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Google OnHub router review
Mostly positive, no specifics on wifi performance
2015-08-31 google • onhub • router
Trump bankruptcies
Being a deadbeat as a business strategy
2015-08-31 business • bankruptcy • trump • politics
Python type hints
Coming in Python 3.5: optional annotations for static type checking
2015-08-31 python • types • programming • languages
Vincent Lau 刘梓晨
A plastic surgery enthusiast popular on Weibo
2015-08-30 webio • china • plasticsurgery
Practical ramda
In praise of a Javascript functional programming library
2015-08-30 programming • javascript • code
IBM 1401 core memory
How early RAM worked
2015-08-30 memory • core • ferrite • ram
Ligatures in coding fonts
Monospace fonts that replace common programming digraphs and trigraphs with a single glyph, a ligature
2015-08-30 programming • ligature • coding • fonts
Trump loves China
Hilarious supercut of Donald Trump saying China
2015-08-30 china • trump
Governors Mansions
An image collection
2015-08-29 via:metafilter • governor • government • america • houses
Generating Leads At Burning Man
The frontier of marketing
2015-08-29 funny • burningman • marketing
The VCs' investors
About the limited partners who invest in VC funds
2015-08-28 startups • entrepreneurs • vcs • venturecapital • lps
HubPress
Blog engine that publishes to GitHub
2015-08-27 github • publishing • blog
"Dirt Rave"
slang for Burning Man
2015-08-27 funny • burningman • language
Augmented reality sandbox
Details on how to build your own projection topo map
2015-08-27 maps • augmentedreality • ar • terrain
Dynamic topo map
Lovely augmented reality demo
2015-08-27 via:Reddit • maps • terrain • ar • augmentedreality
Wiener on SF homelessness
Nice essay from my local supervisor
2015-08-27 sanfrancisco • wiener • scottwiener • politics • homelessness
Australia's gun experiment
Statistics and data from a country that enacted gun control
2015-08-27 guns • america • australia
SF Homeless Wiki
A wiki with 1128 articles
2015-08-27 homelessness • sanfrancisco • sf • socialwork • wiki
In defense of Rentboy
Gay escort talks about safe online hustling
2015-08-27 sex • prostitution • gay • rentboy
grsecurity fed up
Open source security team regularly abused by embedded systems vendors, starts restricting code releases to sponsors only
2015-08-27 security • linux • opensource • verifone • intel
svgur
share SVGs; like imgur, but for SVG
2015-08-27 svg • d3 • d3js • graphics • imgur
mpld3
Code for exporting matplotlib graphics to an HTML web page, supports interactivity
2015-08-27 d3 • d3js • matplotlib • python • programming • visualization
D3 + iPython
Towards doing more complex HTML rendering in iPython
2015-08-27 python • ipython • d3 • d3js • via:hackernews
Ad blocking performance
Chrome is 3x faster, uses half the memory with an ad blocker
2015-08-27 chrome • adblocker • ads • browser • web
Google's network design
Details of datacenter networking technology
2015-08-27 google • network • internet • switching • hardware
Emojipedia
History and definitions for Emoji
2015-08-26 emoji • unicode • etymology
nq: job queuing
Simple file-based job queues
2015-08-26 via:onethingwell • queueing • jobs • unix
Common Lisp 2015
Notes on what to use for Lisp development today
2015-08-26 lisp • programming • commonlisp
NumbaPro Mandelbrot
Programming example if fast modern Python, in a nice IPython Notebook
2015-08-25 python • ipython • numba • cuda • jit • programming
CUDA on Python
GPU accelerated computing in Python
2015-08-25 python • jit • cuda • gpu • optimization
Python Numba
JIT compiling for Python with an emphasis on vectorizing numeric computation
2015-08-25 python • jit • numpy • optimization
Python/C advice
2015 landscape for C integration with Python. CFFI, Cython, Numba
2015-08-25 python • numba • cffi • c • performance • programming
American Deep Dream
Trump campaign photo looks fantastic as reimagined by our AI overlords
2015-08-24 deepdream • trump • funny • politics
Thalys takedown
Crazy story of US marines taking down an armed gunman on a Belgian train
2015-08-22 marines • terrorism • heroism • france • thalys
Judges 3:22
The Bible has the most remarkable things in it
2015-08-20 bible • sword • funny
Regex 101
Very good interactive regex tester
2015-08-20 regexp • regex • testing • programming
$1.7M to delete users
Ashley Madison charged $19 / user to delete data. And it's not clear they even did actually delete it.
