MIT / Epstein

More details of corruption from my old graduate school

2026-02-03 mit • epstein • joiito • scandal • medialab

Meta vs. Supernatural

Giant company buys a small lifestyle product with a community, then ruins it

2026-02-03 vr • fitness • meta • facebook • supernatural • enshittification

msgvault

New self-hosted email archive / search tool with a text UI and AI integration

2026-02-02 email • search • ai • gmail • database

Top 20 Newsgroups

Usenet still exists as social media, a leaderboard from a working web interface

2026-02-02 usenet • socialmedia • networking • discussion • forum

Scrapers vs. OpenStreetMap

Bots of some sort are hammering OSM's servers instead of just downloading the bulk free data dump

2026-01-29 hosting • osm • openstreetmap • bots • ai • scraping

Trump Nazi memes

Parallels between Trump social media posts and Nazi propaganda. It's not accidental.

2026-01-25 uspol • politics • trump • propaganda • nazis

BEARS Documentary

New movie being made documenting the gay bear phenomenon

2026-01-23 gay • lgbt • bears • culture • movie • documentary

Isometric NYC AI map

Thoughtful writeup of an AI-generated art project that's not just slop

2026-01-22 ai • art • generative • genai • nyc • newyork • map • isometric • via:hackernews

Liam Ramos

ICE agents abduct a 5 year old, then use him as bait to abduct his father

2026-01-22 uspol • politics • ice • children • humanrights

In Your Arms I Would Start A War

Heartfelt essay on what Heated Rivalry means to one particular gay man, and all gay men

2026-01-22 gay • lgbt • heatedrivalry • hockey • tv

2025: The year in LLMs

Simon's retrospective on trends in AI in the last year

2026-01-20 ai • llm • 2025 • simonw • summary

Website hosting tips

Expert gives advice on hosting small websites to simplify the maintenance load

2026-01-20 hosting • webserver • web • internet • server • simple

Dorset culture

A group of people who lived in the North American Arctic before the Inuit

2026-01-19 history • culture • inuit • arctic • eskimo • anthropology

'Blake's 7' Reboot?

Effort to develop a new version of the classic 70s British sci-fi

2026-01-19 blakes7 • tv • scifi

MAGA assault in Sacramento

Group of Trump thugs attack a protestor with a baseball bat

2026-01-19 politics • uspol • fascism • sacramento • california • trump • violence

uifxr

Small noise generator tool

2026-01-18 sound • noise • wav • games • synthesis

Small Factorio ships

Designs for spaceships in the game Factorio

2026-01-18 games • factorio • efficiency • puzzle • spaceship

Robert C. Rore (NSFW)

Homoerotic nudes of men, some playing cello

2026-01-18 gay • nude • nsfw • erotic • cello • male • homoerotic

CNAME vs A record

Cloudflare outage report talks about a subtle wrinkle in DNS, where the order of the records matters when it probably shouldn't

2026-01-15 cname • dns • postmortem • cloudflare • outage

Crystallfontz

Small LCD displays for use to show server status, in drive bay form factors and others

2026-01-15 display • server • homelab • lcd • accessory

Mozilla open source AI

Statement of strategy

2026-01-13 ai • llm • mozilla • opensource • freesoftware • opendata

Privacy AI

Signal founder now working on making AI services that keep user data private

2026-01-13 privacy • ai • llm • moxie • signal

FEX emulator

Run x86 Linux programs on ARM64

2026-01-10 emulator • arm • intel • cpu • linux

Markdown history

Nice writeup of the social history of Markdown, the functional good-enough text markup a lot of people use to write content

2026-01-09 markdown • web • history • gruber • aaronsw • text

Simple Claude Code

A short program building a functional AI agent system like Claude Code

2026-01-08 programming • llms • ai • agents • via:hackernews

Renee Good

Profile of the woman ICE killed yesterday in Minneapolis

2026-01-08 politics • uspol • ice • civilrights • fascism

Danish vaccine rationale

Discussion of why Denmark's childhood vaccination schedule is the way it is

2026-01-08 uspol • politics • denmark • publichealth • vaccines

ICE killing analysis

A neutral, detailed description of the video footage showing ICE agents killing Renee Nicole Good. It is clear that the ICE agents were the threat, they did not respond to a threat.

