.io TLD history

A sad story of imperialism. Attn @migurski

2015-07-30 britishempire • chagosians • diegogarcia • domains • internet • tld

Pinterest 7 year options

Startup does a nice thing in giving their employees freedom to leave

2015-07-30 equity • options • pinterest • startups • stock

Visual intro to machine learning

Lovely animated demonstration of decision trees

2015-07-29 d3 • d3js • machinelearning • visualization

Mobile device OCR

Google Translate on cell phones uses an on-phone neural net to identify letters

2015-07-29 android • google • machinelearning • mobile • ocr • translation

Dat Goes Beta

Official beta release of the "git for data" system

2015-07-29 dat • data • git • opendata

LoL competitive rulings

A list of penalties handed out to League of Legends pro players

2015-07-29 games • leagueoflegends • lol • sportsmanship

Creating a Fusion Drive

A Mac hack; cleaner instructions than I've seen elsewhere

2015-07-29 fusion • hack • macos • performance • ssd

Fighting patent trolls

Newegg celebrates yet another victory over stupid patents

2015-07-29 freedom • ip • patents

Windows 10 Solitaire fee

Microsoft's banner stupid game no longer free, now shows ads or costs $10/year

2015-07-29 adware • games • microsoft • solitaire • windows

Kevin Weil Q&A

Interview with Twitter's head of product

2015-07-29 ads • kevinweil • twitter

Uber fakes data

The locations of cars they show you in the app are misleading

2015-07-29 badtech • ethics • uber

Drone racing

Crazy looking remote controlled flying

2015-07-28 drones • flying • racing • via:reddit

Phad Paintings

A traditional Indian storytelling painting / scroll. Rajasthani.

2015-07-27 art • hinduism • india • painting • rajasthan • religion

Against AI weapons

"The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting"

2015-07-27 ai • armsrace • ethics • military • via:metafilter

Mechanical typewriter bugs

Soviet 1970s spy technology

2015-07-27 coldwar • soviets • spies • typewriters

Kindleberry Pi

Hacked up mobile computer using a wireless keyboard, a raspberry pi, and a Kindle for display

2015-07-27 hacking • kindle • raspberrypi • unix

Undoing Google+

Google finally steps back from requiring Google+ accounts to use a bunch of Google products

2015-07-27 google • privacy • via:hackernews

Meshtag

Something like a QR Code, but designed to be easily drawn as a graffiti tag

2015-07-27 graffiti • qrcode • tagging • via:reddit

2005 talk on SOAP

My war stories from the web services era; SOAP and WSDL in 2005

2015-07-27 google • soap • webservices • wsdl

Miéville on Tolkien

A thoughtful Marxist critique by one fantastical writer of another

2015-07-27 books • fantasy • fiction • lotr • mieville • movies • scifi • tolkien

Zero Day market

Data on security exploit sales courtesy of the Hacking Team demolishment

2015-07-26 badtech • hacking • security • via:metafilter • zeroday

Lightbeam

Firefox addon that visualizes web trackers

2015-07-25 firefox • ghostery • mozilla • privacy • web

The Verge's web sucks

A nice rant against the proliferation of tracking Javascript that weighs down websites

2015-07-25 ghostery • javascript • privacy • web

Mike Tyson Bitcoin

Bitcoin is beyond parody. Coming next: Bill Cosby Bitcoin

2015-07-25 bitcoin • miketyson • rape • rapist

Terry Tao profile

Nice portrait of one of the world's top mathematicians

2015-07-25 academics • genius • math

700+ Roguelikes

A collection of many computer games

2015-07-24 games • nethack • roguelike

Twitter frat party

No, really, tech company team has a stupid themed party

2015-07-24 bros • dumb • gender • twitter

Vegetable Fermentations

More science about pickling vegetables

2015-07-24 fermentation • food • pickles

Microbial lacto-fermentation

Most detailed explanation of the science I've seen. Not sure it is correct.

2015-07-24 fermentation • food • pickles

Kimchi Container

Nicely designed plastic fermentation vessel

2015-07-24 fermentation • kimchi • pickling

musl libc

Alternative libc implementation, correct and small and fast

2015-07-24 embedded • libc • linux • programming

Road trip novel maps

Well illustrated stories from Great American Novels

2015-07-24 maps • novels • reading • roadtrip • via:metafilter

OS X 10.10 security hole

Really dumb, basic Unix security bug, suggests Apple's security process is inadequate

2015-07-23 apple • badtech • dyld • macos • security • sudo

Burt Rutan SkiGull

Even though he's retired, Rutan still designing crazy aircraft

2015-07-23 aerospace • aviation • planes • rutan • seaplane

PICO-8

A simple retro game system you program yourself in Lua

2015-07-22 console • games • lua • retro

Cynk pump-and-dump

Conclusion to last year's most visible stock scam

2015-07-21 cynk • fraud • markets • pennystocks • scam

Remote car hijacking

Chrysler builds a fully Internet connected car. It goes poorly.

