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One Million Checkboxes hack
Lovely story of some clever young people figuring out how to do mass art with the Internet experiment
2024-08-29 games • hacking • internet • omcb
Smart light database
A bunch of lightbulbs you can control with computers in a table witih some statistics
2024-08-29 bulbs • hue • iot • led • lifx • lighting • lights • smarthome
Telegram for far right culture
Analysis of why the insecure Russian-controlled chat system has become the popular choice for some of the most awful of America's right wing people
2024-08-27 culture • politics • russia • signal • telegram • uspol
Tesla Supercharger failure
Musk's company has proven an unreliable partner, entire US electric car industry is on pause right now
2024-08-27 cars • charging • electricity • ev • musk • nacs • tesla
Minisforum S100
A reasonably powerful PC a little smaller than an iPhone
2024-08-25 computer • hardware • minipc • pc
Musk and Twitter Blue
A story from the new book "How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter"
2024-08-24 checkmark • elonmusk • fraud • identity • twitter • twitterblue • verification
HTML review / XOXO
Presentation of various textile arts and how they relate to web design
2024-08-23 xoxo • design • knitting • textile • weaving • web
Teaxas grid maximum
A lot of demand, a lot of power, and a lot of very high prices
2024-08-22 electricity • electrify • energy • regulation • solar • texas • via:hackernews
Food analysis
Details of the study protocols which determine what's in food, like how much protein or fat
2024-08-20 calories • diet • food • research • science • usda
How calories are calculated
Deep dive on USDA food research. It's not particularly exact.
2024-08-20 calories • diet • food • research • science • usda
Python magic codecs
Some really bonkers Python hacking using a preprocessing facility to add syntax
2024-08-20 coding • hacks • metaprogramming • preprocessor • python
Just use Postgres
Nuts and bolts advice about database options
2024-08-17 database • postgres • software • via:lobsters
14kB websites
Web pages load significantly faster if you can fit within the first 10 packets of TCP slow start. (I'm not sure this is exactly true in 2024 but I like the idea.)
2024-08-17 internet • optimization • slowstart • tcp • web
LEO satellite pollution
More concerns about environmental impact of thousands of artificial satellites burning up in the atmosphere
2024-08-17 environment • leo • orbit • ozone • pollution • starlink
Kind of Bloop vinyl
Andy's remarkable jazz chiptune album has a new vinyl issue (with a new cover)
2024-08-15 chiptunes • jazz • kindofblue • music • vinyl • waxy
ODDADA
New music game, a step sequencer with game mechanics
2024-08-15 games • music • sequencer • via:waxy
NPD data breach
Detailed analysis of the data in a recent high profile data dump that alleges to include the SSNs of all Americans
2024-08-14 badtech • darkweb • npd • privacy • security • ssn
Illustrated QUIC
Detailed byte by byte explanation of the transport protocol replacing TCP for web communication
2024-08-13 http3 • protocol • quic • ssl • tcpip • udp
GitHub CoPilot alternatives
Various free and self-hosted AI code completion tools
2024-08-13 ai • copilot • llm • programming • vscode
SOPHIE — Faceshopping
Haunting music video (CW: strobing)
2024-08-11 identity • music • photoshop • sophie • techno • trans • transgender
Lahaina one year later
Photos of the aftermath of the awful fire that destroyed one of Hawaii's great towns
2024-08-11 fire • hawaii • hawaiʻi • lahaina • photos • wildfire
$DJT token rugpull
A fraud committed by Martin Shkreli? Barron Trump? Unknown other persons?
2024-08-11 cryptocurrency • djt • fraud • politics • scam • shkreli • trump
"Ope" word origin
Argument it's more of a natural physical utterance than a formal word with etmyology. Related to "oops".
2024-08-11 excrescence • etymology • language • via:kottke
Circle Tube Map
Useful alternate map of the London Underground
2024-08-11 maps • subway • tube • via:cal • visualization
Tim Walz, map nerd
VP candidate has GIS expertise
2024-08-09 esri • gis • harriswalz • maps • politics • timwalz • uspol • walz
sqlean-time
New sqlite extension for nanosecond precision time
2024-08-09 calendar • database • datetime • sqlite • sqlite3 • time • via:lobsters
Sonos meltdown
Innovative audio player has had a disastrous quarter on the back of a failed launch of a new app
2024-08-08 management • music • secondsystem • sonos
Olympic Tag
Kabaddi, an Indian form of tag, was an exhibition sport associated with the 1936 Olympics
2024-08-07 games • india • kabaddi • olympics • sports • tag
Bewitched Groom
16th century woodcut, one of a series of the artist's obsession with horses
2024-08-07 art • baldung • hansbaldung • horses • woodcut
EP–1320 medieval
Hilarious video introducing the new Teenage Engineering pocket sequencer
2024-08-07 jodorowsky • medieval • music • synthesizer • teenageengineering
Mining the public domain
Concerns about a new public domain search engine
2024-08-05 creativecommons • culture • jessamyn • libraries • licensing • publicdomain
Repository statistics
Details of versions of software in various Linux distributions
2024-08-05 linux • repos • software • updates • versions
Ventoy
A USB boot disk tool. A generic bootable system which then chains to booting an ISO stored on the USB
2024-08-05 boot • hacking • iso • linux • sysadmin • usb
Kagi leaderboard
A list of domains Kagi users choose to block or promote
2024-08-04 crowdsourcing • kagi • pinterest • search • spam
Musk PAC voter suppression
Dirty tricks with social media ads and voter registration tarpits at America PAC
2024-08-02 americapac • elonmusk • politics • trump • uspol • votingrights
American Height and Weight
A nice static visualization of basic body measurements
2024-08-02 america • bmi • health • height • obesity • weight
Google Quick Share
A newish way to transfer files from a phone to a computer, seems to work
2024-08-01 android • files • filesharing • google • transfer • windows
Intel CPU disaster
Newer Intel desktop CPUs have a flaw that causes permanent hardware damage. There is still no fix.
2024-08-01 classaction • cpu • failure • hardware • intel • microcode