Kepler Orrery IV

Exoplanets visualized for scale; Kepler is biased towards finding very tight systems

2015-11-30 kepler • space • via:reddit • visualization

HTTP/2 easter egg

Handshake magic number is "PRISM", a reference to US/British mass spying

2015-11-30 funny • http • http2 • prism • via:hackernews

Sous Vide map

Odd but useful visualization of cooking times and temperatures

2015-11-30 cooking • sousvide • via:gah • visualization

Tristan shipping news

Arrivals and departures from a remote island community

2015-11-30 atlantic • ocean • travel • tristan • tristandacunha

Tristan da Cunha

Nice little profile of a remote island community

2015-11-30 atlantic • culture • geography • remote • tristan

miniNodes

Leasable ARM servers running Linux. $10/mo!

2015-11-29 arm • hosting • linux • servers

4K pirate rips

Another copy protection scheme bypassed

2015-11-29 4k • piracy • scene • tv

Open mapping for government

Great talk by @pramsey on governments staying relevant in the world of Google Maps, OpenStreetmap, OpenAddresses

2015-11-28 data • government • maps • openaddresses

Donald Trump’s Police State

"rabid brown shirts in Dockers"

2015-11-27 facism • politics • trump

Alpha Centauri Redux

Writeup of a student project to redesign an old game's UI

2015-11-27 alphacentauri • civilization • games • hci • ui

Mapping Daesh

Observations on the politics of various map portrayals of Islamic State

2015-11-27 daesh • maps • politics

reverseanimalrescue

Heart warming stories turn sinister when you reverse the video

2015-11-27 animals • funny • gif • movie

CIA vs crypto

CIA cynically used the Paris attacks to advance their anti-privacy agenda

2015-11-26 cia • crypto • encryption • freedom • privacy • snowden

Macbook charger teardown

Details of Apple's engineering and profit margins

2015-11-25 apple • charger • electronics • voltage

Slack site previews

Details of how Slack presents page previews

2015-11-25 developer • html • preview • slack • web

jm_links

Justin Mason's excellent linkblog

2015-11-25 blog • jmason • linkblog • taint

Finland bear map

Lovely take on a chloropleth

2015-11-25 bears • chloropleth • finland • maps • via:reddit • visualization

Loading Screen Jam

Game developers celebrate the ending of a stupid patent

2015-11-25 games • namco • patents

Seven Southern dishes

Nice roundup of American food

2015-11-25 cooking • food • soulfood • south • southern • via:metafilter

BitBalloon

Simple static hosting site with some API features for dynamic bits. $7/mo

2015-11-25 blog • hosting • internet • web

Internet security history

From May, long detailed article

2015-11-25 arpanet • history • internet • morrisworm • security

Google Star Wars ad

Never seen this massive a co-branding thing at Google

2015-11-25 ads • google • starwars

TileReduce 3

MapBox's open source infrastructure for working on geodata in parallel

2015-11-24 code • maps • opensource • tiles

Nagle on delayed ACK

Awesome HN comment by a networking legend

2015-11-24 nagle • performance • tcp • via:jm

Trump's facism

Documenting a "skid" towards more overtly facist ideas

2015-11-24 facism • politics • trump

Trump victim speaks

Mercutio Southall talks

2015-11-24 blacklivesmatter • facism • politics • trump

Mob violence at Trump rally

3 days old now, but I hadn't seen the video complete with Trump cheering them on in the background

2015-11-24 blacklivesmatter • facism • politics • trump

AlphaDraft

Gambling on eSports

2015-11-24 esports • gambling • games • lol

Can I blog safely?

