American actress online

2016-08-24 racism • america • acting • movies • ghostbusters

Legalist startup

Automating making a profit with civil lawsuits

2016-08-24 legal • startup • thiel

DJ Shadow / Nobody Speak

Jaw dropping video of political violence

2016-08-24 music • djshadow • politics • trump

Uber flat fares

$20/month to get fixed cost in the north half of San Francisco

2016-08-24 sanfrancisco • uber • pricing • taxi

Hawaiian sign language

A minority language

2016-08-23 sign • deaf • via:metafilter • hawaii

Mayan codex discovered

Most written Mayan documents were destroyed by the Catholic Church; just found a new one in a palimpsest

2016-08-23 mexico • history • archaeology • codex • mayan

Clinton health history

Background behind the smear campaign about Clinton's health

2016-08-23 clinton • politics • trump • lies

Ethernet PAUSE

Obscure protocol thing causes network failure

2016-08-23 ethernet • network • via:hackernews • networking

Seacharge

DIY autonomous boat sailing across the Pacific

2016-08-22 drone • boat • diy • via:metafilter

Atomic motels

Nice collection of photos from New Jersey

2016-08-22 wildwood • newjersey • motel • architecture • googie • 50s

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

A sovereign entity with no land

2016-08-21 sovereignty • malta

The Truth About Voter Fraud

2007 study showing voter fraud is very rare in the US

2016-08-21 fraud • voting • politics • elections • civilrights

Trump and voter fraud

More details on a troubling allegation

2016-08-21 trump • fraud • politics • election

Congressional district cartogram

Nice approach to visualizing the US vote

2016-08-21 voting • unitedstates • america • politics • maps • cartogram

Airline's calculated misery

Dismal economics

2016-08-21 travel • flying • airlines • consumer

Cisco VPNs failed

NSA subverted the most popular Internet router security

2016-08-20 cisco • nsa • badtech • pix

ShadowBrokers bitcoin

Bitcoin seized by the US government from Silk Road are being used to pay the Russian hackers (a very small amount of money)

2016-08-20 silkroad • espionage • bitcoin • hacking

Trump finance details

Trying to unwind a bunch of complex investments

2016-08-20 trump • finance • debt • politics • money

Cuba's internet workaround

Homes get 1TB drives once a week preloaded with new stuff

2016-08-19 cuba • internet • cdn • copyright • sharing

Bitcoin safety warning

Unprecedented pre-release warning about state attackers against binaries

2016-08-18 bitcoin • security • badtech

Equation Group catalog

A list of all the NSA malware that was stolen / dumped

2016-08-18 nsa • security • badtech • hacking • russia • shadowbrokers • equationgroup

Maeda to Wordpress

My old professor joins Automattic as a UX lead

2016-08-18 wordpress • automattic • maeda • design • medialab

Uber self-driving cars

My friend Raffi is working on this project

2016-08-18 cars • driving • self-driving • uber • google • safety • raffi

No Man's Sky review

Nicely captures the good and bad of the game

2016-08-17 games • nomanssky

Early investor experiment

Randomized trial of what startup pitches get attention. Summary: the team matters

2016-08-17 startups • investment • via:hackernews • research

Steve Bannon profile

Details on the new Trump campaign operative

2016-08-17 trump • politics • stevebannon • bannon • breitbart

Dune in emoji

As told by Kyle MacLachlan /cc @celesteramsay

2016-08-16 dune • movies • emoji • twitter • funny

NSA firewall hacks

Some details from the NSA breach; tools for attacking firewalls

2016-08-16 badtech • security • nsa • equationgroup

Snowden on NSA hack

Amazing details / politics of state cyberespionage

2016-08-16 politics • nsa • badtech • snowden • hacking • rnc • russia

NSA malware stolen?

Hacker group claims to have software from The Equation Group

2016-08-15 hack • badtech • malware • nsa • privacy

Musicmap

Genealogy and samples of music over time

2016-08-15 music • visualization • via:metafilter • ishkur

black hat and def con

surrounded by khaki pants and polo shirts and a pervasive air of menace

2016-08-15 security • badtech • defcon • blackhat • conference

Saving Trump from himself

Gossipy article about how Trump won't take direction from anyone

2016-08-13 trump • politics • batshitinsane

Ethernet vs. WiFi

Details on how connection type affects game lag. (Note: UDP game.)

2016-08-12 networking • riot • lol • lag • logsoflag

South Pacific countries

Nice map with territory boundaries, flags

2016-08-12 maps • oceania • polynesia • pacific • southpacific

Timescape

Clever time lapse photographic technique

2016-08-12 via:Reddit • timelapse • novascotia • photography

Trump supporter stats

Detailed Gallup poll about which Americans support Donald Trump

2016-08-12 trump • gallup • politics • polling

Convolutional Neural Networks

Simple intuitive explanation

2016-08-12 machinelearning • ml • neuralnetworks • imagerecognition

McMansion bad architecture

Design breakdown on why bad houses are ugly

2016-08-12 mcmansion • housing • design • architecture

Life expectancy vs health expenditure

Country by country; American Exceptionalism at work again

2016-08-12 america • healthcare • politics • health

WeChat’s world

overview of a very popular social / payment app in China

2016-08-12 china • internet • culture • facebook

Pokestops in Paris

More evidence of unequal distribution

2016-08-11 pokemon • games • paris

30fps v 60fps

Demo of motion

2016-08-11 motion • fps • games

Maine Coon cats

Classy portraits (/cc @korkyplunger)

2016-08-11 cats • mainecoon • photos • photography

MapsWithMe

Offline vector map for mobile devices; nice OSM viewer

2016-08-11 osm • maps • offline • travel • ios • android

Mapbox / OSM licensing

Interesting questions of derived work and viral licenses

2016-08-11 odbl • osm • mapbox • maps • licensing

Social media infrastructure

OG Blogger talks about all the open sharing technologies that are lost now that Facebook has colonized the Internet

2016-08-11 internet • blogs • rss • sharing • socialmedia

Trump: a true story

Notes from a 2007 court case where Trump had to come clean about some of his lies

2016-08-10 trump • truth • politics

Trump tweets analysis

Detailed breakdown of how the Trump account works

2016-08-10 trump • politics • twitter

GitHub repo attacked

Personal story of a security incident

2016-08-10 github • security • badtech • via:reddit

Stochastic Terrorism

Useful term for the danger of violent rhetoric. Equally applicable to ISIS.

2016-08-10 terrorism • murder • politics • trump

Ubiquiti Amplifi

A new home wifi network system that implements mesh networking

2016-08-09 wifi • internet • router • ubiquiti

ProjectSauron malware

Yet another state-sponsored malware package

2016-08-09 hacking • badtech • malware • apt

Voter fraud is hard in the US

details on what an actual rigged election would require

2016-08-08 politics • trump • election • fraud • voterid

Nixon's tax cheat

The history of why presidential candidates release their tax returns

2016-08-07 politics • taxes • trump • nixon

asyncpg

New Python driver for Postgres

2016-08-05 postgres • python • sql

Prepaid Data SIMs

Wiki of various mobile phone options for travellers

2016-08-03 sim • mobile • travel • tourism

Uber, Google, China

Perspective on Chinese trade protectionism

2016-08-03 google • uber • china • startups • tech • internet

"Cuck" explained

The subtext of a distressing insult

2016-08-02 cuck • slang • 4chan • feminism • culture • politics • trump