2026-01-08 ice • politics • uspol • killing • video • nytimes

An Americana Saga

Quirky personal museum near Grass Valley

2026-01-06 americana • america • museum • grassvalley • nevadacounty

Social media labelling

Interesting bot that identifies unusual social media accounts and labels them things like "posts 50+ times a day"

2026-01-06 socialmedia • bluesky • internet • bots • propaganda • filtering

Social media labelling

Interesting bot that identifies unusual social media accounts and labels them things like "posts 50+ times a day"

2026-01-06 socialmedia • bluesky • internet • bots • propaganda • filtering

PingGraph

A network diagnostic tool that issues a lot of fast pings to measure latency, jitter, etc

2026-01-05 ping • network • testing • internet • tcpip • latency • jitter

Anna's Archive move

Large unlicensed book archive lost their .org. The site's still up may just be a challenge finding it. .li and .se work for now.

2026-01-05 books • annasarchive • piracy • dotorg • domainname • censorship

1910 LA air meet

A very early aviation event that got Los Angeles started on its path to being an aerospace hub

2026-01-03 history • aerospace • aviation • tech • startup • airshow

Gundo tech scene

Overview of the Los Angeles aerospace startups, rooted in SpaceX but with a history going back much longer

2026-01-03 tech • startups • la • losangeles • spacex • gundo • elsegundo • hawthorne • aerospace

1Password vs HTML

Popular browser password extension currently has a bug that's breaking syntax highlighting in code samples on web pages

2026-01-02 1password • bug • code • internet • formatting • prismjs

Paris 1970

A collection of photos from a project to have people document Paris in 1970, organized by a map

2026-01-02 paris • photography • photos • via:metafilter • france

Factorio computer

39c3 talk about building a whole computer in the game Factorio

2026-01-01 games • factorio • cpu • 39c3

Potplayer

A video player by a major Korean company, an alternative to VLC

2025-12-29 vlc • movies • video • windows • software

Photo processing

A nice illustration of the basic steps a digital camera takes to turn raw sensor data into a meaningful picture

2025-12-29 photography • digital • tonecurve • images

Clock Synchronization

A rundown of different algorithms and systems for keeping computers in sync

2025-12-27 time • ntp • via:hackernews • ptp • clocks • synchronization

Tangible Media

A collection of data storage systems like punch cards

2025-12-27 media • punchcard • history • computing • storage

Rob Pike vs AI smarm

Shitty AI project spams famous programmer with empty gratitude. He replies quite clearly

2025-12-26 ai • funny • llm • spam • slop

Claude Code router

Use the coding agent with your choice of LLM

2025-12-25 ai • llm • coding • claude • programming • claudecode

exe.xyz

Turnkey AI coding system makes it easy to create disposable software

2025-12-24 ai • llm • programming • vm

AI vs Advent of Code

Peter Norvig puts three LLMs through the paces of coding puzzles with mostly positive results

2025-12-23 norvig • ai • llm • coding • adventofcode

Potato pansharpening

Software for improving satellite images

2025-12-23 satellite • aerial • imagery • imageprocessing • sharpen • detail

Manhattan bar, Paris

A 1970s gay bar famous as the site of a police raid that was later denounced

2025-12-23 lgbt • history • paris • gayrights • liberation • sex • gaybar

MCP Obsidian

Give AIs access to the popular note-taking tool

2025-12-22 mcp • ai • llm • obsidian • notes • pim

Spotify's pirate founding

Music streaming service was started with unlicensed MP3s

2025-12-22 spotify • piracy • copyright • music

Spotify backup

300TB of music and metadata available as a torrent

2025-12-21 spotify • music • annasarchive • archive • piracy

Grass Valley attacks

We've had a series of brutal youth violence incidents in Grass Valley, including some hate crimes. Nice article about the response

