Tech bros are shallow

Excellent summary of the reaction to the Musk / Twitter texts. These emperors are wearing no clothes.

2022-09-30 billionaires • investors • musk • tech • twitter • vapidity

Internet timekeeping

New Yorker on the history of NTP and its evolution

2022-09-30 chrony • community • davidmills • networking • ntp • time

AI Data Laundering

Details of how aggressive AI datasets are producing trained models which are then used without respect for the source material's license

2022-09-30 ai • copyright • creativecommons • licensing • machinelearning • meta • training

Mars First Logistics

Interesting looking game in development, physics based game building a Mars colony

2022-09-29 demo • games • kerbalspaceprogram • mars • physics

RIP Google Stadia

Faltering game streaming service is being shut down. With full refunds for customers (!)

2022-09-29 games • gaming • google • shutdown • stadia • streaming

Tumblr porn in 2022

Matt Mullenweg explaining the realities of hosting adult content in 2022

2022-09-28 appstore • business • creditard • internet • porn • safety • tumblr • via:waxy

Pig butchered

Details of a victim of a cryptocurrency confidence scam

2022-09-28 cryptocurrency • fraud • metatrader • scam

GPS Geoid correction

Technical details of getting mean sea level altitude, creating a Web API for lookups

2022-09-28 altitude • api • elevation • geoid • gis • gps • msl

ALARM Project

Algorithmic redistricting, a Harvard data experiment

2022-09-27 elections • gerrymandering • politics • redistricting

Redistricting commissions work

Data shows that non-partisan redistricting produces more competitive, non-partisan electoral districts

2022-09-27 elections • gerrymandering • migurski • poiltics • redistricting

No Right to Rebellion

Op/ed about how the Constitution (and the 2nd Amendment) in no way enshrines a right to rebel against the American government

2022-09-27 2a • 2ndamendment • coup • guns • insurrection • politics • rebellion • revolution

Tripitaka Koreana

800 year old woodblocks of a religious text, 52M Hanja characters. Huge book and old.

2022-09-27 archive • books • buddhism • korea • printing • writing

Loop Habit Tracker

A nice simple open source daily task tracker

2022-09-27 android • apps • gamification • habits • opensource • quantifiedself

Xi Jinping rumor spread

About the false story that got some traction

2022-09-26 china • journalism • news • propaganda • rumor • xi • xijinping

Church bingo attacked

Fascists with guns attacked a bingo event in Katy, Texas.

2022-09-26 acceleration • america • bingo • church • drag • guns • lgbt • politics • proudboys • violence

Plausible Analytics

A privacy friendly, self-hostable alternative to Google Analytics

2022-09-26 analytics • statistics • tracking • web

summarize.tech

AI summarizes Youtube videos

2022-09-25 ai • summary • via:waxy • youtube

Porting Factorio to Switch

Details from a game developer of adapting a PC game to Nintendo's handheld

2022-09-25 factorio • games • nintendo • programming • switch

Silphion

Lost Roman-era herb may have been rediscovered

2022-09-24 asafoetida • cooking • food • herbs • history • via:metafilter

Star Trek: The Motion Picture enhanced

Original producers spent a bunch of time redoing special effects and editing to make the movie tighter

2022-09-24 editing • films • movies • nostalgia • startrek • vger

Examine

A database style website attempting to be rational about nutritional supplements and health claims

2022-09-23 health • medicine • science • supplements

BirdCast

Forecasts of bird migrations for the US with data and visualizations

2022-09-23 animals • birds • forecast • migration • nature

bottle-imp for WSL2

Third party package for Microsoft's Linux that smooths over some integration problems with systemd. Open source in action!

2022-09-23 linux • microsoft • opensource • sysadmin • systemd • windows • wsl

Lehr's German Specialties

Update on Noe Valley's odd little German specialty store

2022-09-22 german • noevalley • sf • shopping • store

ꙮ

Details on the Multiocular O, the Unicode oddity

2022-09-22 eyes • language • metafilter • religion • slavonic • ꙮ

WSL and systemd

Microsoft's Linux environment embraces the standard init process

2022-09-21 init • linux • sysadmin • systemd • unix • wsl

Block Party's plan

How the founder of the Twitter middleware sees user empowering moderation tools for social media.

