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3x3 font
Tiny but sort of readable
2017-03-31 fonts • text • pixel
upcoming.org
Andy Baio relaunches his event website
2017-03-31 upcoming • waxy • events
Precinct voting map 2016
Enormous amount of work collection data
2017-03-30 voting • politics • 2016 • election • maps • precincts • gerrymandering
dingo
DNS client resolver that uses Google's DNS-over-HTTPS
2017-03-29 google • dns • privacy • security • golang • go
VPN drawbacks
They are not a good solution to the ISP privacy debacle
2017-03-29 isp • internet • badtech • vpn • privacy
OSM Then And Now
10 years of open mapping evolution
2017-03-29 maps • osm • openstreetmap • tiger
Pronounce Names
Zillions of videos of people pronouncing names in various languages and accents
2017-03-28 language • name • pronunciation
Git at Microsoft
Details on a major project to switch source code control
2017-03-27 microsoft • git • vcs • sourcecode • engineering
My life with Oliver Sacks
Excerpts of a memoir; sweet and heartbreaking
2017-03-26 oliversacks • gay • via:metafilter • lgbt
Out Late With Oliver Sacks
2016 essay about a gay bar visit with Dr. Sacks
2017-03-26 oliversacks • gay • lgbt • newyork • julius
Chumboxes
A gross kind of bottom feeding Internet ads
2017-03-26 ads • gross • internet
Franz messaging
A new approach to multiprotocol chat; basically a full web browser
2017-03-26 web • im • messaging • chat • franz • gtalk • gchat • aim • slack • whatsapp
Google's IM products
Someone tries to make sense of Google's 9+ products with text chat capability
2017-03-26 google • chat • im • gtalk • gchat • hangouts
Uber autonomous car accident
Serious accident, although possibly Uber's car not to blame
2017-03-26 uber • arizona • machinelearning • ai • atc
More on Trump/Russia
Former NSA analyst says there's lots of hard intelligence of collusion
2017-03-25 trump • politics • russia • nsa
Who stopped the AHCA?
Details on 33 Republicans who opposed the healthcare bill
2017-03-25 politics • gop • republicans • healthcare • aca • ahca
No Soviet Domination
Trump has a precedent; insane Ford quote from 1976
2017-03-25 politics • ford • trump • sovietunion
Trump anti-LGBT appointment
Anti-gay jerk appointed head of Civil Rights Office
2017-03-25 trump • politics • lgbt • gay • civilrights
Trump in the Big Boy Truck
Precise reporting from BuzzFeed
2017-03-24 buzzfeed • funny • trump • politics • truck • satire
Loopy
Simple differential equation systems simulator
2017-03-24 systems • teaching • complexsystems • visualization
Orion satellites
Enormous spy satellites in near-geosync orbit. 100m radio dishes!
2017-03-24 satellite • space • spying • sigint • nro
Geosync satellite database
Query for geosynchronous satellite slots, no login required
2017-03-24 space • satellite • geosync • itu
Geosync orbital slots
Crowded space real estate is administered by the ITU
2017-03-24 space • satellite • international • itu
Donald Trump reddit
Latent semantic analysis applied to pro-Trump community
2017-03-23 trump • politics • racism • hate • misogyny • lsa • nlp
Symantec SSL armageddon
Google no longer has confidence in Symantec's SSL process, is slowly pulling trust
2017-03-23 symantec • ssl • badtech
The token American
Report from the bizarro world of Russian political tv
2017-03-23 russia • politics • america • journalism
Google + Howard
Google partners with Howard University in a diversity initiative
2017-03-23 diversity • tech • google • howard • university • education
Hyper terminal
Terminal emulator written in Javascript
2017-03-23 javascript • vt100 • terminal • tty • ssh
Origins of The Expanse
History of how the novels / TV show got started as a game world setting
2017-03-23 games • mmos • scifi • theexpanse • writing
Rick Perry on Texas A&M
New Secretary of Energy has time to weigh in on a student election
2017-03-23 lgbt • gayrights • bigotry • tamu
Remembering Teresia Teaiwa
Scholar of Pacific studies passed away mid-career
2017-03-23 obituary • pacific • kiribati • polynesia • scholarship
Starship 1 Easter Egg
1977 videogame may have the oldest game easter egg
2017-03-23 games • via:metafilter • backdoor • easteregg • atari
Voter Fraud in 2016!
