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Stephen Moore loves child labor
"I want people starting to work at 11, 12"
2019-04-30 abuse • awful • fed • politics • stephenmoore • trump
Kodi malware
Popular "free TV for $100" hacker box comes loaded with crap
2019-04-30 badtech • malware • piracy • streaming • tv
Riot employee walkout
Threatened employee action after more mistreatment of employees and ex-employees
2019-04-29 leagueoflegends • riot • riotgames • sexism • tirefire • union • walkout
Notch not invited
10 year anniversary of the incredibly important game Minecraft. Its original author is not welcome at the party because he's deplorable
2019-04-29 games • minecraft • notch • socialjustice
SLC paper on gay BYU student
Remarkable this article is 100% positive
2019-04-29 byu • gay • lds • lgbt • mormon
BYU gay valedictorian
Are the times finally a changin?
2019-04-29 byu • gay • lds • lgbt • mormon
Twitch hacked
Unintended consequences; Path of Exile ran a promotion encouraging people to link their Twitch accounts, now their PoE accounts are compromised
2019-04-28 badtech • games • hack • pathofexile • poe • twitch
Puppy Play in SF
NYT Style section is generally a parody of itself. But the existence of this article is itself sort of a miracle
2019-04-28 kink • lgbt • nyt • nytimes • puppy • puppyplay • style
I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls
A fantastic essay on sexism, just won a Beard award
2019-04-27 anger • baking • cooking • feminism • funny • mariobatali • sexism
Potplayer
Windows video player, alternative to VLC. From korea
2019-04-27 codecs • multimedia • video • vlc • windows
Sonoma Brinery interview
Chat with David Ehreth, founder of my favorite pickle company
2019-04-27 food • inverview • pickles • sonoma • sonomabrinery
Riot forcing arbitration on employees
Disgraced company is denying employees the right to sue because they signed arbitration agreements in their contracts
2019-04-26 abuse • arbitration • games • leagueoflegends • legal • lol • riotgames • sexism • tirefire
hover-dns-updater
A workaround for lack of DDNS support at Hover, uses an unofficial API to update entries. Note it requires a pull request to change the login URL
2019-04-26 ddns • dns • hack • hover • python
Weaponized census
Forceful editorial on why the Supreme Court case over the citizenship question is so important
2019-04-26 census • politics • supremecourt
The Metrics of Backpacks
Personal essay about the inhumanity of the tech industry
2019-04-26 emotion • tech • tirefire
$850M Bitfinex fraud
Company behind Tether lost $850M, tried to hide out.
2019-04-25 badtech • bitcoin • bitfinex • fraud • tether
Twitter policy failures
The company is incapable of reining in escalating violent language in American political discourse
2019-04-25 america • jack • jackdorsey • politics • trump
996
Protest movement against long hours in Chinese tech industry. GitHub plays an unusual role
2019-04-25 china • github • labor • tech • union
Michigan gerrymandering
New federal court ruling that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional
2019-04-25 gerrymandering • maps • michigan • politics
Twitter vs white supremacy
Harder problem than blocking ISIS because so many Republicans statistically look like white supremacists
2019-04-25 blocking • filtering • isis • politics • twitter • whitesupremacy
New Mexico handdrawn map
Nice touristy treatment
2019-04-25 maps • newmexico • reddit • tourism • travel
Google bus harassment
Awful story of a Google employee being sexually harassed and stalked by another employee, the company doing nothing. (Bonus: foot fetish)
2019-04-25 footfetish • google • harassment • hr • tirefire
Jack's wasted time
Trump wanted to whine about how his follower account is too small because Twitter keeps removing bot accounts
2019-04-24 jack • jackdorsey • politics • trump • twitter
Google Objector
Former research scientist at Google talks about ethical problems at the company and its lack of interest in talking about them
2019-04-24 ethics • google • politics • tech
Jack Dorsey bends the knee
Ill-advised meeting with Trump in the White House
