Trump spies Mexican attack

Insanity off the cuff

2016-06-30 mexico • trump • politics

Bitcoin politics

Excellent detail on all the Chinese activity in Bitcoin

2016-06-30 china • bitcoin • money

Riot Games API

Details on how the game company's web services API works

2016-06-30 games • riot • lol • leagueoflegends • api • ratelimiting

DAO / second system

Reflection on the massive failure

2016-06-28 ethereum • dao • bitcoin • secondsystem

Google's source code control

Details and stats on their billion file monorepo

2016-06-28 google • code • vcs • piper • perforce • git

Mass Shootings Bot

Tweets out each American mass shooting, a year later

2016-06-27 guns • murder • america • massshooting

Concealed carry lifestyle

An American sickness of the spirit

2016-06-26 guns • gunculture • america

Uber driver earnings

Leaked documents show drivers earning ~$12/hour

2016-06-23 drivers • uber • ridesharing • taxis

XNU kernel

MacOS and iOS are both based on an open source Mach kernel

2016-06-23 mach • machos • kernel • apple • ios • macos • software • opensource

iOS kernel no longer encrypted

One theory: this means Apple can no longer be coerced to hide a backdoor for the FBI

2016-06-23 fbi • nsa • civilliberties • apple • ios • security

Google teaching machine learning

How Google trains its own engineers

2016-06-23 google • machinelearning • ml

Headphone jacks

Righteous rant

2016-06-22 iphone • phone • dongles

Trump supporter attacks

Vile threats for a man who wrote something critical of Trump

2016-06-22 trump • online • threats • criticism

What3Words examined

Thoughtful piece about the risks of the proprietary addressing system

2016-06-22 what3words • maps • opendata • addressing

Our friend the AR-15

The NRA pays its respects to the slaughtered in Orlando by praising the weapon that murdered them

2016-06-21 nra • guns • ar-15 • orlando

Is Trump Broke?

The puzzle of the lack of financing

2016-06-21 trump • politics

Westworld (HBO)

Schlock sci-fi classic rebooting on HBO

2016-06-21 hbo • westworld • tv • movies

git-crypt

A transparent solution for storing secrets in git repos

2016-06-21 git • encryption • security • code • github

G2A and credit card fraud

Game developer claims the popular game code site is mostly trafficking keys from stolen credit cards

2016-06-21 fraud • games • via:reddit • g2a

Scott Wiener and pride

Local SF politician talks about what gay pride means to him

2016-06-21 lgbt • pride • wiener • scottwiener

Roy Cohn + Donald Trump

Evil man advised the younger Donald Trump

2016-06-20 politics • roycohn • trump

Face Transplant AMA

Answers from a man who had a full face transplant

2016-06-18 iama • reddit • ama • transplant • faceoff

Ev Williams profile

Long, positive article about the influential tech entrepreneur

2016-06-17 ev • evhead • blogger • twitter • odeo • medium • evan

Ethereum disaster

Some new cryptocurrency experiment has exploded hilariously

2016-06-17 dao • ethereum • bitcoin

Gun control data

High level view of data on efficacy of gun control

2016-06-17 america • guns • australia

D3: fewer lambdas

Some clever first class functions to make D3 accessors more convenient

2016-06-17 d3js • javascript • d3 • jetpack

Interview with a late-term abortion patient

Honest, sad story of a woman who chose to abort at 32 weeks rather than give birth to a non-viable baby

2016-06-16 abortion • honestly • women • health

53 Marissa acquisitions

The outcome of a buying spree

2016-06-16 marissameyer • marissa • yahoo

Surviving a mass shooting

Grimly hilarious graphics

2016-06-16 graphics • via:boingboing • america • guns

Trump vs Ebola

2014, called for doctors helping Ebola patients to be barred from coming home

2016-06-16 trump • politics • ebola • disease

Donald Trump's hair

Remarkably thorough speculation about a weave from Ivari

2016-06-15 ivari • trump • politics • hair • wig • hairpiece

America's gun industry

Details on top 10 gun sellers in the US

2016-06-15 guns • guncontrol • via:metafilter • america

1827 wireless trading network

Semaphore was used to communicate financial data

2016-06-15 finance • communication • semaphore • telegraph • newyork • via:ckline

What3Words detail

An analysis last year of how the proprietary location naming system works

2016-06-14 what3words • maps • location

Against What3Words

Nicely argued piece on the danger of proprietary addressing

2016-06-14 what3words • addresses • mongolia • maps

Gun control efficacy

Some links to academic studies on how well gun control laws work

2016-06-14 guncontrol • guns • orlando • murder • australia

What3Words prior art

Patents filed by the proprietary geodata company are probably invalid

2016-06-14 priorart • patents • mapping • geodata

Riot Games toxicity

Correlating in-game rudeness with employee problems

2016-06-13 riot • games • leagueoflegends • culture

Guns and domestic security

America's gun culture puts us all at risk

2016-06-13 guns • terrorism • risk • america

The Gun & The Bible

The Gun & The Bible carved this nation out of the wilderness

2016-06-13 music • negativland • america • guns

GOP gun shame

Republicans blocked a bill that might have stopped the Orlando murderer from getting his guns

2016-06-13 guns • terrorism • security • orlando

sslh

Accept requests for multiple applications on a single port

2016-06-12 via:onethingwell • security • hack • network • ssl • ssh • vpn

Coursera tightening up

Some free courses being taken offline

2016-06-11 coursera • mooc • education

Typosquatting libraries

Testing malware with software libraries with common typos in their names

2016-06-08 badtech • malware • via:hackernews

30M Parcels

Offshoot project of OpenAddresses collects cadastral data

2016-06-07 maps • parcels • cadastral • openaddresses

100M plaintext passwords

Russian site vk.com violates the most basic rule of Internet security

2016-06-06 password • vk • vkontakte • russia • security • badtech

Nevada City Soapbox Derby

Yearly local event, elaborate and fun

2016-06-06 grassvalley • nevadacity • soapbox • racing

Trump v Muslim judges

Not even the most basic understanding of the Constitution

2016-06-05 politics • trump • judges • muslims • racism

Trump stats lies

Nice treatment of that "9 graphs" nonsense that's been floating around for awhile

2016-06-05 trump • politics • statistics • liewithstatistics

LINE social network

Another Slack-like chat product, popular in Japan

2016-06-05 games • slack • discord • chat

Trump racist insanity

Jaw-dropping doubling and tripling down on insulting American judge because of his Mexican heritage

2016-06-04 mexico • america • racism • trump • politics

The vultures are waiting to pick your bones

Amazing Oprah supercut

2016-06-03 funny • oprah • via:metafilter • tv • vultures

Riot HTML5 client

Popular game's new client UI is in HTML5. (Game itself is still C++)

2016-06-03 games • html5 • javascript • emberjs • chromium

The 10 worst US aircraft

Some unimagineable designs

2016-06-02 aircraft • aviation • via:metafilter

Google and Apple Maps comparison

Very detailed review

2016-06-02 maps • apple • google • cartography

Upcoming archives

Founder of event site heroically brings old pages back online

2016-06-01 upcoming • archive • history • waxy

openvpn-install

Turnkey VPN installation

2016-06-01 vpn • openvpn • routing • networking