Casio watches

Photos of various crazy wrist computers

2015-06-30 applewatch • casio • design • watches • wearables

Bing + AOL

Big shift in the search ads business

2015-06-30 ads • aol • bing • microsoft • search

s2n TLS

New SSL implementation from amazing, 6000 lines of code

2015-06-30 amazon • aws • code • security • ssl

Tilemaker

Standalone app for turning OSM data into vector tiles

2015-06-29 maps • openstreetmap • osm • tiles • vectors

chrony

Alternative NTP implementation particularly suited for not-always-connected systems

2015-06-28 linux • ntp • time

Japanese day trader

CIS: crazy story of a small market

2015-06-28 daytrading • japan • market • trading • via:hackernews

peco shell tool

Interactive grep for manual filtering of stdout

2015-06-25 grep • software • tools • unix • via:onethingwell

Protect My Choices

New interest-based ad blocker, an industry initiative

2015-06-25 ads • chrome • privacy

US spying on France

Details of NSA activities against French governments

2015-06-24 espionage • france • politics • us • wikileaks

unix-history-repo

A bunch of Unix source trees all in one git repository

2015-06-24 code • git • history • unix

Reddit 10th birthday

Retrospective and best ofs

2015-06-23 reddit

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag

Some much needed basic facts

2015-06-23 america • confederacy • confederate • racism • slavery • south • thesouth

Wiener on Muni

Humane thoughts from local politician after riding a lot of public transit

2015-06-23 muni • politics • sanfrancisco • transit • wiener

Le Creuset Factory

A visit with photos

2015-06-23 castiron • cooking • lecreuset • via:metafilter

L0pht retrospective

Looking back at 1990s testimonial about computer security threats

2015-06-22 badtech • boston • hackers • l0pht • security

Postgres Indexes

Some basic database design

2015-06-22 database • indexing • postgres • search • via:hackernews

Leaguecraft 101

College-style course on how to play LoL

2015-06-22 games • leagueoflegends • lol • training

LoL win predictor

Student project predicting who is going to win a game

2015-06-22 bayesian • games • lol • machinelearning

LoL + machine learning

Student project on predicting who will win a game. Paper at http://web.stanford.edu/~haoyi/projects.html

2015-06-21 ai • games • lol • machinelearning

What is Code?

Paul Ford's tour de force about programming

2015-06-19 code • ftrain • programming

Economist Reddit IAmA

New editor in chief does an ask-me-anything

2015-06-18 economist • journalism • reddit

Jazz cup designer

Creator of design ephemera found

2015-06-18 cups • design • jazz • reddit

LoL reaction time

Example of a 350ms reaction in esports

2015-06-18 esports • games • lol • psychology • reactiontime

Ruby Rhod

Excellent campy scene from the Fifth Element

2015-06-18 fifthelement • gay • movies • rubyrhod

Private companies lie

Financials from startups can be complete fiction

2015-06-17 finance • mopub • reporting • revenue • startups • twitter

Minnesota waters

Maps that look a little like my vector river map

2015-06-17 data • gis • maps • minnesota • rivers • via:iandees

John Oliver on Torture

Appropriate outrage with Helen Mirrin

2015-06-17 america • civilrights • funny • news • torture

Mapbox Series B: $53M

Excellent mapping company raises a second round

2015-06-17 financing • mapbox • maps • startups

IPv6 update

World's slowest network upgrade

2015-06-16 internet • ipv6 • network

SF delivery services

Handy flowchart of the new e-commerce frontier

2015-06-16 delivery • food • sanfrancisco • via:reddit

1 million packets / second

High throughput UDP in Linux

2015-06-16 linux • networking • scalability • udp • via:hackernews

New Techies of DC

Profile of the tech talent the Obama administration has been hiring to improve government

2015-06-16 18f • government • mikeyd • obama • tech • usds

Old/new statistical atlas

Nathan Yau revisits a famous 1874 set of visualizations with modern data

2015-06-16 america • demographics • visualization

More child rape conspiracy

Yet more Catholic leadership enabled abuse of children

2015-06-15 catholic • church • rape

Unicode apostrophe

A mess in the standard

2015-06-14 english • unicode • writing

Journalism at its worst

Blistering criticism of an anti-Snowden article entirely sourced from anonymous intelligence services

2015-06-14 intelligence • journalism • russia • snowden

Reddit drama

Bad people of Reddit being awful

2015-06-11 community • internet • reddit

MacOS spoofing MAC address

Faking out stupid captive portals

2015-06-11 captiveportal • mac • macos • networking • wifi

The Button wrapup

Reflection on Reddit's surprisingly interesting April Fool's thing

2015-06-09 reddit • thebutton

China: Through the Looking Glass

Great exhibit at the Met looking at Orientalist exoticism and China

2015-06-08 china • chinoiserie • exoticism • orientalism

OpenAddresses talk

Ian Dees describes the geo project I've been working on

2015-06-08 addresses • geo • maps • openaddresses • osm

OSM / Business syllabus

Notes from @randyme's talk at #sotmus about business and OpenStreetMap

2015-06-07 business • license • maps • osm

Mapstarter

Simple tool for converting geodata to SVG and images

2015-06-07 d3 • geojson • image • maps • rendering • svg

Yi action camera

Inexpensive, hackable video camera, Chinese competitor to GoPro

2015-06-07 camera • china • gopro

Togo Triangle

Black market for oil near Nigeria, in the ocean

2015-06-07 blackmarket • nigeria • ocean • oil

Plex SSL for the masses

Company figures out a way to give each user an SSL server with a certificate

2015-06-06 certificates • plex • security • ssl • tv

cycle.travel

OpenStreetMap-based maps for bicyclists

2015-06-06 bicycle • maps • openstreetmap • osm

About CockroachDB

Some of Google's very smart systems engineers have a new database

2015-06-05 database • google • startup • storage

Post-terror generation

Excellent editorial from Snowden on surveillance culture

2015-06-05 civilrights • privacy • snowden • surveillance

Handy Moe

SF Bay Area handyman; just wall mounted a TV for me

2015-06-04 handyman • home • repairs • television

What Twitter Can Be

Some informed meddling from a knowledgable Twitter investor

2015-06-04 investment • product • sacca • twitter

Reporting on FIFA

Delicious story of a muckraking journalist

2015-06-03 fifa • football • journalism • scandal

Anti-virus software

Perfect analogy from XKCD

2015-06-03 antivirus • comics • funny • security • voting

SSDs: a gift and a curse

Etsy discovers firmware in SSDs is unreliable

2015-06-03 firmware • ssd • storage • via:hackernews

FBI aviation surveillance

More info on the mysterious program with the FBI illegally hoovering up cell phone signals

2015-06-02 aviation • civilrights • drones • fbi • surveillance

Kansas tax failure

Grand Republican experiment in supply-side economics is a failure

2015-06-02 brownback • economics • kansas • republicans • taxes

Tatjana van Vark

Dutch woman makes sculptures / reproductions of scientific machinery

2015-06-01 art • sculpture • steampunk • via:metafilter