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Alarm Grid
An alarm app / monitoring service that works across many devices and companies
2025-04-29 alarm • home • monitoring
Matt Haughey on Slate truck
Matt knows a lot about trucks and EVs
2025-04-29 cars • mathowie • simple • slate • trucks
2024 US election data
Presidential election results broken down by congressional district
2025-04-26 data • election • gerrymandering • politics • uspol • voting
County judge arrested
FBI arrested a local judge because she wasn't helpful enough when ICE tried to arrest someone who had shown up to court
2025-04-25 civilrights • fascism • fbi • immigration • judiciary • politics • trump • uspol
DHS doxxes victim
Wife of the man illegally transported to El Salvador is now in hiding after the federal government shared her home address on X
2025-04-24 civilrights • dhs • fascism • government • ice • immigration • politics • twitter • uspol
Doll Takeover
2024 article about the word "dolls" as applied to transgender women
2025-04-23 ballculture • dolls • lgbt • protectthedolls • slang • trans
AI sycophancy
How reinforcement learning leads to AIs that act obsequious
2025-04-22 ai • chatgpt • llm • rlhf • training
ConsolePi
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a serial console with Internet access
2025-04-21 console • hacking • internet • serial • server • tcpip
Python t-strings
Language support for templates in a nice way, an evolution of f-strings
2025-04-21 code • programming • python • template
Ostentatio Genitalium
A detailed analysis and rebuttal of the portrayal of the adult Christ's penis in art
2025-04-20 art • christ • christianity • penis • religion • renaissance
Gay men subreddits
A nicely organized list
2025-04-19 community • gay • lgbt • reddit
applejohn
Obscure English word for a shriveled old man
2025-04-18 applejohn • english • language • slang • words
Futel update
Heartfelt status report from the 10+ year public payphone project
2025-04-18 art • futel • karl • payphone • pdx • portland • telephony
Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez
Natural born US citizen being detained by US ICE agents
2025-04-18 civilrights • ice • immigration • politics • trump • uspol
SillyTavern
An LLM frontend that allows a lot of customizaton, RAG, etc
2025-04-17 ai • llm • local • selfhosted
ICE resistance
Family's neighbors in Tennessee physically protect a man from being snatched by immigration
2025-04-16 community • ice • immigration • neighbors • politics • resistance • uspol
Musk's personal eugenics program
Long, well researched WSJ reporting on Musk and the women who are having babies from his genetic material. CW: really gross.
2025-04-16 elonmusk • eugenics • genetics • spermdonor • whitesupremacy
Hertz data breach
Yet another disaster of a major consumer site
2025-04-15 badtech • breach • hertz • privacy
BG3: The Final Patch
Fun animated short celebrating the last major content update for the popular RPG
2025-04-15 baldursgate3 • bg3 • games
4chan pwned
Very serious hack: hosting account compromised, users and moderators doxxed, source code released.
2025-04-15 4chan • badtech • hacking • rightwing • security
Ubisoft Chroma
Open source tool for developing videogames that are accessible to people with color-blindness
2025-04-15 color • colorblindness • games • shaders • ubisoft
Mohsen Mahdawi
Another legal US immigrant disappeared by the Republicans, this time as he was on his way to a citizenship appointment
2025-04-15 civilrights • immigration • politics • student • trump • uspol
Svalbard population map
Finally a population density map that's easy to read
2025-04-14 arctic • funny • maps • norway • svalbard
US power outages
Detailed look at power outage statistics across the US
2025-04-11 california • infrastructure • pge • power • us
Friend of a Friend Finder
A 1997 grad school project of mine, in retrospect would have been a terrific early social media system if I hadn't abandoned working on it
2025-04-11 fff • gradschool • me • medialab • mit • socialmedia
GL.iNet routers
Consumer routers with OpenWRT installed
2025-04-11 hardware • internet • networking • openwrt • router
Blue Shield / Google disaster
For three+ years Blue Shield has been giving Google private medical data that Google then used to target ads.
2025-04-11 ads • blueshield • california • fraud • google • privacy • surveillance
Triple-I showcase
Announcements from the event for high budget indie games
2025-04-10 games • indie • shapez • timberborn
Modulus Demo
New automation game along the lines of Factorio or Shapez. Demo is good!
2025-04-10 automation • factorio • games • shapez
A1 education
America's head of Education gives a talk where she talks about "AI education" only she says "A one", like the steak sauce
2025-04-10 ai • education • funny • ignorance • politics • uspol
Musk plays PoE 2 again
World's richest man loses to tutorial boss when his satellite network fails. At least he didn't pay to get boosted this time!
2025-04-08 elonmusk • funny • gaming • pathofexile • politics • uspol
US citizen deportations
Stories of US citizens snatched by ICE and ejected from the US, entirely illegally
2025-04-07 civilrights • ice • immigration • politics • trump • uspol
Warrington-Runcorn
Mellow electronic music tinged with nostalgia
2025-04-04 electronica • england • music • nostalgia
PDFgear
Free PDF editing software
2025-04-04 adobe • documents • editing • pdf • publishing
Self-hosted email archive
Detailed notes on downloading Gmail and importing it into notmuch, a UNIX CLI mail system
2025-04-04 archives • email • gmail • selfhosting
SF proposed zoning map
Interactive for the draft plan to allow major new housing in San Francisco
2025-04-04 california • density • housing • politics • sanfrancisco • uspol
DOGE so far
A direct assessment of the impact of Elon Musk's effort to eliminate government capability
2025-04-03 doge • elonmusk • politics • trump • uspol
David Hockney 25
A retrospective
2025-04-02 art • gay • hockney • lgbt • paris
Galaxy Einstein ring
Lovely astronomy image of two galaxies, one lensing the other
2025-04-02 astronomy • astrophotography • einsteinring • galaxy • space • via:hackernews
Disappearing color
Interesting analysis of car paint and photography trends
2025-04-02 color • design • photos • via:hackernews
Restaurant Naar
Fine dining in the Indian Himalayas
2025-04-02 dining • food • himalayas • india • kashmir • restaurant
CSS Clicker
An incremental game about and built with CSS and HTML
2025-04-01 clicker • css • funny • games • incremental • via:waxy • web
US disappeared tracking
A data site collecting information on the people the United States has disappeared into ICE custody
2025-04-01 civilrights • fascism • ice • immigration • politics • uspol • via:kottke
The Holdout
A Norman Rockwell painting with a remarkable gender story
2025-04-01 americana • art • gender • jury • rockwell