National Tracing Center

US law forbids a searchable database of guns. This is the paper/microfiche altenrative

2016-08-31 cops • crime • gunculture • guns • nra • violence

Women headphones history

That offensive "how to talk to a woman wearing headphones" article has a long and strange history

2016-08-30 headphones • rapeculture • sexism • women

mkcert.org

Web tool for generating subsets of Mozilla's trusted certificates

2016-08-30 certificates • mozilla • security • ssl • trust

Rape culture; headphone edition

How to be a creepy, intrusive man

2016-08-30 feminism • headphones • privacy • rapeculture

Monero cryptocurrency

Bitcoin variant designed for untraceability

2016-08-30 bitcoin • drugs • monero • money

WoSign SSL disaster

Chinese company issues many fake SSL certificates

2016-08-30 badtech • security • ssl • via:hackernews

Lunch Train

Slack bot for coordinating going to lunch

2016-08-30 bot • lunch • slack • via:metafilter

Etiquette for Trimmigrants

Nevada County itinerant marijuana workers pamphletted to act politely

2016-08-29 drugs • funny • marijuana • nevadacounty • pot

P2P videoconferencing

Notes from Pluot about sharing videoconference streams

2016-08-28 p2p • peertopeer • pluto • videoconference

Torpedo juice

Navy poisoned sailors drinking the weapons fuel

2016-08-28 alcohol • drinks • military • navy

State pension funds

Details on how bad the underfunding problem is

2016-08-26 california • finance • pension • politics • states

NSA hoards vulnerabilities

Federal agency more interested in spying on people than protecting them

2016-08-26 badtech • nsa • security

Trump / Andy

Perhaps this is the explanation for the Trump candidacy

2016-08-26 andykaufman • funny • politics • trump

Python attrs

A library automating some tedious boilerplate for value classes

2016-08-26 namedtuple • python • values • via:hackernews

NSO malware company owned by US firm

Francisco Partners, a US private equity company, owns the malware company involved in the iOS hack today

2016-08-26 badtech • franciscopartners • ios • nso

iOS hacks in the wild

UAE and an Israeli company use zero day exploits against human rights activist

2016-08-26 badtech • hacking • humanrights • iphone • israel • uae • virus

The Glorious Horror of TECO

Excellent overview of a forgotten programmable editor

2016-08-25 editor • emacs • programming • teco • via:hackernews

Uber finances

$1.2B lost in six months

2016-08-25 finance • monopoly • startups • uber

CA vaccination working

Nevada County reports new law means kids are now being vaccinated

2016-08-25 california • health • nevadacounty • vaccination

Microsoft REST guidelines

Suggestions for how to build a good HTTP API

2016-08-25 api • http • microsoft • programming • rest

Ongoing attacks on Leslie Jones

Racist monsters continue to harass African-American actress online

2016-08-24 acting • america • ghostbusters • movies • racism

Legalist startup

Automating making a profit with civil lawsuits

2016-08-24 legal • startup • thiel

DJ Shadow / Nobody Speak

Jaw dropping video of political violence

2016-08-24 djshadow • music • politics • trump

Uber flat fares

$20/month to get fixed cost in the north half of San Francisco

2016-08-24 pricing • sanfrancisco • taxi • uber

Hawaiian sign language

A minority language

2016-08-23 deaf • hawaii • sign • via:metafilter

Mayan codex discovered

Most written Mayan documents were destroyed by the Catholic Church; just found a new one in a palimpsest

2016-08-23 archaeology • codex • history • mayan • mexico

Clinton health history

Background behind the smear campaign about Clinton's health

2016-08-23 clinton • lies • politics • trump

Ethernet PAUSE

Obscure protocol thing causes network failure

2016-08-23 ethernet • network • networking • via:hackernews

Seacharge

DIY autonomous boat sailing across the Pacific

2016-08-22 boat • diy • drone • via:metafilter

Atomic motels

Nice collection of photos from New Jersey

2016-08-22 50s • architecture • googie • motel • newjersey • wildwood

Sovereign Military Order of Malta

A sovereign entity with no land

2016-08-21 malta • sovereignty

The Truth About Voter Fraud

2007 study showing voter fraud is very rare in the US

2016-08-21 civilrights • elections • fraud • politics • voting

Trump and voter fraud

More details on a troubling allegation

2016-08-21 election • fraud • politics • trump

Congressional district cartogram

Nice approach to visualizing the US vote

2016-08-21 america • cartogram • maps • politics • unitedstates • voting

Airline's calculated misery

Dismal economics

2016-08-21 airlines • consumer • flying • travel

Cisco VPNs failed

NSA subverted the most popular Internet router security

2016-08-20 badtech • cisco • nsa • pix

ShadowBrokers bitcoin

Bitcoin seized by the US government from Silk Road are being used to pay the Russian hackers (a very small amount of money)

