Elephant drawings

600 years of drawing an animal the illustrator had never seen

2017-12-31 elephants • drawing • via:amitp • art • history

Favourite maps from 2017

Nice roundup

2017-12-31 maps • visualization

Face swap porn

AI is now being used to produce creepy pornography

2017-12-31 porn • sex • via:hackernews • machinelearning • faceswap

Cloudflare LavaRand

They actually have a wall of lava lamps as a random number source

2017-12-31 lavarand • cloudflare • cryptography • ssl • via:hackernews

Asymmetric Aircraft

A list of 10

2017-12-31 aviation • via:metafilter • airplanes

Takaosan Interchange

Crazy mountain highway interchange near Tokyo

2017-12-30 tokyo • highway • maps • japan • interchange

Uber in 2017

A roundup of the worst company in tech

2017-12-30 uber • tirefire • scandal • kalanick

CSS design tricks

Some small tweaks to web presentation to make things look better

2017-12-30 css • html • ui • fonts • colors

Anatomy of a Hustle

Planet Money on the Manafort indictment for money laundering and various crooked international political dealings

2017-12-29 trump • politics • manafort • scandal • mueller

reptyr

Magic program to change a process to a new parent and pty

2017-12-28 screen • unix • terminal • tmux • tty • pty

Paprika

Recipe manager app; scrape recipes and save them to your iPhone

2017-12-28 recipes • ios • iphone • apps • cooking

Milo Yiannopoulos' book

His editor is having none of it

2017-12-28 milo • racism • sexism • homophobia • deplorable • book • writing • editor

Twitter sided with the Nazis

Users build a bot to do Twitter's job for them; Twitter bans the bot

2017-12-27 twitter • nazis

J. Kenji López-Alt

Profile of the experimenter cook and his new San Mateo restaurant

2017-12-27 food • cooking • kenji • sanmateo • wursthaus

Colorjet 3d printing

Additive manufacturing technique that can print color

2017-12-26 color • printing • 3dprinting • maps

Perceiving 2ms latency

User study shows in some setups humans perceive even tiny bits of lag

2017-12-25 lag • latency • perception • hci • ui

Human Sexual Cycles

Google Trends data suggests people look for sex during the holidays

2017-12-24 holidays • sex • humans • behavior • culture • google • googletrends

CyTube

Synchronized online video + chatroom

2017-12-24 chat • video • metafilter • community

Extended Random

Details of an NSA backdoor in web encryption

2017-12-23 nsa • backdoor • crypto • badtech • ssl • tls

Trump on immigration

Insidery gossip about the hideous process that creates policy

2017-12-23 immigration • trump • politics • civilrights • racism

Blockchain charts

Detailed visualizations of Bitcoin stats; note the transaction fees

2017-12-23 bitcoin • charts • data • finance

Bitcoin explained

Funny parody commercial

2017-12-23 funny • sethmeyers • bitcoin • investment

Slaughterbots

Short sci-fi film against weaponized AI

2017-12-22 ai • military • politics • ethics • drones

Goodbye to Civil Comments

Really nice startup service sadly doesn't make it

2017-12-22 community • online • portland • comments • moderation

MonkeyType

Add type annotations to Python code by running it and guessing what types it sees

2017-12-22 python • typing • via:hackernews • programming • tests

Streaming piracy profits

Analytics of pirate movie websites

2017-12-22 movies • ads • badtech • piracy • malware

Cornel West v Ta-Nahesi Coates

Two important Black intellectuals arguing in public

2017-12-21 racism • america • politics

Merry Last Christmas, Jack Dorsey.

Harsh editorial from Mike Monteiro

2017-12-21 monteiro • twitter • politics • facism

Age discrimination in job ads

Facebook defends an illegal practice

2017-12-21 facebook • ads • age • discrimination • via:hackernews

Selling Bitcoin

It is possible, but awkward and slow and expensive

2017-12-20 bitcoin • finance • markets

Google Maps’s Moat

Metaphorical; Google is so good at imagery and processing data no one can catch them in maps

2017-12-20 maps • via:hackernews • buildings • google

Most 2017 Photos

A sort of memetastic selection

2017-12-19 photos • 2017 • trump • politics

Twitter's abuse confusion

Company's internal policies didn't make sense to its own executives

2017-12-19 twitter • politics • milo • policy

Discrediting Mueller

Trump's allies sowing doubt ahead of the inevitable criminal indictments

2017-12-19 trump • politics • russia • mueller

Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF

Save geographic imagery in a way that makes it easy to progressively fetch in a web browser

