Reddit financing

Raises a lot of money

2017-07-31 finance • investment • reddit • startup

Apple vs VPNs in China

Apple removed VPN apps from the iOS store at the request of the Chinese government

2017-07-31 apple • china • ios • privacy • vpn • walledgarden

RAM is O(sqrt N)

Empirically measured memory speeds heavily dependent on caching

2017-07-31 cache • complexity • memory • programming • ram • speed

Behind Trump trans hate

Bottom of the article has details on how Trump's anti-transgender statement came about

2017-07-31 civilrights • lgbt • military • trans • transgender

Wave gigabit Internet

A second option for fast fiber ISP in the Bay Area

2017-07-31 bayarea • internet • isp • sanfrancisco • sonic • wave

Wikipedia language maps

Terra Incognita by Trace Media; visualizations of geotagged articles by language

2017-07-30 distribution • language • maps • wikipedia

Ubershaders

The insane lengths the Dolphin emulator developers go to to emulate old graphics hardware

2017-07-30 dolphin • emulation • games • nintendo • shaders

A world of languages

Nice visualization of how many people speak different languages

2017-07-30 culture • language • visualization

LBJ Orders Pants

Hilarious audio clip of the President asking for more room "down where your nuts hang"

2017-07-30 animation • funny • lbg • pants • president • video

June 2016 Russia info

Interesting old articles on Clinton being hacked by Russia. (Read reply comments for more context.)

2017-07-29 clinton • journalism • politics • russia • trump

Pancho Barnes

A remarkable early woman pilot

2017-07-29 aviation • flying • via:metafilter • women

WebGL on laptops

Notes on choosing which GPU to use

2017-07-29 games • graphics • nvidia • optimus • performance • webgl

California vote hacked

Riverside County, but little investigation

2017-07-29 badtech • elections • politics • security • votingrights

DNA test surprises

Long, gentle story of a family finding their genetics aren't as expected

2017-07-28 adoption • ancestry • dna • family • genealogy • genetics

Modern Love

Poignant NYTimes story of casual sex mixing with tragedy

2017-07-28 casualsex • culture • gay • lgbt

Torture lawsuit

CIA psychologists facing trial

2017-07-28 america • bush • civilrights • iraq • torture

Trump lies about military

His claim he consulted the military about the transgender ban is transparently false

2017-07-28 civilrights • lgbt • military • politics • trans • transgender • trump

FCC vs FOIA

Under Trump, the FCC is ignoring legal requests for information

2017-07-27 ajitpai • fcc • foia • politics • trump

Trans in the Armed Forces

One person's story

2017-07-26 comics • lgbt • military • politics • trans • transgender

Transgender horse trading

Where Trump's hateful new policy came from

2017-07-26 lgbt • military • politics • trans • transgender • trump

Breaking the MtGox case

Tracking Bitcoins reveals a potential thief

2017-07-26 bitcoin • mtgox • theft • vinnik

2017 Transcontinental Race

Friend of mine is riding a 4000km bicycle race across Europe

2017-07-26 batshitinsane • bicycling • endurance • europe • racing • terry • terryjones

RAND on trans in military

Estimates of how many transgender people are in the US military and what health care would cost

2017-07-26 civilrights • lgbt • military • politics • trans • transgender • trump • us

Scaramucci's Deleted Tweets

A list with commentary

2017-07-24 politics • scaramucci • trump • twitter

Snopes' contract problem

Divorce, half of the company sold, fight with new owner

2017-07-24 bad • contract • divorce • gofundme • snopes • tech

Securing the Vote 2016

Detailed account of various Russian hacking efforts and the US response

2017-07-24 badtech • obama • politics • russia • trump • voting

Atom editor malware

Startup called Kite is taking over popular plugins and adding dangerous code to them