2022-09-21 blockparty • filtering • moderation • startup • tracy • twitter

Block Party funding

Twitter middleware that helps you choose who to see and block gets a $4.8M seed round

2022-09-21 blockparty • filtering • moderation • safety • startup • tracy • twitter

The Wretched of Middle‐Earth

Mills on Tolkien; analyzing how Lord of the Rings is rooted in European racist ideology

2022-09-21 books • europe • fiction • philosophy • racism • tolkien

Starlink deterioration

New data from Ookla about the ISP; median speeds are down from 90Mbps to 62Mbps in the US.

2022-09-21 congestion • internet • isp • ookla • spacex • starlink

Brython

Python scripting in the browser with a 1.2MB runtime

2022-09-20 browser • development • javascript • programming • python • web

Texas brunch attack

Fascists show up in Pflugerville (near Austin) to intimidate and harass people trying to have brunch

2022-09-20 drag • fascism • lgbt • pflugerville • politics • proudboys • texas

What3words and Wikipedia

Company editing its own Wikipedia page to remove criticism

2022-09-20 maps • scam • what3words • wikipedia

Political spam privileged

Google testing letting political begging spam get through spam filters

2022-09-19 email • filtering • gmail • google • politics • spam

Python dataframe

A generic API for 2d arrays of numbers used in high performance computing

2022-09-19 cudf • matrix • pandas • programming • python

Serbia EuroPride

A part of Europe still not safe for LGBT people has a pride parade

2022-09-18 belgrade • fascism • lgbt • pride • serbia

Riis Beach

Lovely photo essay about a New York City beach in the margins, popular with queer people

2022-09-16 beach • culture • gay • lgbt • newyork • nyc • riisbeach

Fog

Long, lyrical essay about fog and weather science in San Francisco

2022-09-15 fog • sanfrancisco • sf • weather

Heat Pumps

Excellent guide to considering a heat pump to heat and cool your house

2022-09-13 appliance • cooling • furnace • globalwarming • heating • home • hvac

The Houston Arrow

Detailed reporting on a stark demographic and geographic divide in Houston, the haves and have nots and the history of how we got there

2022-09-13 demographics • economics • freedmanstown • history • houston • socialjustice

Felt maps update

New data visualization / map building tool has a major new feature release

2022-09-13 data • datascience • felt • mapbox • maps • visualization

-ffast-math explained

Details on optimizations the dangerous compiler flag does

2022-09-13 compiler • floatingpoint • fpu • math • optimization • programming

Python modules vs FPU behavior

Detailed analysis of how some innocuous Python packages change the floating point behavior of the CPU in a way that can break scientific computation

2022-09-13 fast-math • fpu • numericalcomputing • packaging • python

Bufferbloat / Starlink

Expert group on ISP performance has a mailing list about Starlink

2022-09-13 bufferbloat • internet • isp • starlink • trafficshaping

Land, oil and ice

An eloquent essay about Alaska and global warming

2022-09-12 alaska • climatechange • globalwarming • oil • permafrost • wilderness

Death threats for Boise Pride

Kids dress-up event cancelled because of threats amplified by local Republicans

2022-09-11 boise • children • drag • fascism • idaho • lgbt • politics

Typography: grade vs weight

The difference between a slightly heavier letterform and a bold form

2022-09-11 fonts • printing • typography • weight

Wilderplace

A new puzzle adventure game with a lovely handcrafted look

2022-09-10 adventure • games • puzzle • via:tmcw

AI art banning

Art communities are starting to ban AI art, at least in part because it's prolific and not very good

2022-09-10 ai • art • artstation • deviantart • furaffinity • gan • machinelearning

Gao Rong

Artist who make sculptures of realistic objects with embroidery.

