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It was then that I carried you
Forbidden Planet + insipid religious quote
2016-05-31 funny • religion • parody • forbiddenplanet
Tabletop pong
A physical instantiation
2016-05-31 games • pong • via:metafilter • atari • awesome
WSJ on indie.vc
Bryce's experimental VC fund gets some press, as does my friend's company
2016-05-31 venturecapital • startups • entrepreneurs • marc • bryce
Indie.vc v.2
An experiment in alternate venture funding
2016-05-30 startups • entrepreneurs • indievc
DNS Privacy
Speculation on privacy-preserving DNS systems
2016-05-29 dns • protocols • internet • privacy • tls
Never10
Software to prevent Windows from upgrading to Windows 10
2016-05-29 windows • upgrade • windows10
Mexican baiting
Trump personally insults the ethnicity of a judge hearing a case against him
2016-05-28 trump • trumpuniversity • mexican • politics • judge
Geocoding in 5 minutes
Simple installation of OpenAddresses data and Pelias geocoder
2016-05-27 maps • geocoding • openaddresses
Font clichés
Funny because it's true
2016-05-26 fonts • funny • design • typography
❤️ Peter Thiel
Good satire on the Gawker suit
2016-05-26 gawker • thiel • journalism • funny • satire
Automatic for the Sheeple
Thoughtful Paul Ford piece on Thiel and Gawker
2016-05-26 society • gawker • thiel • law • justice
Factory idle
Neat cookie-clicker style idle game, but with factory layout puzzle too
2016-05-26 games • factory • layout
Terrapattern
Search aerial imagery for images of things
2016-05-25 maps • aerial • machinelearning • ml
Windows 10 trickery
Dark pattern in the Windows upgrade dialog
2016-05-25 windows • os • microsoft • darkpatterns
Star Wars, the infographic
A sort of comic novelization
2016-05-24 movies • starwars • infographics • comics • via:metafilter
totallynotrobots
A reddit of things that are confusingly human
2016-05-24 robot • funny • reddit
EditorConfig
A cross-editor way for a software project to define standards for newlines, indentation, etc
2016-05-23 editing • coding • standards • editors
This Was San Francisco
1950s comics about the SF past
2016-05-23 sanfrancisco • history • via:reddit • comicsans
Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow
Taking the piss out of tech interviews
2016-05-23 funny • interview • google • ml • machinelearning • via:waxy
JSON Client
iOS app that displays JSON data. Sort of like a web browser but easier to script
2016-05-23 JSON • data • via:onethingwell • ios • iphone • development
19th c. ASCII art ads
Fun exploration of a forgotten byway of typography
2016-05-23 ads • ascii • typography
Monument Valley, 2 years
Sales data for a popular mobile game
2016-05-23 games • ios • via:hackernews • monumentvalley • indie
"advice" for aspiring tech bloggers
Thoughtful words from a masterful writer in a medium that should be more popular
2016-05-22 blogs • blogging • tech • writing
SWIFT malware
Analysis of the software used to steal $951M from a banking network
2016-05-22 banking • security • badtech • via:hackernews
METAL MACHINE Music For Airports
Brian Eno + Lou Reed together at last
2016-05-21 music • funny • eno • loureed
Vape Nation
Dank video about vapid culture
2016-05-20 vaping • funny • drugs
Trump v Bernie
A Second Life drama, with swastikas
2016-05-20 trump • bernie • politics • secondlife • funny • games
Sacca on Trump
Guy on Fire
2016-05-19 sacca • trump • politics • funny
virtualenvwrapper
Convenience tools for Python virtual environments
2016-05-19 python • venv • pyvenv • virtualenv • programming
This is how fascism comes to America
Very strongly worded editorial from a traditional conservative
2016-05-19 politics • trump • america • fascism
Rapping deconstructed
Nice explanation of meter and rhyme in rap
2016-05-19 rap • music • poetry • via:metafilter
Machine learning chips
Google deep learning includes custom low power hardware
2016-05-18 ai • ml • machinelearning • google • tensorflow • tpu
Cache files vs. pornography
Local California politician's public service career ruined by a probably false child porn charge
2016-05-18 california • porn • childporn • lamphier • nevadacounty • politics • justice
Folding paper 7 times
It explodes!