2016-08-20 bitcoin • espionage • hacking • silkroad

Trump finance details

Trying to unwind a bunch of complex investments

2016-08-20 debt • finance • money • politics • trump

Cuba's internet workaround

Homes get 1TB drives once a week preloaded with new stuff

2016-08-19 cdn • copyright • cuba • internet • sharing

Bitcoin safety warning

Unprecedented pre-release warning about state attackers against binaries

2016-08-18 badtech • bitcoin • security

Equation Group catalog

A list of all the NSA malware that was stolen / dumped

2016-08-18 badtech • equationgroup • hacking • nsa • russia • security • shadowbrokers

Maeda to Wordpress

My old professor joins Automattic as a UX lead

2016-08-18 automattic • design • maeda • medialab • wordpress

Uber self-driving cars

My friend Raffi is working on this project

2016-08-18 cars • driving • google • raffi • safety • self-driving • uber

No Man's Sky review

Nicely captures the good and bad of the game

2016-08-17 games • nomanssky

Early investor experiment

Randomized trial of what startup pitches get attention. Summary: the team matters

2016-08-17 investment • research • startups • via:hackernews

Steve Bannon profile

Details on the new Trump campaign operative

2016-08-17 bannon • breitbart • politics • stevebannon • trump

Dune in emoji

As told by Kyle MacLachlan /cc @celesteramsay

2016-08-16 dune • emoji • funny • movies • twitter

NSA firewall hacks

Some details from the NSA breach; tools for attacking firewalls

2016-08-16 badtech • equationgroup • nsa • security

Snowden on NSA hack

Amazing details / politics of state cyberespionage

2016-08-16 badtech • hacking • nsa • politics • rnc • russia • snowden

NSA malware stolen?

Hacker group claims to have software from The Equation Group

2016-08-15 badtech • hack • malware • nsa • privacy

Musicmap

Genealogy and samples of music over time

2016-08-15 ishkur • music • via:metafilter • visualization

black hat and def con

surrounded by khaki pants and polo shirts and a pervasive air of menace

2016-08-15 badtech • blackhat • conference • defcon • security

Saving Trump from himself

Gossipy article about how Trump won't take direction from anyone

2016-08-13 batshitinsane • politics • trump

Ethernet vs. WiFi

Details on how connection type affects game lag. (Note: UDP game.)

2016-08-12 lag • logsoflag • lol • networking • riot

South Pacific countries

Nice map with territory boundaries, flags

2016-08-12 maps • oceania • pacific • polynesia • southpacific

Timescape

Clever time lapse photographic technique

2016-08-12 novascotia • photography • timelapse • via:reddit

Trump supporter stats

Detailed Gallup poll about which Americans support Donald Trump

2016-08-12 gallup • politics • polling • trump

Convolutional Neural Networks

Simple intuitive explanation

2016-08-12 imagerecognition • machinelearning • ml • neuralnetworks

McMansion bad architecture

Design breakdown on why bad houses are ugly

2016-08-12 architecture • design • housing • mcmansion

Life expectancy vs health expenditure

Country by country; American Exceptionalism at work again

2016-08-12 america • health • healthcare • politics

WeChat’s world

overview of a very popular social / payment app in China

2016-08-12 china • culture • facebook • internet

Pokestops in Paris

More evidence of unequal distribution

2016-08-11 games • paris • pokemon

30fps v 60fps

Demo of motion

2016-08-11 fps • games • motion

Maine Coon cats

Classy portraits (/cc @korkyplunger)

2016-08-11 cats • mainecoon • photography • photos

MapsWithMe

Offline vector map for mobile devices; nice OSM viewer

2016-08-11 android • ios • maps • offline • osm • travel

Mapbox / OSM licensing

Interesting questions of derived work and viral licenses

2016-08-11 licensing • mapbox • maps • odbl • osm

Social media infrastructure

OG Blogger talks about all the open sharing technologies that are lost now that Facebook has colonized the Internet

2016-08-11 blogs • internet • rss • sharing • socialmedia

Trump: a true story

Notes from a 2007 court case where Trump had to come clean about some of his lies

2016-08-10 politics • trump • truth

Trump tweets analysis

Detailed breakdown of how the Trump account works

2016-08-10 politics • trump • twitter

GitHub repo attacked

Personal story of a security incident

2016-08-10 badtech • github • security • via:reddit

Stochastic Terrorism

Useful term for the danger of violent rhetoric. Equally applicable to ISIS.

2016-08-10 murder • politics • terrorism • trump

Ubiquiti Amplifi

A new home wifi network system that implements mesh networking

2016-08-09 internet • router • ubiquiti • wifi

ProjectSauron malware

Yet another state-sponsored malware package

2016-08-09 apt • badtech • hacking • malware

Voter fraud is hard in the US

details on what an actual rigged election would require

2016-08-08 election • fraud • politics • trump • voterid

Nixon's tax cheat

The history of why presidential candidates release their tax returns

2016-08-07 nixon • politics • taxes • trump

asyncpg

New Python driver for Postgres

2016-08-05 postgres • python • sql

Prepaid Data SIMs

Wiki of various mobile phone options for travellers

2016-08-03 mobile • sim • tourism • travel

Uber, Google, China

Perspective on Chinese trade protectionism

2016-08-03 china • google • internet • startups • tech • uber

"Cuck" explained

The subtext of a distressing insult

2016-08-02 4chan • cuck • culture • feminism • politics • slang • trump