Apple location protocol

Details from reverse engineering; would love to know more

2018-04-29 apple • geolocation • location • maps • protocol

Lynching memorial

The kind of history museum America needs, dealing with the horrors of slavery and racism in the US

2018-04-28 america • justice • lynching • politics • slavery

US political realignment

Heather Cox Richardson's argument that the US is seeing a major restructuring of its two party system

2018-04-28 democrats • politics • republicans

BGP leaks

Summary of an attack on Amazon DNS and Internet infrastructure yesterday. BGP is a security disaster in slow motion

2018-04-25 badtech • bgp • internet • networking • security

Russian election system hacking in 2016

We know they probed 21 states because we only had monitoring in 21 states

2018-04-25 election • politics • russia

incel culture explained

Details on a particularly odious pocket of misogyny on the Internet

2018-04-25 4chan • feminism • gender • incel • manosphere • misogyny • murder • reddit • women

First Family holding hand

This kind of political commentary is petty. OTOH this is really weird and remarkable.

2018-04-24 family • hands • melania • politics • trump

Gaia Data Release 2

Data on 1 billion stars in our galaxy

2018-04-24 astronomy • data • gaia • space • via:hackernews

Whole Internet map

Hilbert curves to map IPv4 addresses

2018-04-24 hilbertcurve • internet • maps • networking • via:hackernews

Socotra photos

Yemen's odd and isolated island

2018-04-24 nature • photography • photos • socotra • travel

Karl Rove's kinky dad (NSFW)

Details on Louie Rove, his gay father, and his love of genital piercing

2018-04-21 bme • gay • karlrove • kink • lgbt • piercing • rove

Goodhart's law

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

2018-04-20 economics • metrics • optimization

ICE legal tactics

Various dodges ICE uses to avoid people's civil rights

2018-04-19 civilrights • ice • immigration • police • politics

ICE thuggery

Farmer reports outrageous behavior from immigration

2018-04-19 civilrights • ice • immigration • politics

Steamed Hams with different animators

Remarkably good

2018-04-19 animation • funny • meme • simpsons • steamedhams • via:metafilter

Dymaxion sunset

jwz simulates sunrise and sunset on an unusual map projection

2018-04-19 dymaxion • fuller • maps • projection • sunset

Computing Pi in Javascript

Observable notebook; Javascript sure has come a long way

2018-04-18 code • generators • javascript • math • pi • programming • webworkers

Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico

Various shady business bros formed a blockchain thing in Puerto Rico

2018-04-18 bitcoin • cryptocurrency • fraud • puertorico • tirefire

Underscores in Python

Various ways the _ character is used in Python; some idiomatic, some built in

2018-04-18 programming • python • syntax • underscore

Californian taxes in 2018

Impact of the GOP/Trump tax plan; richer Californias get a significant tax hike

2018-04-18 california • gop • politics • taxes • trump • via:reddit

SoundPrint

"Yelp for Noise"; crowdsourced measurements of noise at restaurants

2018-04-18 app • dining • ios • iphone • noise • restaurant • sound

Russia blocks AWS and Google Cloud

hamfisted attempt to stop Telegram

2018-04-18 amazon • aws • censorship • google • privacy • security • telegram

Papua New Guinea lodges

Luxury travel in an unlikely place

2018-04-17 papua • png • tourism • travel

Mexican Repatriation

American ethnic cleansing from the 1930s

2018-04-17 america • immigration • mexico • politics

PyPI postmortem

Failed rollout for the Python package hosting, nice writeup

2018-04-17 cdn • hosting • postmortem • pypi • python

Internet lightbulbs

How many cloud servers does it take to change a light bulb?

2018-04-17 automation • funny • internet • internetofshit • iot • lightbulb • philips

Beyoncé detail

An appreciation of how complex and deep her work is

2018-04-16 beyonce • depth • detail

Danakil Depression

Extreme desert environment with many colors in Ethiopia

2018-04-16 art • ethiopia • photography • photos

China recants gay Weibo ban

Rare about-face on public policy

2018-04-16 censorship • china • gay • humanrights • lgbt • weibo

OLPC retrospective

Utopian project to give laptops to kids in poor nations did not end well

2018-04-16 education • laptop • medialab • negroponte • olpc

Weibo bans the gays

Large social media in China tries a blanket ban on "homosexuality"

2018-04-15 china • gay • homosexual • lgbt • politics • weibo

City DNA

Abstract paintings inspired by city grids

2018-04-15 art • cities • maps • painting • via:kottke • via:migurski

Michael Cohen mobster

Remarkable photos from the Daily Mail

2018-04-14 cohen • dailymail • photo • politics • trump

Twitter infrastructure incidents

Former engineers reminisce about various cack-ups

2018-04-13 engineering • infrastructure • internet • programming • twitter

Container ship markings

Notations used by tugs, dockworkers

2018-04-13 containers • shipping • via:metafilter

Tesla malfeasance

NTSB won't work with them after they aggressively published one-sided information about the driver/passenger their autopilot killed