Republican loudmouth accused of filling out his ex-wife's absentee ballot
2017-03-22 voterfraud • voting • politics • irony • funny • colorado
2038 problem
Details of efforts to fix a 32 bit limitation in Linux before 21 years goes by
2017-03-21 linux • software • time • posix
Alexsey’s TTPs
Details of the activities of m4g, a Russian hacker
2017-03-21 russia • hacking • badtech • 2fa
Cloud9's business
Profile of one of the better maanaged eSports teams
2017-03-21 cloud9 • lol • riotgames • leagueoflegends • games • esports
District plans by the hundredweight
Experiments with randomly generating voting districts
2017-03-20 voting • politics • gerrymandering
What to ask about Russian hacking
Some orientation on the investigation
2017-03-19 politics • russia • trump
The Weight of Oneself
Male nude sculpture in Lyon
2017-03-18 sculpture • art • classical • lyon • gay • lgbt • france
Nevada County racism
Locals mistake Sikh business owner for another Sikh 100 miles away
2017-03-18 racism • nevadacounty • pennvalley • sikhs
Ken Rudolph sample reel
Friend of mine's film editing work in the 70s-80s
2017-03-18 film • movies • kenru • analog
UI saves lives
Story about why landing gear levers are shaped like wheels
2017-03-17 airplane • aviation • ux • ui • userinterface
Caramel Curves
Bad-ass New Orleans motorcycle club
2017-03-17 black • africanamerican • women • neworleans • motorcycle
Formal US apology
Trump's minions insult the UK, have to apologize
2017-03-17 trump • politics • spicer • uk • gchq
Wilmington insurrection
Successful racist coup in American, 1898
2017-03-17 politics • wilmington • racism • america • history
Jacob Appelbaum's abuse
Upsetting account from a colleague of a well known computer security person
2017-03-17 appelbaum • tor • abuse • djb
Political polarization in media
Major new Columbia Journalism Review study of politics in American media
2017-03-16 politics • news • truth • trump • breitbart • democracy • journalism
Binding a demon
Drawing a protective circle around an autonomous car
2017-03-16 funny • ai • selfdrivingcars • cars
Acing the technical interview
Reversing a linked lisp
2017-03-16 funny • engineering • lisp • haskell • aphyr
op.gg logos
League of Legends site has new logo doodles frequently
2017-03-16 art • logo • doodle • lol • leagueoflegends • games
Trump budget visualized
Excellent data oriented breakdown
2017-03-16 via:reddit • politics • trump • budget • visualization
Auto-Redistrict
A redistricting simulator / genetic algorithm toy. Has lots of data embedded in it.
2017-03-15 politics • redistricting • gerrymandering
Public Mapping election data
Very detailed records on elections, districts, etc
2017-03-15 voting • gerrymandering • politics • election • data
Flawless Widescreen
Patches for various games to enable ultra-wide resolutions
2017-03-15 games • monitor • lcd • ultrawide • 21:9
Quantum satellite
Chinese space experiment to facilitate quantum encryption with a satellite distributing entangled photons
2017-03-15 space • quantum • crypto • encryption • china
Swiss languages
Map mixing language and terrain
2017-03-15 maps • switzerland • demographics
CBP seizures
Art photos of personal items taken by border patrol
2017-03-15 cbp • borderpatrol • immigrants • migrants • via:metafilter • art • photography
Tech support scams
Detailed investigation
2017-03-14 scam • india • microsoft
Seattle synagogue vandalism
Yet more hate
2017-03-14 jews • politics • trump • synagogue • nazis
Evgeniy Bogachev
Russian cybercrime guy also useful to Russian intelligence
2017-03-14 cyberwar • russia • hacking • badtech
Going to prison with Defy Ventures
Another account of volunteering for an entrepreneurship program at a prison
2017-03-13 prison • rehabilitation • entrepreneur • defyventures
No One Else Will Hire Them
Friend's experience supporting convicts turned entrepreneurs
2017-03-13 prison • startup • rehabilitation
Potential Uber bombshell
Detailed speculation on the nature of Google's case about intellectual property theft
2017-03-13 google • uber • waymo • alphabet • levandowski • via:metafilter
Prevarication on wiretapping
Redefining what Trump meant
2017-03-13 trump • politics • wiretapping • obama
Deconstructed Planet
Bill Morris' gallery of machine learning art with planet imagery
2017-03-13 art • ai • machinelearning • photos
Car sensors
About MobileEye, the company Intel just paid $15B for
2017-03-13 cars • selfdriving • mobileeye • intel • sensors
Empty executive office
Trump White House is not hiring people to do the work
2017-03-12 trump • politics • whitehouse • incompetence
LGBT center vandalism
Trump Era wave of attacks against LGBT facilities
2017-03-12 trump • politics • lgbt
Virginia gerrymandering subtlety
Specific precedent on criteria for districting
2017-03-12 voting • gerrymandering • voterrights • virginia
Texas gerrymandering decision
Republicans found to be suppressing Latinx vote
2017-03-12 voting • politics • gerrymandering • votingrights • latinx • latino
Voter fraud investigation update
tl;dr: Trump/Pence is doing nothing
2017-03-12 politics • voterfraud • votingrights • trump • voting
Where does Bannon live?