2017-07-24 ads • atom • badtech • editors • kite

Spicer gossip

Insider detail on his resignation

2017-07-22 politics • press • spicer • trump

Nondisparagement abuse

Gag orders harm workers

2017-07-22 freespeech • harassment • hr • startups • tech

Applied AI in China

Inside the Chinese tech scene

2017-07-21 ai • china • machinelearning • ml • startups • technology

40 year old boys

Sharp op/ed on grown ass men acting like irresponsible teenagers

2017-07-21 gender • masculinity • men • politics • trump

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

New game out today

2017-07-21 daddy • funny • games • gay • lgbt

Ethereum hack details

Decent breakdown of why code alone should not control property

2017-07-21 badtech • bitcoin • ethereum • theft

KQED ransomware victim

Local PBS station's computers have been compromised for a month

2017-07-20 badtech • journalism • kqed • malware • ransomware

HHS sabotaging health care

Under Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services has been producing anti-ACA propaganda

2017-07-20 healthcare • politics • propaganda • trump

NIST Randomness Beacon

Nice service; timestamped, hashchained random numbers

2017-07-20 nist • random • rng • via:hackernews

Kaifeng Jews

A small Jewish group in China dating back 1000 years

2017-07-20 china • history • jews

Fanna-Fi-Allah in Nevada City

Sufi Qawwali music in the California foothills

2017-07-20 concert • grassvalley • islam • music • nevadacity • sufi

FPS and human perception

Details from cognitive science on 144Hz monitors, 90Hz VR, etc

2017-07-20 fps • games • oculus • perception • vision

FCC comment malfeasance

Some details on a mess with telcos forging FCC comments and FCC apparently covering for them

2017-07-20 comcast • fcc • fraud • netneutrality • politics • verizon

Regex Crossword

Brush up on your regex

2017-07-19 games • programming • regex • regularexpressions • via:reddit

Gender and comics

Analysis of 34,476 characters

2017-07-19 comics • data • gender • via:metafilter • visualization

Hornussen

Swiss sport; a little like discus, if the enemy team is trying to catch your discus

2017-07-19 hornussen • sports • swiss • switzerland

The Voter Purges Are Coming

Op/Ed on the Pence/Kobach commission to suppress the vote

2017-07-19 kobach • pence • politics • trump • vote • votingrights

Animated optimal routes

Nice visualization of map routing from San Francisco

2017-07-19 maps • osm • routes • routing • sanfrancisco

PR crises

How companies handle disasters

2017-07-19 kvox • pr • press • publicrelations • startups

Voting security

Friend in Texas talks about need to secure voting machines

2017-07-19 politics • security • texas • voting • votingrights

Building a tiny blockchain

Nice demystification of a piece of Bitcoin tech

2017-07-18 bitcoin • blockchain • ledger • python • via:hackernews

Tilesplash

A vector tile server in Node, inspired by TileStache

2017-07-18 maps • postgis • tiles • tilestache • vectortiles

USB bandwidth problems

Oculus notes on high bandwidth USB usage

2017-07-18 bandwidth • computers • hardware • usb

Bitcoin disaster looming

Clear explanation of a potential community schism

2017-07-18 bitcoin • consensus • segwit

Inside the Uber gulag

Report of horrible working conditions, compensation, etc

2017-07-18 culture • evil • sociopathy • startups • uber

Civil War reasons

Refuting the revisionist lie that the Confederacy didn't fight for slavery

2017-07-17 civilrights • civilwar • confederacy • politics • slavery • south

DatavizVR

Company working on 3d data visualization in Oculus Rift, etc

2017-07-17 dataviz • oculus • visualization • vr

Berlin party police

Patch for the police that got in trouble for having a raucous party

2017-07-17 berlin • funny • germany • party

Pinboard metrics

My favorite lifestyle business; I'm using it right now!