2025-12-21 grassvalley • hatecrime • lgbt • violence • california • nevadacounty

Bolero chiptune

Ravel's piece performed on 8 bit homemade instruments

2025-12-20 music • chiptune • classical • ravel • bolero • via:metafilter

The end of time

NIST's reference time servers are offline because of a power outage

2025-12-20 nist • ntp • time • server • power • boulder • weather

ChòpnBlọk review

A very good West African restaurant in Houston gets national recognition

2025-12-17 food • naija • nigerian • westafrican • restaurant • africanamerican • black • culture

Botnets for AI

Residential PCs used to be used for DDOS attacks, now they're being hijacked and leased to AI companies to scrape websites

2025-12-17 badtech • botnet • ai • llm • investment • vc • venturecapital • aisuru

Agent memory systems

A structured memory for AI agents that divides beliefs from facts

2025-12-16 rag • ai • llm • via:reddit • code • programming • agents

Rainbows are Carnivores

New gay art game from Radiator Yang. This doesn't look like fun exactly, but the explication sure is interesting

2025-12-14 gay • lgbt • games • radiatoryang • fishing

HanuKpop

Demon Hunters remade as Hanukkah songs, with remarkably good animation

2025-12-14 funny • kpop • demonhunters • hanukkah • jewish • music • via:metafilter

Open WebUI RAG

Run an LLM against documents entirely locally, self hosted

2025-12-14 selfhosted • llm • ai • rag • openwebui

JustHTML AI coding

Detailed story of using AI agents to write a parsing library with very minimal hands-on work from the engineer

2025-12-14 ai • programming • llm • parsing • python • via:simonw

Cory Doctorow on The Daily Show

Local boy makes good on national teevee!

2025-12-12 cory • doctorow • internet • culture • enshittification • dailyshow • comedy

Hardcode feature flags

In praise of a simple system for a useful and prod-sensitive feature. Complex feature flag systems often fail.

2025-12-12 programming • simplicity • featureflags

Oliver Sacks and homophobia

Heartbreaking story of the famous writer's personal demons

2025-12-09 oliversacks • neuroscience • psychology • gay • lgbt • closet • homophobia

Trans health protest

Bay Area protest against Sutter Health which has capitulated and is saying they won't offer gender affirming healthcare to kids anymore

2025-12-09 protest • trans • transgender • civilrights • lgbt • health • sutterhealth • bayarea

Kennedy Center Honors

Hilarious skewering of the corrupted arts awards

2025-12-09 uspol • trump • corruption • kennedycenter • arts • awards

Burkhard Mangold

Swiss Poster artist from the 1910s

2025-12-08 art • switzerland • poster • herrenwasche

Twitter.New

Some lawyer who formerly worked at Twitter is claiming to create a new Twitter and filing to cancel the old trademarks. Scam? Crazy idea? Weird.

2025-12-08 twitter • trademark • startup • legal

NanoKVM microphone

Small computer management system comes with bugs and a microphone hidden on the circuitboard

2025-12-07 badtech • china • espionage • security • nanokvm • kvm

Straight to Hell (NSFW)

Anthologies of the important gay porn zine are available as scans on Internet Archive.

2025-12-07 gay • lgbt • porn • history

The Land of Giants

Sculpture proposal to turn power line towers into human figures

2025-12-05 via:kottke • art • sculpture • iceland • infrastructure

Kalmyks

The only long-established Buddhist ethnic group in Europe, descendants of Mongols

2025-12-05 history • russia • kalmyk • buddhism • mongols

Typewriter Plotters

A collection of bizarre 80s and 90s printers. Pen plotters with keyboards attached, or other odd hybrids

2025-12-05 plotting • plotterart • cool • via:lobsters • art • graphics • typewriter

Ultracube

A Factorio mod that totally overhauls the game and centers logistical problems, making mass scaling impossible

2025-12-05 games • factorio • mods

Migrations between US states

Visualizations of census data. Texans stay put more than any other state.

