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