al-Khwarizmi

9th century Persian who invented algebra, much other mathematics. The word "algorithm" is literally his name.

2016-12-31 algebra • history • math

India's identity system

Aadhaar, tied to biometrics, open access

2016-12-31 identity • india • login • openid • password

Favourite maps from 2016

Nice collection of things I hadn't seen elsewhere

2016-12-30 cartography • design • maps

Space War Defense

Slightly gonzo but fun page

2016-12-30 scifi • space • via:migurski • warfare

3d audio history

PC gaming technology of the 90s was lost

2016-12-30 3d • audio • directsound3d • directx • games • overwatch • sound

Uber + Pittsburgh

A very detailed look at the relationship between the startup and the city

2016-12-30 corruption • pittsburgh • startup • uber

Russian Malicious Cyber Activity

Technical report of the Russian attacks against the 2016 election

2016-12-30 badtech • dnc • hacking • politics • russia

Newspaper Python

Library for parsing news sites

2016-12-30 coding • journalism • nlp • python • scraping • text

Punishment for Russian hacking

Official US response to the election tampering

2016-12-29 badtech • hacking • politics • russia

Dolby Atmos

A newish technology for rendering 3d audio to headphones

2016-12-29 audio • dolby • games • overwatch • sound

Fahrenthold's reporting

Personal account from one of the best journalists who covered Trump in 2016

2016-12-29 fahrenthold • journalism • politics • trump

Startup fraud

A series of examples from 2016

2016-12-29 business • fraud • startups

Voting system security

The state of the nation's democratic machinery is not strong

2016-12-27 elections • fraud • politics • voting

About Snopes

Some detail about the people behind the fact-checking website

2016-12-26 internet • snopes • truth

George Michael as queer warrior

Honoring his strong gay rights stance

2016-12-26 gay • georgemichael • lgbt • music

Drone Sweaters

Sweaters and clothes, custom-tailored for cold drones.

2016-12-26 drones • funny • sweaters

Lighthouse web audit

Chrome extension that gives advise on aggressively making performant websites

2016-12-25 audit • benchmark • chrome • javascript • web

freegeoip.net

Free service to locate IP addresses

2016-12-25 geolocation • internet • ip • maps

Polyfill service

Browser-tailored Javascript shims

2016-12-25 javascript • polyfill • programming

Fast website ideas

Starting with a fancy React browser rendered site, then making it fast again

2016-12-25 javascript • performance • reactjs • via:timbray • web

Twelve Hundred Ghosts

A supercut of A Christmas Carol videos, phenomenal video editing

2016-12-25 christmascarol • editing • movies • supercut • tv

defusedxml

Hacks to try to make XML parsing safer in Python

2016-12-24 badtech • python • security • xml

Dark Star Thresh

Video game character creation process

2016-12-23 animation • games • leagueoflegends • lol • riotgames • thresh

Russia cyberwar against Ukraine troops

Malware in an Android app for soldiers. /cc @danwallach

2016-12-23 artillery • badtech • cyberwar • malware • military • russia • ukraine

Uber halts SF self driving cars

California DMV stands up to company ignoring regulations

2016-12-22 ai • cars • google • safety • selfdriving • uber

TensorFlow tutorial

Traffic sign recognition as test problem

2016-12-22 ai • machinelearning • tensorflow • via:hackernews

Palantir and immigration

Details of tech company's work for CBP

2016-12-22 cbp • immigration • palantir • politics • trump

Comey's letter

New reporting on disarray inside the DOJ

2016-12-22 clinton • comey • doj • fbi • politics • trump

Solstice illuminations

Mission churches in North America have astronomical alignment

2016-12-21 architecture • astronomy • christmas • church • religion • solstice • via:metafilter