2025-12-04 usa • america • census • migration • states

Pluribus ad vs. mental health

Report someone's schizophrenic sister checked herself into a hospital because she thought she was having an episode. Instead, it was an ad for a TV show on her fridge display

2025-12-04 ads • pluribus • mentalhealth • dystopia

AI DA followup

My county prosecutor got caught filing AI slop with the court. Here's the milquetoast response about how they pinkie-swear to do better

2025-12-04 ai • slop • legal • civilrights • nevadacounty • grassvalley • scandal

Public Suffix List

A list of domain names that should not be considered as private to one organization but are instead generally used by many people

2025-12-04 mozilla • security • cookies • spam • web

Gay fantasy novels

A list of fun reading

2025-12-04 gay • fantasy • lgbt • novel

Rasam Varieties

Recipes for the South Indian thin soup

2025-12-03 food • rasam • india • spice • broth • soup

Heap of sand

Interesting probing at how LLMs "think". Read their comment about running the model at temperature 0 to get raw logits

2025-12-01 ai • llm • benchmark

Original affluent society

Anthropologist's view that hunter-gatherer societies were affluent, that people had everything they needed to live well

2025-11-30 society • anthropology • history • sahlins • scarcity • huntergatherer • graeber

Datacenters in space

Some basic realities about why it's a terrible idea to put computing facilities in orbit

2025-11-30 space • ai • hardware • cooling • power • solar

RAGFlow

Software for setting up your own AI with document retrieval

2025-11-29 rag • ai • llm • software • toolkit

Mapping Queer Neighborhoods

A visualization of US census data about same-sex household with some clever processing to highlight neighborhoods

2025-11-29 maps • gay • lgbt • census • queer • demographics • unitedstates

No Longer Evil

Open source project saves the Nest thermostats Google abandoned

2025-11-28 firmware • nest • thermostat • google • opensource • iot

First Homosexuals

Magazine article about the ground breaking queer art exhibition and catalog in Chicago

2025-11-28 art • homosexual • gay • lgbt • history • chicago

American casual nudity

A reflection on the move to more privacy in locker rooms

2025-11-26 nudity • america • culture • body

Youtarr

Automatic downloader for YouTube videos, subscribe to channels

2025-11-26 youtube • arrr • plex • video • download • caching

CodeRED security disaster

An emergency alert service used by many local governments has been completely pwned. All user data stolen, service offline.

2025-11-26 security • badtech • codered • government • alert • incompetence

AI DA

Our local district attorney has been caught using AI to write garbage briefs to wrongly punish people

2025-11-25 ai • nevadacounty • corruption • politics • california • legal

Le Cirque de Calder

Video of the artist performing his miniature circus with sculpture and puppetry

2025-11-25 art • calder • circus • paris • whitney

Calder works

Lovely catalog of many pieces by the artist

2025-11-25 calder • art • gallery • mobile • sculpture

Reaction-Diffusion Playground

A class of generative art systems

2025-11-24 reactiondiffusion • generative • art • turing

fleen.org

An interesting grammar based generative art project. Author has posted lots of images to Reddit but they are hard to find now.

2025-11-24 fleen • art • generative • grammar • opensource

Multi-Scale Turing Patterns

Interesting art generated by algorithms

2025-11-24 generative • art • reactiondiffusion

Fran Sans

A font modelled after Muni destination signs

2025-11-24 fonts • sanfrancisco • muni • fransans • sans • design • typography • segment

Bosom Buddies

Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury being amazing at the Tony awards

2025-11-22 music • musicals • gay • lgbt • beaarthur • angelalansbury • camp

Epstein emails

Gmail clone interface to Jeffrey Epstein email dump

2025-11-22 epstein • joiito • scandal • politics • uspol • rape

AI World Clocks

Various LLMs attempt to render a clock

2025-11-20 via:metafilter • ai • clock • visualization • chatgpt