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Hyperscan regex parser
Detailed paper on the super-fast regex engine that uses SIMD instructions and clever algorithms
2019-02-28 intel • regexp • regex • software • simd • avx • algorithms • tootme
Facial tattoos in the US
A detailed documentation of a changing fashion
2019-02-28 tattoos • face • music • tootme • culture
1971 US gay marriage
Couple got a valid marriage license in 1971, no one noticed
2019-02-28 lgbt • gay • marriage • civilrights • politics • tootme
GOP Debasement
Editorial on how far the Republican party has slid in its defense of Trump
2019-02-28 trump • politics • republicans • ethics • corruption
Kids sexually abused at the border
Because of course they were, it's an entirely predictable outcome of the Republican policy of stealing children from their parents
2019-02-28 rape • children • immigrants • politics • humanrights • migrants
simdjson
Super fast JSON parser makes use of AVX2 SIMD instructions
2019-02-26 json • simd • intel • optimization • avx2 • performance • tootme
Billy Porter's ball gown
Actor talks about his jaw-dropped tuxedo ball gown from the Oscars
2019-02-26 oscars • gay • lgbt • fashion • feminism • tootme • billyporter
2020 political propaganda
New tactics in the clandestine war for public opinion on social media
2019-02-24 twitter • propaganda • botnets • russia • politics
lambci/lambda
An emulation of the AWS Lambda computing environment, for testing and development
2019-02-24 lambda • aws • development • serverless • docker • tootme
Zuckerberg in Hawaii
Moving forward with controversial plan to buy land of uncertain title
2019-02-24 hawaii • zuckerberg • facebook • realestate • tootme
Freeforming
Swiss company that makes tube bending machine; pictures of examples
2019-02-24 tubes • pipes • manufacturing • freeforming • tootme
Freeform tube bending
Interesting tool lets you create pipes and tubes with complex shapes
2019-02-24 manufacturing • tubes • pipes • tootme
SF surveillance cameras
New map of some 2500 cameras around San Francisco
2019-02-23 maps • sanfrancisco • crime • police • privacy • surveillance • via:reddit • tootme
DiFi looking awful
Somehow manages to lose a debate with a bunch of 10 year olds
2019-02-23 difi • california • feinstein • politics • children • greennewdeal
Which founder are you?
Mat Honan as always with the insights
2019-02-22 tech • funny • parody • mathonan • buzzfeed • tootme
Stephen Wolfram's infrastructure
Incredibly detailed post by the eccentric computer scientist, some good tools in here. Also note the Lifestreams-like UI for searching old documents.
2019-02-22 wolfram • edc • computers • environment • tootme • lifestreams
Unclaimed Property
Easy index to finding money you might own in the US and Canada. I found significant $$ here just now, not a scam!
2019-02-22 money • unclaimed • property • probate • legal • tootme
CA marijuana revenue
2018's market off to a slow start, $345M in taxes ($1B was predicted)
2019-02-21 california • marijuana • taxes • politics • weed • tootme
Youtube and Pedophilia
Awful creepy people being awful on Youtube
2019-02-21 google • youtube • pedophilia • ads
Gay Heart Throbs #2
Remarkable 1979 comic
2019-02-20 comics • gay • lgbt • history • tootme
Arkansas Medicaid cruelty
You have to work to get Medicaid. And the website that you have to use to register your work hours is down for 10 hours a day
2019-02-20 arkansas • medicaid • healthcare • politics • downtime
NYTimes free for Californians
Anyone with a library card anywhere in the state gets a digital subscription
2019-02-20 california • nytimes • newspaper • journalism • tootme
The Making of Tupaia’s Map
A detailed new interpretation of the 1769 map of Polynesia, based on an understanding of traditional wayfinding
2019-02-20 maps • polynesia • tupaia • tootme • culture • anthropology • history
Tupaia / Cook map of Polynesia
1769 map produced by the collaboration of Polynesians and Europeans
2019-02-20 polynesia • europe • maps • anthropology • history • tootme
Read the Comments
NYT's Cooking section has a remarkably good reader notes section
2019-02-20 nytimes • nyt • cooking • food • journalism • via:metafilter • tootme
Trump obstruction
More details on Trump's various illegal and unethical attempts to disrupt the investigations into his crimes
2019-02-20 trump • politics • justice • corruption • america
Password managers insecure
If you have access to the system running the password agent, you can probably steal their passwords even if the manager is locked
2019-02-20 passwords • security • badtech • 1password • lastpass • keepass • dashlane
1900 SF Chinatown
