al-Khwarizmi

9th century Persian who invented algebra, much other mathematics. The word "algorithm" is literally his name.

2016-12-31 math • history • algebra

India's identity system

Aadhaar, tied to biometrics, open access

2016-12-31 identity • india • openid • login • password

Favourite maps from 2016

Nice collection of things I hadn't seen elsewhere

2016-12-30 maps • cartography • design

Space War Defense

Slightly gonzo but fun page

2016-12-30 scifi • space • warfare • via:migurski

3d audio history

PC gaming technology of the 90s was lost

2016-12-30 games • 3d • sound • overwatch • audio • directsound3d • directx

Uber + Pittsburgh

A very detailed look at the relationship between the startup and the city

2016-12-30 uber • pittsburgh • corruption • startup

Russian Malicious Cyber Activity

Technical report of the Russian attacks against the 2016 election

2016-12-30 dnc • russia • politics • badtech • hacking

Newspaper Python

Library for parsing news sites

2016-12-30 journalism • coding • python • nlp • text • scraping

Punishment for Russian hacking

Official US response to the election tampering

2016-12-29 russia • politics • badtech • hacking

Dolby Atmos

A newish technology for rendering 3d audio to headphones

2016-12-29 sound • audio • overwatch • games • dolby

Fahrenthold's reporting

Personal account from one of the best journalists who covered Trump in 2016

2016-12-29 journalism • trump • Fahrenthold • politics

Startup fraud

A series of examples from 2016

2016-12-29 fraud • startups • business

Voting system security

The state of the nation's democratic machinery is not strong

2016-12-27 voting • fraud • politics • elections

About Snopes

Some detail about the people behind the fact-checking website

2016-12-26 snopes • truth • internet

George Michael as queer warrior

Honoring his strong gay rights stance

2016-12-26 gay • lgbt • music • georgemichael

Drone Sweaters

Sweaters and clothes, custom-tailored for cold drones.

2016-12-26 drones • funny • sweaters

Lighthouse web audit

Chrome extension that gives advise on aggressively making performant websites

2016-12-25 web • chrome • benchmark • audit • javascript

freegeoip.net

Free service to locate IP addresses

2016-12-25 ip • geolocation • maps • internet

Polyfill service

Browser-tailored Javascript shims

2016-12-25 javascript • polyfill • programming

Fast website ideas

Starting with a fancy React browser rendered site, then making it fast again

2016-12-25 reactjs • javascript • web • performance • via:timbray

Twelve Hundred Ghosts

A supercut of A Christmas Carol videos, phenomenal video editing

2016-12-25 tv • movies • christmascarol • supercut • editing

defusedxml

Hacks to try to make XML parsing safer in Python

2016-12-24 xml • badtech • security • python

Dark Star Thresh

Video game character creation process

2016-12-23 games • thresh • lol • leagueoflegends • riotgames • animation

Russia cyberwar against Ukraine troops

Malware in an Android app for soldiers. /cc @danwallach

2016-12-23 cyberwar • badtech • malware • ukraine • russia • military • artillery

Uber halts SF self driving cars

California DMV stands up to company ignoring regulations

2016-12-22 google • uber • selfdriving • cars • ai • safety

TensorFlow tutorial

Traffic sign recognition as test problem

2016-12-22 tensorflow • machinelearning • ai • via:hackernews

Palantir and immigration

Details of tech company's work for CBP

2016-12-22 palantir • immigration • politics • trump • cbp

Comey's letter

New reporting on disarray inside the DOJ

2016-12-22 doj • fbi • comey • politics • trump • clinton

Solstice illuminations

Mission churches in North America have astronomical alignment

2016-12-21 solstice • christmas • religion • church • architecture • astronomy • via:metafilter

