Nelson's Linkblog 2026-01

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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 hosting • osm • openstreetmap • bots • ai • scraping

Trump Nazi memes

Parallels between Trump social media posts and Nazi propaganda. It's not accidental.

2026-01-25 uspol • politics • trump • propaganda • nazis

BEARS Documentary

New movie being made documenting the gay bear phenomenon

2026-01-23 gay • lgbt • bears • culture • movie • documentary

Isometric NYC AI map

Thoughtful writeup of an AI-generated art project that's not just slop

2026-01-22 ai • art • generative • genai • nyc • newyork • map • isometric • via:hackernews

ICE agents abduct a 5 year old, then use him as bait to abduct his father

2026-01-22 uspol • politics • ice • children • humanrights

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 • lgbt • heatedrivalry • hockey • tv

2025: The year in LLMs

Simon's retrospective on trends in AI in the last year

2026-01-20 ai • llm • 2025 • simonw • summary

Website hosting tips

Expert gives advice on hosting small websites to simplify the maintenance load

2026-01-20 hosting • webserver • web • internet • server • simple

A group of people who lived in the North American Arctic before the Inuit

2026-01-19 history • culture • inuit • arctic • eskimo • anthropology

'Blake's 7' Reboot?

Effort to develop a new version of the classic 70s British sci-fi

2026-01-19 blakes7 • tv • scifi

MAGA assault in Sacramento

Group of Trump thugs attack a protestor with a baseball bat

2026-01-19 politics • uspol • fascism • sacramento • california • trump • violence

Small noise generator tool

2026-01-18 sound • noise • wav • games • synthesis

Small Factorio ships

Designs for spaceships in the game Factorio

2026-01-18 games • factorio • efficiency • puzzle • spaceship

Robert C. Rore (NSFW)

Homoerotic nudes of men, some playing cello

2026-01-18 gay • nude • nsfw • erotic • cello • male • homoerotic

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 cname • dns • postmortem • cloudflare • outage

Small LCD displays for use to show server status, in drive bay form factors and others

2026-01-15 display • server • homelab • lcd • accessory

Mozilla open source AI

Statement of strategy

2026-01-13 ai • llm • mozilla • opensource • freesoftware • opendata

Signal founder now working on making AI services that keep user data private

2026-01-13 privacy • ai • llm • moxie • signal

Run x86 Linux programs on ARM64

2026-01-10 emulator • arm • intel • cpu • 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 markdown • web • history • gruber • aaronsw • text

Simple Claude Code

A short program building a functional AI agent system like Claude Code

2026-01-08 programming • llms • ai • agents • via:hackernews

Profile of the woman ICE killed yesterday in Minneapolis

2026-01-08 politics • uspol • ice • civilrights • fascism

Danish vaccine rationale

Discussion of why Denmark's childhood vaccination schedule is the way it is

2026-01-08 uspol • politics • denmark • publichealth • 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 • politics • uspol • killing • video • nytimes

An Americana Saga

Quirky personal museum near Grass Valley

2026-01-06 americana • america • museum • grassvalley • 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 socialmedia • bluesky • internet • bots • propaganda • filtering

Social media labelling

Interesting bot that identifies unusual social media accounts and labels them things like "posts 50+ times a day"

2026-01-06 socialmedia • bluesky • internet • bots • propaganda • filtering

A network diagnostic tool that issues a lot of fast pings to measure latency, jitter, etc

2026-01-05 ping • network • testing • internet • tcpip • latency • jitter

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 books • annasarchive • piracy • dotorg • domainname • censorship

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 history • aerospace • aviation • tech • startup • airshow

Gundo tech scene

Overview of the Los Angeles aerospace startups, rooted in SpaceX but with a history going back much longer

2026-01-03 tech • startups • la • losangeles • spacex • gundo • elsegundo • hawthorne • aerospace

1Password vs HTML

Popular browser password extension currently has a bug that's breaking syntax highlighting in code samples on web pages

2026-01-02 1password • bug • code • internet • formatting • prismjs

A collection of photos from a project to have people document Paris in 1970, organized by a map

2026-01-02 paris • photography • photos • via:metafilter • france

Factorio computer

39c3 talk about building a whole computer in the game Factorio

2026-01-01 games • factorio • cpu • 39c3