2017-07-16 bookmarking • business • metrics • pinboard

Trump's Russian buddies

Details on the sort of corrupt things Russian lobbyists are up to

2017-07-15 corruption • cyprus • magnitskyact • politics • russia • sanctions • trump

Trump <3 OpenGov

Tiny startup is a Kushner investment, gets to come to the White House

2017-07-15 corruption • kushner • politics • trump • whitehouse

Zuckerberg 2020

A parody

2017-07-14 funny • politics • twitter • zuckerberg

Trump knew

Trump legal team was informed of Russian collusion email weeks ago; the President has said he didn't know about it

2017-07-14 lies • politics • russia • scandal • trump

Through the Outback

Great Australian roadtrip

2017-07-14 australia • outback • photography • photos

LinkArchiver

Bot that forwards tweeted links to the Wayback Machine for archival

2017-07-13 archive • bot • linkblog • twitter • wayback

Bitcoin threat explainer

Accessible explanation of what's going on in the community

2017-07-13 badtech • bitcoin • network • scaling

Countdown to SegWit (Bitcoin)

Details on the possible changes to allow more scaling; still no consensus?

2017-07-13 badtech • bitcoin • network • scaling

Bitcoin disruption July 31

Major changes may make payments unreliable

2017-07-13 badtech • bitcoin • network • scaling

Election 2016: Too Many Cooks

Remarkable CNN produced parody

2017-07-13 cnn • funny • politics • toomanycooks

Origins of Gamergate

Re-examining Old Man Murray, it had a lot of awful sexism

2017-07-13 feminism • gamergate • games • oldmanmurry • sexism

Google's paid shills

Google gives money to academics doing work supporting their political positions

2017-07-12 academics • antitrust • corruption • google • regulation

Spooler

Format a Twitter thread as a proper blog post

2017-07-12 blogs • content • hack • thread • tweetstorm • twitter

Paper Bag test

Famous scene about racism from the great sit-com Frank's Place

2017-07-12 america • franksplace • neworleans • racism • tv

Trump Russia denials

A trip down memory lane, with video on the record

2017-07-12 lies • politics • russia • trump

Verizon S3 breach

Customer database left online for anyone to download

2017-07-12 aws • badtech • s3 • security • verizon

1907 racist SF Chronicle

Full page ad

2017-07-12 america • history • japanese • racism • sanfrancisco

Mueller investigation rumors

Said to be looking at whether Trump campaign helped Russians target propaganda efforts

2017-07-12 kushner • politics • russia • treason • trump

How Discord Scaled Elixir

Erlang in practice for the Slack-like gamer product

2017-07-11 discord • erlang • games • messages • performance • slack • via:hackernews

Notes on Collusion

A summary and perspective on the Trump Russia scandal

2017-07-11 collusion • politics • russia • treason • trump

Qubes OS

A Xen/Linux distro for secure laptops

2017-07-11 linux • operatingsystem • os • security • xen

DNC hiring full stack engineers

Work for the Democrats writing software to save the country!

2017-07-11 dnc • engineering • hiring • politics

More on SFO near miss

Pilot discussion, extra ground tracks, etc

2017-07-11 accident • aviation • faa • safety • sfo

SFO near-accident

Air Canada plane almost landed on a taxiway with airplanes on it

2017-07-11 aircanada • aviation • flying • safety • sfo

Google crayon graph

One of my favorite artifacts from early Google

2017-07-11 crayon • culture • google • graph • timeseries

Gerrymandering metrics

Some nuance on the efficiency gap and the coming Wisconsin case in the Supreme Court

2017-07-11 gerrymandering • politics • voting • wisconsin

Voter suppression panel stopped

EPIC files a lawsuit that temporarily stops Trump's voter panel from collecting data

2017-07-11 epic • politics • privacy • trump • votingrights

Homophobia in Trump opposition

A detailed treatment of an unpleasant smear from the Trump opposition

2017-07-11 lgbt • politics • trump

Why Persona failed

Succinct list of reasons Mozilla's login system failed

2017-07-10 authentication • login • mozilla • openid • passport • password • personal

.io TLD hijacked

Someone poking around accidentally siezes control over an entire TLD's nameserving

