Flint military exercises

Not just the water; the Army was doing training with live explosives in Flint

2016-01-31 army • flint • justice • military

Awesome public datasets

Nice roundup of free data

2016-01-31 data • opendata • via:hackernews

Call it Frisco

A hipster's impassioned plea to call the city Frisco

2016-01-30 city • frisco • mathonan • sanfrancisco

Indian recipe diversity

Fun article highlighting one dish from each state in India

2016-01-29 cooking • food • india • recipes • via:metafilter

Shodan vs NTP Pool

NTP pool admins sound annoyed that Shodan was using the service to collect IP addresses for hidden devices

2016-01-29 badtech • ntp • security • shodan

BGP in 2015

Excellent data on a core Internet protocol

2016-01-29 bgp • internet • routing

Pulgas Water Temple

A possible destination for a #geobeers excursion?

2016-01-29 hetchhetchy • sanfrancisco • water

Reclaim the comments

Clear writing by Anil Dash on why we should not give up web comments to abusers

2016-01-28 comments • community • culture • internet • moderation

Research Blog: AlphaGo

Details on Google's new AI for playing the game

2016-01-27 ai • go • google • machinelearning

Go AI breakthrough

New machine learning approach from Google much stronger than previous efforts

2016-01-27 ai • deepmind • games • go • machinelearning

IP address harvesting

Some NTP pool servers seem to be doing nefarious things with IP addresses

2016-01-27 ntp • security • via:hackernews

lockrun

Simple tool to safely run possibly long-running jobs in a cron job

2016-01-27 cron • linux • locking • ops • unix

Flint lead history

Details on the public malfeasance that resulted in people being poisoned by city water

2016-01-27 crime • epa • flint • lead • michigan • water

Penrose tiling

Interactive tool for quasiperiodic layouts

2016-01-27 pattern • penrose • tile • via:metafilter

The original road trip

Ford, Edison, Firestone, and Burroughs went road tripping in 1914–1924

2016-01-27 america • cars • history • roadtrip

Piecloud visualization

Let's take two bad ideas and mash them up!

2016-01-26 dataisugly • funny • via:reddit • visualization

Machine learning fonts

50,000 fonts thrown into a neural network

2016-01-26 design • fonts • machinelearning • ml • typography • via:flowingdata

Girih Designer

Make Islamic tile patterns in your browser

2016-01-26 architecture • art • girih • islamic • tiles • via:metafilter

Clinton email summary

Reasonably neutral, sourced history of the Clinton State Department email dispute

2016-01-25 clinton • email • foia • politics

PESfilm

Fun collection of animated surrealist films

2016-01-24 animation • art • surrealism • via:reddit

Star Wars CG breakdown

Details of some of the visual effects added to movie

2016-01-24 animation • cg • film • graphics • movies • starwars • vfx

query plan visualization

Postgres tool for understanding performance

2016-01-24 database • optimization • performance • postgres • psql • via:hackernews

Kill Ping

Gamer service promising faster networking

2016-01-23 games • lag • latency • leagueoflegends • lol

Muay Thai gambling

Open cry betting in Thailand

2016-01-23 betting • culture • fighting • muaythai • thailand • via:metafilter

Good cabling

Photos of IT guys on fleek

2016-01-22 cables • datacenter • it • networks • photos • reddit

Raising the Bar

Podcast about diversity in the tech industry, featuring Leslie Miley

2016-01-22 diversity • hiring • startups • twitter

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

Detailed story on tech diversity

2016-01-22 diversity • google • race • startups • tech

Wooden county maps

Lovely woodworking

2016-01-20 art • maps • via:reddit • wood

Obituary moderation

Online obit site Legacy deals with comment spam

2016-01-20 community • legacy • moderation • obituary

Strategic Butt Coverings

Sarkeesian on a specific form of objectifying women in video games

2016-01-20 butts • camera • critique • feminism • games

Brando's Native American protest

Remarkable event at the 1973 Oscars, Brando refusing an award and having Sacheen Littlefeather (an Apache woman) deliver the protest

2016-01-20 aim • brando • indians • movies • nativeamerican • oscars

The Experiment Experiment

Good radio on the reproducibility of psychology experiments

2016-01-19 experiments • psychology • science

Bowie / Dietrich

Bad 1970s film had David Bowie playing a Weimer Germany gigolo, with an appearance by Marlene Dietrich

