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Reddit API pricing
Rumors; 50M requests for $12,000
2023-05-31 reddit • api • pricing • socialmedia
A chiral aperiodic monotile
Improves on previous result by not requiring reflections
2023-05-30 math • tiling • penrose • tile • via:lobsters
Zelda Osprey (spoilers)
Spoilers for some game mechanics; the crazy builds folks are doing with the new Zelda game are amazing.
2023-05-30 games • zelda • totk • mechanics • zonai • osprey
Zelda Wiki
Fan community wiki, supplants the Fandom one
2023-05-30 wiki • games • zelda • totk • community
System Shock oral history
Interviews with the folks who made a ground breaking game in the 90s
2023-05-30 lookingglass • games • systemshock • fermier • spector
Carmel by the Sea addresses
An American addity, a wealthy town without street addresses. Documentation of all the weird accomodations they undertake.
2023-05-30 maps • addresses • openaddresses • carmel • california • america
RAMMap
Windows tool to explore details of physical memory usage
2023-05-29 windows • sysadmin • swap • ram
Audrey Scholars
Matt Mullenweg funding education for children of open source contributors
2023-05-28 scholarship • philanthropy • opensource • wordpress • education
Bear vs Yuba River
Bear swimming for its life in the Yuba River (he made it)
2023-05-28 bear • nevadacounty • yubariver • washington
Trump Bucks
Gullible MAGA types make good marks for a swindle
2023-05-28 trump • scam • maga • currency • fraud • politics
AxiDraw hidden line removal
Popular hobbyist plotter software can now remove hidden lines by respecting SVG fills
2023-05-27 plotter • art • axidraw • occlusion • svg
State Farm out of California
Major insurer will no longer write home insurance in California.
2023-05-27 insurance • california • wildfire • climatechange • fair • politics
NetSetMan
Little Windows utility to manage multiple network configurations, switch between them (automatically if you want)
2023-05-26 internet • network • windows • configuration
Lipstick Lover
Sexy new Janelle Monáe video
2023-05-26 music • queer • lesbian • janellemonae • sex • erotic
Jedi Blue (2021)
Collusion between Google and Facebook to fix the online ads market
2023-05-26 antitrust • collusion • google • facebook • badtech • fraud • scam • ads
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/slide/
A mobile phone game for multi-touch
2023-05-26 games • phone • multitouch • hci • ui • via:metafilter
Black Girl Gamers
Community and consulting company about representation of Black girls and women in games
2023-05-26 games • representation • diversity • black • culture • via:metafilter
AI Canon
Excellent roundup of technical articles on modern deep learning AI.
2023-05-26 ai • llm • deeplearning • chatgpt
Building a Zelda tank
Spoilers for TotK game mechanics: how to build a fancy tank using the game's construction system
2023-05-26 zelda • games • totk • tank • ultrahand
Same sex census
Details from 2020 census about same sex couples. Limited data but more than nothing!
2023-05-25 lgbt • gay • census • america • politics
FreshTomato
A continuation of an excellent third party firmware for Broadcom routers
2023-05-25 router • tomato • internet • networking
SectorC: 512 byte C compiler
A compiler stuffed in an unimaginably small amount of x86 code. Not exactly C but a useful subset.
2023-05-25 c • hacks • compilers • scene • demoscene • x86 • programming • via:lobsters
Museum of Borgmon Abstract Art
A collection of aesthetically pleasing system monitoring graphs
2023-05-25 via:ryanb • art • borgmon • monitoring • graphs • charts • devops
One Hour One Life photos
Images from Jason Rohrer's experimental multiplayer game; to even take a photo in-game takes hours of development
2023-05-25 games • photos • rohrer
BART anime
Bay Area transit gets anime mascots
2023-05-25 anime • bart • transit • mascot • art • bayarea
Box86 / Box64
Another option for emulating Intel CPUs on an ARM system
2023-05-25 games • intel • arm • emulation
FEX-Emu
x86 emulator for aarch64
2023-05-25 arm • intel • emulation • linux • hacking
psdoom
~2000 hack using Doom as a user interface for system management
2023-05-24 games • interface • metaphor • doom • top • ps • unix
Technically Optimistic
New podcast about AI from Raffi Krikorian at the Emerson Collective
2023-05-24 podcast • ai • raffi • emersoncollective • technology
Brazilian-American vs "Hispanic"
Interesting data from an accidental US Census release
2023-05-23 brazil • brasil • latinamerican • demographics • america • politics • hispanic
Ditherpunk
I decent survey of a lost graphics technique
2023-05-23 graphics • dithering • shading
Reno property blockchain
City of Reno announced a big blockchain project. Here it is, a table of 21 historic places.
2023-05-22 crypto • scam • blockchain • reno • property • ledger • record • database
Link (Tears of the Kingdom)
Example of a bunch of excellent thirsty fan art, some of it gender-bending
2023-05-20 zelda • games • link • totk
Neeva shutting down
Alternative search engine can't make enough headway
2023-05-20 startups • google • search • neeva • bing • competition
Wendy Carlos profile
New article appreciating the synthesizer musician's talents and interpreting her work in the context of her gender identity
2023-05-19 music • wendycarlos • via:metafilter • transgender • lgbt • trans
Apple passkey screenshots
What logging in with the new authentication tech looks like on an iPhone, as of Nov 2022
2023-05-19 authentication • passkeys • apple • iphone • ios • login • password
Sepak Takraw
Fun photos from a game like volleyball, only played with the feet
2023-05-17 sports • athleticism • sea • photos • acrobatics
Robin Hood and furries
A look at a powerful subtext in a classic Disney film
2023-05-17 furries • queer • robinhood • animation • disney
Wire EDM
Well made video explaining a precision metal machining method
2023-05-17 via:kottke • youtube • manufacturing • machining
Anna’s Archive
Metasearch for various unlicensed books, journal articles, etc
2023-05-17 via:waxy • books • journals • science • ebooks • zlibrary • scihub
MrChromebox
Custom firmware hacks for Chromebooks
2023-05-16 chromebook • chromeos • hacking • laptop
HalfTop
A very small subreddit for people to share the laptops they are using with the screens removed (plugged in to an external monitor)
2023-05-16 computer • hacker • hardware • laptop
Apple accessibility products
A bunch of neat new stuff to make technology simpler and easier to use. It's pitched as adaptive tech for people with cognitive limitations but much of it looks more broadly useful to me.
