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Apple location protocol
Details from reverse engineering; would love to know more
2018-04-29 maps • apple • protocol • location • geolocation
Lynching memorial
The kind of history museum America needs, dealing with the horrors of slavery and racism in the US
2018-04-28 america • politics • slavery • justice • lynching
US political realignment
Heather Cox Richardson's argument that the US is seeing a major restructuring of its two party system
2018-04-28 politics • democrats • republicans
BGP leaks
Summary of an attack on Amazon DNS and Internet infrastructure yesterday. BGP is a security disaster in slow motion
2018-04-25 security • bgp • networking • internet • badtech
Russian election system hacking in 2016
We know they probed 21 states because we only had monitoring in 21 states
2018-04-25 election • russia • politics
incel culture explained
Details on a particularly odious pocket of misogyny on the Internet
2018-04-25 misogyny • women • gender • feminism • incel • reddit • 4chan • murder • manosphere
First Family holding hand
This kind of political commentary is petty. OTOH this is really weird and remarkable.
2018-04-24 trump • politics • family • melania • hands
Gaia Data Release 2
Data on 1 billion stars in our galaxy
2018-04-24 space • gaia • astronomy • data • via:hackernews
Whole Internet map
Hilbert curves to map IPv4 addresses
2018-04-24 maps • internet • networking • hilbertcurve • via:hackernews
Socotra photos
Yemen's odd and isolated island
2018-04-24 socotra • nature • photography • photos • travel
Karl Rove's kinky dad (NSFW)
Details on Louie Rove, his gay father, and his love of genital piercing
2018-04-21 kink • rove • lgbt • gay • piercing • bme • karlrove
Goodhart's law
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
2018-04-20 economics • metrics • optimization
ICE legal tactics
Various dodges ICE uses to avoid people's civil rights
2018-04-19 civilrights • ice • politics • immigration • police
ICE thuggery
Farmer reports outrageous behavior from immigration
2018-04-19 ICE • immigration • civilrights • politics
Steamed Hams with different animators
Remarkably good
2018-04-19 steamedhams • meme • funny • via:metafilter • animation • simpsons
Dymaxion sunset
jwz simulates sunrise and sunset on an unusual map projection
2018-04-19 maps • fuller • dymaxion • projection • sunset
Computing Pi in Javascript
Observable notebook; Javascript sure has come a long way
2018-04-18 javascript • programming • code • math • pi • webworkers • generators
Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico
Various shady business bros formed a blockchain thing in Puerto Rico
2018-04-18 tirefire • bitcoin • cryptocurrency • fraud • puertorico
Underscores in Python
Various ways the _ character is used in Python; some idiomatic, some built in
2018-04-18 python • programming • syntax • underscore
Californian taxes in 2018
Impact of the GOP/Trump tax plan; richer Californias get a significant tax hike
2018-04-18 california • taxes • politics • trump • gop • via:reddit
SoundPrint
"Yelp for Noise"; crowdsourced measurements of noise at restaurants
2018-04-18 noise • sound • iphone • ios • app • restaurant • dining
Russia blocks AWS and Google Cloud
hamfisted attempt to stop Telegram
2018-04-18 telegram • privacy • google • amazon • aws • censorship • security
Papua New Guinea lodges
Luxury travel in an unlikely place
2018-04-17 travel • png • papua • tourism
Mexican Repatriation
American ethnic cleansing from the 1930s
2018-04-17 mexico • america • politics • immigration
PyPI postmortem
Failed rollout for the Python package hosting, nice writeup
2018-04-17 pypi • python • hosting • postmortem • cdn
Internet lightbulbs
How many cloud servers does it take to change a light bulb?