2015-07-21 badtech • cars • hacking

Little Chihuahua interview

Story of the slightly upscale taqueria in SF. attn @burritojustice

2015-07-20 burritos • food • restaurants • sanfrancisco

Road Wars: the Imperator Strikes Back

Amazing Mad Max / Star Wars mashup

2015-07-19 funny • madmax • mashup • movies • starwars • via:metafilter

Soviet maps

Cold War oddities

2015-07-18 cartography • coldwar • maps • russia • soviet • via:metafilter

Ramadan 2015

Lovely set of photos

2015-07-16 eid • holidays • islam • muslim • ramadan • religion

zenfonts

A tiny Javascript shim for better loading of web fonts

2015-07-16 fonts • javascript • typography • via:onethingwell

Internet vs trolls

Ellen Pao on the recent harassment she experienced

2015-07-16 community • internet • reddit • trolls

Hacking Team hack

Some details on the public humiliation of a creepy mercenary hacker group

2015-07-16 badtech • civilrights • hacking • hackingteam

It's a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road

Funny trailer mashup

2015-07-16 funny • madmax • mashup • movies • via:metafilter

Scott Wiener v Fox News

Hilarious response from my local supervisor to an obnoxious Fox News person

2015-07-15 foxnews • funny • journalism • sanfrancisco • scottwiener

echo-chamber-js

A new solution for comments on websites. Looks like it's working, we're done here.

2015-07-15 comments • funny • javascript • via:metafilter

Every job in America

A map treatment

2015-07-14 america • census • employment • jobs • maps

Open postcodes

Various open systems for things like US zip codes

2015-07-14 geodata • maps • postcode • zipcode

Pawn Storm

Observed pro-Russian hacker activity on the Internet

2015-07-13 badtech • internet • russia • security

Apple IIgs System 6.0.2

First OS release in 22 years

2015-07-13 apple • computers • history

RiotLyte on failure

Nice personal story from a now-successful guy

2015-07-12 games • leagueoflegends • lol • riotlyte

1.7B Reddit comments

Massive dataset collected for analysis

2015-07-10 corpus • data • nlp • reddit • via:waxy

Moxie Marlinspike profile

WSJ on an important hacker

2015-07-10 moxie • nsa • security • twitter

Ha-ha wall

Landscape feature, a discrete wall

2015-07-10 architecture • garden • landscaping • wall

Bitcoin struggle

More drama on the blockchain; warring factions are placing weird transactions in the ledger

2015-07-09 bitcoin • consensus • via:hackernews

Measuring web users

Details on the challenge of counting visitors to a site

2015-07-09 cookies • metrics • privacy • web

Nava

Company spun out of the healthcare.gov rescue effort

2015-07-09 government • healtcharegov • nava • sha • shahwang

Marketplace Lite

Story of the MPL, a startup in the government that reimplemented healthcare.gov after the initial crisis was past

2015-07-09 18f • government • healthcaregov • programming

git man pages

Parody documentation generator

2015-07-09 funny • git • parody

Against Wealthfront

Nice ranty essay about how the new investment software system is too expensive

2015-07-09 investments • taxlossharvesting • weathfront

BSD preferred to GPL

Bioinformatics professor explains why he prefers non-viral licenses

2015-07-08 bsd • gpl • licensing • opensource

Facebook post-meme

A study of a vernacular inspired by Reddit-style memes

2015-07-08 culture • facebook • language • memes • minions

Reddit NYT op/ed

Details on the recent conflict between moderators and Reddit's owners

2015-07-08 community • editorial • moderation • nytimes • oped • reddit

re/code: League of Legends community management

Jeffrey Lin (RiotLyte) has been doing amazing community management work at Riot Games

2015-07-07 community • games • machinelearning • moderation

40 Internet maps

Some history

2015-07-07 internet • maps • visualization

PandoDaily being sleazy

Responds to criticism with CC to the critic's boss

2015-07-07 pandodaily • stupid • twitter

Apple Watch Pixels

Details of the display

2015-07-07 apple • display • oled • via:hackernews • watch

What is Docker for?