2022-09-10 art • china • contemporary • embroidery • sculpture • whiterabbit

NOAA - HRR Smoke

A technical model of smoke from wildfires

2022-09-09 aqi • california • fire • forecast • sierra • smoke • weather

David Shor's party

NYT style section goes hard after a young political data analyst

2022-09-08 democrats • dnc • effectivealtruism • funny • nytimes • politics • style

PNG Sculpture Garden

Stanford campus, art by people from Papua New Guinea

2022-09-08 anthropology • art • culture • papuanewguinea • png • sepik • stanford

EVs and CA grid

Lots of details on how electric vehicles interact with grid demand

2022-09-08 batteries • california • cars • climatechange • electricvehicles • power

Aues uf Schwiitzerdütsch

An entire subreddit in Swiss German, a language that until the Internet era was seldom written

2022-09-08 culture • german • language • swiss • swissgerman • switzerland

Glaciers of California

Surprising amount of permanent ice in the Southern Sierra, a little bit up north too

2022-09-08 california • glaciers • globalwarming • ice • mountains • sierra

Floating down the Guadalupe

New York media documents an old lazy Texas tradition

2022-09-07 guadalupe • hillcountry • newbraunfels • river • summer • texas

The Greatest Menace

Excellent podcast about 1950s/60s attempts in Australia to "eradicate homosexuality" with prison abuse. Deep investigation, interviews with living survivors

2022-09-07 australia • gayrights • history • lgbt • newsouthwales • prison • sydney

Attack on Riverside Pride

Southeastern California Pride event attacked by fascists

2022-09-07 california • civilrights • fascism • inlandempire • lgbt • politics • riverside

Truth Social financing problem

SPAC under investigation for fraud is also facing procedural problems

2022-09-06 financing • fraud • ipo • propaganda • spac • trump • truthsocial

Starship prompt

A smart prompt built on a Rust binary

2022-09-05 bash • programming • prompt • shell • terminal

Nerd Fonts

System to add a bunch of icons to popular fixed with terminal fonts, for extra shell prompt hijinx

2022-09-05 font • icon • shell • terminal

2022 Hugo Awards

Winners of the sci-fi awards

2022-09-05 books • hugos • scifi

Automattic stock plan

Company behind Wordpress has an unusual employee equity structure

2022-09-05 automattic • compensation • equity • options • startups • stock • wordpress

Campbell, CA library attack

Another story reading disrupted by extremists; in this one the parents defended the library

2022-09-03 dragqueen • fascism • hate • lgbt • library • reading

Large text compression benchmark

Big collection of lossless compression algorithms tested against Wikipedia text. Some exotic ideas here!

2022-09-02 algorithms • benchmark • compression • neuralnetworks • optimization

USB naming worsens

USB4 Version 2.0 added to the list of confusing USB specs

2022-09-02 naming • product • usb • usb-c • via:reddit

yt-dlp, youtube-dl fork

youtube-dl has had some development problems; this fork is popular

2022-09-02 download • music • python • video • youtube • youtube-dl

CA electricity infrastructure

Web map of transmission lines, substations, power plants

2022-09-02 california • electricity • infrastructure • maps • pge • power

California electric generation

Annual report of sources of electricity

2022-09-02 california • climatechange • electricity • energy • globalwarming

G100UL approved

After literally decades, FAA approves unleaded fuel for small airplanes

2022-09-01 100ll • airplanes • aviation • engines • g100ul • gas • lead • pollution • via:hackernews

Trump coup pardons

Former president promises to pardon the people who violently attacked the US Capitol in a failed attempt to overthrow the government

2022-09-01 coup • fascism • pardon • politics • trump

Resiniferatoxin

A plant substance that's 1000x times hotter than capsaicin. Uses same sensory pathway, just more effective

2022-09-01 capsaicin • chile • food • heat • scoville

Corn Kid overexposure

The rise and fall of what was originally a charming kid video and quickly became a commercially exploited squeezed out husk

2022-09-01 ads • corn • cornkid • culture • meme • tiktok

Chengdu lockdown

China continues to curfew entire cities as part of its zero Covid strategy

2022-09-01 chengdu • china • civilrights • covid • curfew • health • lockdown • quarantine • sichuan

AMP in practice

Newspaper site ends AMP support, finds little impact on traffic

2022-09-01 amp • google • html • openweb • web

Skin of One’s Teeth

The odd idiom dates to an awkward translation in the King James Bible. "Lips" may be what was meant.

2022-09-01 bible • english • hebrew • idiom • kingjames • language • lips