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Russian troll farms
Insider account; the goal is to create FUD
2016-09-28 propaganda • russia • trump • politics
Disco spiders
Mirrored spiders are freaky looking
2016-09-23 spiders • insects • nature
Palmer Luckey
Oculus rift founder is funding hateful anti-Clinton shitposts
2016-09-23 clinton • politics • facebook • oculus
Nazis in Manhattan
Rallies in Madison Square Garden in the 1930s
2016-09-22 politics • newyork • nazis • america
Yahoo user database breach?
rumor. "The data allegedly included user names, easily decrypted passwords and personal information"
2016-09-22 yahoo • hack • badtech • passwords
Beale U-2 crash
Sadness, a fatality on a training mission
2016-09-22 beale • u2 • aviation
MIT license detail
A lawyer breaks down every sentence in the open source license
2016-09-22 legal • license • opensource
Pertussis in Nevada County
Another growing outbreak for a vaccinatable disease
2016-09-21 whoopingcough • pertussis • health • nevadacounty • california
Let's Encrypt costs
New free security service costs $3M/year to run
2016-09-21 security • ssl • tls • web • infrastructure
Eyebrows on fleek
Video that originated the phrase, PEACHES MONROEE
2016-09-21 language • fleek • funny • culture
Dark Sky for Web
The awesome weather app is now a website too
2016-09-21 weather • darksky • local
Trump's taxes
NYT gets righteous
2016-09-21 trump • taxes • nytimes
Zip codes vs parcels
Flint water data almost overlooked because of geocoding by zip code
2016-09-21 geocoding • spatialanalysis • zipcode • flint
Offline Movie Reviews
A project demonstration data scraping and mobile access without Internet
2016-09-20 movies • data • internet • scraping • wikidata
Trump Foundation fraud
More evidence of malfeasance; using foundation money to pay off personal legal problems
2016-09-20 trump • fraud • politics • charity
North Korean domain names
Complete list; DNS servers for .kp accidentally enabled AXFR
2016-09-20 axfr • dns • via:reddit • korea • northkorea
Yemeni mountain village
Far removed from the war
2016-09-19 yemen • photos • tourism
Little Planet Factory
3d printed colored models of planets
2016-09-19 science • astronomy • printing
Mean absolute deviation
Statistical alternative to standard deviation
2016-09-19 math • statistics
One gun nut
Remarkably direct portrait of a broken man and his obsession with being armed
2016-09-19 guns • gunculture • walmart
19 months driving Africa
Jury-rigged truck, lots of photos
2016-09-19 africa • traveling • tourism • photos • via:hackernews
The cypherpunk revolution
Long, detailed history of cultural trends in crypto
2016-09-19 crypto • cypherpunks • via:hackernews • privacy
WashPo vs Snowden
Greenwald calls out the paper for calling to prosecute its own source
2016-09-18 snowden • liberty • washingtonpost • journalism
/r/StallmanWasRight
Stories of software companies behaving badly
2016-09-18 software • freedom • gnu • gpl • rms
Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT
A new Internet congestion control algorithm from Google and the legendary Van Jacboson
2016-09-17 internet • google • tcp • linux • networking • congestion
Relief map techniques
Historical view of cartography
2016-09-17 maps • terrain • imhof • relief
Trees in the US
Detailed map of tree density
2016-09-17 maps • trees • america • unitedstates • biomass • via:bookscout
Internet Trolls and election
More details on 4chan trolling, pepe
2016-09-16 memes • internet • pepe • politics • stupid • 4chan
Reigns editorial
Notes from a successful new game
2016-09-16 games • reigns
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard
Took me several hours to read, but phenomenal piece of investigative journalism
2016-09-15 journalism • prison • louisiana • cca
AirBnB experience
Personal account from a host
2016-09-15 airbnb • funny • hotel
Yes, I’d lie to you
Long, detailed look at untruths in politics. Social media's role examined.