Remarkably useful Hacker News discussion

2015-07-07 container • docker • ops • production • virtualization

VR at JPL

Lovely design talk about advanced user interface work for the Mars Curiosity rover

2015-07-07 design • eyeo • jpl • mars • virtualreality • vr

SubredditSimulator

Discussions entirely between Markov bots

2015-07-07 funny • markov • reddit • via:twitter

openaddresses CI

Automated system to run data sources for OpenAddresses and report results to github pull requests

2015-07-06 github • openaddresses • travis

Python Anaconda

Distribution of Python with many data analysis packages pre-installed

2015-07-06 python • visualization

Instant Club Hit

Classic 1987 Dead Milkmen song (You'll dance to anything)

2015-07-06 deadmilkmen • funny • music

Jesus Christ is my nigga

Probably intentional parody, but still hilarious

2015-07-06 christianity • fellowkids • funny • music • rap • via:reddit

Sexual fluidity

Nice essay in praise of men relaxing a bit about gay/straight identity

2015-07-06 gay • gender • identity • sex

Greek debt timetable

Simple visualizations of what payments are due when

2015-07-06 debt • economics • greece • grexit • politics

RIP Charanjit Singh

Brief obituary for an Indian man who accidentally invented acid house music only no one noticed

2015-07-06 electronica • music • obituary

La Monte Young profile

Nice update on a difficult composer

2015-07-06 lamonteyoung • minimalism • music

Nintendo Playstation

Rare obscure prototype hardware found

2015-07-06 games • nintendo • playstation • sony

Good Game: Spawn Point

Australian TV show about gamer culture, suitable for kids. Well produced.

2015-07-06 australia • culture • games • tv

Private stock scrutiny

Startup shares are trading hands and the SEC is concerned

2015-07-06 investment • market • startups • stock

Hacking Team hacked

Gross company that provides computer intrusion services for repressive governments is itself hacked, customers revealed

2015-07-06 badtech • civilrights • hacking

Calvin and Markov

Random comic generator

2015-07-06 calvinandhobbes • comics • markov

Tama-chan

Economist obituary for a Japanese cat

2015-07-05 cats • japan • obituary • trains

Slavery and the Declaration of Independence

Jefferson drafted an anti-slavery paragraph which was removed

2015-07-05 america • history • jefferson • slavery

Gluten myth

Op/ed on evolution, diet, and immunity

2015-07-05 evolution • gluten • health • via:hackernews

git backends

Alternate git implementations store data in databases instead of files

2015-07-05 database • git • performance

Witcher 2: the novel

Funny parody

2015-07-04 funny • games • sexism • via:metafilter • witcher

Bitcoin consensus failure

Accidental fork in the blockchain rules causes chaos

2015-07-04 bitcoin • via:hackernews

4th of July fireworks

A celebration of vernacular design

2015-07-04 design • fireworks • funny

virtual-dom

Implementation of a virtual DOM like React has, but standalone

2015-07-04 dom • javascript • performance • react • reactjs • vdom • virtualdom

React’s diff algorithm

Details of how React uses a virtual DOM for performance

2015-07-04 dom • javascript • performance • react • reactjs • vdom

BGP fragility

Some of the problems behind the routing protocol that runs the Internet

2015-07-02 badtech • bgp • security

Reddit IAmA disruption

Victoria Taylor, Reddit's Director of Communications, was let go. She was a big part of IAmA's success.

2015-07-02 chooter • communication • reddit • victoria

Experimental sans

A collection of regrettable typefaces

2015-07-02 fonts • funny

Leap second routing fallout

Details on the leap second related router mess; 2000 networks briefly offline

2015-07-01 bgp • internet • leapsecond • networks • routing

Leap second routing instability

15x increase in published Internet routes around the leap second.

2015-07-01 badtech • bgp • bugs • internet • routing

Mapzen on open data

Clear statement of why they require open source and open data

2015-07-01 maps • mapzen • openaddresses • opendata • opensource • openstreetmap • osm

LoL Twitch revenue

Student estimate at what popular League of Legends streamers make on Twitch

2015-07-01 ads • esports • games • lol • via:matasar

Fiber optic sabotage

10 separate incidents of cables being cut in the Bay Area in the last year

2015-07-01 cable • fiber • internet • sabotage

California immunization levels

Public health report from before the new vaccine law

2015-07-01 california • health • medicine • politics • vaccination • vaccines

Coding on an iPad

2015 details on text editing, git, etc on an iPad

2015-07-01 coding • editing • git • ipad • programming