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