2015-08-20 privacy • ashleymadison • data
California sinking faster
Drought leads to more pumping, which leads to more subsidence
2015-08-20 land • california • subsidence • drought
Samoan firecrews
American Samoan park service comes to California to help fight fires
2015-08-19 samoa • california • fires • firefighters
Tonic NodeJS notebook
Fancy UI ideas here, Javascript only
2015-08-19 javascript • notebook • nodejs
Better Internet ads
Interesting argument that ad blockers will force ad companies to make less-hostile Internet ads
2015-08-19 ads • privacy • adblocker
[Sad beep]
R2-D2 is sad
2015-08-19 starwars • funny • via:reddit
Back-UPS Connect
A small UPS designed for low load equipment: network routers, etc
2015-08-19 ups • router • power
Stuck in a hole
Hilarious Twitter account of a guy who got stuck in an empty pool
2015-08-19 twitter • funny • via:metafilter • hole • skateboards
Google router
Google is selling a consumer router. Looks interesting, but $200 is steep
2015-08-18 google • router • network
Cameron's World
A collection of GeoCities-style animated images, music, etc
2015-08-18 geocities • web • history • via:metafilter • culture • gif
Minecraft brutalism
Fun architecture project
2015-08-17 brutalism • architecture • minecraft • games
DRM failure in Windows 10
Crappy copy protection breaks games in Windows 10
2015-08-17 windows • drm • copyprotection • securom • safedisc
Spacecraft chart
Diagram of what's going on in solar system exploration this month
2015-08-17 planetary • space • astronomy • spacecraft
Mapbox + Runkeeper
New data for cycling and running routes for OpenStreetmap
2015-08-17 maps • running • cycling • osm • openstreetmap • mapbox
Paris street name history
A map that gives you descriptions of the history of every street name in Paris
2015-08-17 paris • history • maps
1700 mechanical linkages
Retired engineer makes illustrative videos
2015-08-16 mechanics • mechanicalengineering • engineering
Machine learning overview
Some "useful things to know" about machine learning in application
2015-08-16 machinelearning • computation • cs • ml
Google S2
Explanation of a Google spatial indexing library
2015-08-15 via:hackernews • google • maps • hilbertcurve • geometry
ATT + NSA = BFF
Yet more evidence America's largest telco sells out citizens to illegal spying
2015-08-15 nsa • att • civilrights • spying
LoL Remilia profile
First woman to make the big leagues in League of Legends
2015-08-15 leagueoflegends • women • esports • gender
Itanium architecture review
Nice roundup of Intel's failed CPU architecture
2015-08-15 intel • cpu • registers • computers
Amazon management
Long, detailed view in how Amazon is run
2015-08-15 amazon • management • workplace • jobs • tech
Sarlac Pit of Pizza
A real food that really exists
2015-08-14 funny • pizza • australia • via:metafilter
MKVToolNix
Free software for working with .mkv video files
2015-08-14 video • muxing • matroska • mkv
Effective comment moderation
Jessamyn shares lessons from Metafilter, other sites with good online comments
2015-08-14 metafilter • comments • community
CIA and Senate spying
Brennan never sent this apology letter for illegally spying on the US Senate
2015-08-13 senate • government • cia • privacy • spying • bigbrother
Don't buy Lenovo
Second time in a year Lenovo puts nasty malware on the machines they sell.