2023-05-16 apple • accessibility • adaptive • interface • hci • ui
Chromebrew
A package manager for installing Linux tools in the ChromeOS host OS (not a container). Not something ordinary folks need but could be useful.
2023-05-16 chromebook • chromeos • linux • homebrew • packagemanager • hacking
Ramps
Economist pays homage to the wild fresh spring vegetable / herb that we are sadly deprived of in California
2023-05-16 food • ramps • foraging • herbs • spring • garlic
VSCodium
Open source build of VS.Code that removes telemetry
2023-05-15 privacy • vscode • coding • software • opensource • development
Police non-profit fraud
Investigation into the robocalling scam network that's raised $89M to... raise more money (and pay off its owners)
2023-05-14 fraud • police • robocall • charity • scam • politics
Adjusting trackpad action
Simple hardware fix to lower quality laptops to change how the trackpad feels physically
2023-05-13 laptop • chromebook • hardware • repair • trackpad
Passkey explainer
A useful Q&A explaining how Passkeys work and why they are good
2023-05-13 login • authentication • passkey • password • 1password
Early Computer Art
A nice sampling of mid-century work
2023-05-12 via:waxy • art • generated • computer
Lakitu Bros.
Characters from Super Mario 64; they held the camera and their existence as characters was used to explain how to control the camera in the innovative 3d game
2023-05-12 games • mario • camera • ui • hci • metaphor
Climate Reanalyzer
Visualization of whole-planet ocean surface temperature year by year. We're 0.5°C or nearly 3σ over the 1982-2011 mean.
2023-05-12 globalwarming • climatechange • ocean • sea
About Bobby Fingers
Waxy digs into an enigmatic Youtube creator
2023-05-11 youtube • models • dioramas • bobbyfingers
goblin.tools
Wrapper for ChatGPT that is task focussed: "help me plan this complex goal" or "tell me what the emotional tone of this text is". Intended for neurodivergent people but looks generally useful
2023-05-11 ai • via:metafilter • chatgpt • autism • neurodiversity • lifehacks • adulting
Animating game hugs
Deep dive on a specific technical innovation in Horizon Burning Shores
2023-05-11 games • animation • hugging • aloy • horizon • burningshores
A16z crypto scams
A skeptical reading of the latest attempt by the venture capitalists to hype various fraud-related investments
2023-05-10 vc • via:metafilter • crypto • a16z • pmarca • scam • fraud
What3Words is unsafe
Various technical problems with the stupid proprietary location algorithm
2023-05-08 maps • security • safety • what3words • addressing
tako-raisu
Okinawan fusion: Tex-Mex taco meat flavored with soy sauce and dashi, served on sushi rice
2023-05-08 food • okinawa • japan • texmex • tacos
ChromeOS / Ubuntu
Reddit wiki instructions for using a different Linux on a Chromebook
2023-05-07 linux • ubuntu • chromeos • chromebook
Discord username change
A mess changing the identity of individuals
2023-05-06 discord • username • socialmedia • via:hackernews • identity
atuin shell history
Replaces shell history with a sqlite database, enabling all sorts of powerful tricks
2023-05-06 via:hackernews • bash • commandline • cli • unix • sqlite • history
MPT-7B
Mozilla is training free open source large language models
2023-05-05 ai • mozilla • llm • chatgpt
Programming ur-languages
Algol, Lisp, ML, Smalltalk, Forth, APL, Prolog: the archetypes of programming languages
2023-05-05 programming • paradigm • languages • code
Google AI strategy
Analysis of a leak that talks about open source AI developments, also LoRA for tuning a trained model cheaply
2023-05-04 ai • opensource • google • chatgpt
Culture of Court corruption
Justice Scalia took lots of undisclosed gifts from years
2023-05-04 politics • supremecourt • corruption • scalia
More Supreme Court corruption
Yet more information of secret payments to Clarence Thomas
2023-05-04 politics • corruption • supremecourt • clarencethomas • crow
Brittney Griner update
Happier times after her time as an unlawful detainee in Russia
2023-05-04 sports • brittneygriner • politics • russia • basketball • wnba
Gay people in Barney Miller
An appreciation of the 1970s sitcom's queer representation
2023-05-04 gay • lgbt • barneymiller • queer • tv
Passkeys.directory
A list of websites that support the new authentication mechanism
2023-05-03 webauthn • passkey • login • passwords • authentication
Pumped hydro
A nice visual guide to a popular method of storing electricity
2023-05-02 energy • electricity • hydroelectric • pumpedhydro • solar • wind • globalwarming
Blue skies over Mastodon
A thoughtful critique of Mastodon from the perspective of product design for user needs
2023-05-01 mastodon • socialmedia • bluesky • twitter • design • product