It's confusing, but his claim to live in Florida is pretty thin
2017-03-11 florida • politics • trump • bannon • taxevasion
Trump's NJ cemetery
Bizarre story of a cemetery project's stops and starts
2017-03-11 trump • politics • newjersey • corruption
Recovering Python code
McGyver decompiles code from a running process to fix a git mistake
2017-03-11 python • reverseengineer • decompile • via:reddit
Social media and politics
Comparisons of Europe and the US
2017-03-11 news • journalism • politics • telegraph • twitter • europe
Horizon Zero Dawn road trip
Popular new game is based on Colorado/Arizona/Utah
2017-03-11 games • roadtrip • maps • horizonzerodawn
Mar a Lago security
Or rather lack thereof, wide open for espionage
2017-03-11 maralago • security • trump • politics • russia
Flynn-flam man
Trump's campaigner was also working, undisclosed, for Turkey
2017-03-11 trump • politics • corruption • flynn • russia • turkey
White supremacists in Silicon Valley
Interviews with misogynists and racists who work in tech
2017-03-11 siliconvalley • racism • tech • altright • politics
Facebook hardware
Details of server hardware
2017-03-10 via:hackernews • facebook • hardware • datacenter
Roger Stone + Guccifer 2.0
Trump campaign buddy had some chats with presumed Russian cyberespionage
2017-03-10 russia • politics • trump • rogerstone • guccifer • hacking
BBC father broken down
It gets funnier when analyzed carefully
2017-03-10 funny • bbc • tv • father • homeoffice
Laughing as democracy crumbles
Everyone gets a big laugh at Trump's distortions of economic reality
2017-03-10 trump • politics • spicer
Runglish
Pidgin or creole mixing English and Russian
2017-03-10 english • russian • language • creole • pidgin • brightonbeach
About Axios
New journalism outlet founded by Politico alumni
2017-03-10 politics • journalism • axios • politico • news
Apache Struts exploit
Old web app framework has significant security hole
2017-03-10 apache • badtech • struts • ognl • exploit
General Magic Home Page
Resurrecting the web page of the pioneering 1990s company
2017-03-09 agents • magiccap • generalmagic • mobile
Pharmacy vs Organics
Hilariously awful propaganda
2017-03-09 funny • organics • hippies
Mapzen bike map
Beautiful work from Mapzen
2017-03-09 maps • bikes • bicycling • mapzen
Brady Bunch art
An exhaustive analysis of the set dresser's art
2017-03-09 bradybunch • tv • via:metafilter • art
Notepad++ vs CIA
Popular code editor hardens itself against compromised third party DLLs
2017-03-09 badtech • hacking • cia • notepad
SF 1943 streetcars
MUNI rail map from before everything was replaced by busses
2017-03-08 streetcar • transit • sf • sanfrancisco • muni • rail
Wall Street bull gets a friend
Sculpture of a defiant girl added
2017-03-08 wallstreet • bull • sculpture • feminism • protest • statestreet
GPU procedural games
Horizon: Zero Dawn's beautiful landscapes are generated on the GPU
2017-03-08 graphics • gpu • programming • games • horizon
Google and onions
Another AI failure; this feature of Google's is harmful
2017-03-08 google • cooking • funny • via:metafilter • onions
The Horse Brass
A great bar in Portland, OR
2017-03-08 portland • drinking • bar • beer
Hot Springs map
NOAA slippy map of thermal springs
2017-03-07 maps • hotsprings • geothermal • via:reddit
CIA hacking tools
Wikileaks releases "Vault 7", a dump of info on CIA hacking tools
2017-03-07 badtech • hacking • cyberwar • espionage
American Whiskey Distilleries
Comprehensive and nerdy list of American distilleries
2017-03-07 whisky • whiskey • bourbon • alcohol
Removing OneDrive
Microsoft's easy 15 step manual process for disabling bundled crapware
2017-03-06 microsoft • onedrive • bundling • crapware • dropbox
Stock options are really complicated
Another guide to understand equity compensation
2017-03-06 stock • equity • options • startups • via:hackernews
Is Obama planning a coup?