Sad, detailed discussion from women about how to blog non-anonymously and avoid harassment

2015-11-24 blogging • feminism • gamergate • women

eSports economics

Pro LoL team owner NMEChachi talks about the financial reality of running a professional gaming team

2015-11-23 budget • esports • games • lol

Shackleton photos

Beautiful images from an amazing tale of polar survival

2015-11-22 antarctica • geographic • photos • polar • shackleton

Time scale BART map

Transit map scaled to travel time

2015-11-22 bart • maps • transit • travel

15 Asian unicorns

$1B startups, mostly China and India

2015-11-22 china • india • startups • via:hackernews

Nancy Jo Sales calls out Tinder

Righteous response to Tinder CEO's sleazy suggestion of having some personal dirt on a journalist

2015-11-21 journalism • tinder

Food tracker

Excellent visualization of people trying to lose weight

2015-11-20 diet • health • loseit • visualization • weight

1978 video graphics

Beautiful, very retro demo reel of video effects

2015-11-20 70s • effects • fx • graphics • video

/r/cripplingalcoholism

Disturbing subreddit for folks embracing their destructive lifestyle

2015-11-20 addiction • drinking • drunk • reddit

A Thank-You Note to Megan Smith

Nice article about women and tech

2015-11-20 feminism • medialab • megansmith • mit • women

VATSIM profile

Nice article about the Air Traffic Control simulation game people play supporting flight simulator players

2015-11-19 atc • aviation • flying • games • vatsim

Tinder CEO interview

Awkward douchebag interview the week of the IPO

2015-11-19 dating • ipo • match • sex • tinder

No crypto in Paris attack

Earliest scaremongering articles turn out to be unfounded

2015-11-19 civilrights • crypto • paris • terrorism

Paris | Tom Lee

Friend of mine was in the middle of the Paris attacks, his personal story

2015-11-18 france • paris • terrorism

NYT unpublishing

More details on the newspaper removing a badly written article about the Paris attacks and encryption

2015-11-18 encryption • france • journalism • politics • syria • terrorism

Toyplot

Another Python charting library; this one strives to do simple things well in Jupyter Notebooks

2015-11-18 charting • ipython • jupyter • notebooks • plotting • python • visualization

US healthcare spending

We spend 2x as much as any other nation, have a lower life expectancy

2015-11-18 health • healthcare • obamacare • usa

Making a cave to age cheese

Project for modifying a small fridge to be warm and humid enough

2015-11-17 affinage • aging • cheese • food • refrigerator

1B NYC trips

Taxi and Uber data collected and visualized

2015-11-17 maps • newyork • nyc • taxis • transit • uber • via:hackernews • visualization

Anti-crypto backlash

Roundup of the intelligence community using the Paris attacks as an excuse to once again try to restrict crypto

2015-11-17 civilrights • crypto • cryptography • privacy • terrorism

Moschino Barbie

Barbie ad features a young boy proclaming Barbie "so fierce"

2015-11-17 barbie • funny • gay • gender • lgbt • toys

Afterbirth ARG

More details on the crazy game event from Binding of Isaac

2015-11-16 arg • bindingofisaac • games

NYT unpublishes article

Bad NYTimes article gets yanked from site, no explanation

2015-11-16 journalism • nyt • nytimes • snowden • terrorism

New bar in Nevada City

Upscale cocktail lounge in the Sierra

2015-11-16 bar • cocktails • grassvalley • nevadacity • nevadacounty

The Mystery of ISIS

Bleak and depressing framing of ISIS/IS/ISIL/Daesh

2015-11-15 daesh • isis • middleeast • terrorism

English is not normal

Linguistically accurate article about how the English language is unusual

2015-11-15 english • language • linguistics • via:metafilter

Ultrasonic tracking

Unethical advertisers invent a new surreptitious way to track you

2015-11-15 ads • advertising • badtech • cookies • sound • tracking • tv

Binding of Isaac unlock

Cool real world event for a video game

2015-11-14 bindingofisaac • games • twitter

Riot's API strategy

League of Legends developer talks about their API

2015-11-13 api • games • leagueoflegends • lol • riot

Guy Fieri wine

Hilarious and odd commentary on the TV personality

2015-11-13 food • funny • guyfieri • via:metafilter • wine

0.30000000000000004.com

Simple summary of floating point handling in various languages

2015-11-13 floatingpoint • math • programming

Virtual Stepfather (NSFW)

Profane and vulgar, also hilarious

2015-11-13 funny • games • parody • shutterstock • stockphoto • via:reddit • youdontsurf

Misattributed paternity

Rates for people having the wrong idea who the father is

2015-11-13 23andme • family • genetics • paternity

Not today death!

