Content hashes compared

Nice testing on modern non-crypto hashes

2014-05-31 hashing • algorithms • murmur

Compression

Lovely little image and sound demo

2014-05-31 compression • funny

Encom Boardroom

Goofy 3d visualizations of GitHub and Wikipedia changes

2014-05-30 github • wikipedia • opengl • tron • visualization

SF parking FAQ

Details of various rules for tickets

2014-05-30 parking • sanfrancisco • sf • laws

Reeder 2 for Mac

Best RSS reader for Mac gets a long needed update

2014-05-30 rss • reeder • mac • software

Andrée polar expedition photos

Images from the doomed 1897 balloon flight over the arctic

2014-05-30 Andrée • arctic • exploration • photos • despair

Google Video Quality Report

Independent view of ISP quality

2014-05-30 isp • broadband • youtube • google • video

The Unearthing

Hypnotic not-games-journalism about the E.T. Atari dig

2014-05-30 games • fiction • via:waxy • atari

OpenDNS stops breaking DNS

Eight years later, admits hijacking DNS for application queries is a bad idea

2014-05-30 dns • opendns • advertising • ads • nxdomain

Piketty response to FT

Economist refutes data criticisms point by point

2014-05-30 piketty • economics • ft

HTML imports

Transclusion finally ends up in the WWW

2014-05-30 web • javascript • html5 • xanadu

Space College hijacks satellite

ISEE-3 project to recover 30 year wandering satellite is going well so far

2014-05-30 space • satellite • communications • isee3

Linux on the NUC

Intel's new small computing system now runs useful operating systems

2014-05-29 linux • nuc • intel • sff

Deterministic Builds

Tor goes through steps to enable third parties to build byte-for-byte identical binaries

2014-05-29 security • tor • build • gitian

Businessweek Piketty cover

Hilarious parody

2014-05-29 piketty • parody • economics • funny • business

420 MLG Game Montages

Some history of the game montage parody meme

2014-05-29 games • funny • parody

How to Flip a Pancake

Parody video (attn @mbostock @shashashasha @migurski)

2014-05-29 funny • parody • games • montage

/r/montageparodies

Satirizing over-hyped game videos. Mom get your camera.

2014-05-29 games • funny • parody • video

dramabeans

English language info on Korean TV dramas

2014-05-29 tv • korea • soapopera

GooBing Detroit

Images of a city becoming a ruin, via Internet street photos

2014-05-28 detroit • ruinporn • streetview • via:metafilter

Chrome extension lockdown

Google is restricting what extensions users can put in their browser

2014-05-28 google • chrome • badtech • extensions

World War I: aerial warfare

Amazing collection of photos

2014-05-28 photos • aviation • wwi

Andy Baio on Upcoming

Great essay about selling his website to Yahoo, it failing, and now starting over

2014-05-28 yahoo • upcoming • startups • waxy

Nate Silver on messy data

Commentary on the reality of political data, with respect to Piketty

2014-05-27 piketty • natesilver • data

MH370 Comms Log.pdf

Inmarsat's data on the missing plane communications

2014-05-27 inmarsat • mh370 • aviation

Lawnmower Man: CGI only

An edit of the shlock 90s cyberspace film with just the cyberspace parts

2014-05-26 movies • cgi • ui • lawnmowerman

Nick Fury's HUD

Design process behind a movie computer interface

2014-05-26 movies • games • avengers • captainamerica • sfx

Maciej Cegłowski on Internet privacy

Excellent talk about data collection

2014-05-26 privacy • internet • pinboard • maciej • via:waxy

History of LoL and DotA

Good video explaining the history of MOBA games

2014-05-26 games • moba • lol • dota • via:reddit

More Mt. Gox fraud

Log analysis shows someone stealing a lot of money through Mt. Gox

2014-05-25 mtgox • bitcoin • fraud • badtech

BPF - the forgotten bytecode

A tiny little VM built into your kernel for network packet processing

2014-05-24 via:jm • programming • internet • kernel • tcpip

Data problems with Piketty

FT blog alleges "Capital in the 21st Century" cooked the numbers.

