Trump spies Mexican attack

Insanity off the cuff

2016-06-30 mexico • politics • trump

Bitcoin politics

Excellent detail on all the Chinese activity in Bitcoin

2016-06-30 bitcoin • china • money

Riot Games API

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

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

DAO / second system

Reflection on the massive failure

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

Google's source code control

Details and stats on their billion file monorepo

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

Mass Shootings Bot

Tweets out each American mass shooting, a year later

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

Concealed carry lifestyle

An American sickness of the spirit

2016-06-26 america • gunculture • guns

Uber driver earnings

Leaked documents show drivers earning ~$12/hour

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

XNU kernel

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

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

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 apple • civilliberties • fbi • ios • nsa • security

Google teaching machine learning

How Google trains its own engineers

2016-06-23 google • machinelearning • ml

Headphone jacks

Righteous rant

2016-06-22 dongles • iphone • phone

Trump supporter attacks

Vile threats for a man who wrote something critical of Trump

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

What3Words examined

Thoughtful piece about the risks of the proprietary addressing system

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

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 ar-15 • guns • nra • orlando

Is Trump Broke?

The puzzle of the lack of financing

2016-06-21 politics • trump

Westworld (HBO)

Schlock sci-fi classic rebooting on HBO

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

git-crypt

A transparent solution for storing secrets in git repos

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

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 • g2a • games • via:reddit

Scott Wiener and pride

Local SF politician talks about what gay pride means to him

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

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 ama • faceoff • iama • reddit • transplant

Ev Williams profile

Long, positive article about the influential tech entrepreneur

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

Ethereum disaster

Some new cryptocurrency experiment has exploded hilariously

2016-06-17 bitcoin • dao • ethereum

Gun control data

High level view of data on efficacy of gun control

2016-06-17 america • australia • guns

D3: fewer lambdas

Some clever first class functions to make D3 accessors more convenient

2016-06-17 d3 • d3js • javascript • 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 • health • honestly • women

53 Marissa acquisitions

The outcome of a buying spree

2016-06-16 marissa • marissameyer • yahoo

Surviving a mass shooting

Grimly hilarious graphics

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

Trump vs Ebola

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

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

Donald Trump's hair

Remarkably thorough speculation about a weave from Ivari

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

America's gun industry

Details on top 10 gun sellers in the US

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

1827 wireless trading network

Semaphore was used to communicate financial data

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

What3Words detail

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

2016-06-14 location • maps • what3words

Against What3Words

Nicely argued piece on the danger of proprietary addressing

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

Gun control efficacy

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

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

What3Words prior art

Patents filed by the proprietary geodata company are probably invalid

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

Riot Games toxicity

Correlating in-game rudeness with employee problems

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

Guns and domestic security

America's gun culture puts us all at risk

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

The Gun & The Bible

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

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

GOP gun shame

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

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

sslh

Accept requests for multiple applications on a single port

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

Coursera tightening up

Some free courses being taken offline

2016-06-11 coursera • education • mooc

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 cadastral • maps • openaddresses • parcels

100M plaintext passwords

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

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

Nevada City Soapbox Derby

Yearly local event, elaborate and fun

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

Trump v Muslim judges

Not even the most basic understanding of the Constitution

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

Trump stats lies

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

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

LINE social network

Another Slack-like chat product, popular in Japan

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

Trump racist insanity

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

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

The vultures are waiting to pick your bones

Amazing Oprah supercut

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

Riot HTML5 client

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

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

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 apple • cartography • google • maps

Upcoming archives

Founder of event site heroically brings old pages back online

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

openvpn-install

Turnkey VPN installation

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