Google OnHub router review

Mostly positive, no specifics on wifi performance

2015-08-31 google • onhub • router

Trump bankruptcies

Being a deadbeat as a business strategy

2015-08-31 bankruptcy • business • politics • trump

Python type hints

Coming in Python 3.5: optional annotations for static type checking

2015-08-31 languages • programming • python • types

Vincent Lau 刘梓晨

A plastic surgery enthusiast popular on Weibo

2015-08-30 china • plasticsurgery • webio

Practical ramda

In praise of a Javascript functional programming library

2015-08-30 code • javascript • programming

IBM 1401 core memory

How early RAM worked

2015-08-30 core • ferrite • memory • ram

Ligatures in coding fonts

Monospace fonts that replace common programming digraphs and trigraphs with a single glyph, a ligature

2015-08-30 coding • fonts • ligature • programming

Trump loves China

Hilarious supercut of Donald Trump saying China

2015-08-30 china • trump

Governors Mansions

An image collection

2015-08-29 america • government • governor • houses • via:metafilter

Generating Leads At Burning Man

The frontier of marketing

2015-08-29 burningman • funny • marketing

The VCs' investors

About the limited partners who invest in VC funds

2015-08-28 entrepreneurs • lps • startups • vcs • venturecapital

HubPress

Blog engine that publishes to GitHub

2015-08-27 blog • github • publishing

"Dirt Rave"

slang for Burning Man

2015-08-27 burningman • funny • language

Augmented reality sandbox

Details on how to build your own projection topo map

2015-08-27 ar • augmentedreality • maps • terrain

Dynamic topo map

Lovely augmented reality demo

2015-08-27 ar • augmentedreality • maps • terrain • via:reddit

Wiener on SF homelessness

Nice essay from my local supervisor

2015-08-27 homelessness • politics • sanfrancisco • scottwiener • wiener

Australia's gun experiment

Statistics and data from a country that enacted gun control

2015-08-27 america • australia • guns

SF Homeless Wiki

A wiki with 1128 articles

2015-08-27 homelessness • sanfrancisco • sf • socialwork • wiki

In defense of Rentboy

Gay escort talks about safe online hustling

2015-08-27 gay • prostitution • rentboy • sex

grsecurity fed up

Open source security team regularly abused by embedded systems vendors, starts restricting code releases to sponsors only

2015-08-27 intel • linux • opensource • security • verifone

svgur

share SVGs; like imgur, but for SVG

2015-08-27 d3 • d3js • graphics • imgur • svg

mpld3

Code for exporting matplotlib graphics to an HTML web page, supports interactivity

2015-08-27 d3 • d3js • matplotlib • programming • python • visualization

D3 + iPython

Towards doing more complex HTML rendering in iPython

2015-08-27 d3 • d3js • ipython • python • via:hackernews

Ad blocking performance

Chrome is 3x faster, uses half the memory with an ad blocker

2015-08-27 adblocker • ads • browser • chrome • web

Google's network design

Details of datacenter networking technology

2015-08-27 google • hardware • internet • network • switching

Emojipedia

History and definitions for Emoji

2015-08-26 emoji • etymology • unicode

nq: job queuing

Simple file-based job queues

2015-08-26 jobs • queueing • unix • via:onethingwell

Common Lisp 2015

Notes on what to use for Lisp development today

2015-08-26 commonlisp • lisp • programming

NumbaPro Mandelbrot

Programming example if fast modern Python, in a nice IPython Notebook

2015-08-25 cuda • ipython • jit • numba • programming • python

CUDA on Python

GPU accelerated computing in Python

2015-08-25 cuda • gpu • jit • optimization • python

Python Numba

JIT compiling for Python with an emphasis on vectorizing numeric computation

2015-08-25 jit • numpy • optimization • python

Python/C advice

2015 landscape for C integration with Python. CFFI, Cython, Numba

2015-08-25 c • cffi • numba • performance • programming • python

American Deep Dream

Trump campaign photo looks fantastic as reimagined by our AI overlords

2015-08-24 deepdream • funny • politics • trump

Thalys takedown

Crazy story of US marines taking down an armed gunman on a Belgian train

2015-08-22 france • heroism • marines • terrorism • thalys

Judges 3:22

The Bible has the most remarkable things in it

2015-08-20 bible • funny • sword

Regex 101

Very good interactive regex tester

2015-08-20 programming • regex • regexp • testing

$1.7M to delete users

Ashley Madison charged $19 / user to delete data. And it's not clear they even did actually delete it.

