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Scrapers vs. OpenStreetMap
Bots of some sort are hammering OSM's servers instead of just downloading the bulk free data dump
2026-01-29 ai • bots • hosting • openstreetmap • osm • scraping
Trump Nazi memes
Parallels between Trump social media posts and Nazi propaganda. It's not accidental.
2026-01-25 nazis • politics • propaganda • trump • uspol
BEARS Documentary
New movie being made documenting the gay bear phenomenon
2026-01-23 bears • culture • documentary • gay • lgbt • movie
Isometric NYC AI map
Thoughtful writeup of an AI-generated art project that's not just slop
2026-01-22 ai • art • genai • generative • isometric • map • newyork • nyc • via:hackernews
Liam Ramos
ICE agents abduct a 5 year old, then use him as bait to abduct his father
2026-01-22 children • humanrights • ice • politics • uspol
In Your Arms I Would Start A War
Heartfelt essay on what Heated Rivalry means to one particular gay man, and all gay men
2026-01-22 gay • heatedrivalry • hockey • lgbt • tv
2025: The year in LLMs
Simon's retrospective on trends in AI in the last year
2026-01-20 2025 • ai • llm • simonw • summary
Website hosting tips
Expert gives advice on hosting small websites to simplify the maintenance load
2026-01-20 hosting • internet • server • simple • web • webserver
Dorset culture
A group of people who lived in the North American Arctic before the Inuit
2026-01-19 anthropology • arctic • culture • eskimo • history • inuit
'Blake's 7' Reboot?
Effort to develop a new version of the classic 70s British sci-fi
2026-01-19 blakes7 • scifi • tv
MAGA assault in Sacramento
Group of Trump thugs attack a protestor with a baseball bat
2026-01-19 california • fascism • politics • sacramento • trump • uspol • violence
uifxr
Small noise generator tool
2026-01-18 games • noise • sound • synthesis • wav
Small Factorio ships
Designs for spaceships in the game Factorio
2026-01-18 efficiency • factorio • games • puzzle • spaceship
Robert C. Rore (NSFW)
Homoerotic nudes of men, some playing cello
2026-01-18 cello • erotic • gay • homoerotic • male • nsfw • nude
CNAME vs A record
Cloudflare outage report talks about a subtle wrinkle in DNS, where the order of the records matters when it probably shouldn't
2026-01-15 cloudflare • cname • dns • outage • postmortem
Crystallfontz
Small LCD displays for use to show server status, in drive bay form factors and others
2026-01-15 accessory • display • homelab • lcd • server
Mozilla open source AI
Statement of strategy
2026-01-13 ai • freesoftware • llm • mozilla • opendata • opensource
Privacy AI
Signal founder now working on making AI services that keep user data private
2026-01-13 ai • llm • moxie • privacy • signal
FEX emulator
Run x86 Linux programs on ARM64
2026-01-10 arm • cpu • emulator • intel • linux
Markdown history
Nice writeup of the social history of Markdown, the functional good-enough text markup a lot of people use to write content
2026-01-09 aaronsw • gruber • history • markdown • text • web
Simple Claude Code
A short program building a functional AI agent system like Claude Code
2026-01-08 agents • ai • llms • programming • via:hackernews
Renee Good
Profile of the woman ICE killed yesterday in Minneapolis
2026-01-08 civilrights • fascism • ice • politics • uspol
Danish vaccine rationale
Discussion of why Denmark's childhood vaccination schedule is the way it is
2026-01-08 denmark • politics • publichealth • uspol • vaccines
ICE killing analysis
A neutral, detailed description of the video footage showing ICE agents killing Renee Nicole Good. It is clear that the ICE agents were the threat, they did not respond to a threat.
2026-01-08 ice • killing • nytimes • politics • uspol • video
An Americana Saga
Quirky personal museum near Grass Valley
2026-01-06 america • americana • grassvalley • museum • nevadacounty
Social media labelling
Interesting bot that identifies unusual social media accounts and labels them things like "posts 50+ times a day"
2026-01-06 bluesky • bots • filtering • internet • propaganda • socialmedia
Social media labelling
Interesting bot that identifies unusual social media accounts and labels them things like "posts 50+ times a day"
2026-01-06 bluesky • bots • filtering • internet • propaganda • socialmedia
PingGraph
A network diagnostic tool that issues a lot of fast pings to measure latency, jitter, etc
2026-01-05 internet • jitter • latency • network • ping • tcpip • testing
Anna's Archive move
Large unlicensed book archive lost their .org. The site's still up may just be a challenge finding it. .li and .se work for now.
2026-01-05 annasarchive • books • censorship • domainname • dotorg • piracy
1910 LA air meet
A very early aviation event that got Los Angeles started on its path to being an aerospace hub
2026-01-03 aerospace • airshow • aviation • history • startup • tech
Gundo tech scene
Overview of the Los Angeles aerospace startups, rooted in SpaceX but with a history going back much longer
2026-01-03 aerospace • elsegundo • gundo • hawthorne • la • losangeles • spacex • startups • tech
1Password vs HTML
Popular browser password extension recently had a bug that's breaking syntax highlighting in code samples on web pages
2026-01-02 1password • bug • code • formatting • internet • prismjs
Paris 1970
A collection of photos from a project to have people document Paris in 1970, organized by a map
2026-01-02 france • paris • photography • photos • via:metafilter
Factorio computer
39c3 talk about building a whole computer in the game Factorio
2026-01-01 39c3 • cpu • factorio • games