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Elephant drawings
600 years of drawing an animal the illustrator had never seen
2017-12-31 elephants • drawing • via:amitp • art • history
Favourite maps from 2017
Nice roundup
2017-12-31 maps • visualization
Face swap porn
AI is now being used to produce creepy pornography
2017-12-31 porn • sex • via:hackernews • machinelearning • faceswap
Cloudflare LavaRand
They actually have a wall of lava lamps as a random number source
2017-12-31 lavarand • cloudflare • cryptography • ssl • via:hackernews
Asymmetric Aircraft
A list of 10
2017-12-31 aviation • via:metafilter • airplanes
Takaosan Interchange
Crazy mountain highway interchange near Tokyo
2017-12-30 tokyo • highway • maps • japan • interchange
Uber in 2017
A roundup of the worst company in tech
2017-12-30 uber • tirefire • scandal • kalanick
CSS design tricks
Some small tweaks to web presentation to make things look better
2017-12-30 css • html • ui • fonts • colors
Anatomy of a Hustle
Planet Money on the Manafort indictment for money laundering and various crooked international political dealings
2017-12-29 trump • politics • manafort • scandal • mueller
reptyr
Magic program to change a process to a new parent and pty
2017-12-28 screen • unix • terminal • tmux • tty • pty
Paprika
Recipe manager app; scrape recipes and save them to your iPhone
2017-12-28 recipes • ios • iphone • apps • cooking
Milo Yiannopoulos' book
His editor is having none of it
2017-12-28 milo • racism • sexism • homophobia • deplorable • book • writing • editor
Twitter sided with the Nazis
Users build a bot to do Twitter's job for them; Twitter bans the bot
2017-12-27 twitter • nazis
J. Kenji López-Alt
Profile of the experimenter cook and his new San Mateo restaurant
2017-12-27 food • cooking • kenji • sanmateo • wursthaus
Colorjet 3d printing
Additive manufacturing technique that can print color
2017-12-26 color • printing • 3dprinting • maps
Perceiving 2ms latency
User study shows in some setups humans perceive even tiny bits of lag
2017-12-25 lag • latency • perception • hci • ui
Human Sexual Cycles
Google Trends data suggests people look for sex during the holidays
2017-12-24 holidays • sex • humans • behavior • culture • google • googletrends
CyTube
Synchronized online video + chatroom
2017-12-24 chat • video • metafilter • community
Extended Random
Details of an NSA backdoor in web encryption
2017-12-23 nsa • backdoor • crypto • badtech • ssl • tls
Trump on immigration
Insidery gossip about the hideous process that creates policy
2017-12-23 immigration • trump • politics • civilrights • racism
Blockchain charts
Detailed visualizations of Bitcoin stats; note the transaction fees
2017-12-23 bitcoin • charts • data • finance
Bitcoin explained
Funny parody commercial
2017-12-23 funny • sethmeyers • bitcoin • investment
Slaughterbots
Short sci-fi film against weaponized AI
2017-12-22 ai • military • politics • ethics • drones
Goodbye to Civil Comments
Really nice startup service sadly doesn't make it
2017-12-22 community • online • portland • comments • moderation
MonkeyType
Add type annotations to Python code by running it and guessing what types it sees
2017-12-22 python • typing • via:hackernews • programming • tests
Streaming piracy profits
Analytics of pirate movie websites
2017-12-22 movies • ads • badtech • piracy • malware
Cornel West v Ta-Nahesi Coates
Two important Black intellectuals arguing in public
2017-12-21 racism • america • politics
Merry Last Christmas, Jack Dorsey.
