Content hashes compared

Nice testing on modern non-crypto hashes

2014-05-31 algorithms • hashing • 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 tron • github • opengl • visualization • wikipedia

SF parking FAQ

Details of various rules for tickets

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

Reeder 2 for Mac

Best RSS reader for Mac gets a long needed update

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

Andrée polar expedition photos

Images from the doomed 1897 balloon flight over the arctic

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

Google Video Quality Report

Independent view of ISP quality

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

The Unearthing

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

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

OpenDNS stops breaking DNS

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

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

Piketty response to FT

Economist refutes data criticisms point by point

2014-05-30 economics • ft • piketty

HTML imports

Transclusion finally ends up in the WWW

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

Space College hijacks satellite

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

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

Linux on the NUC

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

2014-05-29 intel • linux • nuc • sff

Deterministic Builds

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

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

Businessweek Piketty cover

Hilarious parody

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

420 MLG Game Montages

Some history of the game montage parody meme

2014-05-29 funny • games • parody

How to Flip a Pancake

Parody video (attn @mbostock @shashashasha @migurski)

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

/r/montageparodies

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

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

dramabeans

English language info on Korean TV dramas

2014-05-29 korea • soapopera • tv

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 badtech • chrome • extensions • google

World War I: aerial warfare

Amazing collection of photos

2014-05-28 aviation • photos • wwi

Andy Baio on Upcoming

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

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

Nate Silver on messy data

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

2014-05-27 data • natesilver • piketty

MH370 Comms Log.pdf

Inmarsat's data on the missing plane communications

2014-05-27 aviation • inmarsat • mh370

Lawnmower Man: CGI only

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

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

Nick Fury's HUD

Design process behind a movie computer interface

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

Maciej Cegłowski on Internet privacy

Excellent talk about data collection

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

History of LoL and DotA

Good video explaining the history of MOBA games

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

More Mt. Gox fraud

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

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

BPF - the forgotten bytecode

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

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

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 • murder • santabarbara • sex • ucsb • women

FCC/telecom revolving door

This is what corruption looks like

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

From NAND to Tetris

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

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

Learning Dragon's Lair

Lovely story of beating a classic arcade game

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

Danny Sullivan on Metafilter

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

2014-05-22 google • metafilter • seo

League of Legends salaries

$350,000 / year for each 5 man team

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

Google algorithms shape Internet culture

Analysis of the Metafilter problem

2014-05-21 google • metafilter • seo

Google vs. MetaFilter

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

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

TempleOS uses this

Outsider-art programmer talks about his dream computer

2014-05-21 computers • schizophrenia • templeos

Pornhub ads (SFW)

Hilarious ads for the famous porn site

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

David Lynch's Return of the Jedi

Phenomenal edit, stay for the nightclub scene

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

The Lavabit story

details of US abuse of privacy

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

The mystery of d3.js

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

2014-05-20 coding • d3js • learning

Rob Pardo at the MIT Media Lab

Lead World of Warcraft game designer talks at MIT

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

iTunes security bug

Dumb-ass permission settings

2014-05-20 apple • badtech • itunes

Drone Survival Guide

Handy identification chart; the knowledge may save your life!

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

State of MetaFilter

Much loved Web community site has layoffs because of declining revenue

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

Diseased Pariah News

Classic AIDS zine is scanned and online

2014-05-18 90s • aids • gay

The Divine Move

Upcoming movie about Go and gangsters and probably some martial arts

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

The silencing of the Deaf

Great article about Deaf culture vs. cochlear implants

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

Jupiter animation

Voyager 1 stop frame of clouds churning

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

navi-x

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

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

Martian analemma

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

2014-05-17 analemma • astrophotography • mars

Eve big game hunting

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

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

Eve Online China

Parallel development of Eve Online in the Chinese instance

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

Eurovision voting visualization

From /r/dataisugly. It is amazing.

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

Flux Application Architecture

Facebook's approach to UI

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

DecalGirl

Full color vinyl decals for laptops, etc

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

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 life • sanfrancisco

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 • nebraska • omaha • pb • twitter

Apple hijacks SMS

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

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

ThingConf

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

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

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 ai • chess • games • go • software • via:marc

Kissing simulator

Funny little game; press multiple keys at once to start

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

Bowman on Twitter

A far cry from his letter upon leaving google

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

/u/AWildSketchAppeared

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

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

Valles Marineris

The Grand Canyon of Mars

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

RawGit

Serve files from GitHub with proper headers

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

iPad charger teardown

The difference between quality and knockoff

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

Amazon EC2 to Google Compute Engine

Notes on migrating machine images

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

DUMB.domains

A handy name search tool

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

Stupid API decision

Ignorant justices claim copyright applies to API definitions

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

Ben Treynor interview

Discussion from one of Google's top ops leadership

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

Boko Haram propaganda video

Direct from the child stealing rebels

2014-05-09 nigeria • terrorism

Basics of Haskell

A gentle introduction to Haskell for programmers

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

Fabricate

Yet another make replacement, this one in Python

2014-05-08 build • make • python

How to stop a wedding

Sociopathy in WikiHow format

2014-05-07 funny • wedding • wtf

17th c. color mixing guide

A sort of proto-Pantone

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

Level3 on consumer ISPs

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

2014-05-06 bandwidth • internet • netneutrality

About RSVP/Spritz

Critique of the serial presentation method of reading

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

Tumo Center in Armenia

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

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

Adelsverein

The German colony in Texas

2014-05-05 germany • history • texas

Comment on ATC glitch

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

2014-05-04 atc • aviation • flying

Lunar eclipse from the moon

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

2014-05-04 astronomy • eclipse • space

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 history • medium • phelan • sanfrancisco

SSL: 0.2% tampered

Study of man in the middle attacks against Facebook users

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

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 drbronner • soap • 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 funny • gay • smurfs • tomoffinland

Yahoo ignores Do Not Track

Clear user preference being ignored

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

NIST Randomness Beacon

Serious random numbers, from a government standards agency

2014-05-01 crypto • nist • random

HFT quote stuffing a bug?

Interesting argument that trading shenanigans are bugs, not deliberate action

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