Russia hacking RNC

Details suggest Russia tried, but not very hard, and failed

2016-12-21 politics • hacking • rnc • russia • trump • security • badtech

asyncpg

New Postgres driver for Python; fast, asynchronous

2016-12-21 python • asyncio • database • postgres

Trump inauguration fundraising

Soliciting million dollar anonymous donations

2016-12-20 trump • politics • corruption

Snapchat abuses NTP

iOS social client responsible for 20x increase in use of a community resource

2016-12-20 snapchat • bugs • ntp

Uber self driving cars unsafe

Outrageous flaunting of local laws

2016-12-20 uber • sanfrancisco • sf • biking • safety • selfdriving

Kuwait party at Trump DC

Allegation of political pressure to give business to Trump's hotel

2016-12-19 trump • corruption • emoluments • kuwait • politics • scandal

DNA Lounge in trouble

Nightclub is losing too much money

2016-12-19 jwz • dnalounge • sanfrancisco • club • nightclub

OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

linking two open databases of knowledge

2016-12-19 opendata • osm • openstreetmap • wikipedia • wikidata • mapbox

What a miscarriage is like (NSFW)

Warning: intense writing and upsetting pictures. Also an excellent essay.

2016-12-19 miscarriage • pregnancy • health • abortion

Trump's security force

Private security mixes poorly with Secret Service

2016-12-19 trump • violence • politics • security • secretservice

2016 voter fraud

There was none

2016-12-19 voting • id • voterid • civilrights • politics • trump • voterfraud

Vexillologist obituary

Sweet memory for a man who was a flag enthuisast

2016-12-18 flags • obituary • whitneysmith

The Two Americas of 2016

A better geographic map visualization of the vote, from last month

2016-12-18 election • politics • trump • clinton • visualization • maps • via:mbostock

Berkeley Earth

Careful, accessible summary of climate change and global warming data

2016-12-18 globalwarming • climatechange • environment • politics • earth • climate

Shaka emoji

Celebration of a Hawaiian gesture

2016-12-18 emoji • unicode • shaka • hawaii • hawai'i

TrumpLand and Clinton Archipelago

Interesting visualization of voting results

2016-12-18 maps • visualization • politics • trump • clinton

Fascist rallies

Insane Trump comments on violence at his rallies

2016-12-17 trump • politics • fascism • america

archive.org and robots.txt

Internet Archive sometimes ignores robots.txt

2016-12-17 robotstxt • archive • web

Pony Up Daddy!

Horrifying consumer escalation

2016-12-17 murica • toys • frogfractions • kids

Scene rules

Detailed standards for TV and movie pirates

2016-12-17 scene • bittorrent • tv • film

FBI election failure

Podesta op/ed on how the FBI spent more time investigating Clinton's email server than stopping Russian attacks

2016-12-16 politics • russia • trump • fbi • clinton

Self driving cars turn wrong

Uber's cars don't turn safely vis-a-vis bike lanes

2016-12-16 cars • driving • uber • bicycles • safety

US police killings

Official government report updated with better data

2016-12-16 police • violence • politics • killing • shooting

Norms of restraint

One danger of Trump is his recklessness threatens our civil society

2016-12-16 politics • trump • america • democracy

LOL streaming contract

$300M for 7 years to stream the esport

2016-12-16 streaming • games • lol • riotgames • espn

Awkward Moments Children's Bible

Snarky illustrations

2016-12-16 bible • funny • via:reddit • religion • comics

In the Now

New Russian state media outlet

2016-12-16 russa • propaganda • politics • syria • rt

Alternate elections

What the electoral vote would look like if you drew the state boundaries differently

2016-12-15 maps • election • politics • visualization • demographics

Map in Seconds

Very easy chloropleths from spreadsheet data

2016-12-15 visualization • maps • spreadsheet

Now more than ever

Thoughtful Medicare/VA IT company on the new administration

2016-12-15 politics • trump • election • medicare

Dr. Steve Brule lifehack

A perfect Facebook troll. For your health!