Russia hacking RNC

Details suggest Russia tried, but not very hard, and failed

2016-12-21 badtech • hacking • politics • rnc • russia • security • trump

asyncpg

New Postgres driver for Python; fast, asynchronous

2016-12-21 asyncio • database • postgres • python

Trump inauguration fundraising

Soliciting million dollar anonymous donations

2016-12-20 corruption • politics • trump

Snapchat abuses NTP

iOS social client responsible for 20x increase in use of a community resource

2016-12-20 bugs • ntp • snapchat

Uber self driving cars unsafe

Outrageous flaunting of local laws

2016-12-20 biking • safety • sanfrancisco • selfdriving • sf • uber

Kuwait party at Trump DC

Allegation of political pressure to give business to Trump's hotel

2016-12-19 corruption • emoluments • kuwait • politics • scandal • trump

DNA Lounge in trouble

Nightclub is losing too much money

2016-12-19 club • dnalounge • jwz • nightclub • sanfrancisco

OpenStreetMap + Wikidata

linking two open databases of knowledge

2016-12-19 mapbox • opendata • openstreetmap • osm • wikidata • wikipedia

What a miscarriage is like (NSFW)

Warning: intense writing and upsetting pictures. Also an excellent essay.

2016-12-19 abortion • health • miscarriage • pregnancy

Trump's security force

Private security mixes poorly with Secret Service

2016-12-19 politics • secretservice • security • trump • violence

2016 voter fraud

There was none

2016-12-19 civilrights • id • politics • trump • voterfraud • voterid • voting

Vexillologist obituary

Sweet memory for a man who was a flag enthuisast

2016-12-18 flags • obituary • whitneysmith

The Two Americas of 2016

A better geographic map visualization of the vote, from last month

2016-12-18 clinton • election • maps • politics • trump • via:mbostock • visualization

Berkeley Earth

Careful, accessible summary of climate change and global warming data

2016-12-18 climate • climatechange • earth • environment • globalwarming • politics

Shaka emoji

Celebration of a Hawaiian gesture

2016-12-18 emoji • hawai'i • hawaii • shaka • unicode

TrumpLand and Clinton Archipelago

Interesting visualization of voting results

2016-12-18 clinton • maps • politics • trump • visualization

Fascist rallies

Insane Trump comments on violence at his rallies

2016-12-17 america • fascism • politics • trump

archive.org and robots.txt

Internet Archive sometimes ignores robots.txt

2016-12-17 archive • robotstxt • web

Pony Up Daddy!

Horrifying consumer escalation

2016-12-17 frogfractions • kids • murica • toys

Scene rules

Detailed standards for TV and movie pirates

2016-12-17 bittorrent • film • scene • tv

FBI election failure

Podesta op/ed on how the FBI spent more time investigating Clinton's email server than stopping Russian attacks

2016-12-16 clinton • fbi • politics • russia • trump

Self driving cars turn wrong

Uber's cars don't turn safely vis-a-vis bike lanes

2016-12-16 bicycles • cars • driving • safety • uber

US police killings

Official government report updated with better data

2016-12-16 killing • police • politics • shooting • violence

Norms of restraint

One danger of Trump is his recklessness threatens our civil society

2016-12-16 america • democracy • politics • trump

LOL streaming contract

$300M for 7 years to stream the esport

2016-12-16 espn • games • lol • riotgames • streaming

Awkward Moments Children's Bible

Snarky illustrations

2016-12-16 bible • comics • funny • religion • via:reddit

In the Now

New Russian state media outlet

2016-12-16 politics • propaganda • rt • russa • syria

Alternate elections

What the electoral vote would look like if you drew the state boundaries differently

2016-12-15 demographics • election • maps • politics • visualization

Map in Seconds

Very easy chloropleths from spreadsheet data

2016-12-15 maps • spreadsheet • visualization

Now more than ever

Thoughtful Medicare/VA IT company on the new administration

2016-12-15 election • medicare • politics • trump

Dr. Steve Brule lifehack

A perfect Facebook troll. For your health!