Lovely death imagery on the Fulton, GA county department of health and wellness

2015-11-12 art • death • georgia • sculpture

Ray casting demo

Fun toy experimenting with simulations of light

2015-11-12 light • toy • via:reddit • webgl

ex-NSA IAMA

Bill Benny, a former tech at NSA, answers questions on Reddit

2015-11-11 civilrights • nsa • reddit • surveillance

Network game challenges

Riot talks in detail about the difficulty of making real time games on the Internet

2015-11-11 engineering • games • logsoflag • lol • networks

SF Prop F vote map

Folks in popular neighborhoods voted to limit AirBNB

2015-11-11 airbnb • maps • politics • propf • sanfrancisco

Torture report languishes

Senate report on CIA torture is not being read because of stupid legal nonsense

2015-11-11 cia • civilrights • government • torture

Square's ratchet

Details of late-stage financing deal terms, various shenanigans

2015-11-11 finance • square • startup

Words for smells

A curious gap in English; more words in other languages

2015-11-11 language • linguistics • smell • via:metafilter

Explaining equity

A transparent company instructs its employees about the value of their options

2015-11-11 business • compensation • equity • ethics • options • startups

Victorian Nipple Rings

A forgotten history

2015-11-10 piercing • sex • via:metafilter • victorian

WSJ profiles Stewart

Another loving portrait of the Slack CEO

2015-11-10 flickr • slack • stewart

The Wrath of Kahm

An unfortunate yeast that can spoil a ferment

2015-11-10 cooking • fermenting • food • pickles

Fossil English

Words that only survive in idioms

2015-11-10 english • idiom • language • via:metafilter

Stewart Butterfield on butter

Folksie wisdom from the Slack founder

2015-11-09 butter • funny • slack

TensorFlow white paper

Description of Google's new machine learning system

2015-11-09 google • machinelearning • opensource • tensorflow

TensorFlow

Google open sources a neural network machine learning system

2015-11-09 google • machinelearning • neuralnetworks • software

ESR is harmful

Good essay on why sexist jerks like Eric S. Raymond are harmful to our community

2015-11-08 esr • linux • misogyny • opensource • sexism • software

California UFO

Strange light in the sky in LA

2015-11-08 la • twitter • ufo

The Weatherman

Negativland member's home page

2015-11-07 eccentric • music • negativland • weatherman

YIFY shutdown

One of the most prolific movie pirating groups, now gone

2015-11-07 movies • piracy • torrents • yify

LDS hates children

Refuses to baptize kids of gay parents

2015-11-06 gay • lds • lgbt • mormon • via:metafilter

Time series monitoring

Reflections on state of the art

2015-11-06 graphite • monitoring • ops • rrdtool

Marijuana v opioids

When marijuana is semi-legal, deaths from opioids goes down. Duh.

2015-11-06 drugs • health • marijuana • policy

Square IPO vs valuation

Significantly lower price than private investors paid

2015-11-06 downround • finance • ipos • square • startups • unicorns

Erlang: the Movie: Just the Calls

A shorter version of the programming language promotional movie

2015-11-05 erlang • funny • hellojoe • hellomike • programming

29 Avenue Rapp

Lovely Art Nouveau door

2015-11-05 art • artnouveau • france • paris • via:reddit

Diversity at Twitter

Thoughtful comments on the challenge of hiring racially diverse engineers

2015-11-03 diversity • engineering • hiring • twitter

The Colors Of Motion

Movie palettes

2015-11-03 color • film • movie • palette • visualization

GTA V - Graphics Study

How the rendering pipeline works for one of the best videogames ever

2015-11-03 games • graphics • gta • programming • via:hackernews

Star Wars Grindr

Your favorite characters as sleazy hookup opportunities

2015-11-02 funny • gay • grindr • starwars

Migurski's code process

Notes on defensive coding for spare-time projects

2015-11-02 coding • engineering • openaddresses • software

Star Citizen update

More on the vaporware game that's raised $100M. My bet is it's basically a scam.

2015-11-01 games • starcitizen

Rural gigabit fiber

Just south of me. Expensive, but will be amazing for those houses

2015-11-01 broadband • cpuc • internet • nevadacounty • spiralinternet

Penny books

Economics of the low end of Amazon book sales

2015-11-01 amazon • books • business