2016-01-19 bowie • dietrich • films • movies

Divine / Ursula

Little Mermaid writer was inspired by Divine, from Pink Flamingos

2016-01-19 divine • gay • lgbt • littlemermaid • movies • via:metafilter

LastPass phishing attack

Security flaw leaves password vault users vulnerable, but it's pretty complex

2016-01-18 badtech • lastpass • security • tfa

The second coming of scurvy

Essay about a 19th century failure of science

2016-01-18 antarctica • disease • health • induction • knowledge • science • scott • scurvy

Donald Trump / anime

Donald Trump will make anime real

2016-01-17 4chan • funny • meme • parody • politics • trump • via:reddit

Discord game chat

A service for gamers, something like Slack + voice chat

2016-01-17 games • leagueoflegends • lol • riot • teamspeak

Satie Gymnopedie x60

60 recordings of the short Satie piece overlayed into shimmering texture

2016-01-17 music • satie • via:metafilter

1853 map of San Francisco

US Coastal Survey, very detailed

2016-01-17 map • sanfrancisco • uscs • via:reddit

3d printed tourbillon

Watchmaking

2016-01-15 3dprinting • watches

10th Anniversary of jQuery

I love Resig's humility

2016-01-14 history • javascript • jquery • resig

Nevada County marijuana growing

County moved to illegalize outdoor growing in a very weird and confusing way

2016-01-14 california • grassvalley • marijuana • nevadacounty • politics

TrendMicro Antivirus backdoor

Badly coded add-on to antivirus makes your browser into a backdoor for any website to exploit

2016-01-14 antivirus • badtech • security • trendmicro

Finding a rare atlas

Nice Reddit story of a librarian realizing a book they have is very rare

2016-01-13 books • library • maps • reddit

Inline Labels

Nice visualization technique for displaying numbers on a graph

2016-01-13 charting • d3js • graphing • visualization

Sanxingdui bronzes

Phenomenal sculptures from 3500 years ago

2016-01-13 archaeology • art • bronze • china • history

Location encoding systems

Geohash, What3Words, and friends

2016-01-13 geography • geohash • location • maps • what3words

ex-Scientologist AMA

Cult escapee discusses his life in Scientology

2016-01-12 cult • scientology

Flint faked lead report

Michigan people poisoned by the government which cheated the lead test

2016-01-12 corruption • flint • lead • michigan • poison • water

ParseHub

Generate an API for a dynamic web site. Uses machine learning to figure stuff out

2016-01-11 api • development • mashup • programming

Zapier

Automating integrations between Internet products like Twitter, Pinboard, etc. Using it for this linkblog.

2016-01-11 automation • dlvrit • goodtech • ifttt • software

Web sites with no code

Complex transactional sites built by combining online services

2016-01-11 codeforamerica • engineering • webservices

Worst things at CES

Consumer electronics nadir

2016-01-11 ces • funny • gadgets • via:metafilter

Chat for GitHub

A little like Slack, but centered on GitHub repos

2016-01-10 chat • developers • github • slack

Juniper backdoor details

More fishiness in how the DUAL_EC crap was stuck into network firewalls

2016-01-10 badtech • crypto • juniper • nsa

Python binder

Live hosting of Jupyter notebooks

2016-01-10 ipython • jupyter • notebook • python

Extended exercise windows

Companies that have extended beyond the standard 90 option expiry

2016-01-09 options • startups • stocks

Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window

A critique of a common gotcha in tech industry compensation

2016-01-09 ipo • iso • nq • options • startups • stock

Chinese map distortions

Google Maps in China shows odd artifacts to comply with Chinese security law

2016-01-09 cartography • china • google • mapping

LucasVB/Gallery

A user makes lovely mathematical illustrations for Wikipedia

2016-01-09 graphics • math • visualization • wikipedia

Super Heavy Element AMA

Livermore scientist working on synthesizing transactinides answers questions

2016-01-09 nuclear • science • transactinides

zipapp

Executable jar files for Python

2016-01-09 devops • executable • python

How to C in 2016

Tips for contemporary C programming

2016-01-08 c • c11 • c99 • language • programming

Just Cause 3 copy protection

A month later, game still not cracked

2016-01-08 copyprotection • cracking • drm • games • hacking • piracy

Birth tweetstorm

Well told story

2016-01-08 birth • human • people • twitter

Malheur seditionists

Phenomenal roundup of names and photos of 31 of the people involved in the stupidity in Oregon

2016-01-08 militia • oregon • yallqaeda

Bump fire

One gimmick to convert a semi-automatic rifle to full automatic, using recoil

2016-01-08 guncontrol • guns • nra • weapons

FBI Tor hacking

Took over a server for pedophiles, circumvented Tor

2016-01-08 darknet • fbi • hacking • tor

CloudFront gzip support

Amazon's HTTP serving for years didn't support compression. Yay, now it does!

