Elephant drawings

600 years of drawing an animal the illustrator had never seen

2017-12-31 art • drawing • elephants • history • via:amitp

Favourite maps from 2017

Nice roundup

2017-12-31 maps • visualization

Face swap porn

AI is now being used to produce creepy pornography

2017-12-31 faceswap • machinelearning • porn • sex • via:hackernews

Cloudflare LavaRand

They actually have a wall of lava lamps as a random number source

2017-12-31 cloudflare • cryptography • lavarand • ssl • via:hackernews

Asymmetric Aircraft

A list of 10

2017-12-31 airplanes • aviation • via:metafilter

Takaosan Interchange

Crazy mountain highway interchange near Tokyo

2017-12-30 highway • interchange • japan • maps • tokyo

Uber in 2017

A roundup of the worst company in tech

2017-12-30 kalanick • scandal • tirefire • uber

CSS design tricks

Some small tweaks to web presentation to make things look better

2017-12-30 colors • css • fonts • html • ui

Anatomy of a Hustle

Planet Money on the Manafort indictment for money laundering and various crooked international political dealings

2017-12-29 manafort • mueller • politics • scandal • trump

reptyr

Magic program to change a process to a new parent and pty

2017-12-28 pty • screen • terminal • tmux • tty • unix

Paprika

Recipe manager app; scrape recipes and save them to your iPhone

2017-12-28 apps • cooking • ios • iphone • recipes

Milo Yiannopoulos' book

His editor is having none of it

2017-12-28 book • deplorable • editor • homophobia • milo • racism • sexism • writing

Twitter sided with the Nazis

Users build a bot to do Twitter's job for them; Twitter bans the bot

2017-12-27 nazis • twitter

J. Kenji López-Alt

Profile of the experimenter cook and his new San Mateo restaurant

2017-12-27 cooking • food • kenji • sanmateo • wursthaus

Colorjet 3d printing

Additive manufacturing technique that can print color

2017-12-26 3dprinting • color • maps • printing

Perceiving 2ms latency

User study shows in some setups humans perceive even tiny bits of lag

2017-12-25 hci • lag • latency • perception • ui

Human Sexual Cycles

Google Trends data suggests people look for sex during the holidays

2017-12-24 behavior • culture • google • googletrends • holidays • humans • sex

CyTube

Synchronized online video + chatroom

2017-12-24 chat • community • metafilter • video

Extended Random

Details of an NSA backdoor in web encryption

2017-12-23 backdoor • badtech • crypto • nsa • ssl • tls

Trump on immigration

Insidery gossip about the hideous process that creates policy

2017-12-23 civilrights • immigration • politics • racism • trump

Blockchain charts

Detailed visualizations of Bitcoin stats; note the transaction fees

2017-12-23 bitcoin • charts • data • finance

Bitcoin explained

Funny parody commercial

2017-12-23 bitcoin • funny • investment • sethmeyers

Slaughterbots

Short sci-fi film against weaponized AI

2017-12-22 ai • drones • ethics • military • politics

Goodbye to Civil Comments

Really nice startup service sadly doesn't make it

2017-12-22 comments • community • moderation • online • portland

MonkeyType

Add type annotations to Python code by running it and guessing what types it sees

2017-12-22 programming • python • tests • typing • via:hackernews

Streaming piracy profits

Analytics of pirate movie websites

2017-12-22 ads • badtech • malware • movies • piracy

Cornel West v Ta-Nahesi Coates

Two important Black intellectuals arguing in public

2017-12-21 america • politics • racism

Merry Last Christmas, Jack Dorsey.

Harsh editorial from Mike Monteiro

2017-12-21 facism • monteiro • politics • twitter

Age discrimination in job ads

Facebook defends an illegal practice

2017-12-21 ads • age • discrimination • facebook • via:hackernews

Selling Bitcoin

It is possible, but awkward and slow and expensive

2017-12-20 bitcoin • finance • markets

Google Maps’s Moat

Metaphorical; Google is so good at imagery and processing data no one can catch them in maps

2017-12-20 buildings • google • maps • via:hackernews

Most 2017 Photos

A sort of memetastic selection

2017-12-19 2017 • photos • politics • trump

Twitter's abuse confusion

Company's internal policies didn't make sense to its own executives

2017-12-19 milo • policy • politics • twitter

Discrediting Mueller

Trump's allies sowing doubt ahead of the inevitable criminal indictments

2017-12-19 mueller • politics • russia • trump

Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF

Save geographic imagery in a way that makes it easy to progressively fetch in a web browser

