Flint military exercises

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

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

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 sanfrancisco • frisco • city • mathonan

Indian recipe diversity

Fun article highlighting one dish from each state in India

2016-01-29 india • food • cooking • 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 ntp • security • shodan • badtech

BGP in 2015

Excellent data on a core Internet protocol

2016-01-29 internet • bgp • routing

Pulgas Water Temple

A possible destination for a #geobeers excursion?

2016-01-29 water • sanfrancisco • hetchhetchy

Reclaim the comments

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

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

Research Blog: AlphaGo

Details on Google's new AI for playing the game

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

Go AI breakthrough

New machine learning approach from Google much stronger than previous efforts

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

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 • unix • ops • locking

Flint lead history

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

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

Penrose tiling

Interactive tool for quasiperiodic layouts

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

The original road trip

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

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

Piecloud visualization

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

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

Machine learning fonts

50,000 fonts thrown into a neural network

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

Girih Designer

Make Islamic tile patterns in your browser

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

Clinton email summary

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

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

PESfilm

Fun collection of animated surrealist films

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

Star Wars CG breakdown

Details of some of the visual effects added to movie

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

query plan visualization

Postgres tool for understanding performance

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

Kill Ping

Gamer service promising faster networking

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

Muay Thai gambling

Open cry betting in Thailand

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

Good cabling

Photos of IT guys on fleek

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

Raising the Bar

Podcast about diversity in the tech industry, featuring Leslie Miley

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

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

Detailed story on tech diversity

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

Wooden county maps

Lovely woodworking

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

Obituary moderation

Online obit site Legacy deals with comment spam

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

Strategic Butt Coverings

Sarkeesian on a specific form of objectifying women in video games

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

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 brando • indians • aim • nativeamerican • movies • oscars

The Experiment Experiment

Good radio on the reproducibility of psychology experiments

2016-01-19 science • experiments • psychology

Bowie / Dietrich

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

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

Divine / Ursula

Little Mermaid writer was inspired by Divine, from Pink Flamingos

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

LastPass phishing attack

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

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

The second coming of scurvy

Essay about a 19th century failure of science

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

Donald Trump / anime

Donald Trump will make anime real

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

Discord game chat

A service for gamers, something like Slack + voice chat

2016-01-17 games • lol • leagueoflegends • 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 watches • 3dprinting

10th Anniversary of jQuery

I love Resig's humility

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

Nevada County marijuana growing

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

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

TrendMicro Antivirus backdoor

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

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

Finding a rare atlas

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

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

Inline Labels

Nice visualization technique for displaying numbers on a graph

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

Sanxingdui bronzes

Phenomenal sculptures from 3500 years ago

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

Location encoding systems

Geohash, What3Words, and friends

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

ex-Scientologist AMA

Cult escapee discusses his life in Scientology

2016-01-12 scientology • cult

Flint faked lead report

Michigan people poisoned by the government which cheated the lead test

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

ParseHub

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

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

Zapier

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

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

Web sites with no code

Complex transactional sites built by combining online services

2016-01-11 webservices • codeforamerica • engineering

Worst things at CES

Consumer electronics nadir

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

Chat for GitHub

A little like Slack, but centered on GitHub repos

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

Juniper backdoor details

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

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

Python binder

Live hosting of Jupyter notebooks

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

Extended exercise windows

Companies that have extended beyond the standard 90 option expiry

2016-01-09 options • stocks • startups

Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window

A critique of a common gotcha in tech industry compensation

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

Chinese map distortions

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

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

LucasVB/Gallery

A user makes lovely mathematical illustrations for Wikipedia

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

Super Heavy Element AMA

Livermore scientist working on synthesizing transactinides answers questions

2016-01-09 science • nuclear • transactinides

zipapp

Executable jar files for Python

2016-01-09 python • executable • devops

How to C in 2016

Tips for contemporary C programming

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

Just Cause 3 copy protection

A month later, game still not cracked

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

Birth tweetstorm

Well told story

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

Malheur seditionists

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

2016-01-08 oregon • militia • yallqaeda

Bump fire

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

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

FBI Tor hacking

Took over a server for pedophiles, circumvented Tor

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

CloudFront gzip support

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

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

Senior Chinatown fashion

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

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

Juniper backdoor timeline

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

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

PostgREST

Add a RESTful web API to any Postgres database

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

Wilma Black Obituary

Direct and terribly sad

2016-01-07 obituary • death • soapopera

Emoji simulator

Fun little grid agent based simulator using emoji

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

artisanal integers

The unasked-for history of a vital cloud service

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

Machine translation oops

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

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

Fin-tech: The first venture capitalists

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

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

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 linode • security • badtech

HTTP poem

Fun little stunt to come out of 32c3

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

Of Oz the Wizard

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

2016-01-06 wizardofoz • movies • edit

Stripe profile

Nice, if light piece about the Collison's startup

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

Uber political sleaze

Illegal, unreported lobbying in Portland. A capsule.

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

Steam 2015 numbers

Details on sales, etc of the popular games platform

2016-01-05 games • steam • market

Microsoft Solitaire intern

Wes Cherry wrote Microsoft Solitaire in 1988, his comments

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

Science On a Sphere

A spherical projection screen for data visualization

2016-01-05 sphere • science • projection

Viscera Cleanup Detail

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

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

Bundy Mormon extremism

Seditious nutjobs are also religious nutjubs

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

Deep Space Nine In 82.5 Hours

Appreciation of the best Star Trek series

2016-01-04 startrek • deepspace9 • tv

Bundy / Oregon explainer

Straight-up explanation of the insane standoff in rural Oregon

2016-01-03 militia • terrorism • government

-ach, -ingen, -zell

Visualization of different types of place names in Germany

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

4am cracks

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

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

Trump debate GIF

Hilarious edit

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

Earthbound Backgrounds

Javascript recreation of SNES-era animated background images

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

Unicode 9.0

New code points, thinking of @vruba

2016-01-02 unicode • language • fonts

Archiving Slack

JSON dumps can be reused

2016-01-01 slack • json • archive

The Website Obesity Crisis

Clear words from Maciej on web bloat

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

Randi leaving FreeBSD

Another woman developer harassed out of open source

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