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The quest to replace passwords
Research paper
2015-01-31 authentication • login • passwords
libguestfs
Manipulate VM disk images without having to boot the VM
2015-01-31 filesystem • fuse • software • via:onethingwell • vm
LoL server peering
Details of the online realtime game's network design
2015-01-31 games • leagueoflegends • lol • networks • peering
huptime
Restart servers with no downtime; some bind/accept clever hack
2015-01-26 devops • networking • reliability • servers • uptime
Microsoft BASIC for 6502
Source code for the BASIC that drove the Apple ][
2015-01-24 6502 • assembly • basic • billgates • code • history • microsoft • programming
Wayland
An eventual replacement for X11 for Linux graphics
2015-01-24 graphics • ui • windows • x11
Catsup
Nice long article on the history and etymology of the condiment
2015-01-23 catsup • etymology • food • history • ketchup • language
sample(1)
Like cat, but returns just a random sample
2015-01-23 commandline • statistics • unix • via:onethingwell
Chaturbate
NSFWish summary of the culture of an Internet sexcam site
2015-01-23 chaturbate • culture • internet • nsfw • pornography • sex
Bees with Machine Guns
HTTP load generator using EC2 micro instance
2015-01-23 aws • ddos • loadtesting • performance • testing
Can I have A pet fox?
Details on efforts to domesticate or tame foxes
2015-01-23 canids • fox • foxes • pets
bashplotlib
ASCII graphs for quickie data visualization
2015-01-23 graphs • python • visualization
Fear China
Something weird is going on with Chinese internet, creating DDOS attacks
2015-01-23 badtech • china • ddos • network
nPlayer iOS
Alternate video player that does many formats. Better than VLC?
2015-01-23 ios • ipad • video • vlc
Google+ users
Some plausible stats
2015-01-22 facebook • ghosttown • google • google+
Minipedia
A new offline Wikipedia reader for iOS
2015-01-22 ios • minipedia • offline • wikipedia
Galileo Offline Maps
New OSM map downloader, quite nice
2015-01-22 ios • iphone • maps • offline
Pirating the 2015 Oscars
Academy members only get DVD quality screeners, so pirates have moved on to HD sources
2015-01-22 movies • oscars • piracy • waxy
healthcare.gov privacy debacle
Government website is sending data to DoubleClick. WTF?
2015-01-21 ads • badtech • healthcare • privacy
Hyperion (moon)
One of Saturn's moons is quite bizarre, including chaotic rotation.
2015-01-21 astronomy • moon • saturn
Keurig Freedom Clip
Simple hack to fake out the stupid K-Cup DRM
2015-01-21 coffee • drm • keurig
The Hobbit: 4 hour edit
Someone cut the 3 movies down to 1 very long movie
2015-01-19 hobbit • lotr • movies • thehobbit • tolkein • via:reddit
Clever Little Clock
A battery powered clock that magically improves your AV system, merely by being in the same room
2015-01-17 audiophile • av • batshitinsane • funny • via:metafilter
Hermione Granger and the Goddamn Patriarchy
Hilarious re-consideration of Harry Potter
2015-01-17 books • feminism • funny • harrypotter
Internet Resistance
Fun looking art class at CMU
2015-01-17 4chan • art • cmu • internet
Against DNSSEC
Arguments that DNSSEC is a flawed system that provides no extra security
2015-01-15 crypto • dnssec • security
Swiss franc 20% appreciation
Details on currency exchange and how rates shift dramatically
2015-01-15 currency • europe • finance • forex • switzerland
CA High Speed Rail collection
Index of thoughtful articles from James Fallows
2015-01-15 california • hsr • trains • transportation
NSA regret
Some inadequate words of contrition for subverting national securtiy
2015-01-14 badtech • crypto • nsa • snowden
Madrone Cabins
Friend recommends this as a nice cabin camping experience north of SF
2015-01-14 camping • redwoods • vacation
GTA: Clockwork Orange
Scenes from the movie re-created in Grand Theft Auto: Online
2015-01-14 clockworkorange • funny • games • grandtheftauto • gta5 • gtav • movies
@wnd_go
A choose your own adventure story in Twitter accounts
2015-01-14 books • chooseyourownadventure • clever • twitter • via:metafilter
Google Domains
Google has a product now for a simple company website
2015-01-13 business • dns • domain • google
100 Charts Project
Data visualization project showing demographic changes over time
2015-01-12 charts • demographics • economics • visualization
What's new in CPUs since the 80s?
Overview of modern CPU architecture geegaws
2015-01-12 architecture • computing • cpu • via:hackernews
Chilling Effects withdraws
They've blocked themselves from being indexed on search engines.
