- tyk.io
-
AmericanScience: A Team Blogamericanscience.blogspot.com
Synchronicity and Scale in the Logic of the Anthropocene - AmericanScience: A Team Blog -
Fifty Shades of Grey text generator | Parody erotic fiction generated algorithmically.xwray.com
A text generator in the style of 50 Shades of Grey. This is a parody of the novel, created to show how simple but convincing scenes can be created algorithmically. The text is erotic (and may be NSFW) but not explicit. -
Paxos, a really beautiful protocol for distributed consensusgoodmath.org
The work that I do in real life is all focused on tools for other developers. In todays environment, that means that I've spent a lot of time working on tools that, in one way or another, help othe... -
The mystery of Mingering Mike: the soul legend who never existedtheguardian.com
When a ‘crate-digger’ found a massive vinyl collection at a flea market, he couldn’t understand how a soul star who’d released over 100 records could just disappear. But the truth turned out to be even stranger. Jon Ronson goes in search of Mingering Mike -
Reinventing the wheel: the Belarus artist still driving his home-made Soviet cartheguardian.com
It was not easy to buy a car in the USSR, so Boris Karavkin spent five years making the ‘Fantasy’ which he still drives more than 40 years later. TUT.BY reports - news.ycombinator.com
- adbusters.org
-
Aiming to Ease App Discovery, Apple Pairs With Pinterestbits.blogs.nytimes.com
App Pins aims to do for smartphone apps what Pinterest’s service has done for photos, recipes and many other types of websites. In short, the service is a type of digital corkboard that lets visitors save, or “pin,” items they like or places they want ... -
Meet Vega, Sri Lanka's all-electric supercarbbc.com
From a country better known for tea and tourism comes a 900-horsepower, $400,000 technological tour de force. - blog.pinterest.com
- news.ycombinator.com
-
Millions of Facebook users have no idea they’re using the internetqz.com
To many internet newcomers, they're one and the same. - willubmy.com
-
Our Neanderthals, Ourselves - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
It turns out that the depiction of Neanderthals as hairy, club-wielding brutes says more about us than it does about them. -
The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentornytimes.com
He was supposed to help her break into the tech industry. Instead, they started a relationship. Then came a rape allegation, a lawsuit and an investigation at one of the nation’s top universities. -
The bell has tolled for rand()cpp.indi.frih.net
In their recent meeting in Urbana, the C++ standard committee took the rare step of removing several outdated facilities from (what will probably become) C++17. Most of the things removed had been ... -
3%blog.healthsherpa.com
Healthcare.gov just released their updated enrollment numbers 1. 7.75 million people have selected plans. 4.5 million of those were auto-renewals, leaving 3.25 million people who have signed up... - impraise.recruitee.com
- grafana.org