2014-05-24 economics • piketty

Elliot Rodger - YouTube

Videos from alleged mass murderer detailing his resentment of women

2014-05-24 gender • women • murder • santabarbara • sex • ucsb

FCC/telecom revolving door

This is what corruption looks like

2014-05-22 fcc • government • corruption • netneutrality

From NAND to Tetris

Online course for learning computer systems, building from hardware to full apps

2014-05-22 computers • architecture • courseware • programming

Learning Dragon's Lair

Lovely story of beating a classic arcade game

2014-05-22 games • via:metafilter • dragonslair • arcade

Danny Sullivan on Metafilter

Great analysis of the kinds of mysterious penalties Google may have given Metafilter

2014-05-22 metafilter • google • seo

League of Legends salaries

$350,000 / year for each 5 man team

2014-05-21 games • lol • esports • riot

Google algorithms shape Internet culture

Analysis of the Metafilter problem

2014-05-21 metafilter • google • seo

Google vs. MetaFilter

A story about how Google's market dominance endangers dependent businesses

2014-05-21 google • metafilter • ads • adsense • seo

TempleOS uses this

Outsider-art programmer talks about his dream computer

2014-05-21 computers • templeos • schizophrenia

Pornhub ads (SFW)

Hilarious ads for the famous porn site

2014-05-20 porn • funny • via:reddit • pornhub

David Lynch's Return of the Jedi

Phenomenal edit, stay for the nightclub scene

2014-05-20 starwars • davidlynch • funny • cliche

The Lavabit story

details of US abuse of privacy

2014-05-20 privacy • lavabit • security • email • snowden

The mystery of d3.js

Great writeup of the hurdle that comes with using the great visualization library

2014-05-20 d3js • learning • coding

Rob Pardo at the MIT Media Lab

Lead World of Warcraft game designer talks at MIT

2014-05-20 mit • games • robpardo • blizzard • warcraft • wow

iTunes security bug

Dumb-ass permission settings

2014-05-20 apple • itunes • badtech

Drone Survival Guide

Handy identification chart; the knowledge may save your life!

2014-05-19 drones • art • mia • warfare

State of MetaFilter

Much loved Web community site has layoffs because of declining revenue

2014-05-19 metafilter • ads • google • community • mathowie

Diseased Pariah News

Classic AIDS zine is scanned and online

2014-05-18 aids • gay • 90s

The Divine Move

Upcoming movie about Go and gangsters and probably some martial arts

2014-05-18 movies • go • games • via:marc • korea • southkorea

The silencing of the Deaf

Great article about Deaf culture vs. cochlear implants

2014-05-18 deaf • sign • hearing • language • culture

Jupiter animation

Voyager 1 stop frame of clouds churning

2014-05-18 jupiter • voyager • space • astronomy

navi-x

A streaming video addon for XBMC that seems particularly good for unlicensed content

2014-05-17 movies • xbmc • tv • video • boxee

Martian analemma

Fantastic image of the sun's position in the Martian sky over a year

2014-05-17 mars • analemma • astrophotography

Eve big game hunting

Crazy story of a group waiting two years to kill a Titan

2014-05-17 games • eve • eveonline • ccp • mmos

Eve Online China

Parallel development of Eve Online in the Chinese instance

2014-05-17 china • games • ccp • eveonline • eve • mmos

Eurovision voting visualization

From /r/dataisugly. It is amazing.

2014-05-17 wtf • eurovision • visualization • graphics • via:reddit

Flux Application Architecture

Facebook's approach to UI

2014-05-16 ui • model • mvc • facebook • programming

DecalGirl

Full color vinyl decals for laptops, etc

2014-05-16 art • iphone • macbook • via:tbray • decal

Drugs in eSports

Frank discussion of pros using coke, adderall, etc to win computer games

2014-05-15 drugs • games • lol

Gay Lisp

A Scheme environment in the browser

2014-05-15 lisp • scheme

A Postcard from San Francisco

Another in the @Mat Honan fever dream series

2014-05-15 sanfrancisco • life

Omaha World-Herald on Ev Williams

Great hometown newspaper story about the local boy made good, fearturing @ev and @pbausch

2014-05-14 ev • evan • twitter • omaha • nebraska • pb

Apple hijacks SMS

Once you sign up for iMessage you can't leave it

2014-05-13 apple • sms • imessage • badtech

ThingConf

A small conference on making and shipping products. Great speaker lineup.