2016-05-18 paper • folding • physics
Mt St Helens from the air
GA pilot took a look-see during the eruption. /cc @vruba
2016-05-18 photography • aviation • mtsthelens • via:Reddit • washington • oregon
Hanging tables
Neat idea of a table that disappears into the ceiling
2016-05-18 architecture • table • furnishing • via:metafilter
Soviet topo maps
Cache of many maps from the Soviet Union
2016-05-18 maps • russia • sovietunion
Nick Johnson
Nice remembrance of an author famous for writing about Antarctica
2016-05-18 obituary • suicide • antarctica • writing
mypy Python type checker
Part of the effort to add optional typechecking to Python
2016-05-17 python • typechecking
January | Disasterpeace
Generative music toy by a great game musician
2016-05-17 music • disasterpeace • generative
Multiverse
A never-implemented game from 1986 based on procedural generation
2016-05-17 games • openworld • procedural
Attorney privilege in email
Google accidentally disclosed an email it didn't want to
2016-05-17 google • gmail • oracle • legal • lawsuit • java
Sigmoid functions
Simple explanation of why machine learning uses logistic and sigmoid functions
2016-05-17 probability • math • machinelearning • ml
California copyright
State effort afoot to make copyright taxpayer-funded works
2016-05-16 california • copyright • publicdomain
CIA vs torture report
Somehow CIA loses its only copy of the report documenting CIA torture
2016-05-16 cia • torture • humanrights
Driving stoned
Statistics suggest marijuana doesn't impair driving ability
2016-05-16 drugs • via:hackernews • alcohol • marijuana • safety • driving
Scruff face pics
Stats on a gay hookup app, who is willing to show their face
2016-05-16 gay • lgbt • statistics • scruff • grindr
Visual Center
A tool to find the perceptual center of an image
2016-05-16 via:reddit • center • image • design
US nuke plan 1956
Chilling visualization of American nuclear targets in Russia
2016-05-16 russia • america • coldwar • maps • visualization • nuclear
Nurse WIth Wound list
Obscure music from the 60s to 80s /cc @celesteramsay
2016-05-16 music • via:metafilter • alternative
Shuffleboard At McMurdo
Installment 1 of Maciej's kickstarter travelogue to Antarctica
2016-05-16 antarctica • travel • idlewords • maciej • pinboard • kickstarter
Rise and fall of FriendFeed
RIP a great social aggregator
2016-05-15 friendfeed • startups • facebook
Bowiebranchia
Sea slugs that look like David Bowie
2016-05-14 davidbowie • costume • music • via:celeste
Runway graves
Airports built on top of graveyards
2016-05-14 via:Reddit • grave • aviation • airport
Trump and women
Detailed interviews from the NYTimes
2016-05-14 nytimes • politics • trump • feminism • women
US spy SUVs
Surveillance vehicles disguised as Google mapping cars
2016-05-12 google • maps • civilrights • privacy • via:hackernews
Kissinger war crimes
A good day to not forget
2016-05-11 kissinger • warcrimes • military • politics
Ambrosia Starling v Judge Moore
Drag queen takes on the bigoted Alabama chief justice
2016-05-11 lgbt • gayrights • dragqueen • alabama
Prometheus monitoring
Alternative to Graphite/Statsd
2016-05-11 monitoring • graphs • statsd • graphite
Panama Papers database
From the shell company scandal: large datasets available for download
2016-05-09 panamapapers • corruption • business • fraud
Jim Bakker survival food
Weird prepper video from disgraced televangelist / alleged rapist
2016-05-09 jimbakker • bakker • religion • survivalism • food
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Remarkably good weird TV from a few years ago
2016-05-09 television • tv • comedy • funny • adultswim
Color name visualization
Nice treatment of words for colors in Chinese and English