2018-04-12 autopilot • ntsb • regulation • selfdrivingcars • tesla

Autechre: elseq et al

Interview with the electronic music duo; they have a new album / live thing coming out soon

2018-04-12 autechre • elseq • maxmsp • music • programming

Mapping Out Protocols

Randy Meech on achieving permanence in a tech company by focusing on protocols

2018-04-12 maps • mapzen • protocols • randymeech

Reddit and hate speech

Conflicting, poorly considered policies

2018-04-12 freespeech • hatespeech • nazis • politics • reddit

Salsify

Stanford research on efficient video streaming

2018-04-12 dash • salsify • streaming • video • webrtc

New PyPI

Python package library migrating to a new system, Warehouse

2018-04-12 pip • pypi • python • security • software

ICE sexual abuse

Rape and sexual assault used as a tool of control

2018-04-11 america • dhs • ice • immigration • politics • rape • sexualabuse

Far Cry 5 has a terrible ending

Full of spoilers, a righteous rant

2018-04-11 ending • farcry • farcry5 • games • stupid • writing

Mythology about security…

Jim Gettys on the legacy of crypto export control laws and how the Internet today is still less secure

2018-04-11 crypto • kerberos • law • politics • security

Tech debt in LoL

Riot Games talks about League of Legends' code and technical debt

2018-04-11 deb • engineering • games • lol • riot • riotgames • software

Observable computation

Details on their topological sort to run computation in dependency order

2018-04-10 computing • notebook • observable • topological • toposort

Homophobia 2018

Excellent performance of the fear and second-guessing we do

2018-04-10 bbc • gay • glasgow • homophobia • lgbt • scotland

American Chopper explained

In which @mattyglesias gets some value from his liberal arts education

2018-04-10 americanchopper • culture • funny • meme • platonic

Arena

Short film of shapes found in aerial imagery

2018-04-10 art • maps • shapes

Cohen raid op/ed

Simple article explaining the new high stakes

2018-04-10 cohen • fraud • mueller • politics • russia • sex • trump

ACP, Southern food

An American spin on arroz con pollo that sounds like mediocrity

2018-04-10 cooking • food • mexican • south

Meteora, Greece

Crazy cliffside monasteries

2018-04-09 greece • meteora • monastery • travel

Open Precinct Data

A call for an organized effort to gather geodata for elections

2018-04-09 america • gerrymandering • opendata • politics • precincts

Boys and toxic masculinity

A reflection on how misogyny harms boys and men

2018-04-09 culture • feminism • gender • masculinity

Google Maps testing a globe projection

A/B testing a new map presentation

2018-04-08 globe • google • googlemaps • maps • projection • projections

Henry Gerber

A very early gay rights activist in the US, Society for Human Rights dates to the 1920s

2018-04-07 america • civilrights • gay • history • lgbt • politics

Molly Ringwold on John Hughes

Nuanced, complex discussion of rapey themes in Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, etc

2018-04-06 gender • harassment • johnhuges • metoo • mollyringwald • movies

RIP Twitter clients

Twitter API changes mean third party Twitter clients like Tweetbot will probably stop working

2018-04-06 api • tweetbot • twitter

Queering the Map

Collection of LGBT stories on a map

2018-04-06 lgbt • maps • queer • via:metafilter

NYT on the royal wedding

Fantastic interactive web article from the NYT team

2018-04-06 art • funny • nytimes • via:metafilter • web • wedding

Notebook computing

Nice article about the value of Jupyter and Mathematica notebooks for science

2018-04-05 jupyter • mathematica • notebooks • publishing • science • via:metafilter • wolfram

Steam in 2017

Interesting gaming data from Steam Spy

2018-04-05 china • games • steam • steamspy • via:metafilter

MtGox thefts

Article from last year claiming Alexander Vinnik stole most of MtGox's bitcoin

2018-04-04 bitcoin • fraut • mtgox • theft

MtGox Bitcoin AMA

Mark Karpelès answering questions with candor

2018-04-04 bitcoin • fraud • mtgox

Snap Map

Showing live social media activity on a map

2018-04-03 maps • snapchat • socialmedia

Axis Maps projects

Twitter thread of various projects by an innovative mapping group

2018-04-03 axismaps • maps • twitter

Grindr sharing HIV status

Sensitive data shared with third parties

2018-04-02 aids • grindr • hiv • lgbt • privacy • sex

Spotify's direct listing

Company taking an unusual method to go public

2018-04-02 finance • ipo • spotify • wallstreet

4.2.2.2

History of the first largely known public DNS server

2018-04-02 bbn • dns • internet • level3 • networks

DNS services compared

CloudFlare's new DNS service compared to Google, Quad9, others

2018-04-02 cloudflare • dns • google • via:hackernews

Archaeology vs Genomics

Survey of the changes in the study of humanity's past as DNA evidence becomes available

2018-04-01 anthropology • archaeology • archeology • dna • genomics • history • science • via:hackernews

1.1.1.1

Cloudflare launches a new public DNS service

2018-04-01 cloudflare • dns • internet