2015-08-13 lenovo • rootkit • malware • badtech
dead-simple-grid
Tiny, flexible CSS grid system
2015-08-13 design • html • grid • css
Pure Storage IPO
Interesting tech infrastructure company going public
2015-08-12 tech • storage • flash • ipo • startups
Neoaddressing
A brief overview of new location naming methods that try to improve on GeoHash
2015-08-12 geohash • maps • location • geocoding • addresses • whatthreewords
Pentagon tiling
there are 15 known convex pentagons that tile the plane, but it's an open problem if there are more
2015-08-11 tiling • math • geometry • pentagons • via:vtcraghead
Ethics of ad blocking
A characterization of the escalating arms race
2015-08-11 ads • browsers • privacy • javascript
1895 chloropleth
Map visualization technique is old!
2015-08-10 via:feltron • maps • visualization • nytimes
Hate Selling
The peculiarly hostile way travel products are sold online
2015-08-10 travel • customer • service
$1B fraud in Moldova
12% of country's GDP stolen
2015-08-10 moldova • fraud • banking
Ad Blocking stats
Something like 15% of Internet users block ads now
2015-08-10 adblocker • ads • via:reddit
Fox News v. Trump
Behind the scenes in the right wing echo chamber
2015-08-10 america • politics • trump • fox
Black boy suicide rate
Black kids age 5-11 now 2x more likely to commit suicide
2015-08-10 suicide • blacks • racism • sad • children
Old Spanish Trail
100 year old American highway
2015-08-10 america • travel • roads
emojitracker
realtime visualization of Twitter emoji
2015-08-08 emoji • twitter
#d3brokeandmadeart
A collection of interesting visualization accidents
2015-08-08 art • visualization • d3js • d3
Oh god no no no
A caving GIF full of claustrophobia
2015-08-07 caving • via:reddit • gif
Tufte CSS
Make your web pages look like an archaic but beautiful print format!
2015-08-06 tufte • design • css • via:metafilter
Japanese in 19th c. US
Forgotten cultural exchanges in America
2015-08-06 japan • america • via:metafilter • food • sushi • culture
Kirk vs Gorn with Foley
Alternate soundtrack to a classic Star Trek fight scene
2015-08-06 funny • sound • startrek
Uber financials leak
Shitty this got out there, but it is fascinating
2015-08-05 uber • leak • financials • startups
Antarctica photos
Great set of photographs
2015-08-05 photos • antarctica
autovacuum postmortem
Postgres' GC process causes problems for Joyent
2015-08-05 postgres • ops • gc • garbagecollection • manta
Lamp post destroyed by urine
San Francisco's piss problems are so bad the lightposts are falling into the streets
2015-08-05 sanfrancisco • urine
Mexrrissey
Mexican covers of Morrissey / Smiths songs
2015-08-05 music • mexico • morrissey • thesmiths
5 neglected CS classics
Nice roundup of books
2015-08-05 books • reading • computerscience • programming
NSA subverting IETF
Evidence that NSA used the IETF process to help weaken SSL
2015-08-04 ssl • tls • security • nsa • privacy • dual_ev • via:hackernews • ietf • freedom
Yahoo ads malware
Yahoo's ad network serves Flash malware
2015-08-04 malware • badtech • ads • via:hackernews
Ada Initiative shutdown
Awesome women-in-engineering organization shuts down, but with a string of successes and great influence!
2015-08-04 women • feminism • engineering • diversity
Makerbase
Anil Dash and Gina Trapani build a website cataloging who makes what web applications
2015-08-04 credits • software • engineering • internet • culture • web
Twitter contest bot
Automated winning of random prizes on Twitter
2015-08-04 twitter • bot • funny • via:metafilter
Facebook fakes video stats
Videos autoplay, Facebook counts it if it shows for 3 seconds without even sound.
2015-08-04 facebook • stats • metrics • google • youtube
Google+ history
Details from inside Google about the disastrous social media product
2015-08-02 google • googleplus • social • facebook • twitter • gundotra
Video calibration MP4
Free test video file for calibrating a display
2015-08-02 display • calibration • video • mp4