2017-12-19 geotiff • gis • http • maps • web

npycat

Command line tool for examining large NumPy arrays

2017-12-19 cat • machinelearning • numpy • programming • python • pytorch • tensorflow • unix

Security Code Card

Really silly two factor authentication system

2017-12-19 2fa • badtech • broker • login • security • tfa

Gerrymandering with compactness

It's possible to rig elections with nice looking districts

2017-12-19 gerrymandering • politics • redistricting • via:hackernews • voting

UN human rights in the US

Statement from a visit to the US by human rights expert for the UN

2017-12-19 america • homelessness • poverty • un • unitednations

Georgia election wackiness

Election officials obstruct a legitimate observer

2017-12-19 elections • fraud • georgia • voting

American poverty

Upsetting reporting

2017-12-18 america • money • politics • poverty • trump • via:metafilter

Pulse of the Nation

Cards Against Humanity continues their nihilistic campaign of irrepsonsibile hilarity.

2017-12-18 cah • cardsagainsthumanity • funny • politics • polls

Ted Chiang's career

Excellent sci-fi author only has so many good ideas for fiction

2017-12-18 fiction • scifi • tedchiang • writing

Runaway capitalism

Excellent editorial by sci-fi author Ted Chiang

2017-12-18 ai • capitalism • siliconvalley • tech • via:metafilter

Multivariate Maps

A collection of visualization techniques

2017-12-18 data • maps • statistics • visualization

Nobody is above the Law

A protest planned for if Trump fires Mueller

2017-12-17 mueller • politics • protest • russia • trump

Cookies v Pastries v Pizza

Principal Component Analysis

2017-12-17 cooking • funny • machinelearning • pca

How Rubber Bands are Made

Always odd how one aspect of an industrial process is very manual (the mold, in this case)

2017-12-17 factory • manufacturing • rubberband • via:jwz

Mitch McConnell, Prince of Dust

A prose poem for our time

2017-12-16 funny • horror • mcconnell • mitchmcconnell • politics

Harassment in statistics

Men being shitty in academia

2017-12-14 assault • harassment • nips • sexism • statistics

Ajit Pai stupidity

Bizarre FCC advocacy

2017-12-14 ajitpai • fcc • netneutrality • politics

538 Gerrymandering Podcast

Explanatory series

2017-12-14 538 • gerrymandering • podcast • politics

The African Enlightenment

17th and 18th century philosophers from Ghana and Ethiopia

2017-12-14 africa • ethiopia • ghana • philosophy • via:metafilter

Trump's Russia blindness

Why the US president is ignoring an obvious foreign threat

2017-12-14 politics • putin • russia • trump

Salesforce fountain

This majestic column needs a stream of water jetting from its tip

2017-12-14 architecture • funny • phallic • salesforce • sanfrancisco

Mirai Botnet and Minecraft

World's biggest DDOS network built to knock competing Minecraft server businesses offline

2017-12-13 badtech • botnet • ddos • minecraft • mirai

Texas German

Fredericksburg woman speaking a nearly lost language

2017-12-13 fredericksburg • german • language • texas

Alabama's gerrymander

Senate election reveals the crafty district boundaries in Alabama

2017-12-13 alabama • gerrymandering • politics • votingrights

DNS Over HTTPS

Work around ISP hijacking of users by hiding DNS traffic inside web traffic

2017-12-13 dns • http • isp • netneutrality • protocols

TP-Link abusing NTP

Wasting public resources and your bandwidth

2017-12-13 badtech • ntp • tplink • via:hackernews

MAME vector games

Actual vector hardware

2017-12-13 dispalys • emulation • games • mame • vectors • via:metafilter

TensorFire

Neural networks in browsers using WebGL

2017-12-13 ai • browser • machinelearning • ml • neuralnetworks • tensorflow • webgl

Breitbart #war on Twitter

Milo and Bannon tried to sabotage Twitter

2017-12-12 bannon • breitbart • ethics • milo • politics • shortselling • twitter

MakeMKV

How to read an encrypted Blu-Ray disc on Windows

2017-12-12 backup • handbrake • mkv • movie • video • windows

Alabama voter suppression

Racist voter ID laws

2017-12-12 alabama • politics • racism • voterid • votingrights

Guns / Glitter

Gender reveal party cake; this is so absurd it has to be fake?