Machine learning strikes again
2017-03-06 google • badtech • machinelearning • funny • politics
Letterman interview
Funny and political
2017-03-06 trump • politics • funny • letterman
Trump's reasons
Details on why he'd make an unfounded allegation about wiretapping
2017-03-06 trump • politics • batshitinsane
Trump's tantrum
More evidence he acts like a petulant child
2017-03-06 trump • politics
US DNA analysis
Combining genealogy and genetic data to get a picture of where people in the US came from
2017-03-05 dna • genetics • history • genealogy • race • america
Is there a FISA wiretap?
Detailed investigation of the White House's scant evidence for a wiretap on Trump
2017-03-05 trump • politics • fisa • wiretap
Why WiFi sucks
Overview of the challenges of 802.11
2017-03-05 wifi • networking • wireless
SF racial disparity
Only 4% of SF is Black, and those folks are disproportionately unemployed
2017-03-04 demographics • sanfrancisco • blacks • africanamericans • civilrights
Uber Greyball
Unethical program to hide their lawbreaking from government officials
2017-03-04 uber • ethics • greyball • police • fraud
Measuring the efficiency gap
Mike's notes on measuring redistricting
2017-03-04 maps • politics • redistricting • gerrymandering • efficiencygap
Discord communities
People using Discord as a means to avoid bad people online
2017-03-03 games • discord • overwatch • harassment
Far right memes
Layers of irony wrapped around a burning core of hate
2017-03-03 meme • culture • 4chan • reddit • facebook • altright • nazis • trump
Reducing Slack’s memory footprint
Awesome engineering post, includes data on multi-team Slack usage
2017-03-03 slack • memory • optimization • engineering
EU may require visas for Americans
Long standing dispute about US requirement for some EU citizens to get visas
2017-03-03 travel • america • us • politics • trump • eu • visa
Pence's AOL email
VP used AOL for state business when governor. He got hacked.
2017-03-03 aol • badtech • pence • politics • trump
Kushner meetings with Trump
Trumps son-in-law and advisor also met with Russian officials in December
2017-03-03 russia • trump • politics
After Sessions
Details on what happens now that Sessions has recused himself. Still not clear there will be an independent investigation
2017-03-02 politics • trump • russia • sessions • ethics • boente
Gay psychological trauma
Lingering effects of coming out; anxiety, loneliness
2017-03-02 gay • lgbt • psychology • closet
Palantir and deportation
Silicon Valley firm aiding Trump's roundup of immigrants
2017-03-02 palantir • politics • trump • immigration
IBM Death's Calculator
Details and images of IBM's support of the holocaust
2017-03-02 holocaust • ibm • nazis • germany • history • palantir
ESRI: Because good tools matter
Funny GIS joke
2017-03-02 funny • gis • esri • maps
Lyft vs Uber market share
Analyzing credit card transactions shows a bump for Lyft
2017-03-02 lyft • uber • transaction • marketshare • rideshare
Preserving evidence
Obama Administration used final days to make sure Trump couldn't remove intelligence about Russia hacking
2017-03-02 politics • russia • trump • obama
Why Uber is awful
Roundup of the various terrible things the company has done
2017-03-02 uber • ethics
CNN played by Trump
Appears Trump or senior staffers deliberately misled the press
2017-03-01 journalism • press • politics • trump • immigration
Trump eschewing responsibility
Doesn't want to be in the decision chain to launch raids, says it's about speed
2017-03-01 trump • politics • military
2001: instant messenger compatibility
A political history that could have been, AOL was at one point required to open up AIM. They never did.
2017-03-01 politics • aim • aol • instantmessenger • socialmedia
Aspect & Lang Belta
A detailed analysis of a point of grammar in the fictional language for The Expanse
2017-03-01 grammar • language • langbelta • theexpanse
Bio-psycho-social profiling
Details of AI, Facebook, and Trump's efforts to manipulate the media and public opinion
2017-03-01 trump • media • ai • facebook • bigdata • analytics
70 minutes of heaven
A remarkable tape loop experiment
2017-03-01 music • philcollins • intheair • stevereich • loop
Data brokers and human rights
The risks of modern profiling in the Internet age
2017-03-01 civilrights • muslims • politics • data • privacy
Trump TV tweets
The President watches teevee, the uses the tweeter to share his hot take
2017-03-01 president • news • politics • cnn