2016-01-08 amazon • compression • gzip • http

Senior Chinatown fashion

Loving look at the clothing styles of elderly people in SF's Chinatown

2016-01-08 chinatown • culture • fashion • photography

Juniper backdoor timeline

Dual EC subversion from 2008! ssh back door last year.

2016-01-08 backdoor • badtech • juniper • nsa • security

PostgREST

Add a RESTful web API to any Postgres database

2016-01-08 api • postgres • postgresql • rest

Wilma Black Obituary

Direct and terribly sad

2016-01-07 death • obituary • soapopera

Emoji simulator

Fun little grid agent based simulator using emoji

2016-01-07 alife • emoji • simulation • swarm

artisanal integers

The unasked-for history of a vital cloud service

2016-01-07 funny • hipster • integers • migurski

Machine translation oops

Google's translator learned that "Russia" translated as "Mordor"

2016-01-07 funny • google • machinelearning • russia • technology • ukraine • via:metafilter

Fin-tech: The first venture capitalists

Whaling origins of profit sharing and other VC-backed financial structure

2016-01-07 economy • finance • startups • whaling

Visible Black Hole flicker

Star in a binary with a black hole visibly flickers from +12 to +15 over the span of hours

2016-01-07 astronomy • blackhole • via:reddit

Linode breached six months ago?

Evidence the cloud hosting provider has been compromised for a long time

2016-01-06 badtech • linode • security

HTTP poem

Fun little stunt to come out of 32c3

2016-01-06 32c3 • http • poetry • via:jwz

Of Oz the Wizard

Alphabetized version of the classic movie. Exterminate all rational thought.

2016-01-06 edit • movies • wizardofoz

Stripe profile

Nice, if light piece about the Collison's startup

2016-01-05 business • collison • payments • startup • stripe

Uber political sleaze

Illegal, unreported lobbying in Portland. A capsule.

2016-01-05 corruption • lobbying • portland • uber

Steam 2015 numbers

Details on sales, etc of the popular games platform

2016-01-05 games • market • steam

Microsoft Solitaire intern

Wes Cherry wrote Microsoft Solitaire in 1988, his comments

2016-01-05 games • microsoft • programming • solitaire

Science On a Sphere

A spherical projection screen for data visualization

2016-01-05 projection • science • sphere

Viscera Cleanup Detail

A game where you play the janitor who cleans up the bloody mess after the hero's rampage

2016-01-05 cleanup • doom • funny • games

Bundy Mormon extremism

Seditious nutjobs are also religious nutjubs

2016-01-04 bundy • militia • mormon • oregon • religion

Deep Space Nine In 82.5 Hours

Appreciation of the best Star Trek series

2016-01-04 deepspace9 • startrek • tv

Bundy / Oregon explainer

Straight-up explanation of the insane standoff in rural Oregon

2016-01-03 government • militia • terrorism

-ach, -ingen, -zell

Visualization of different types of place names in Germany

2016-01-03 germany • maps • names • visualization

4am cracks

Apple ][ retro cracker; his writeup of Burgertime is popular right now

2016-01-03 apple • apple2 • apple][ • cracking • games • preservation

Trump debate GIF

Hilarious edit

2016-01-03 politics • republicans • trump • via:reddit

Earthbound Backgrounds

Javascript recreation of SNES-era animated background images

2016-01-02 animation • earthbound • graphics • javascript

Unicode 9.0

New code points, thinking of @vruba

2016-01-02 fonts • language • unicode

Archiving Slack

JSON dumps can be reused

2016-01-01 archive • json • slack

The Website Obesity Crisis

Clear words from Maciej on web bloat

2016-01-01 ads • advertising • performance • via:metafilter • web

Randi leaving FreeBSD

Another woman developer harassed out of open source

2016-01-01 bsd • feminism • freebsd • gamergate • harassment • opensource • stupid