2019-04-24 dorsey • jack • politics • trump • twitter • whitehouse
The Mane Quest
A website devoted to horses in videogames
2019-04-24 games • horses
Texas Mexican food
Splitting a fine hair, but traditional home cooking in Texas vs. Tex-Mex
2019-04-23 cooking • food • mexican • texas • texmex
Film Crit Hulk on RDR2
Remarkably detailed reflective review. Also very negative, it's like they focussed only on the problem parts and overlooked what made the game so great
2019-04-22 games • rdr2 • reddeadredemption • review • rockstar
TurboTax dark patterns
Fuckery from Intuit to make it very difficult to find the IRS-mandated free filing program
2019-04-22 fraud • intuit • politics • taxes • turbotax
Google retaliation
Punishing employees who spoke up publically about important management decisions
2019-04-22 employment • google • tech • tirefire
PySnooper
Instrument functions with a decorator to have it print a trace of execution
2019-04-22 code • debugging • printf • pysnooper • python • software
Double consciousness
"It’s a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others … two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being asunder"
2019-04-22 culture • dubois • lgbt • psychology • racism
Passive DNS
Quick description of a new-to-me surveillance technique
2019-04-21 dns • internet • networking • security
Conducting a fair census
The citizenship question would cause an undercount of some 2-3% of Americans. That's not an accident, it's the purpose of Trump's people wanting the question.
2019-04-21 census • immigrants • politics • trump
dnsdiag tools
Tools to check if your DNS is being hijacked, how fast it is, etc
2019-04-21 dns • networking
More DNS collection
RiskIQ brags they collect 1000 GB/day of "passive DNS data". Where do they get their data?
2019-04-21 dns • networking • privacy • riskiq
DNS data collection
Vixie's security company advertises "2TB DNS data collected daily", 200K+ observations/second. Where are they getting this data?
2019-04-21 dns • networking • privacy • security • vixie
Moving giant stones
Cleverly balanced enormous cement blocks can be rocked and rotated into place
2019-04-21 architecture • balance • design • engineering • structure • via:hackernews
Militia leader arrested
Some good news; terrorist leader menacing migrants is arrested
2019-04-21 fascism • guns • immigration • migrants • politics • terrorism
Presidential censures
A step short of impeachment
2019-04-20 censure • congress • politics • trump
Mueller and obstruction
Tortured legal arguing is why Trump is not being tried for obstruction of justice
2019-04-20 barr • mueller • obstruction • politics • trump
Mueller PDF review
A detailed analysis of the PDF technology used; document was apparently two generations of printed-and-scanned
2019-04-20 funny • mueller • pdf • politics • redaction
Militias kidnapping at gunpoint
This is incredibly dangerous; random groups of men with guns are detaining and threatening migrants at the border.
2019-04-19 brownshirts • dangerous • fascism • guns • immigration • militias • politics
New DNC CTO
Nell Thomas takes over for Raffi Krikorian
2019-04-19 cto • democrats • dnc • politics
Edge user agent switching
Browser compatibility has gotten so bad the new Microsoft browser has a table of which browser to pretend to be on what websites
2019-04-19 badtech • browser • compatibility • edge • microsoft • via:reddit
25 Mueller subplots
A handy guide to what we may learn from the report. Someone should make a bingo card
2019-04-18 mueller • politics • trump
SNES Mode 7 HD
New emulator cleans up graphics from old SNES games
2019-04-18 emulation • games • graphics • mode7 • snes • via:reddit
Beach Blanket Babylon closing
After 45 years, an SF institution is coming to an end
2019-04-18 culture • musical • sanfrancisco • sf • theater
Faster multiplication
Readable summary of the O(n log n) algorithm and what it means
2019-04-17 algorithms • bigo • complexity • computing • multiplication
Aaron Shock, anti-gay Republican
Also apparently a gay Republican, just used his political power to block civil rights for LGBT people. Asshole.