2017-12-19 web • geotiff • gis • http • maps

npycat

Command line tool for examining large NumPy arrays

2017-12-19 numpy • programming • python • unix • cat • machinelearning • tensorflow • pytorch

Security Code Card

Really silly two factor authentication system

2017-12-19 tfa • 2fa • security • login • badtech • broker

Gerrymandering with compactness

It's possible to rig elections with nice looking districts

2017-12-19 gerrymandering • politics • via:hackernews • redistricting • voting

UN human rights in the US

Statement from a visit to the US by human rights expert for the UN

2017-12-19 un • unitednations • america • poverty • homelessness

Georgia election wackiness

Election officials obstruct a legitimate observer

2017-12-19 georgia • fraud • elections • voting

American poverty

Upsetting reporting

2017-12-18 america • poverty • money • trump • politics • via:metafilter

Pulse of the Nation

Cards Against Humanity continues their nihilistic campaign of irrepsonsibile hilarity.

2017-12-18 politics • funny • polls • cah • cardsagainsthumanity

Ted Chiang's career

Excellent sci-fi author only has so many good ideas for fiction

2017-12-18 scifi • fiction • writing • tedchiang

Runaway capitalism

Excellent editorial by sci-fi author Ted Chiang

2017-12-18 capitalism • ai • via:metafilter • tech • siliconvalley

Multivariate Maps

A collection of visualization techniques

2017-12-18 maps • statistics • data • visualization

Nobody is above the Law

A protest planned for if Trump fires Mueller

2017-12-17 trump • protest • mueller • russia • politics

Cookies v Pastries v Pizza

Principal Component Analysis

2017-12-17 pca • machinelearning • cooking • funny

How Rubber Bands are Made

Always odd how one aspect of an industrial process is very manual (the mold, in this case)

2017-12-17 rubberband • manufacturing • via:jwz • factory

Mitch McConnell, Prince of Dust

A prose poem for our time

2017-12-16 politics • funny • mcconnell • mitchmcconnell • horror

Harassment in statistics

Men being shitty in academia

2017-12-14 sexism • harassment • statistics • nips • assault

Ajit Pai stupidity

Bizarre FCC advocacy

2017-12-14 fcc • ajitpai • politics • netneutrality

538 Gerrymandering Podcast

Explanatory series

2017-12-14 gerrymandering • politics • 538 • podcast

The African Enlightenment

17th and 18th century philosophers from Ghana and Ethiopia

2017-12-14 africa • ethiopia • ghana • philosophy • via:metafilter

Trump's Russia blindness

Why the US president is ignoring an obvious foreign threat

2017-12-14 trump • putin • politics • russia

Salesforce fountain

This majestic column needs a stream of water jetting from its tip

2017-12-14 salesforce • phallic • funny • sanfrancisco • architecture

Mirai Botnet and Minecraft

World's biggest DDOS network built to knock competing Minecraft server businesses offline

2017-12-13 minecraft • badtech • mirai • botnet • ddos

Texas German

Fredericksburg woman speaking a nearly lost language

2017-12-13 german • language • texas • fredericksburg

Alabama's gerrymander

Senate election reveals the crafty district boundaries in Alabama

2017-12-13 alabama • politics • votingrights • gerrymandering

DNS Over HTTPS

Work around ISP hijacking of users by hiding DNS traffic inside web traffic

2017-12-13 dns • http • protocols • isp • netneutrality

TP-Link abusing NTP

Wasting public resources and your bandwidth

2017-12-13 tplink • badtech • ntp • via:hackernews

MAME vector games

Actual vector hardware

2017-12-13 games • vectors • dispalys • mame • emulation • via:metafilter

TensorFire

Neural networks in browsers using WebGL

2017-12-13 tensorflow • webgl • browser • machinelearning • ml • ai • neuralnetworks

Breitbart #war on Twitter

Milo and Bannon tried to sabotage Twitter

2017-12-12 twitter • politics • breitbart • ethics • shortselling • bannon • milo

MakeMKV

How to read an encrypted Blu-Ray disc on Windows

2017-12-12 windows • backup • movie • video • mkv • handbrake

Alabama voter suppression

Racist voter ID laws

2017-12-12 alabama • politics • racism • voterid • votingrights

Guns / Glitter

Gender reveal party cake; this is so absurd it has to be fake?

