"I want people starting to work at 11, 12"

Popular "free TV for $100" hacker box comes loaded with crap

Threatened employee action after more mistreatment of employees and ex-employees

10 year anniversary of the incredibly important game Minecraft. Its original author is not welcome at the party because he's deplorable

Remarkable this article is 100% positive

Are the times finally a changin?

Unintended consequences; Path of Exile ran a promotion encouraging people to link their Twitch accounts, now their PoE accounts are compromised

NYT Style section is generally a parody of itself. But the existence of this article is itself sort of a miracle

A fantastic essay on sexism, just won a Beard award

Windows video player, alternative to VLC. From korea

Chat with David Ehreth, founder of my favorite pickle company

Disgraced company is denying employees the right to sue because they signed arbitration agreements in their contracts

A workaround for lack of DDNS support at Hover, uses an unofficial API to update entries. Note it requires a pull request to change the login URL

Forceful editorial on why the Supreme Court case over the citizenship question is so important

Personal essay about the inhumanity of the tech industry

Company behind Tether lost $850M, tried to hide out.

The company is incapable of reining in escalating violent language in American political discourse

Protest movement against long hours in Chinese tech industry. GitHub plays an unusual role

New federal court ruling that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional

Harder problem than blocking ISIS because so many Republicans statistically look like white supremacists

Nice touristy treatment

Awful story of a Google employee being sexually harassed and stalked by another employee, the company doing nothing. (Bonus: foot fetish)

Trump wanted to whine about how his follower account is too small because Twitter keeps removing bot accounts

Former research scientist at Google talks about ethical problems at the company and its lack of interest in talking about them

Ill-advised meeting with Trump in the White House

A website devoted to horses in videogames

Splitting a fine hair, but traditional home cooking in Texas vs. Tex-Mex

Remarkably detailed reflective review. Also very negative, it's like they focussed only on the problem parts and overlooked what made the game so great

Fuckery from Intuit to make it very difficult to find the IRS-mandated free filing program

Punishing employees who spoke up publically about important management decisions

Instrument functions with a decorator to have it print a trace of execution

"It’s a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others … two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being asunder"

Quick description of a new-to-me surveillance technique

The citizenship question would cause an undercount of some 2-3% of Americans. That's not an accident, it's the purpose of Trump's people wanting the question.

Tools to check if your DNS is being hijacked, how fast it is, etc

RiskIQ brags they collect 1000 GB/day of "passive DNS data". Where do they get their data?

Vixie's security company advertises "2TB DNS data collected daily", 200K+ observations/second. Where are they getting this data?

Cleverly balanced enormous cement blocks can be rocked and rotated into place

Some good news; terrorist leader menacing migrants is arrested

A step short of impeachment

Tortured legal arguing is why Trump is not being tried for obstruction of justice

A detailed analysis of the PDF technology used; document was apparently two generations of printed-and-scanned

This is incredibly dangerous; random groups of men with guns are detaining and threatening migrants at the border.

Nell Thomas takes over for Raffi Krikorian

Browser compatibility has gotten so bad the new Microsoft browser has a table of which browser to pretend to be on what websites

A handy guide to what we may learn from the report. Someone should make a bingo card

New emulator cleans up graphics from old SNES games

After 45 years, an SF institution is coming to an end

Readable summary of the O(n log n) algorithm and what it means

Also apparently a gay Republican, just used his political power to block civil rights for LGBT people. Asshole.

Infocom's 1989 manual for their internal programming language

Vigilantes removing tram-wrapping ads in Melbourne

"Chrome is the new IE"

Bizarre claim they are leaving the death threats against Omar up "to aid law enforcement". Seems like rank nonsense to me.

Company still verifying lots of accounts despite having publically said they were putting the program on pause

I'm most worried about the dangerous part; I fear Trump and friends' rhetoric is going to incite someone to violence

A troubling view of the power and opacity of Internet communication media

Lovely little mellow jazz trio. Pianist is a 15 year old Indonesian kid!

Map of navigable waterways in France

Two males and a female share a nest for years

A list of things the Trump folks did this last week trying to place themselves above the law

Trump administration wanted to bus immigrants to "sanctuary cities" as a kind of punishment

Retires from her judge position rather than be investigated for tax fraud

A description of a hellscape for gaming

Collection of useful Windows Subsystem for Linux stuff

Open source and US government public domain interact awkwardly

Remarkable design for an apartment building with zillions of balconies

A radical design for Berlin's transit map

Clever DNS hack for finding your own IP address via the OpenDNS resolver

"The first time I did it, like day three, I felt like I was hallucinating"

An effort to redesign, with comparison to previous maps

Company with monopoly on Alcatraz visits is not capable of selling tickets at the moment

Not only requires signed apps; now requires "notarization"

Long-standing problem gets some notice in the NYT

Detailed map of earthquake risks in the Bay Area

Exploratory UI for image recognition neural networks

Ugly financial shenanigans with Morgan Stanley and the Lyft IPO

Ugly stories from an acquisition of a company worth less than its investment. Bonuses for a few top executives, nothing for regular employees

Nice visualization of how much water we have stored

US government is unequipped to prosecute the richest Americans for tax fraud

Useful resources for US cell phone owners

Another password manager, this one open source

Slaver families in the South recovered their wealth 10-20 years after losing it all in the Civil War

Doctors signing medical waivers; they need to be investigated and the fraudulent ones prosecuted

"Sponsored content" stories in a major UK newspaper trying to make people hate Facebook left

200 transactions / second!

Disproportionate burden for poor families taking the Earned Income Credit

Ad boycott has hurt Breitbart's business

Madhur Jaffrey, famous Indian cookbook author, goes hardcore

New history of American post-Civil-War, a 4 hour documentary

Former Mozilla CTO and US citizen detained at the border, apparently because he works on software and privacy

A striking but apparently natural rock formation

Remarkably good discussion on fabrics and weaving with triangular symmetry. Lots of links in the comments

Last months countries met to discuss active engineering measures to cool the Earth. It was controversial.

2016 case in North Carolina where legislators were on the record saying they changed the laws to make it harder for Black people to vote

Economist round up of the Supreme Court hearing

Details of tech infrastructure work at the DNC

Layoffs, new CEO, a public PR problem

A common Asian ingredient newly popular with Western cooks

Trump administration has overruled the denial of 25 people's security clearances

Interesting coding retreat / school in New York