2019-04-17 aaronshock • coachella • gay • gop • politics • republican
Learning ZIL
Infocom's 1989 manual for their internal programming language
2019-04-17 games • infocom • interactivefiction • lisp • programming • zil • zork
Tram clean
Vigilantes removing tram-wrapping ads in Melbourne
2019-04-16 ads • advertising • australia • heroes • melbourne
Google sabotaging Firefox
"Chrome is the new IE"
2019-04-16 browsers • browserwars • chrome • firefox • google • mozilla
Twitter bullshit on death threats
Bizarre claim they are leaving the death threats against Omar up "to aid law enforcement". Seems like rank nonsense to me.
2019-04-16 harassment • lawenforcement • omar • politics • tirefire • trump • twitter
Twitter verifications
Company still verifying lots of accounts despite having publically said they were putting the program on pause
2019-04-16 tirefire • twitter • verification
Dangerous Bullying of Ilhan Omar
I'm most worried about the dangerous part; I fear Trump and friends' rhetoric is going to incite someone to violence
2019-04-16 fascism • ilhanomar • politics • trump
Social media in India's election
A troubling view of the power and opacity of Internet communication media
2019-04-15 india • internet • politics • whatsapp
Joey Alexander tiny desk concert
Lovely little mellow jazz trio. Pianist is a 15 year old Indonesian kid!
2019-04-14 jazz • music • npr
tourisme fluvial
Map of navigable waterways in France
2019-04-14 canals • france • maps • rivers • tourism
Eagle threesome
Two males and a female share a nest for years
2019-04-13 eagles • lgbt • nature
America undermined
A list of things the Trump folks did this last week trying to place themselves above the law
2019-04-12 america • democracy • law • legal • politics • ruleoflaw • trump
Asylum seekers as weapons
Trump administration wanted to bus immigrants to "sanctuary cities" as a kind of punishment
2019-04-12 atrocity • immigration • politics • trump
Trump's sister dodges tax investigation
Retires from her judge position rather than be investigated for tax fraud
2019-04-11 corruption • fraud • politics • taxes • taxfraud • trump
Elder Scrolls Blades monetization
A description of a hellscape for gaming
2019-04-11 elderscrolls • games • micropayments • microtransactions
Awesome-WSL
Collection of useful Windows Subsystem for Linux stuff
2019-04-11 linux • software • windows • wsl
Public Sans license snafu
Open source and US government public domain interact awkwardly
2019-04-10 copyright • fonts • license • opensource • pubicsans • publicdomain
Penda Tel Aviv Arcades
Remarkable design for an apartment building with zillions of balconies
2019-04-09 architecture • design • israel • penda • telaviv
rund um Berlin
A radical design for Berlin's transit map
2019-04-09 berlin • design • maps • transit
myip.opendns.com
Clever DNS hack for finding your own IP address via the OpenDNS resolver
2019-04-09 dns • ipaddress • myip • network
Jack Dorsey's wellness hacks
"The first time I did it, like day three, I felt like I was hallucinating"
2019-04-09 fasting • icebath • jackdorsey • lifestyle • sauna • square • twitter
Berlin transit map
An effort to redesign, with comparison to previous maps
2019-04-09 berlin • design • maps • transit • via:hackernews
Alcatraz tickets snafu
Company with monopoly on Alcatraz visits is not capable of selling tickets at the moment
2019-04-09 alcatraz • badtech • bayarea • sanfrancisco • tourism
MacOS tightens the screws
Not only requires signed apps; now requires "notarization"
2019-04-09 apple • gatekeeper • macos • security • via:hackernews
Wikipedia harassment
Long-standing problem gets some notice in the NYT
2019-04-09 feminism • harassment • lgbt • tirefire • wikipedia • women
Earthquake Zones
Detailed map of earthquake risks in the Bay Area
2019-04-08 bayarea • earthquake • map • realestate • sanfrancisco
SpaceSheet
Exploratory UI for image recognition neural networks
2019-04-06 ai • imagerecognition • machinelearning • neuralnetworks • tomwhite