2015-08-20 ashleymadison • data • privacy

California sinking faster

Drought leads to more pumping, which leads to more subsidence

2015-08-20 california • drought • land • subsidence

Samoan firecrews

American Samoan park service comes to California to help fight fires

2015-08-19 california • firefighters • fires • samoa

Tonic NodeJS notebook

Fancy UI ideas here, Javascript only

2015-08-19 javascript • nodejs • notebook

Better Internet ads

Interesting argument that ad blockers will force ad companies to make less-hostile Internet ads

2015-08-19 adblocker • ads • privacy

[Sad beep]

R2-D2 is sad

2015-08-19 funny • starwars • via:reddit

Back-UPS Connect

A small UPS designed for low load equipment: network routers, etc

2015-08-19 power • router • ups

Stuck in a hole

Hilarious Twitter account of a guy who got stuck in an empty pool

2015-08-19 funny • hole • skateboards • twitter • via:metafilter

Google router

Google is selling a consumer router. Looks interesting, but $200 is steep

2015-08-18 google • network • router

Cameron's World

A collection of GeoCities-style animated images, music, etc

2015-08-18 culture • geocities • gif • history • via:metafilter • web

Minecraft brutalism

Fun architecture project

2015-08-17 architecture • brutalism • games • minecraft

DRM failure in Windows 10

Crappy copy protection breaks games in Windows 10

2015-08-17 copyprotection • drm • safedisc • securom • windows

Spacecraft chart

Diagram of what's going on in solar system exploration this month

2015-08-17 astronomy • planetary • space • spacecraft

Mapbox + Runkeeper

New data for cycling and running routes for OpenStreetmap

2015-08-17 cycling • mapbox • maps • openstreetmap • osm • running

Paris street name history

A map that gives you descriptions of the history of every street name in Paris

2015-08-17 history • maps • paris

1700 mechanical linkages

Retired engineer makes illustrative videos

2015-08-16 engineering • mechanicalengineering • mechanics

Machine learning overview

Some "useful things to know" about machine learning in application

2015-08-16 computation • cs • machinelearning • ml

Google S2

Explanation of a Google spatial indexing library

2015-08-15 geometry • google • hilbertcurve • maps • via:hackernews

ATT + NSA = BFF

Yet more evidence America's largest telco sells out citizens to illegal spying

2015-08-15 att • civilrights • nsa • spying

LoL Remilia profile

First woman to make the big leagues in League of Legends

2015-08-15 esports • gender • leagueoflegends • women

Itanium architecture review

Nice roundup of Intel's failed CPU architecture

2015-08-15 computers • cpu • intel • registers

Amazon management

Long, detailed view in how Amazon is run

2015-08-15 amazon • jobs • management • tech • workplace

Sarlac Pit of Pizza

A real food that really exists

2015-08-14 australia • funny • pizza • via:metafilter

MKVToolNix

Free software for working with .mkv video files

2015-08-14 matroska • mkv • muxing • video

Effective comment moderation

Jessamyn shares lessons from Metafilter, other sites with good online comments

2015-08-14 comments • community • metafilter

CIA and Senate spying

Brennan never sent this apology letter for illegally spying on the US Senate

2015-08-13 bigbrother • cia • government • privacy • senate • spying

Don't buy Lenovo

Second time in a year Lenovo puts nasty malware on the machines they sell.