2016-12-15 facebook • funny • drstevebrule • foryourhealth

Trump Grill(e)

Restaurant review as political resistance

2016-12-15 trump • politics • funny • food • restaurant • newyork

Republicans shift to Putin

YouGov poll shows strong positive shift towards Putin in the wake of the Trump campaign

2016-12-15 trump • putin • politics • russia

Jack refuses Trump ads

Kerfuffle during the campaign refusing ads on the phrase "crooked hillary"

2016-12-14 trump • politics • twitter

Trump hates Twitter

Company not at tech meeting out of spite

2016-12-14 trump • twitter • politics

Flynn's propaganda

Deleting tweets of Clinton libel

2016-12-14 clinton • propaganda • fakenews • politics • trump

Python click

A library for making command line interfaces

2016-12-14 python • cli • coding • commandline

Indie.vc, and focus

Marc Hedlund / Skyliner explains why they went with a non-traditional form of venture financing

2016-12-14 indievc • startups • funding • skyliner

The Junky's Christmas

Classic Burroughs story, animated

2016-12-14 movies • burroughs • heroin • christmas

San Francisco coal mine

A coal seam and excavation at Lands End

2016-12-14 sanfrancisco • coal • landsend • history

Russian hacking of Congressional electons

The Guccifer attacks extend to House races, not just the President

2016-12-14 hacking • russia • politics

Radio Garden

Lovely browser globe interface to Internet streaming radio

2016-12-14 radio • maps • music

Schelling model

A simple model demonstrating racial segregation

2016-12-13 games • segregation • schelling • economics

Russian DNC hack postmortem

Many details of how the security breakins went down

2016-12-13 russia • security • badtech • dnc

Russian hack evidence

Another technical roundup

2016-12-13 russia • politics • trump • hacking • badtech

Archiving government science

Preserving valuable research ahead of the Trump transition

2016-12-13 trump • politics • globalwarming • archiveorg • archive

443km long photograph

Photo from mountain top to mountain top

2016-12-13 maps • via:reddit • photos • distance

Cheapest power tech

County-by-county visualization of cost of electricity

2016-12-13 power • electricity • environment • coal • naturalgas • renewables • maps

Trump + Russia 4evah

List of connections, with links to sources

2016-12-12 trump • russia • politics

Uber spies on customers

Their internal data security is reported to still not be correct

2016-12-12 uber • spying • privacy

Rise and Fall of ARPANET

Article about the animated GIF of the growth of the early internet

2016-12-12 internet • maps • arpanet • history

Internet growth 1969-1989

Animated GIF

2016-12-12 maps • internet • history • via:reddit

Dota Bot Scripting

Popular MOBA game allows anyone to write a bot

2016-12-12 games • lua • programming • dota

American response to Russian hacking

Excellent perspective on how alarming it is to have some GOP politicians unconcerned about Russian election tampering

2016-12-12 russia • politics • election • trump • badtech

Russian hack timeline

Nice roundup of sourced info on the Russian hack of the 2016 election

2016-12-11 politics • russia • badtech • hacking

Russian hack evidence

Detailed technical report from June about Russian attacks on the Democratic National Committee

2016-12-11 politics • putin • trump • russia • hacking • badtech • dnc

Michigan recount

What it's like at a recount

2016-12-11 trump • politics • michigan • recount

Trump v. intelligence agencies

What if the president just doesn't believe his own intelligence officers?

2016-12-10 politics • trump • cia • intelligence

Racist Twitter attack plan

Upsetting content, linked because I sometimes forget this stuff exists like this, in the open