Photos of Chinatown from before the Earthquake
2019-02-19 sanfrancisco • chinatown • photos • history • 1900 • tootme
Qwant Maps
European search engine has an open source web map service
2019-02-19 maps • qwant • mapping • mapboxgl • tootme
Medieval trade networks
Remarkable synthesis of research
2019-02-19 maps • trade • via:kottke • tootme • medieval
Preferential voting explained
An Australian comic
2019-02-19 voting • rankedchoice • australia • comic • funny • via:metafilter • tootme
Captain Marvel review bombed
Angry man-babies already flooding Rotten Tomatoes with negative reviews, much like Black Panther
2019-02-19 movies • sexism • feminism • tootme • tirefire
Yosemite from Lick Observatory
See across the entire Central Valley
2019-02-19 california • photo • yosemite • view • mountains • tootme
TWA Hotel
Saarinen's classic airport terminal at JFK is being turned into a hotel
2019-02-18 hotel • Saarinen • architecture • jfk • twaterminal • twa • tootme
Firefox about: pages
Various metadata URLs the browser supports
2019-02-18 firefox • tootme • web • about
European inland waterways
Remarkably detailed map of major navigable waterways
2019-02-17 map • europe • danube • rhine • rhone • rivers • boats • travel • tootme • via:reddit
WSL and floating point
long doubles don't work in the Linux-for-Windows environment. Simple workaround, should be fixed, but isn't.
2019-02-16 wsl • linux • windows • math • floatingpoint • tootme
Heroin on the SF bus
Depressing conversation where everyone agrees if you see someone smoking heroin on the bus in San Francisco, you should probably just ignore it
2019-02-16 sanfrancisco • drugs • qualityoflife • tootme • heroin • reddit
Unbound
A modern recursive DNS resolver you can run on your own network
2019-02-16 dns • recursive • internet • server • linux • tootme
Ad code impact
Survey of web sites shows ads use up a lot of resources. Google's two main ad systems each take 300ms and are ubiquitous
2019-02-16 google • ads • adblocking • tech • web • tootme
Paul Vixie has had enough
Famous old Unix expert goes on an anti-Google rant. He's not wrong.
2019-02-15 google • rant • funny • via:hackernews • paulvixie • vixie • tootme • dns
The Chinese Chinese Room
In China they call Searle's thought experiment "The Chinese Room"
2019-02-15 china • chinese • language • philosophy • searle
Streaming TV market share
Roku has the most streaming TV users in America
2019-02-15 roku • tv • appletv • market • tootme • streaming • cordcutter
Portland cops love Nazis
Alarmingly chummy text messages with Patriot Prayer
2019-02-15 portland • nazis • police • patriotprayer • politics • antifa
Safe Withdrawal Rates
A detailed analysis of how much you can spend based on a retirement nest egg. Not sure I agree with all of it, but it's a very thorough framework.
2019-02-14 money • finance • investment • tootme • retirement
Since Parkland
Young journalists profile 1200 children who were killed by guns in the year since the Parkland shooting
2019-02-14 guns • children • journalism • tootme
Self driving car performance
Statistics on how often the car hands control off to the driver
2019-02-14 cars • automobile • ai • selfdriving • waymo • uber
Democrats voter database
Progress on a centralized data store for elections
2019-02-14 politics • dnc • democrats • election • voterfile • tootme
Emotional vocalizations
Creepy-but-cool webapp of non-linguistic sounds humans make to express emotions
2019-02-13 via:metafilter • emotion • communication • language • tootme
TV Signal Locator
Tool to estimate what digital TV signals are receivable at your house
2019-02-13 tv • cable • ota • hdtv • tootme
BBC cameraman attacked by MAGAist
At the El Paso Trump rally a Trump supporter violently attacked a BBC cameraman
2019-02-13 trump • brownshirts • violence • politics • journalism
8088 MPH
A PC / CGA demo from 2015. Link to video, plus technical explanation of how it works
2019-02-12 games • demos • demoscene • scene • tootme • via:metafilter • pc • dos
Reddit: $0.30/user
Comparison of revenue per user for various Internet social media sites
2019-02-12 reddit • ads • advertising • twitter • valuation • socialmedia • tootme
Rice University's racist history
Student at Houston's best college unearths some of the virulently racist history of the intitution
2019-02-12 rice • houston • university • racism
Philadelphia machine politics
Corruption in unions and Democratic politicians
2019-02-10 corruption • politics • philadelphia • unions
Musée des Plans-Reliefs
French museum of models of buildings, etc for war planning
2019-02-09 architecture • models • maps • france • museums • tootme
European hate speec compliance