2015-08-13 badtech • lenovo • malware • rootkit

dead-simple-grid

Tiny, flexible CSS grid system

2015-08-13 css • design • grid • html

Pure Storage IPO

Interesting tech infrastructure company going public

2015-08-12 flash • ipo • startups • storage • tech

Neoaddressing

A brief overview of new location naming methods that try to improve on GeoHash

2015-08-12 addresses • geocoding • geohash • location • maps • whatthreewords

Pentagon tiling

there are 15 known convex pentagons that tile the plane, but it's an open problem if there are more

2015-08-11 geometry • math • pentagons • tiling • via:vtcraghead

Ethics of ad blocking

A characterization of the escalating arms race

2015-08-11 ads • browsers • javascript • privacy

1895 chloropleth

Map visualization technique is old!

2015-08-10 maps • nytimes • via:feltron • visualization

Hate Selling

The peculiarly hostile way travel products are sold online

2015-08-10 customer • service • travel

$1B fraud in Moldova

12% of country's GDP stolen

2015-08-10 banking • fraud • moldova

Ad Blocking stats

Something like 15% of Internet users block ads now

2015-08-10 adblocker • ads • via:reddit

Fox News v. Trump

Behind the scenes in the right wing echo chamber

2015-08-10 america • fox • politics • trump

Black boy suicide rate

Black kids age 5-11 now 2x more likely to commit suicide

2015-08-10 blacks • children • racism • sad • suicide

Old Spanish Trail

100 year old American highway

2015-08-10 america • roads • travel

emojitracker

realtime visualization of Twitter emoji

2015-08-08 emoji • twitter

#d3brokeandmadeart

A collection of interesting visualization accidents

2015-08-08 art • d3 • d3js • visualization

Oh god no no no

A caving GIF full of claustrophobia

2015-08-07 caving • gif • via:reddit

Tufte CSS

Make your web pages look like an archaic but beautiful print format!

2015-08-06 css • design • tufte • via:metafilter

Japanese in 19th c. US

Forgotten cultural exchanges in America

2015-08-06 america • culture • food • japan • sushi • via:metafilter

Kirk vs Gorn with Foley

Alternate soundtrack to a classic Star Trek fight scene

2015-08-06 funny • sound • startrek

Uber financials leak

Shitty this got out there, but it is fascinating

2015-08-05 financials • leak • startups • uber

Antarctica photos

Great set of photographs

2015-08-05 antarctica • photos

autovacuum postmortem

Postgres' GC process causes problems for Joyent

2015-08-05 garbagecollection • gc • manta • ops • postgres

Lamp post destroyed by urine

San Francisco's piss problems are so bad the lightposts are falling into the streets

2015-08-05 sanfrancisco • urine

Mexrrissey

Mexican covers of Morrissey / Smiths songs

2015-08-05 mexico • morrissey • music • thesmiths

5 neglected CS classics

Nice roundup of books

2015-08-05 books • computerscience • programming • reading

NSA subverting IETF

Evidence that NSA used the IETF process to help weaken SSL

2015-08-04 dual_ev • freedom • ietf • nsa • privacy • security • ssl • tls • via:hackernews

Yahoo ads malware

Yahoo's ad network serves Flash malware

2015-08-04 ads • badtech • malware • via:hackernews

Ada Initiative shutdown

Awesome women-in-engineering organization shuts down, but with a string of successes and great influence!

2015-08-04 diversity • engineering • feminism • women

Makerbase

Anil Dash and Gina Trapani build a website cataloging who makes what web applications

2015-08-04 credits • culture • engineering • internet • software • web

Twitter contest bot

Automated winning of random prizes on Twitter

2015-08-04 bot • funny • twitter • via:metafilter

Facebook fakes video stats

Videos autoplay, Facebook counts it if it shows for 3 seconds without even sound.

2015-08-04 facebook • google • metrics • stats • youtube

Google+ history

Details from inside Google about the disastrous social media product

2015-08-02 facebook • google • googleplus • gundotra • social • twitter

Video calibration MP4

Free test video file for calibrating a display

2015-08-02 calibration • display • mp4 • video