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Motherfucking Wind Farms
Samuel L. Jackson in a video for a clean energy company
2025-07-31 climatechange • funny • globalwarming • samueljackson • windfarms • windmills
ICE torture
Details of the torture that Venezuelans suffered in a Salvadoran prison after the US sent them there
2025-07-30 ice • immigration • politics • torture • uspol
All text NYC
Map search engine for every word seen in a Street View photo of every street in New York
2025-07-29 geography • maps • newyork • ocr
Debian 64 bit time
Getting ahead of an obsolence problem, switching to a larger time type early
2025-07-28 debian • linux • time • y2038 • y2k
Projectivy Launcher
Replace GoogleTV's ad-ridden home screen with something else
2025-07-28 adblocker • ads • android • google • googletv • launcher • tv
Scientology keyboard
Bizarre custom keyboard for the cult
2025-07-27 cherry • cult • incomm • keyboard • religion • scientology • via:jwz
Harper's CLAUDE.md
One engineer's take on getting Claude Code to work better for him. Lots of interesting and tested ideas here.
2025-07-26 ai • claude • claudecode • harperreed • llm • programming • prompting
Poly-1 computer
A 1980s computer developed in New Zealand for schools. Included networking!
2025-07-25 computing • education • history • networking • newzealand • schools
Draw a fish
Fun collaborative art project: draw fish, watch them swimming around in a tank with other people's fishes
2025-07-25 art • fish • game • online • via:metafilter
goo.gl burned down
$BBB company can't afford to keep a simple link redirector online, so destroying a big part of the Internet they encouraged people to trust them to make
2025-07-25 google • links • services • shortener
Open WebUI
A frontend for self-hosted LLMs
2025-07-23 ai • llm • selfhosted • ui • webapp
ExRx.net
Website with fitness info, exercises, etc
2025-07-23 diet • exercise • fitness • gym • nutrition
Queer Sargent
Painter considered
2025-07-22 art • gay • lgbt • painting • queer • sargent
Sargent & Paris
Major exhibition at the Met
2025-07-22 art • gay • lgbt • met • metropolitan • newyork • nyc • queer • sargent
Texas Courthouses
Some lovely civic architecture
2025-07-21 america • architecture • courthouse • government • smalltown • texas
Audio Test Files
A big batch of video and audio files in different formats
2025-07-20 audio • hometheater • plex • test • tv
Repomix
Converts code into a format that's easy for an AI to ingest
2025-07-20 ai • code • formatting • programming
Rescuing Medium
Very detailed article about the complex business of taking a failing small company and restructuring and recapitalizing it
2025-07-18 business • ev • investors • medium • startups • tony
MechaHitler's origin
Nice overview of how LLMs have hate speech hiding in their machine hearts
2025-07-18 ai • grok • hatespeech • llm
Chain of Thought AI
Recent systems are having an LLM talk to itself as a sort of thinking out loud to produce better answers
2025-07-18 ai • intelligence • llm • programming
Laptop LLM
You can run decent AIs on a small computer
2025-07-18 ai • hardware • inference • llama • llm
Cadillac Publishing
Some info on a 1950s publisher of sexology books
2025-07-17 books • publishing • sex • sexology
Amazon kiro breakdown
Tech details of Amazon's new agent coding system
2025-07-16 ai • amazon • aws • coding • kiro • llm • programming
Old Man Yaoi
Analysis of the trend of older gay men being featured in TV shows
2025-07-16 gay • lgbt • older • severance • silverfox • tv • yaoi
Pope traffic spike
Wikipedia logs on the moment the pope's election was announced
2025-07-16 scaling • via:lobsters • web • wikipedia
Grok anime waifu
Prompt leaked for Grok's mode for entertaining creepy men
2025-07-15 ai • anime • funny • grok • waifu
Map of Pride flags
Visualization of the connections between various pride flags
2025-07-15 vexillology • flags • gay • lgbt • visualization
Church of Robotron
Are you the mutant savior?
2025-07-14 culture • funny • futel • games • karl • pdx • portland • robotron
123apps
Simple webapp tools for working with video, audio, PDF. There are a zillion of these products but this one seems simple and not sleazy, at least on a quick test of the webcam recorder
2025-07-14 apps • audio • pdf • video • webapp • webcam
China digital IDs
China follows India and other countries in building a national online identity system. It is optional, for now.
2025-07-13 china • identity • login • password • privacy
Vocoder National Anthem
Dan Deacon does an unusual and effective performance at a ball game
2025-07-13 dandeacon • laurieanderson • music • nationalanthem
Mele ma‘i
Traditional Hawaiian songs, humorous descriptions of genitals
2025-07-11 culture • hawaii • hawaiʻi • history • sex • song
Puddles Pity Party Show
Weird music shtick was turned into something more like a TV show
2025-07-11 clowns • music • puddles • tv
ICE resistance
Nursing staff comes to the aid of a man being attacked by an unidentified armed assailant claiming to be a federal agent
2025-07-11 bravery • civilrights • fascism • ice • uspol
ICE discontent
Not all ICE agents are happy about being Trump's brownshirts
2025-07-11 dhs • fascism • ice • military • politics • trump • uspol
Bypass Paywalls Clean
Useful browser extension keeps getting knocked offline: Twitter and this Russian hosting seem to be the best point of contact now
2025-07-11 ads • chrome • extension • firefox • paywall
Mamdani Headlines
Site parodying the NYTimes desperate efforts to smear the Democrat nominee for New York mayor.
2025-07-09 funny • mamdani • newyork • nyt • nytimes • parody • politics • uspol
DHS Christian Nationalism
Recruiting ad posted by the federal government juxtaposes militarism, Christianity, and nationalism
2025-07-09 america • christian • dhs • ice • politics • religion • uspol
ICE violence in SF
Federal thugs assault protestors
2025-07-09 fascism • ice • politics • sanfrancisco • sf • uspol
LA invasion
A frightening intimidation operation from Trump / ICE people in a Los Angeles park
2025-07-08 fascism • ice • immigration • la • losangeles • politics • uspol
Guadalupe escape
Account from a high school classmate of mine about evacuating the flooding in Texas
2025-07-08 davidbeebe • flooding • guadalupe • history • kerrville • sjs
nVidia GPU virtualization
Folks crack nVidia's limiting of virtualizing consumer GPUs
2025-07-07 ai • gpu • hacking • nvidia • proxmox • vgpu • virtualization
Bot Traffic
Cloudflare's stats on bot activity on the Internet
2025-07-07 bots • crawlers • internet • metrics
OCaml at Jane Street
Article about the investment company's use of an unusual programming language
2025-07-06 culture • finance • fintech • janestreet • ocaml • programming
Anila Quayyum Agha
Amazing sculptural art
2025-07-04 art • muslim • pakistan • sculpture
Black ASL
Introduction to a dialect of sign language
2025-07-04 asl • basl • black • culture • deaf • language
AI gender
Sharp observation about how the simple servant AIs are female and the fancy powerful agents are male
2025-07-02 agents • ai • gender