2015-01-12 copyright • dmca
Yerba Buena Island
Excellent photoessay on the oddest part of San Francisco
2015-01-12 baybridge • island • sanfrancisco • yerbabuena
Buzzfeed title success
Ranking of Facebook popularity. Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2s6d1y/30_linkbait_phrases_in_buzzfeed_headlines_you/
2015-01-12 buzzfeed • headlines • marketing • via:reddit • viral
EFF on harassment
Difficult challenge for a fundamentally libertarian organization
2015-01-12 civilrights • eff • feminism • gamergate • harassment
Palantir leak
Info on the spooky big data company's customers
2015-01-12 bigdata • palantir
August Never Ends
Depressing update from Zoe Quinn about the continued focussed harassment
2015-01-12 feminism • gamergate • games • zoequinn
namebench
benchmark possible DNS servers
2015-01-11 dns • internet • optimization • speed
1937 SF redline map
From the TechCrunch article about East Palo Alto; neighborhoods by security, a tool for mortgage lenders
2015-01-11 1930s • history • maps • racism • redlining • sanfrancisco
jfire animations
John Firebaugh's design experiments with D3.js
2015-01-10 art • d3js • design • javascript
D&D via Twitter
Dungeon master runs a game via Twitter
2015-01-10 d&d • games • rpgs • twitter • via:metafilter
Being blonde at MIT
Horrible sexism
2015-01-10 feminism • gender • mit • sexism • women
Young love (vulgar)
Stock photo comic from /r/youdontsurf
2015-01-10 funny • stockphotos • via:reddit • youdontsurf
New Muni Metro
A bold plan to fix Muni by making Market its own route
2015-01-09 muni • sfmuni • transit
OpenAddresses: 100m locations
Nice milestone for the open geodata project
2015-01-09 maps • openaddresses • openstreetmap • osm
China astroturfing
Minor hack reveals government propaganda faking Internet buzz
2015-01-09 astroturf • china • propaganda
Address falsehoods
Various street naming assumptions programmers make that are wrong
2015-01-08 addresses • localization • maps
Adaptive map projection
Clever web map changes projections as you zoom and pan
2015-01-07 cartography • maps • projections
Nino Ferrer - Looking For You
Amazing 1974 song, used in a Nicolas Jarr mix
2015-01-07 70s • music • nicolasjarr
Joe Jamail
Loving profile of a famous Houston plaintiff's lawyer
2015-01-07 houston • jamail • lawyer • legal • torts
Teenager’s View on Social Media
Anecdotes from a 19 year old at U of Texas
2015-01-07 demographics • facebook • socialmedia • teenagers • twitter
Map tiles without Mercator
Notes on how to fake out various map libraries to produce web maps in different projections
2015-01-07 mapnik • maps • projections
Elon Musk AMA
Reddit's crowd interview comes through again
2015-01-06 elonmusk • iama • reddit • space • spacex • tesla
Ev Williams on web metrics
Argues for measuring true influence, not just pageviews or other simple things
2015-01-06 analytics • attention • maus • metrics
Georgia Guidestones
Slightly creepy monument to reason, anonymously funded
2015-01-05 eschaton • georgia • monument
Cuban TV downloads
TV fans pass downloads around on memory sticks
2015-01-05 cuba • tv
parse-gedcom
Javascript code to turn genealogy data into something modern
2015-01-05 ancestry • gedcom • genealogy • javascript
Stewart / Slack profile
Another article about the amazing collaboration startup
2015-01-05 flickr • slack • startups • stewart
git-annex with GitHub
A solution of sorts for large binary files in git
2015-01-04 binaries • git • git-annex • github
USB 3.1 Type C
Yet another USB connector; this one is reversible
2015-01-04 connector • usb
ntpd bug details
How the recent exploit was found
2015-01-03 badtech • ntpd • security
Broken cap tables
The ugly reality of stock options in the tech industry
2015-01-03 compensation • equity • options • startups • stock
Audiophile insanity
"Is it really possible that the sound quality of bit-identical audio files is influenced by their storage medium before being delivered to the hi-fi system's DAC?"
2015-01-03 audiophile • batshitinsane • broken • funny • music
Greenwald on NK/Sony
Righteous takedown of a fawning press
2015-01-03 hack • journalism • northkorea • sony
Keshif
Visual data browser
2015-01-03 d3 • d3j3 • hci • infovis • javascript • visualization
Laproscopic robots
Watch metallic tentacles peel a grape
2015-01-03 grimmeathookfuture • laproscopy • medical • robots • surgery
Skryim Romance Mod
Ambitious looking dating sim in the RPG
2015-01-02 dating • games • mod • skyrim
Volcano maps
New land brings out the color in cartographers
2015-01-01 color • maps • usgs • via:feltron • volcano
Infinite Sandstorm
Everyone's favorite EDM looped infinitely
2015-01-01 darude • funny • music • sandstorm • via:reddit
Benham's disk
Optical illusion about color
2015-01-01 cognitive • illusion • via:reddit • vision