2016-05-07 color • language • chinese • english • via:reddit
Bitcoin Alert system
Baked in the protocol, including a private key only held by 3 people
2016-05-07 bitcoin • alert • publickey • crypto
The Green Papers
Political wonk site, old school web
2016-05-06 web • internet • polls • politics
Isso blog comments
A self-hosted Disqus alternative
2016-05-06 comments • blogs • disqus
Y Combinator zeitgeist
Discussion of popular topics in years of startup applications
2016-05-05 ycombinator • startup • trends • technology
East Texas patent court
Details on the patent troll's favored jurisdiction
2016-05-05 patents • texas • law • legal
Cheap Ruler
New approach for measuring geographic distance, very clever
2016-05-05 math • algorithms • geo • gis • mapbox
tq(1)
Command line program for extracting pieces of web pages using CSS selectors
2016-05-05 via:onethingwell • html • scraping • css
GOP on Trump
Nicely edited Clinton campaign ad
2016-05-05 politics • government • trump • clinton
Circulatory System map
Schematic view
2016-05-05 via:migurski • biology • anatomy • circulation • visualization
Quiet Europeans
Reflections on a cultural difference
2016-05-04 european • american • kids • culture • via:metafilter
Python curio
Alternative async API for Python, more thread-like in how to program it
2016-05-03 programming • python • async • asyncio
Python uvloop
Replacement implementation of the asyncio event loop; faster
2016-05-03 asyncio • python • programming • async • libuv
mathowie on Metafilter
Very honest story about the rise and fall of the community weblog and his personal involvement
2016-05-03 metafilter • ads • adsense • google • startups • indievc
Quantized neural networks
Train a neural network then reduce the accuracy of the math and it still works
2016-05-03 ml • machinelearning • neuralnetworks • 8bit • quantization
Culture of "meh"
Thoughtful complaint about contemporary disdain for people who try
2016-05-03 culture • meh • tryhard
SF MTA AMA
Reddit interview with a San Francisco transportation planner
2016-05-03 sanfrancisco • sf • muni • sfmta
generative bot
Lovely generative art as tweets
2016-05-03 art • generative • generativeart
MathJax
Typeset math cleanly for web pages
2016-05-02 math • tex • latex • web • publishing
Further Future
Burning Man for the 1%
2016-05-02 latestagecapitalism • apocalypse • burningman
iStat Menus
MacOS system monitor
2016-05-02 macos • os • monitoring
Chinese-American websites
Parallel Internet for Chinese speakers in the US
2016-05-02 china • chinese • us • culture • via:vruba
Robert Burnham Jr
Obit of a famous astronomer. "Burnham spent his last years mostly on a park bench in San Diego selling paintings of cats. He died in 1993 destitute and unnoticed" (quote from Sky & Telescope)
2016-05-02 burnham • astronomy • mentalillness
Badger Stewart
Astonishing, well written story about a young man whose father injected him with HIV
2016-05-02 aids • hiv • crime • journalism
Null Island in LOC
Library of Congress heralds the geographer's favorite tropical vacation spot
2016-05-01 gis • geography • nullisland
CIA livetweeting assassination
Creepy Twitter campaign celebrating the killing of Osama bin Ladin
2016-05-01 twitter • cia • assassination • alqaeda • ubl • osama
FISA rejects 0 warrants
The secret court overseeing the FBI's spying is a joke
2016-05-01 civilrights • spying • fisa • america
Player Two
Sweet short film about an emotional game experience
2016-05-01 games • grief • youtube
Sugar cutters
Tools for using traditional hard sugar lumps
2016-05-01 sugar • sugarnip • sugarloaf • food
What Happened to Google Maps?
Detailed breakdown of levels of detail
2016-05-01 maps • cartography • google