2017-07-10 badtech • dns • io • nic • tld

Baidu search scandal

Referrals to private hospitals with alleged business ties to the search engine

2017-07-10 baidu • china • maps • search

Weed glitch 2

Funny broken video

2017-07-10 funny • marijuana • via:reddit • weed

Weed glitch 1

Funny broken video

2017-07-10 funny • marijuana • via:reddit • weed

Health Care secrecy

Comparison of Democrat and Republican processes

2017-07-10 congress • healthcare • politics

Observations of Lagos

Ghanaian tech guy spends a month in Nigeria

2017-07-09 entrepreneurs • lagos • nigeria • startups • tech

50Hz power in the US

LA used a different AC standard until 1948

2017-07-08 electricity • history • la • losangeles • standards • via:hackernews

Clumsy Twitter propaganda

State Department trying to enlist private institutions in a fake Twitter feud

2017-07-07 ip • politics • propaganda • stupid • trump • twitter

Trump blackmails CNN

Threat to have DOJ block a merger if they don't like CNN's coverage of Trump

2017-07-06 ethics • journalism • media • politics • press • trump

Trump’s Voter Suppression Efforts

Detailed analysis on Kobach's voter suppression panel

2017-07-06 election • kobach • politics • trump • voting • votingrights

Check It

Documentary about a Black LGBT street gang in Washington DC

2017-07-06 black • dc • documentary • film • gay • lgbt • movie • via:kottke • washingtondc

It is as if you were doing work

Weird dystopian art game

2017-07-06 art • games • scifi • work

Third Thumb

RCA art project, prosthetics that enhance humanity

2017-07-06 art • hand • prosthetics • sculpture • via:jwz

Trump voter suppression backfiring

Details on 45 states refusing to provide data to Trump's sham voter fraud committee

2017-07-06 politics • privacy • trump • voting • votingrights

Future football

Crazy sports / sci-fi experimental piece

2017-07-06 fiction • football • funny • scifi • space

Randomized kernels

Approaches to security through diversity

2017-07-06 aslr • karl • kaslr • linux • openbsd • security • tech

Why I’m leaving 18F

Well meaning tech civil servant finds the Trump regime impossible

2017-07-06 corruption • government • politics • tech • trump

Voter suppresion and privacy

Trump's voter suppression panel has asked for unprecedented personal data on voters

2017-07-05 election • politics • trump • voting • votingrights

July 4 1941, Oregon

Small town photos. (That photo #6 though.) /cc @adam_messinger

2017-07-05 america • history • july4 • oregon • photos

Emancipation Memorials

Statues honoring the ending of slavery around the world

2017-07-05 america • confederate • humanrights • monument • sculpture • slavery • statue

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

A nice text version of the full speech

2017-07-04 america • douglass • history • july4 • rhetoric • slavery • speech

Slovakia's TLD

Crazy story of fraud and hijacking /cc @korkyplunger

2017-07-04 dns • fraud • icann • slovakia

The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro

Amazing Frederick Douglass speech; listen to James Earl Jones read an excerpt

2017-07-04 america • douglass • freedom • history • july4 • julyfourth • slavery

Cars v Bikes

Citi Bikes in NYC is 42x more efficient than a car parking place

2017-07-04 bikes • cars • newyork • transportation • via:hackernews

Chris Christie at the beach

Closes all the state beaches, then takes his family on a private beach vacation

2017-07-03 arrogance • christie • newjersey • politics

National Park Maps

Collection of free US park maps /cc @amitp

2017-07-03 america • maps • nps • parks • via:metafilter

Bootstrapped successes

List of companies that have gotten big without the usual early tech VC

2017-07-02 bootstrap • companies • investment • startups • vc

The President of the United States

Trump tweets a memer video of him pro-wrestling, attacking CNN

2017-07-02 cnn • dignity • politics • president • trump • twitter

systemd "0day"

Invalid username results in root escalation; author doesn't see the problem

2017-07-02 badtech • linux • security • systemd

I'm a Creep

Dave McClure's apologies and statement about his sexual harassment

2017-07-02 500startups • mcclure • sexism • sexualharassment • women

China's LGBT crackdown

Trying to ban any depiction of gay life

2017-07-01 china • gay • humanrights • lgbt • politics