2016-09-14 politics • oped • truth • facebook
Art of the lie
Short, excellent op/ed on the growth of untruth in politics
2016-09-14 politics • truth
Palantir troubles
Article from May about problems at the creepy company
2016-09-14 palantir • spooks • startups
HDR TVs
More dynamic range for new TVs; HDR10 vs Dolby Vision
2016-09-14 tv • video • hdr • graphics
micro editor
tty screen editor with modern features
2016-09-14 micro • editor • via:metafilter • nano • emacs • programming
Threat to Internet
Schneier reports on increasing DDOS attacks against Internet infrastructure
2016-09-13 via:hackernews • badtech • ddos • internet
Python beeprint
A better pprint
2016-09-13 debugging • python • code • via:reddit
League of Legends revenue
Guess that Riot is making $150M / month
2016-09-13 games • lol • leagueoflegends • riotgames • revenue
Riot Games history
Detailed interview with the League of Legends company
2016-09-13 games • startups • lol • leagueoflegends • riotgames
Adblock Plus sells ads
Completely sleazy evolution; stealing revenue from publishers
2016-09-13 ads • adblock • web • internet • badtech
Sugar industry killed
Smoking gun documents about buying off diet researchers in the 60s
2016-09-13 sugar • health • science
Brand New Subway
Browser game simulating NYC subway design
2016-09-13 games • subway • transit
Gay marriage map
Demographic inference from tax records
2016-09-12 gay • lgbt • marriage • maps • visualization
Miracle Mattress 9/11 ad
2016's winner in the "don't market the anniversary of a tragedy" sweepstakes
2016-09-12 911 • 9/11 • mattress • ads • advertising • offensive
Earth Temperature Timeline
Nice xkcd
2016-09-12 comic • globalwarming • climatechange • timeline • visualization
wiki_import
Import Wikipedia data into Postgres
2016-09-12 postgres • wikipedia • import
Leaving Triposo
A friend leaves the travel guide startup he founded
2016-09-12 triposo • startups • douwe • business • travel
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
Remote part of New Mexico has amazing scenery
2016-09-12 outdoors • blm • park • nature • newmexico
CIA vs Senate: torture
Long, detailed article about the CIA's resistance to being investigated for torturing prisoners
2016-09-11 torture • humanrights • politics • cia • senate
Table of nuclides
A remarkably structured Wikipedia article
2016-09-11 wikipedia • science • physics • nuclides
ML for NLP class
Stanford CS224d; a machine learning course for natural language processing
2016-09-11 language • nlp • ml • machinelearning • ai
Sugarcubes / Birthday
My favorite from the band a young Björk was in
2016-09-11 music • bjork • sugarcubes • birthday
@HowlTweeter
Ginsburg's poem, one phrase at a time
2016-09-11 twitter • poetry • ginsburg • howl
Trump Foundation details
Lots of sleazy stuff happening
2016-09-11 trump • politics • charity
1888 anti-slavery map
Phenomenal bit of American propaganda
2016-09-10 maps • propaganda • slavery • america • via:reddit
Cocaine ads (NSFW)
Coke paraphernalia from the 80s
2016-09-10 drugs • cocaine • ads • via:reddit • 80s
Where is the cloud?
Mr. Robot easter egg site
2016-09-09 mrrobot • tv
Apple's control
How removing the headphone jack furthers the company's aims
2016-09-09 apple • freedom • analoghole • iphone
Dropbox Mac hack
File storing company does some dirty tricks to install itself
2016-09-09 macos • hack • dropbox • security • badtech
Boneli Reflex-Arc Test
The alternate reality version of the Voigt-Kampff test
2016-09-09 bladerunner • pkdick • scifi • voightkampff
WaveNet
Machine learning applied to speech (and music)
2016-09-08 machinelearning • speech • synthesis • via:metafilter
Data Packages
Lightweight wrapper for tabular data; fancified CSV files
2016-09-08 data • csv • python
Apple Plug
Upgrade your iPhone 6 to an iPhone 7!
2016-09-08 apple • iphone • parody • funny • headphones
The Network
New Nicolas Jaar project, new mixes streamed live right now on NTS
2016-09-07 music • nts • nicolasjaar • mixes
Flame coming out of your butthole
Crazy hate-speech from some religious nutjub #asbestosdiaper
2016-09-07 gay • funny • lgbt • flamingbutthole
Snowden’s Guardian Angels
Snowden hid out with impoverished refugees in Kowloon / Hong Kong
2016-09-07 hongkong • snowden • nsa
GOMX-3 satellite
A small CubeSat for picking up ADS-B signals from space
2016-09-07 cubesat • space • ads-b • atc • aviation
2015 Hajj stampede
Story of one survivor
2016-09-06 nytimes • islam • muslim • hajj • saudiarabia • stampede
Battlefield 1 war photography
War photojournalism in a videogame
2016-09-05 games • photography • battlefield
Philae found
Lost comet lander imaged, in a tight spot
2016-09-05 philae • rosetta • comet • space • via:hackernews • science
Mini Metro Maps
City transit systems reduced to icons
2016-09-05 maps • via:reddit • visualization • metro • transit
Manygolf
massively multiplayer golf, in the browser
2016-09-04 games • golf • desertgolf
Urchin retrospective
Story of the startup that became Google Analytics
2016-09-04 google • urchin • metrics • startups • business
How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead
Heartbreaking writing
2016-09-03 violence • medicine • doctor • bedsidemanner
Immigrant crime
First generation immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native born and second generation immigrants
2016-09-02 crime • statistics • politics • trump • immigration • justice
Bannon: Warcraft gold seller
Trump's campaign CEO used to be involved in the sleazier side of online gaming businesses
2016-09-01 trump • bannon • politics • zam • affinitymedia • ige • goldselling • wow