2016-12-15 drstevebrule • facebook • foryourhealth • funny

Trump Grill(e)

Restaurant review as political resistance

2016-12-15 food • funny • newyork • politics • restaurant • trump

Republicans shift to Putin

YouGov poll shows strong positive shift towards Putin in the wake of the Trump campaign

2016-12-15 politics • putin • russia • trump

Jack refuses Trump ads

Kerfuffle during the campaign refusing ads on the phrase "crooked hillary"

2016-12-14 politics • trump • twitter

Trump hates Twitter

Company not at tech meeting out of spite

2016-12-14 politics • trump • twitter

Flynn's propaganda

Deleting tweets of Clinton libel

2016-12-14 clinton • fakenews • politics • propaganda • trump

Python click

A library for making command line interfaces

2016-12-14 cli • coding • commandline • python

Indie.vc, and focus

Marc Hedlund / Skyliner explains why they went with a non-traditional form of venture financing

2016-12-14 funding • indievc • skyliner • startups

The Junky's Christmas

Classic Burroughs story, animated

2016-12-14 burroughs • christmas • heroin • movies

San Francisco coal mine

A coal seam and excavation at Lands End

2016-12-14 coal • history • landsend • sanfrancisco

Russian hacking of Congressional electons

The Guccifer attacks extend to House races, not just the President

2016-12-14 hacking • politics • russia

Radio Garden

Lovely browser globe interface to Internet streaming radio

2016-12-14 maps • music • radio

Schelling model

A simple model demonstrating racial segregation

2016-12-13 economics • games • schelling • segregation

Russian DNC hack postmortem

Many details of how the security breakins went down

2016-12-13 badtech • dnc • russia • security

Russian hack evidence

Another technical roundup

2016-12-13 badtech • hacking • politics • russia • trump

Archiving government science

Preserving valuable research ahead of the Trump transition

2016-12-13 archive • archiveorg • globalwarming • politics • trump

443km long photograph

Photo from mountain top to mountain top

2016-12-13 distance • maps • photos • via:reddit

Cheapest power tech

County-by-county visualization of cost of electricity

2016-12-13 coal • electricity • environment • maps • naturalgas • power • renewables

Trump + Russia 4evah

List of connections, with links to sources

2016-12-12 politics • russia • trump

Uber spies on customers

Their internal data security is reported to still not be correct

2016-12-12 privacy • spying • uber

Rise and Fall of ARPANET

Article about the animated GIF of the growth of the early internet

2016-12-12 arpanet • history • internet • maps

Internet growth 1969-1989

Animated GIF

2016-12-12 history • internet • maps • via:reddit

Dota Bot Scripting

Popular MOBA game allows anyone to write a bot

2016-12-12 dota • games • lua • programming

American response to Russian hacking

Excellent perspective on how alarming it is to have some GOP politicians unconcerned about Russian election tampering

2016-12-12 badtech • election • politics • russia • trump

Russian hack timeline

Nice roundup of sourced info on the Russian hack of the 2016 election

2016-12-11 badtech • hacking • politics • russia

Russian hack evidence

Detailed technical report from June about Russian attacks on the Democratic National Committee

2016-12-11 badtech • dnc • hacking • politics • putin • russia • trump

Michigan recount

What it's like at a recount

2016-12-11 michigan • politics • recount • trump

Trump v. intelligence agencies

What if the president just doesn't believe his own intelligence officers?

2016-12-10 cia • intelligence • politics • trump

Racist Twitter attack plan

Upsetting content, linked because I sometimes forget this stuff exists like this, in the open