Lyft IPO lockin
Ugly financial shenanigans with Morgan Stanley and the Lyft IPO
2019-04-06 finance • investment • ipo • lyft • morganstanley • uber
Eero acquisition details
Ugly stories from an acquisition of a company worth less than its investment. Bonuses for a few top executives, nothing for regular employees
2019-04-06 acquisition • amazon • balancesheet • eero
California reservoirs
Nice visualization of how much water we have stored
2019-04-06 california • visualization • water
IRS vs Ultrawealthy
US government is unequipped to prosecute the richest Americans for tax fraud
2019-04-05 america • inequality • irs • politics • tax
Robocall blockers
Useful resources for US cell phone owners
2019-04-05 phone • privacy • robocall • verizon
BitWarden
Another password manager, this one open source
2019-04-05 authentication • bitwarden • login • opensource • passwords • security
Slaver dynasties
Slaver families in the South recovered their wealth 10-20 years after losing it all in the Civil War
2019-04-05 economics • history • inequality • piketty • slavery • south
Phony vaccination exemptions
Doctors signing medical waivers; they need to be investigated and the fraudulent ones prosecuted
2019-04-04 california • doctors • health • politics • vaccines
Daily Telegraph Facebook propaganda
"Sponsored content" stories in a major UK newspaper trying to make people hate Facebook left
2019-04-04 ads • dailytelegraph • facebook • journalism • propaganda • telegraph
Postgres on Raspberry Pi
200 transactions / second!
2019-04-04 database • pi • postgres • raspberry • rpi • via:hackernews
IRS audit disparities
Disproportionate burden for poor families taking the Earned Income Credit
2019-04-04 harassment • irs • maps • politics • taxes
Bannon on Breitbart finances
Ad boycott has hurt Breitbart's business
2019-04-04 ads • bannon • breitbart • politics • sleepinggiants
Mr. Cardamom - Nani
Madhur Jaffrey, famous Indian cookbook author, goes hardcore
2019-04-03 cooking • desi • indian • madhurjaffrey • music • rap
Reconstruction on TV
New history of American post-Civil-War, a 4 hour documentary
2019-04-03 civilwar • history • pbs • racism • reconstruction
CBP harassed Andreas Gal
Former Mozilla CTO and US citizen detained at the border, apparently because he works on software and privacy
2019-04-03 apple • cbp • freedom • harassment • immigration • mozilla • politics
Al Naslaa split rock
A striking but apparently natural rock formation
2019-04-03 alnaslaa • geology • rock • saudiarabia
Triaxial weaves
Remarkably good discussion on fabrics and weaving with triangular symmetry. Lots of links in the comments
2019-04-03 fabric • hexagon • textile • triangle • triaxial • weaving
Geoengineering meeting
Last months countries met to discuss active engineering measures to cool the Earth. It was controversial.
2019-04-03 climate • climatechange • geoengineering • globalwarming • politics • un
Racist voter laws
2016 case in North Carolina where legislators were on the record saying they changed the laws to make it harder for Black people to vote
2019-04-02 northcarolina • politics • racism • votingrights
2019 gerrymandering cases
Economist round up of the Supreme Court hearing
2019-04-02 elections • gerrymandering • politics • supremecourt
Democrats' new data warehouse
Details of tech infrastructure work at the DNC
2019-04-02 bigquery • democrats • dnc • politics • tech
NPM company problems
Layoffs, new CEO, a public PR problem
2019-04-01 company • gossip • javascript • npm • npmjs
Cured Salted Egg Yolks
A common Asian ingredient newly popular with Western cooks
2019-04-01 chinese • eggs • food • preserved • salt
Security clearances at the White House
Trump administration has overruled the denial of 25 people's security clearances
2019-04-01 corruption • politics • security • trump • whitehouse
About Recurse Center
Interesting coding retreat / school in New York
2019-04-01 coding • newyork • programming • recurse