Harsh editorial from Mike Monteiro
2017-12-21 monteiro • twitter • politics • facism
Age discrimination in job ads
Facebook defends an illegal practice
2017-12-21 facebook • ads • age • discrimination • via:hackernews
Selling Bitcoin
It is possible, but awkward and slow and expensive
2017-12-20 bitcoin • finance • markets
Google Maps’s Moat
Metaphorical; Google is so good at imagery and processing data no one can catch them in maps
2017-12-20 maps • via:hackernews • buildings • google
Most 2017 Photos
A sort of memetastic selection
2017-12-19 photos • 2017 • trump • politics
Twitter's abuse confusion
Company's internal policies didn't make sense to its own executives
2017-12-19 twitter • politics • milo • policy
Discrediting Mueller
Trump's allies sowing doubt ahead of the inevitable criminal indictments
2017-12-19 trump • politics • russia • mueller
Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF
Save geographic imagery in a way that makes it easy to progressively fetch in a web browser
2017-12-19 web • geotiff • gis • http • maps
npycat
Command line tool for examining large NumPy arrays
2017-12-19 numpy • programming • python • unix • cat • machinelearning • tensorflow • pytorch
Security Code Card
Really silly two factor authentication system
2017-12-19 tfa • 2fa • security • login • badtech • broker
Gerrymandering with compactness
It's possible to rig elections with nice looking districts
2017-12-19 gerrymandering • politics • via:hackernews • redistricting • voting
UN human rights in the US
Statement from a visit to the US by human rights expert for the UN
2017-12-19 un • unitednations • america • poverty • homelessness
Georgia election wackiness
Election officials obstruct a legitimate observer
2017-12-19 georgia • fraud • elections • voting
American poverty
Upsetting reporting
2017-12-18 america • poverty • money • trump • politics • via:metafilter
Pulse of the Nation
Cards Against Humanity continues their nihilistic campaign of irrepsonsibile hilarity.
2017-12-18 politics • funny • polls • cah • cardsagainsthumanity
Ted Chiang's career
Excellent sci-fi author only has so many good ideas for fiction
2017-12-18 scifi • fiction • writing • tedchiang
Runaway capitalism
Excellent editorial by sci-fi author Ted Chiang
2017-12-18 capitalism • ai • via:metafilter • tech • siliconvalley
Multivariate Maps
A collection of visualization techniques
2017-12-18 maps • statistics • data • visualization
Nobody is above the Law
A protest planned for if Trump fires Mueller
2017-12-17 trump • protest • mueller • russia • politics
Cookies v Pastries v Pizza
Principal Component Analysis
2017-12-17 pca • machinelearning • cooking • funny
How Rubber Bands are Made
Always odd how one aspect of an industrial process is very manual (the mold, in this case)
2017-12-17 rubberband • manufacturing • via:jwz • factory
Mitch McConnell, Prince of Dust
A prose poem for our time
2017-12-16 politics • funny • mcconnell • mitchmcconnell • horror
Harassment in statistics
Men being shitty in academia
2017-12-14 sexism • harassment • statistics • nips • assault
Ajit Pai stupidity
Bizarre FCC advocacy
2017-12-14 fcc • ajitpai • politics • netneutrality
538 Gerrymandering Podcast
Explanatory series
2017-12-14 gerrymandering • politics • 538 • podcast
The African Enlightenment
17th and 18th century philosophers from Ghana and Ethiopia
2017-12-14 africa • ethiopia • ghana • philosophy • via:metafilter
Trump's Russia blindness
Why the US president is ignoring an obvious foreign threat
2017-12-14 trump • putin • politics • russia
Salesforce fountain
This majestic column needs a stream of water jetting from its tip
2017-12-14 salesforce • phallic • funny • sanfrancisco • architecture
Mirai Botnet and Minecraft
World's biggest DDOS network built to knock competing Minecraft server businesses offline
2017-12-13 minecraft • badtech • mirai • botnet • ddos
Texas German
Fredericksburg woman speaking a nearly lost language
2017-12-13 german • language • texas • fredericksburg
Alabama's gerrymander
Senate election reveals the crafty district boundaries in Alabama
2017-12-13 alabama • politics • votingrights • gerrymandering
DNS Over HTTPS
Work around ISP hijacking of users by hiding DNS traffic inside web traffic
2017-12-13 dns • http • protocols • isp • netneutrality
TP-Link abusing NTP
Wasting public resources and your bandwidth
2017-12-13 tplink • badtech • ntp • via:hackernews
MAME vector games
Actual vector hardware
2017-12-13 games • vectors • dispalys • mame • emulation • via:metafilter
TensorFire
Neural networks in browsers using WebGL
2017-12-13 tensorflow • webgl • browser • machinelearning • ml • ai • neuralnetworks
Breitbart #war on Twitter
Milo and Bannon tried to sabotage Twitter
2017-12-12 twitter • politics • breitbart • ethics • shortselling • bannon • milo
MakeMKV
How to read an encrypted Blu-Ray disc on Windows
2017-12-12 windows • backup • movie • video • mkv • handbrake
Alabama voter suppression
Racist voter ID laws
2017-12-12 alabama • politics • racism • voterid • votingrights
Guns / Glitter
Gender reveal party cake; this is so absurd it has to be fake?