2014-05-13 rachelbinx • binx • meshu • gifpop • manufacturing • 3dprinting

Boiling eggs

Super-nerdy detailed article on how to make better boiled eggs

2014-05-13 cooking • eggs

Computer Go update

State of the AI research

2014-05-12 games • go • chess • ai • software • via:marc

Kissing simulator

Funny little game; press multiple keys at once to start

2014-05-12 games • processing • funny • via:rockpapershotgun

Bowman on Twitter

A far cry from his letter upon leaving google

2014-05-12 twitter • bowman • stop • design

/u/AWildSketchAppeared

Reddit user makes sketches of improbable Reddit comments. Note: some NSFW

2014-05-11 nsfw • reddit • funny • art

Valles Marineris

The Grand Canyon of Mars

2014-05-11 mars • astronomy • canyon • geology • areology

RawGit

Serve files from GitHub with proper headers

2014-05-11 via:onethingwell • github • git • hosting • cdn

iPad charger teardown

The difference between quality and knockoff

2014-05-11 apple • ipad • charger • electronics

Amazon EC2 to Google Compute Engine

Notes on migrating machine images

2014-05-11 cloudcomputing • ec2 • gce • google • amazon

DUMB.domains

A handy name search tool

2014-05-11 via:waxy • funny • dns • icann • internet

Stupid API decision

Ignorant justices claim copyright applies to API definitions

2014-05-10 api • law • legal • oracle • google • copyright

Ben Treynor interview

Discussion from one of Google's top ops leadership

2014-05-09 ops • devops • google • sre • engineering

Boko Haram propaganda video

Direct from the child stealing rebels

2014-05-09 terrorism • nigeria

Basics of Haskell

A gentle introduction to Haskell for programmers

2014-05-08 programming • haskell • ml • languages

Fabricate

Yet another make replacement, this one in Python

2014-05-08 python • build • make

How to stop a wedding

Sociopathy in WikiHow format

2014-05-07 funny • wtf • wedding

17th c. color mixing guide

A sort of proto-Pantone

2014-05-06 colors • pantone • art • color

Level3 on consumer ISPs

"They are deliberately harming the service they deliver to their paying customers."

2014-05-06 netneutrality • bandwidth • internet

About RSVP/Spritz

Critique of the serial presentation method of reading

2014-05-05 reading • comprehension • spritz • books • via:metafilter • rsvp

Tumo Center in Armenia

Education program for high school kids in Armenia, fancy tech and design

2014-05-05 armenia • yerevan • education • raffikrikorian • raffi

Adelsverein

The German colony in Texas

2014-05-05 texas • germany • history

Comment on ATC glitch

Details on the bug that had a U2 causing an LA airspace problem

2014-05-04 flying • aviation • atc

Lunar eclipse from the moon

Video from a spacecraft; of course, the Earth eclipses the sun

2014-05-04 eclipse • space • astronomy

GeoTweets in Africa

Maps of Nairobi, others coming

2014-05-03 maps • nairobi • twitter

Mr. Phelan’s building

History of a single SF building

2014-05-03 phelan • medium • sanfrancisco • history

SSL: 0.2% tampered

Study of man in the middle attacks against Facebook users

2014-05-03 ssl • openssl • malware • badtech • facebook • security

Apple EarPod design

Nice video showing the shape; they sound pretty good too

2014-05-03 apple • design • headphones

Dr. Bronner's label

text of the crazy soap text

2014-05-03 soap • drbronner • wtf

Professional snuggler

IAmA with a member of the world's weirdest profession

2014-05-03 life

Tom of Smurfland (NSFWish)

Funny homoerotic smurfs. Mildly NSFW

2014-05-02 smurfs • gay • funny • tomoffinland

Yahoo ignores Do Not Track

Clear user preference being ignored

2014-05-02 ads • yahoo • privacy • badtech

NIST Randomness Beacon

Serious random numbers, from a government standards agency

2014-05-01 random • crypto • nist

HFT quote stuffing a bug?

Interesting argument that trading shenanigans are bugs, not deliberate action

2014-05-01 software • hft • bugs • trading • markets • via:ckline