2016-12-10 dailystormer • politics • racism • twitter

Boys Dont Cry protest at Reed

My college had an ugly protest against the queer film

2016-12-10 lgbt • reed • reedcollege • transgender

writ.css

A simple, opinionated CSS style

2016-12-10 code • css • design • simple • style

ndjson

Command line-friendly JSON extension, a sequence of records

2016-12-10 code • json • maps • ndjson

Trump Gaslighting America

Remarkable editorial from Teen Vogue

2016-12-10 gaslighting • politics • teenvogue • trump • vogue

Russian election hacking

Leaked details of CIA investigation, political debate

2016-12-10 badtech • election • politics • russia • spying • trump

Command-Line Cartography

Tutorial on using d3.js from the command line to display geodata

2016-12-09 d3js • javascript • maps • programming

Interactive Watershed Map

Visualization of upstream and downstream watershed polygons

2016-12-09 mapshaper • rivers • visualization • watersheds

WW1 meme war

Propaganda card makes fun of Germans for eating shit bread

2016-12-09 france • funny • germany • meme • ww1 • wwi

Election hack review

Obama orders review on how compromised the election might have been

2016-12-09 election • politics • russia • voting

Global Surface Water

Raw data for the new Landsat imagery map of global water

2016-12-09 landsat • maps • rivers • water

Is Trump broke?

Speculation only, since we have no transparency

2016-12-09 politics • trump

Trump LLC obfuscation

Impossible to figure out which conflicts of interest he has

2016-12-09 corruption • ethics • politics • trump

Magic Leap a fake

Product demo it's been showing is a fabrication

2016-12-09 augmentedreality • fraud • games • magicleap • scam

Landsat water map

Raster map based on satellite imagery

2016-12-09 landsat • maps • rivers

Geo-engineering climate change

Some folks are looking for technology solutions to global warming

2016-12-08 climate • climatechange • geoengineering • globalwarming

Japanese American internment

Phenomenal photos from Dorothea Lange

2016-12-08 america • history • internment • japan • justice • racism • trump • ww2

Endless Jingling

Deep Christmas

2016-12-08 christmas • cutup • funny • music

Klout score algorithm

Odious social measurement company publishes details on their ranking

2016-12-08 klout • reputation • social

Stegano malware

New adware found using steganographic channels to transmit code

2016-12-08 ads • badtech • crypto • malware • steganography

Indian Breads

A list of diversity

2016-12-07 bread • cooking • food • india • roti

Putin seized VKontakte

2014 story of the Russian state taking control of Russia's Facebook equivalent

2016-12-07 paveldurov • politics • russia • trump • vkontakte

Trump tweet insults

Detailed visualization

2016-12-07 insult • politics • trump • twitter • visualization

Thiel conflicts of interest

Trump advisor from the tech industry is in a hopeless ethics tangle

2016-12-06 ethics • politics • thiel • trump

Flynn, propagandist

Trump's National Security Advisor regularly spreads outrageous anti-Clinton propaganda

2016-12-06 flynn • politics • propaganda • truth • twitter

Cider apple preservation

Varietals at risk /cc @celesteramsay

2016-12-06 agriculture • apples • diversity • farming • via:metafilter

Rhythm of Food

Visualization of search trends

2016-12-06 cooking • food • google • visualization

Clarus the DogCow

A museum for a classic Susan Kare icon

2016-12-05 apple • clarus • dogcow • funny • macos • moof • susankare

Mandela Effect

Examples of unreliable memory

2016-12-04 berenstain • funny • memory

Algorithmic hate

Thoughtful article on the unfortunate outcomes of machine learning

2016-12-04 google • machinelearning • politics • racism • via:metafilter

Truvada and HIV stigma

Excellent essay on gay men's sex lives

2016-12-03 gay • hiv • lgbt • prep • sex • truvada

Github vs trolls

Company takes steps to address its misogyny problem

2016-12-03 diversity • github • misogyny • sexism • tech

Trump / Clinton insiders

Debate amongst campaign staff reveals much

2016-12-02 clinton • politics • trump

US infrastructure maps

Nice renderings of railroads, pipelines, etc

2016-12-02 america • infrastructure • maps • unitedstates • visualization

Uber financials

Heavily skeptical take on the car company

2016-12-01 business • finance • uber • via:hackernews

Meet cute

A trope from TV and film; the boy and the girl in a story always meet each other in a "cute" way

2016-12-01 film • movies • narrative • tv

DAPL TFR

FAA has restricted aircraft over the protest in North Dakota

2016-12-01 dapl • faa • northdakota • protest • tfr