2017-12-11 gender • stupid • america

First Women in Tech

WSJ on systemic sexism at the beginning of computer science

2017-12-11 women • feminism • tech • sexism • eniac

TPUs in production

Details from a datacenter of Google's special purpose machine learning hardware

2017-12-11 tensorflow • tpu • google • production • performance

Jeff Dean at NIPS 2017

Details about machine learning in production from Google

2017-12-11 google • machinelearning • ai • tpu • tensorflow

Bad Sex

Thoughts on having sex out of obligation rather than desire

2017-12-10 sex • relationships • via:metafilter

Comcast Javascript injection

Ads from your ISP. Scroll down for the link to the RFC

2017-12-09 javascript • privacy • comcast • internet • ads • rfcs

PLATO computer system

Excellent MeFi post about the 1960s-era distributed computing system

2017-12-09 computing • history • plato

The Amazon Honor System, 2001-2008

Amazon used to run a Patreon-like donation service

2017-12-09 patreon • amazon • donations • micropayments

Arizona police killing

Incredibly disturbing video

2017-12-09 police • killing • arizona

1.4 billion passwords

Internet security is broken

2017-12-09 internet • badtech • security • via:hackernews

Pandas programmer profile

Wes McKinney, the guy behind the popular data science library

2017-12-08 programming • python • pandas

leela-zero

Cooperative effort to reproduce AlphaGo Zero by using donated CPU and GPU cycles

2017-12-07 machinelearning • go • games • ai • alphago

Oracle v Google

When the elephants fight the mice get trod upon

2017-12-07 oracle • google • politics • tech

Humanity game

Bizarre looking game coming out next year

2017-12-07 games • humanity • simulation • crowds

Discord and user safety

Policy needs for a growing gamer community

2017-12-07 games • discord • trustandsafety • policy

Patreon fee analysis

Detailed look at the new structure

2017-12-07 patreon • funding • donations • crowdfunding • creditcard

Amazon Key in practice

Thoughtful critique of a new Amazon service

2017-12-07 amazon • privacy • security • amazonkey

Pulp Federation

Tarantino wants to do a Star Trek movie

2017-12-07 startrek • tarantino • funny

Kanopy

A Netflix-like video streaming service. They have a deal with the SF Public Library so you can watch videos for free

2017-12-07 netflix • kanopy • video • library • sfpl • documentaries

Steinle Murder verdict thoughts

Analysis from an alternate juror

2017-12-06 politics • sanfrancisco • steinle • zarate • murder

Deceptive ads on bad websites

Crappy sites like Forbes, HuffPo, and Fast Company have writers taking undisclosed money from advertisers

2017-12-06 ads • deception • journalism • ethics

Steam no longer taking Bitcoin

Too volatile, too expensive

2017-12-06 bitcoin • steam • via:hackernews

The Shed at Dulwich

Scamming TripAdvisor with a fake restaurant

2017-12-06 tripadvisor • london • funny • via:metafilter

CryptoKitties

When Tamagotchi meets Magic Beans

2017-12-05 bitcoin • ethereum • kitties • tamagotchi • collectible

Maori

Epic Metafilter post on bringing Maori language in to New Zealand at large

2017-12-05 maori • language • newzealand • aotearoa

Look at the big boy!

Heartbreaking photo of a child soldier in Yemen

2017-12-05 yemen • soldier • atrocity • saudiarabia • iran • politics • trump • america • war

Radwood

A celebration of 80s/90s car culture. Full of irony, looks hilarious and fun

2017-12-05 irony • funny • cars • radwood • 80s • 90s

Bitcoin dead drops

Interesting story of shenanigans involving public but hidden Bitcoin wallets

2017-12-03 bitocin • public • steganography • crypto • money • fraud

That Guy

A list of character actors who show up in small parts in movies

2017-12-03 movies • acting • thatguy • actors

US Broadband coverage (June 2014)

Another depiction of US Broadband paucity; only the blue area is competitive

2017-12-02 maps • broadband • isp • netneutrality

Trump vs Talking Heads

Normally hate this kind of thing but it had me laughing out loud, a release of tension

2017-12-02 trump • politics • talkingheads • parody • funny

Micro Transport Protocol

UDP protocol used by modern BitTorrent, has congestion backoff strategies

2017-12-01 networking • bittorrent • qos • ledbat

Chapelier Fou

A very French sort of music happening

2017-12-01 music • france • chapelierfou • madhatter

Underserved Internet areas

US map: red shows areas with 0 or 1 broadband providers

2017-12-01 broadband • internet • policy • isp • netneutrality

Miss Universe 2017

National costumes are alternatingly beautiful, intriguing, and hilarious

2017-12-01 missuniverse • pageant • beauty • via:metafilter