2016-12-10 twitter • racism • politics • dailystormer

Boys Dont Cry protest at Reed

My college had an ugly protest against the queer film

2016-12-10 reedcollege • lgbt • transgender • reed

writ.css

A simple, opinionated CSS style

2016-12-10 css • design • simple • style • code

ndjson

Command line-friendly JSON extension, a sequence of records

2016-12-10 json • ndjson • maps • code

Trump Gaslighting America

Remarkable editorial from Teen Vogue

2016-12-10 politics • trump • gaslighting • teenvogue • vogue

Russian election hacking

Leaked details of CIA investigation, political debate

2016-12-10 russia • politics • election • trump • spying • badtech

Command-Line Cartography

Tutorial on using d3.js from the command line to display geodata

2016-12-09 maps • d3js • javascript • programming

Interactive Watershed Map

Visualization of upstream and downstream watershed polygons

2016-12-09 watersheds • visualization • rivers • mapshaper

WW1 meme war

Propaganda card makes fun of Germans for eating shit bread

2016-12-09 funny • germany • france • meme • ww1 • wwi

Election hack review

Obama orders review on how compromised the election might have been

2016-12-09 russia • politics • election • voting

Global Surface Water

Raw data for the new Landsat imagery map of global water

2016-12-09 water • maps • rivers • landsat

Is Trump broke?

Speculation only, since we have no transparency

2016-12-09 trump • politics

Trump LLC obfuscation

Impossible to figure out which conflicts of interest he has

2016-12-09 trump • politics • corruption • ethics

Magic Leap a fake

Product demo it's been showing is a fabrication

2016-12-09 magicleap • scam • fraud • games • augmentedreality

Landsat water map

Raster map based on satellite imagery

2016-12-09 maps • rivers • landsat

Geo-engineering climate change

Some folks are looking for technology solutions to global warming

2016-12-08 climate • geoengineering • globalwarming • climatechange

Japanese American internment

Phenomenal photos from Dorothea Lange

2016-12-08 japan • justice • ww2 • america • history • trump • internment • racism

Endless Jingling

Deep Christmas

2016-12-08 music • funny • cutup • christmas

Klout score algorithm

Odious social measurement company publishes details on their ranking

2016-12-08 klout • social • reputation

Stegano malware

New adware found using steganographic channels to transmit code

2016-12-08 malware • steganography • crypto • badtech • ads

Indian Breads

A list of diversity

2016-12-07 roti • bread • india • food • cooking

Putin seized VKontakte

2014 story of the Russian state taking control of Russia's Facebook equivalent

2016-12-07 vkontakte • trump • politics • russia • paveldurov

Trump tweet insults

Detailed visualization

2016-12-07 trump • insult • politics • visualization • twitter

Thiel conflicts of interest

Trump advisor from the tech industry is in a hopeless ethics tangle

2016-12-06 ethics • politics • thiel • trump

Flynn, propagandist

Trump's National Security Advisor regularly spreads outrageous anti-Clinton propaganda

2016-12-06 twitter • propaganda • flynn • politics • truth

Cider apple preservation

Varietals at risk /cc @celesteramsay

2016-12-06 apples • farming • agriculture • diversity • via:metafilter

Rhythm of Food

Visualization of search trends

2016-12-06 visualization • food • cooking • google

Clarus the DogCow

A museum for a classic Susan Kare icon

2016-12-05 clarus • moof • apple • macos • dogcow • susankare • funny

Mandela Effect

Examples of unreliable memory

2016-12-04 memory • funny • berenstain

Algorithmic hate

Thoughtful article on the unfortunate outcomes of machine learning

2016-12-04 google • machinelearning • via:metafilter • racism • politics

Truvada and HIV stigma

Excellent essay on gay men's sex lives

2016-12-03 prep • sex • hiv • truvada • gay • lgbt

Github vs trolls

Company takes steps to address its misogyny problem

2016-12-03 sexism • github • tech • diversity • misogyny

Trump / Clinton insiders

Debate amongst campaign staff reveals much

2016-12-02 politics • trump • clinton

US infrastructure maps

Nice renderings of railroads, pipelines, etc

2016-12-02 america • unitedstates • infrastructure • maps • visualization

Uber financials

Heavily skeptical take on the car company

2016-12-01 uber • business • via:hackernews • finance

Meet cute

A trope from TV and film; the boy and the girl in a story always meet each other in a "cute" way

2016-12-01 tv • film • narrative • movies

DAPL TFR

FAA has restricted aircraft over the protest in North Dakota

2016-12-01 northdakota • dapl • protest • faa • tfr