Internet companies like Twitter and Facebook are doing significantly better at removing hate speech: if it's flagged, that is
2019-02-09 twitter • facebook • hatespeech • nazis • europe • tootme
Shadow
Cloud gaming service where it's mostly "your computer" but a high power gaming PC in a datacenter
2019-02-09 gaming • streaming • cloud • tootme
World religions map
Reddit post, very detailed rendering
2019-02-09 maps • religion • reddit • visualization • tootme
Circus of Books
Famous LA porn shop closes
2019-02-09 gay • lgbt • porn • history • queer • tootme
I love TikTok so much
Highlights from the video social media app that almost everyone forgot
2019-02-07 via:waxy • video • vine • periscope • socialmedia • tiktok • fun • tootme
Castaway depot
Emergency supplies stored on uninhabited islands in the South Pacific for victims of shipwrecks
2019-02-07 shipwreck • castaway • newzealand • tootme • history
Cape Reinga Pōhutukawa tree
A lone tree on an uninhabited island in New Zealand has an important role in the Māori tradition of the afterlife
2019-02-07 maori • newzealand • legend • culture • tootme • Māori
Gumroad, from VC to lifestyle
Amazingly personal and detailed article about a VC-backed business that didn't really work out, found a second life as a lifestyle business
2019-02-07 gumroad • startups • venturecapital • vc • kpcb • lifestyle • tootme
Trump willfull ignorance
Intelligence briefers are concerned enough to leak to the press
2019-02-05 trump • politics • intelligence
Boyd McDonald
Interview with an important and complicated gay editor / writer
2019-02-05 gay • queer • lgbt • via:reddit • tootme
age2death
A video mirror where you watch yourself age to death
2019-02-04 aging • machinelearning • video • art • golan • golanlevin • tootme
Avast is malware
Anti-virus injects itself as a MITM of SSL connections to inspect traffic. Breaks everything.
2019-02-04 avast • antivirus • malware • avg • firefox • badtech • tootme
17 Angry Birds
Someone sits down and plays almost every game in the franchise
2019-02-04 via:metafilter • games • angrybirds • tootme
Pre-contact languages in CONUS
Map of Indian languages, cultures, etc in the area now occupied by the contiguous 48 US states
2019-02-04 maps • languages • indians • nativeamericans • tootme • via:reddit
Permanently stealing migrant children
Trump administration arguing it can't reunite families because taking children from foster families would be disruptive
2019-02-04 immigration • politics • trump • children
Badge Reviews
Guidelines for making good conference badges
2019-02-04 badges • conferences • inclusion • tootme
Official Magical Pride
Disney's first official LGBT event
2019-02-03 lgbt • gay • disney • tootme
Paradise fire planning
Despite some efforts to plan for an evacuation, the reality was not nearly so good
2019-02-03 fire • grassvalley • nevadacounty • planning • paradise • california • tootme
Real time evacuation Planning Model
A tool you can use to plan evacuations from towns in emergencies
2019-02-03 emergency • planning • gis • cityplanning • tootme • paradise • california
SF cops destroyed evidence
Abuse case against police dropped because police destroyed evidence. Literally took a hammer to a laptop.
2019-02-02 corruption • politics • sanfrancisco • california • police • jail • justice
Chimayo chile
Article about the best red chile in New Mexico
2019-02-02 chimayo • chile • cooking • spices • food • newmexico • tootme
Genocide / climate change
So many people died after Europeans came to the New World that it had a major impact on global CO2 levels and temperature
2019-02-01 population • genocide • newworld • columbus • america • climate • globalwarming • tootme • science
JK Rowling: you were gay
Parody, and quite sharp. Be sure to read the bit about Harry learning to use his wand
2019-02-01 harrypotter • fantasy • writing • funny • gay • lgbt • jkrowling • tootme
Bassoon Tracker
Classic Amiga-era music tracker in Javascript
2019-02-01 javascript • sound • music • audio • demoscene • tracker • via:metafilter • tootme
ntpclient
A very simple time-setting NTP client, separate codebase from others I've seen
2019-02-01 ntp • time • unix • linux • busybox • tootme
"init" vs "service manager"
Some of the hairball of concepts included in systemd and other init systems in Linux
2019-02-01 linux • systemd • init • startup • unix • tootme
DNA for the FBI
Private DNA testing company gives FBI access to its customers' genetic data
2019-02-01 fbi • dna • privacy • police • tootme
Immigrant baby reunited
Child taken from her father a month ago, just now being given to her mother
2019-02-01 children • immigration • trump • politics