Kepler Orrery IV

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

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

HTTP/2 easter egg

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

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

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 tristan • tristandacunha • travel • ocean • atlantic

Tristan da Cunha

Nice little profile of a remote island community

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

miniNodes

Leasable ARM servers running Linux. $10/mo!

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

4K pirate rips

Another copy protection scheme bypassed

2015-11-29 tv • scene • piracy • 4k

Open mapping for government

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

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

Donald Trump’s Police State

"rabid brown shirts in Dockers"

2015-11-27 trump • facism • politics

Alpha Centauri Redux

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

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

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 gif • movie • funny • animals

CIA vs crypto

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

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

Macbook charger teardown

Details of Apple's engineering and profit margins

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

Slack site previews

Details of how Slack presents page previews

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

jm_links

Justin Mason's excellent linkblog

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

Finland bear map

Lovely take on a chloropleth

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

Loading Screen Jam

Game developers celebrate the ending of a stupid patent

2015-11-25 games • patents • namco

Seven Southern dishes

Nice roundup of American food

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

BitBalloon

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

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

Internet security history

From May, long detailed article

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

Google Star Wars ad

Never seen this massive a co-branding thing at Google

2015-11-25 google • starwars • ads

TileReduce 3

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

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

Nagle on delayed ACK

Awesome HN comment by a networking legend

2015-11-24 nagle • tcp • performance • 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 facism • blacklivesmatter • trump • politics

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 trump • politics • facism • blacklivesmatter

AlphaDraft

Gambling on eSports

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

Can I blog safely?

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

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

eSports economics

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

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

Shackleton photos

Beautiful images from an amazing tale of polar survival

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

Time scale BART map

Transit map scaled to travel time

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

15 Asian unicorns

$1B startups, mostly China and India

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

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 loseit • visualization • diet • weight • health

1978 video graphics

Beautiful, very retro demo reel of video effects

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

/r/cripplingalcoholism

Disturbing subreddit for folks embracing their destructive lifestyle

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

A Thank-You Note to Megan Smith

Nice article about women and tech

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

VATSIM profile

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

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

Tinder CEO interview

Awkward douchebag interview the week of the IPO

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

No crypto in Paris attack

Earliest scaremongering articles turn out to be unfounded

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

Paris | Tom Lee

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

2015-11-18 paris • france • terrorism

NYT unpublishing

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

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

Toyplot

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

2015-11-18 notebooks • python • ipython • jupyter • plotting • charting • 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 cheese • affinage • refrigerator • aging • food

1B NYC trips

Taxi and Uber data collected and visualized

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

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 cryptography • crypto • privacy • terrorism • civilrights

Moschino Barbie

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

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

Afterbirth ARG

More details on the crazy game event from Binding of Isaac

2015-11-16 games • bindingofisaac • arg

NYT unpublishes article

Bad NYTimes article gets yanked from site, no explanation

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

New bar in Nevada City

Upscale cocktail lounge in the Sierra

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

The Mystery of ISIS

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

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

English is not normal

Linguistically accurate article about how the English language is unusual

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

Ultrasonic tracking

Unethical advertisers invent a new surreptitious way to track you

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

Binding of Isaac unlock

Cool real world event for a video game

2015-11-14 twitter • games • bindingofisaac

Riot's API strategy

League of Legends developer talks about their API

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

Guy Fieri wine

Hilarious and odd commentary on the TV personality

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

0.30000000000000004.com

Simple summary of floating point handling in various languages

2015-11-13 math • floatingpoint • programming

Virtual Stepfather (NSFW)

Profane and vulgar, also hilarious

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

Misattributed paternity

Rates for people having the wrong idea who the father is

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

Not today death!

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

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

Ray casting demo

Fun toy experimenting with simulations of light

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

ex-NSA IAMA

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

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

Network game challenges

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

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

SF Prop F vote map

Folks in popular neighborhoods voted to limit AirBNB

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

Torture report languishes

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

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

Square's ratchet

Details of late-stage financing deal terms, various shenanigans

2015-11-11 square • finance • startup

Words for smells

A curious gap in English; more words in other languages

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

Explaining equity

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

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

Victorian Nipple Rings

A forgotten history

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

WSJ profiles Stewart

Another loving portrait of the Slack CEO

2015-11-10 slack • stewart • flickr

The Wrath of Kahm

An unfortunate yeast that can spoil a ferment

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

Fossil English

Words that only survive in idioms

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

Stewart Butterfield on butter

Folksie wisdom from the Slack founder

2015-11-09 slack • butter • funny

TensorFlow white paper

Description of Google's new machine learning system

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

TensorFlow

Google open sources a neural network machine learning system

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

ESR is harmful

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

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

California UFO

Strange light in the sky in LA

2015-11-08 la • ufo • twitter

The Weatherman

Negativland member's home page

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

YIFY shutdown

One of the most prolific movie pirating groups, now gone

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

LDS hates children

Refuses to baptize kids of gay parents

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

Time series monitoring

Reflections on state of the art

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

Marijuana v opioids

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

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

Square IPO vs valuation

Significantly lower price than private investors paid

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

Erlang: the Movie: Just the Calls

A shorter version of the programming language promotional movie

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

29 Avenue Rapp

Lovely Art Nouveau door

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

Diversity at Twitter

Thoughtful comments on the challenge of hiring racially diverse engineers

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

The Colors Of Motion

Movie palettes

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

GTA V - Graphics Study

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

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

Star Wars Grindr

Your favorite characters as sleazy hookup opportunities

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

Migurski's code process

Notes on defensive coding for spare-time projects

2015-11-02 openaddresses • coding • engineering • 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 internet • broadband • spiralinternet • nevadacounty • cpuc

Penny books

Economics of the low end of Amazon book sales

2015-11-01 books • business • amazon