2017-12-11 gender • stupid • america
First Women in Tech
WSJ on systemic sexism at the beginning of computer science
2017-12-11 women • feminism • tech • sexism • eniac
TPUs in production
Details from a datacenter of Google's special purpose machine learning hardware
2017-12-11 tensorflow • tpu • google • production • performance
Jeff Dean at NIPS 2017
Details about machine learning in production from Google
2017-12-11 google • machinelearning • ai • tpu • tensorflow
Bad Sex
Thoughts on having sex out of obligation rather than desire
2017-12-10 sex • relationships • via:metafilter
Comcast Javascript injection
Ads from your ISP. Scroll down for the link to the RFC
2017-12-09 javascript • privacy • comcast • internet • ads • rfcs
PLATO computer system
Excellent MeFi post about the 1960s-era distributed computing system
2017-12-09 computing • history • plato
The Amazon Honor System, 2001-2008
Amazon used to run a Patreon-like donation service
2017-12-09 patreon • amazon • donations • micropayments
Arizona police killing
Incredibly disturbing video
2017-12-09 police • killing • arizona
1.4 billion passwords
Internet security is broken
2017-12-09 internet • badtech • security • via:hackernews
Pandas programmer profile
Wes McKinney, the guy behind the popular data science library
2017-12-08 programming • python • pandas
leela-zero
Cooperative effort to reproduce AlphaGo Zero by using donated CPU and GPU cycles
2017-12-07 machinelearning • go • games • ai • alphago
Oracle v Google
When the elephants fight the mice get trod upon
2017-12-07 oracle • google • politics • tech
Humanity game
Bizarre looking game coming out next year
2017-12-07 games • humanity • simulation • crowds
Discord and user safety
Policy needs for a growing gamer community
2017-12-07 games • discord • trustandsafety • policy
Patreon fee analysis
Detailed look at the new structure
2017-12-07 patreon • funding • donations • crowdfunding • creditcard
Amazon Key in practice
Thoughtful critique of a new Amazon service
2017-12-07 amazon • privacy • security • amazonkey
Pulp Federation
Tarantino wants to do a Star Trek movie
2017-12-07 startrek • tarantino • funny
Kanopy
A Netflix-like video streaming service. They have a deal with the SF Public Library so you can watch videos for free
2017-12-07 netflix • kanopy • video • library • sfpl • documentaries
Steinle Murder verdict thoughts
Analysis from an alternate juror
2017-12-06 politics • sanfrancisco • steinle • zarate • murder
Deceptive ads on bad websites
Crappy sites like Forbes, HuffPo, and Fast Company have writers taking undisclosed money from advertisers
2017-12-06 ads • deception • journalism • ethics
Steam no longer taking Bitcoin
Too volatile, too expensive
2017-12-06 bitcoin • steam • via:hackernews
The Shed at Dulwich
Scamming TripAdvisor with a fake restaurant
2017-12-06 tripadvisor • london • funny • via:metafilter
CryptoKitties
When Tamagotchi meets Magic Beans
2017-12-05 bitcoin • ethereum • kitties • tamagotchi • collectible
Maori
Epic Metafilter post on bringing Maori language in to New Zealand at large
2017-12-05 maori • language • newzealand • aotearoa
Look at the big boy!
Heartbreaking photo of a child soldier in Yemen
2017-12-05 yemen • soldier • atrocity • saudiarabia • iran • politics • trump • america • war
Radwood
A celebration of 80s/90s car culture. Full of irony, looks hilarious and fun
2017-12-05 irony • funny • cars • radwood • 80s • 90s
Bitcoin dead drops
Interesting story of shenanigans involving public but hidden Bitcoin wallets
2017-12-03 bitocin • public • steganography • crypto • money • fraud
That Guy
A list of character actors who show up in small parts in movies
2017-12-03 movies • acting • thatguy • actors
US Broadband coverage (June 2014)
Another depiction of US Broadband paucity; only the blue area is competitive
2017-12-02 maps • broadband • isp • netneutrality
Trump vs Talking Heads
Normally hate this kind of thing but it had me laughing out loud, a release of tension
2017-12-02 trump • politics • talkingheads • parody • funny
Micro Transport Protocol
UDP protocol used by modern BitTorrent, has congestion backoff strategies
2017-12-01 networking • bittorrent • qos • ledbat
Chapelier Fou
A very French sort of music happening
2017-12-01 music • france • chapelierfou • madhatter
Underserved Internet areas
US map: red shows areas with 0 or 1 broadband providers
2017-12-01 broadband • internet • policy • isp • netneutrality
Miss Universe 2017
National costumes are alternatingly beautiful, intriguing, and hilarious
2017-12-01 missuniverse • pageant • beauty • via:metafilter