The Tree In Our Backyard — Alexis Madrigal traces the history of an apple tree #

OpenAI announces DALL·E 3 — integrated into ChatGPT, it can handle more complex prompts and will decline generating images in a living artist's style #

Dream Scenario trailer — finally, a movie about the universal experience of having Nicolas Cage randomly appear in your dreams #

With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways — "be truthful, not neutral" (via) #

Well Wishes My Love, Your Love — like Kottke says, a unique animation style to match the unusual narrative #

Casey Newton on lessons learned in three years of running Platformer — essential reading for anyone interested in journalism #

Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions — fascinating look at the devops infrastructure supporting A Little Game Called Mario, a Godot platformer anyone can contribute to #

A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials — Max Read sifts through the Wayback Machine to go back to 2011 with the launch of iMessage in iOS 5 #

The Rise of Tech, According to Sandra Bullock Movies — escape is impossible when you're caught in The Net (via) #

It’s Nice That talks to designers behind fictional brands for TV and film — worth it just for all the high-res fictional brand images made for Wes Anderson films and Barbie #

ramen.haus — like rotatingsandwiches.com for ramen (via) #

Elon Musk’s X continues to throttle links to competitors — shortened links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack wait an additional 2.5 seconds before redirecting (via) #

Spiral Town and Checkered Village — using the same technique as the Stable Diffusion QR codes, guiding ControlNet with black-and-white patterns can lead to amazing results #

The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World — first of a two-part feature with never-before-seen sketches and photos from the artists' personal archives #

Boss Fight 3D Render Challenge — hypnotic montage of CG artistry with music by Disasterpeace, if you want more, the full video with all 2,880 entries is over 3.5 hours long (via) #

21st Century Roguelike Pac-Man — Pac-Man reinvented as a dungeon crawler with quests, crafting, mining, and of course, hats (via) #

URL Poetry Club — short poems composed mostly of creative domain names (via) #

Major publishers sue Libgen for “staggering” copyright infringement — the shadow library's operators are entirely anonymous so they're suing 50 John Does, "persons of unknown identity" #

River, a visual connection engine — Max Bittker made a CLIP-based image browser, similar to same.energy (via) #

British Seaside Simulator — I love Matt Round's dev threads where he shows what goes into making all these ridiculous projects for Vole.wtf #

a clock where the time is made of news headlines — Russell Samora continues his Data Clocks series for The Pudding #

Reddit activity plummeted since API changes and moderator protests — average daily posts and comments for most major subreddits dropped 50-90% compared to a year ago #

Taylor Lorenz on Julia Allison’s vilification as an early influencer — an excerpt from Extremely Online, Lorenz's upcoming book on the history of social media and internet fame #

The George Lucas Eggsperience — a new remix by Neil Cicierega, only slightly stranger than the original ads #

Irene — Mark Slutsky talks to a woman mentioned in a 2012 YouTube comment by a long-forgotten admirer quoted in his Sad YouTube project #

Elon Musk’s DIY Twitter datacenter migration disaster — completely unhinged behavior, definitely the kind of person who should run a bank (via) #

Adrian Holovaty’s Melodic Guitar Music — his first proper album, ten original guitar instrumentals inspired by Django Reinhardt, The Beatles and Chet Atkins (via) #

Looking back at Aardvark’d, the Fog Creek Documentary, 18 years later — several former employees in the 2005 documentary involved reflect on it in the Hacker News discussion (via) #

Harry Styles fans debate the authenticity of possibly AI-generated leaked demos — even the AI experts hired by 404 Media can't tell which, if any, are real #

Nour: Play With Your Food — the surreal interactive food physics toy with reactive music is out now for PC/Mac and PS4/PS5 #

Absorber — weirdly addictive idle game where you absorb the powers of the enemies you kill #

How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness? — blame it on cheap artificial vanillin, which became the default flavor for ice cream across the U.S. (via) #

Kagi Small Web — another reason to love Kagi is their effort to promote blogs and other smaller independent websites #

AI emoji generator — the cursed thumbs up/down icons are a nice touch #

Postmarks — Casey Kolderup made a single-user bookmark sharing app with ActivityPub support that's easily hosted on Glitch #

Wavacity — Audacity ported to the browser #

Teaser trailer for The Boy and the Heron — Miyazaki’s first film in ten years, and reportedly his last, will be out on December 8 in the U.S. #

DJ Phonetic — make beats with drum sounds found in phonemes from audio clips of public-domain historical speeches (via) #

Mr. Platformer — VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh's latest is a free Pitfall-esque platformer that quickly turns masocore #

Endless Thread finds the previously-unknown illustrator for A Wrinkle In Time’s cover art — picking up the phone and pulling every thread to solve a mystery (via) #

Badger Badger Badger Turns 20 — Jonti Picking celebrated with a new video #

Dungeons & Dragons on Death Row — heartbreaking story of how a group of Texas prisoners awaiting execution found escape and therapy in role-playing #

EXPI by @p01 — astounding graphic demo in 1024 bytes of Javascript, it won the Assembly 2023 1kb compo (via) #

The Glitch Gallery — an online exhibition of pretty software bugs, submit your own (via) #

You Say Potato, I Say Fuck You — how have I never seen this 17-year-old crowdsourced collection of 2,500+ photos of anthropomorphic objects (via) #

Cliquart — Philippe Caron's generative art experiments, each following a set of simple instructions reminiscent of Sol Lewitt's wall drawings (via) #

The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge — Tyler Vigen investigates the existence of a seemingly-useless pedestrian bridge to a satisfying conclusion (via) #

Searching for Maura, an investigative journalism graphic novella — uncovering the death of an Indigenous Filipino woman recruited for the 1904 World's Fair, her brain stolen by a racist scientist at the Smithsonian (via) #

Singapore in Colour — finding the unique palettes of a neighborhood by analyzing colors in photos (via) #

a clock where the time is mentioned on YouTube — the latest in Russell Samora's series of data clocks for The Pudding (via) #