2018-04-17 lightbulb • internet • internetofshit • iot • philips • funny • automation
Beyoncé detail
An appreciation of how complex and deep her work is
2018-04-16 beyonce • depth • detail
Danakil Depression
Extreme desert environment with many colors in Ethiopia
2018-04-16 ethiopia • photography • photos • art
China recants gay Weibo ban
Rare about-face on public policy
2018-04-16 china • lgbt • gay • humanrights • weibo • censorship
OLPC retrospective
Utopian project to give laptops to kids in poor nations did not end well
2018-04-16 medialab • negroponte • olpc • education • laptop
Weibo bans the gays
Large social media in China tries a blanket ban on "homosexuality"
2018-04-15 gay • lgbt • homosexual • weibo • politics • china
City DNA
Abstract paintings inspired by city grids
2018-04-15 maps • cities • via:kottke • via:migurski • painting • art
Michael Cohen mobster
Remarkable photos from the Daily Mail
2018-04-14 dailymail • photo • trump • politics • cohen
Twitter infrastructure incidents
Former engineers reminisce about various cack-ups
2018-04-13 twitter • infrastructure • engineering • internet • programming
Container ship markings
Notations used by tugs, dockworkers
2018-04-13 via:metafilter • shipping • containers
Tesla malfeasance
NTSB won't work with them after they aggressively published one-sided information about the driver/passenger their autopilot killed
2018-04-12 ntsb • tesla • selfdrivingcars • regulation • autopilot
Autechre: elseq et al
Interview with the electronic music duo; they have a new album / live thing coming out soon
2018-04-12 music • autechre • elseq • maxmsp • programming
Mapping Out Protocols
Randy Meech on achieving permanence in a tech company by focusing on protocols
2018-04-12 protocols • maps • mapzen • randymeech
Reddit and hate speech
Conflicting, poorly considered policies
2018-04-12 reddit • hatespeech • nazis • politics • freespeech
Salsify
Stanford research on efficient video streaming
2018-04-12 salsify • dash • video • streaming • webrtc
New PyPI
Python package library migrating to a new system, Warehouse
2018-04-12 python • pypi • pip • software • security
ICE sexual abuse
Rape and sexual assault used as a tool of control
2018-04-11 ice • dhs • america • politics • immigration • rape • sexualabuse
Far Cry 5 has a terrible ending
Full of spoilers, a righteous rant
2018-04-11 farcry5 • games • farcry • ending • stupid • writing
Mythology about security…
Jim Gettys on the legacy of crypto export control laws and how the Internet today is still less secure
2018-04-11 security • crypto • politics • law • kerberos
Tech debt in LoL
Riot Games talks about League of Legends' code and technical debt
2018-04-11 deb • engineering • software • riotgames • games • riot • lol
Observable computation
Details on their topological sort to run computation in dependency order
2018-04-10 observable • toposort • topological • computing • notebook
Homophobia 2018
Excellent performance of the fear and second-guessing we do
2018-04-10 gay • lgbt • homophobia • glasgow • scotland • bbc
American Chopper explained
In which @mattyglesias gets some value from his liberal arts education
2018-04-10 americanchopper • meme • platonic • funny • culture
Arena
Short film of shapes found in aerial imagery
2018-04-10 art • maps • shapes
Cohen raid op/ed
Simple article explaining the new high stakes
2018-04-10 trump • politics • mueller • russia • fraud • cohen • sex
ACP, Southern food
An American spin on arroz con pollo that sounds like mediocrity
2018-04-10 food • south • mexican • cooking
Meteora, Greece
Crazy cliffside monasteries
2018-04-09 travel • greece • monastery • meteora
Open Precinct Data
A call for an organized effort to gather geodata for elections
2018-04-09 politics • america • opendata • precincts • gerrymandering
Boys and toxic masculinity
A reflection on how misogyny harms boys and men
2018-04-09 feminism • masculinity • culture • gender
Google Maps testing a globe projection
A/B testing a new map presentation
2018-04-08 maps • projections • google • googlemaps • globe • projection
Henry Gerber
A very early gay rights activist in the US, Society for Human Rights dates to the 1920s
2018-04-07 gay • lgbt • politics • history • civilrights • america
Molly Ringwold on John Hughes
Nuanced, complex discussion of rapey themes in Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, etc
2018-04-06 movies • johnhuges • mollyringwald • metoo • gender • harassment
RIP Twitter clients
Twitter API changes mean third party Twitter clients like Tweetbot will probably stop working
2018-04-06 twitter • tweetbot • api
Queering the Map
Collection of LGBT stories on a map
2018-04-06 maps • lgbt • queer • via:metafilter
NYT on the royal wedding
Fantastic interactive web article from the NYT team
2018-04-06 nytimes • art • web • funny • wedding • via:metafilter
Notebook computing
Nice article about the value of Jupyter and Mathematica notebooks for science
2018-04-05 science • publishing • jupyter • notebooks • mathematica • wolfram • via:metafilter
Steam in 2017
Interesting gaming data from Steam Spy
2018-04-05 steam • steamspy • games • china • via:metafilter
MtGox thefts
Article from last year claiming Alexander Vinnik stole most of MtGox's bitcoin
2018-04-04 bitcoin • theft • fraut • mtgox
MtGox Bitcoin AMA
Mark Karpelès answering questions with candor
2018-04-04 bitcoin • mtgox • fraud
Snap Map
Showing live social media activity on a map
2018-04-03 maps • snapchat • socialmedia
Axis Maps projects
Twitter thread of various projects by an innovative mapping group
2018-04-03 maps • axismaps • twitter
Grindr sharing HIV status
Sensitive data shared with third parties
2018-04-02 grindr • privacy • sex • lgbt • aids • hiv
Spotify's direct listing
Company taking an unusual method to go public
2018-04-02 spotify • ipo • wallstreet • finance
4.2.2.2
History of the first largely known public DNS server
2018-04-02 dns • level3 • bbn • networks • internet
DNS services compared
CloudFlare's new DNS service compared to Google, Quad9, others
2018-04-02 dns • cloudflare • google • via:hackernews
Archaeology vs Genomics
Survey of the changes in the study of humanity's past as DNA evidence becomes available
2018-04-01 science • archeology • archaeology • anthropology • dna • history • genomics • via:hackernews
1.1.1.1
Cloudflare launches a new public DNS service
2018-04-01 dns • cloudflare • internet