2017-12-11 america • gender • stupid

First Women in Tech

WSJ on systemic sexism at the beginning of computer science

2017-12-11 eniac • feminism • sexism • tech • women

TPUs in production

Details from a datacenter of Google's special purpose machine learning hardware

2017-12-11 google • performance • production • tensorflow • tpu

Jeff Dean at NIPS 2017

Details about machine learning in production from Google

2017-12-11 ai • google • machinelearning • tensorflow • tpu

Bad Sex

Thoughts on having sex out of obligation rather than desire

2017-12-10 relationships • sex • via:metafilter

Comcast Javascript injection

Ads from your ISP. Scroll down for the link to the RFC

2017-12-09 ads • comcast • internet • javascript • privacy • rfcs

PLATO computer system

Excellent MeFi post about the 1960s-era distributed computing system

2017-12-09 computing • history • plato

The Amazon Honor System, 2001-2008

Amazon used to run a Patreon-like donation service

2017-12-09 amazon • donations • micropayments • patreon

Arizona police killing

Incredibly disturbing video

2017-12-09 arizona • killing • police

1.4 billion passwords

Internet security is broken

2017-12-09 badtech • internet • security • via:hackernews

Pandas programmer profile

Wes McKinney, the guy behind the popular data science library

2017-12-08 pandas • programming • python

leela-zero

Cooperative effort to reproduce AlphaGo Zero by using donated CPU and GPU cycles

2017-12-07 ai • alphago • games • go • machinelearning

Oracle v Google

When the elephants fight the mice get trod upon

2017-12-07 google • oracle • politics • tech

Humanity game

Bizarre looking game coming out next year

2017-12-07 crowds • games • humanity • simulation

Discord and user safety

Policy needs for a growing gamer community

2017-12-07 discord • games • policy • trustandsafety

Patreon fee analysis

Detailed look at the new structure

2017-12-07 creditcard • crowdfunding • donations • funding • patreon

Amazon Key in practice

Thoughtful critique of a new Amazon service

2017-12-07 amazon • amazonkey • privacy • security

Pulp Federation

Tarantino wants to do a Star Trek movie

2017-12-07 funny • startrek • tarantino

Kanopy

A Netflix-like video streaming service. They have a deal with the SF Public Library so you can watch videos for free

2017-12-07 documentaries • kanopy • library • netflix • sfpl • video

Steinle Murder verdict thoughts

Analysis from an alternate juror

2017-12-06 murder • politics • sanfrancisco • steinle • zarate

Deceptive ads on bad websites

Crappy sites like Forbes, HuffPo, and Fast Company have writers taking undisclosed money from advertisers

2017-12-06 ads • deception • ethics • journalism

Steam no longer taking Bitcoin

Too volatile, too expensive

2017-12-06 bitcoin • steam • via:hackernews

The Shed at Dulwich

Scamming TripAdvisor with a fake restaurant

2017-12-06 funny • london • tripadvisor • via:metafilter

CryptoKitties

When Tamagotchi meets Magic Beans

2017-12-05 bitcoin • collectible • ethereum • kitties • tamagotchi

Maori

Epic Metafilter post on bringing Maori language in to New Zealand at large

2017-12-05 aotearoa • language • maori • newzealand

Look at the big boy!

Heartbreaking photo of a child soldier in Yemen

2017-12-05 america • atrocity • iran • politics • saudiarabia • soldier • trump • war • yemen

Radwood

A celebration of 80s/90s car culture. Full of irony, looks hilarious and fun

2017-12-05 80s • 90s • cars • funny • irony • radwood

Bitcoin dead drops

Interesting story of shenanigans involving public but hidden Bitcoin wallets

2017-12-03 bitocin • crypto • fraud • money • public • steganography

That Guy

A list of character actors who show up in small parts in movies

2017-12-03 acting • actors • movies • thatguy

US Broadband coverage (June 2014)

Another depiction of US Broadband paucity; only the blue area is competitive

2017-12-02 broadband • isp • maps • netneutrality

Trump vs Talking Heads

Normally hate this kind of thing but it had me laughing out loud, a release of tension

2017-12-02 funny • parody • politics • talkingheads • trump

Micro Transport Protocol

UDP protocol used by modern BitTorrent, has congestion backoff strategies

2017-12-01 bittorrent • ledbat • networking • qos

Chapelier Fou

A very French sort of music happening

2017-12-01 chapelierfou • france • madhatter • music

Underserved Internet areas

US map: red shows areas with 0 or 1 broadband providers

2017-12-01 broadband • internet • isp • netneutrality • policy

Miss Universe 2017

National costumes are alternatingly beautiful, intriguing, and hilarious

2017-12-01 beauty • missuniverse • pageant • via:metafilter