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January 5, 2024
— after 350,757 coin tosses, partly livestreamed on Twitch by volunteers, the researcher found a slight bias toward the same side facing up #
— Belgian dancer Ed People travels the world recording people teaching him dance moves with charming results #
January 4, 2024
— Stanford researchers open-sourced a spendy robotics kit made with off-the-shelf parts that can perform complex tasks like cooking and cleaning #
— there’s a reason my logo is a Vectrex; it’s a weird and beautiful console, a commercial failure but wildly innovative via Kottke #
— Ivan Miranda’s four-part series is worth watching from the beginning as he iterates and improves the design #
January 2, 2024
— weirdly addictive, my high score is 2,689 #
— Matt Round’s latest is a deep multiuser simulation of a fictional Cold War-era computer network and hardware, currently £10.02 to join #
— don’t miss the video where he hits the kill screen after 38 minutes of play and nearly passes out #
— Simon Willison writes about using streaks in life and work, but they’re at their best when they leave room for iterative improvement #
January 1, 2024
— the first 13 test chambers are playable with source code and ROM patcher available via @rmi #
— fine-tuned image model trained on newly-public domain images of Mickey Mouse from 1928 #
— an amazing run of thoughtful work, ending on his own terms and with tremendous style #
December 31, 2023
— browser add-on for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to block websites and entire domains in Google, Bing, and other search engines via jwz #
— with decentralization and fragmented platforms, Anil Dash is optimistic for a revival of the personal, human web #
December 27, 2023
— the suit goes beyond copyright claims to accuse Bing of damaging their brand with hallucinated citations #
— like the Bloomberg Jealousy List, their staff picks the best global tech stories they wish they’d written this year #
December 23, 2023
— estimating the number of YouTube videos and other metadata from random sampling of video IDs #
December 22, 2023
— Erin Kissane breaks down the benefits, risks, and risk mitigations of Threads joining the fediverse #
December 21, 2023
— Hamish McKenzie’s letter makes it clear they’re not only committed to platforming bigotry, but funding and profiting from it #
December 20, 2023
— love how they frame each comparison with human scale in the middle, with you in between a single DNA strand and the Sun via Good Internet #
— what does this mean for Common Crawl, the source that the LAION datasets were derived from? #
December 19, 2023
— replaces ridiculous thumbnails with an image from the video, open-source and available for Firefox #
— NYT investigation into a Chinese human trafficking operation powering “pig butchering” confidence scams via @kevincollier #
— after 95 years of copyright, the earliest version of Mickey Mouse will enter the public domain on January 1 while remaining trademarked #
— 404 Media’s Jason Koebler digs into yet another flood of generative AI chum content and the people trying to track it #
December 15, 2023
— if it’s too easy, try it on expert via b3ta #
— fascinating inside baseball breaking down the CPMs and conflicting incentive structures for each short-form video platform #
— Decoder Ring’s podcast version of this story is also great via b3ta #
— probably for the best since they’ve allowed it to become a major source of newsgroup spam #
December 14, 2023
— Glenn Fleishman interviewed the original team, among others, for this beautifully-designed history of the Web 2.0 app via @glennf #
December 12, 2023
— a preserved collection of thousands of funny, weird, and notable tweets, some deleted and reconstructed from screenshots #
— a special series from The Verge with contributions from Sarah Jeong, Zoe Schiffer, Nilay Patel, and an archive of thousands of Good Tweets #
December 11, 2023
— Alan Becker’s interstellar follow-up to Animation vs. Math #
— the latest meme art stunt from Sunday Nobody #
— “How could so many people feel so thoroughly unrepresented by an industry that purports to give voice to the voiceless?” #
— The Pudding’s picks for the best visual and data-driven stories of the year #
— meditative video about a simple technique for spotlighting motion in video from Posy via pad26.aweb.page #
— one of the greatest and weirdest holiday TV specials ever, made by a cast and crew of oddball geniuses #
December 7, 2023
— “a cooperative online walker-talker” from the creators of Untitled Goose Game #
— the classic physics puzzler is getting a sequel 15 years after the original via The Verge #
— his annual post is always an interesting and entertaining collection of facts and discoveries via MetaFilter #
— relies on people seeing persistent afterimages/tracers, try increasing YouTube playback speed to 2x to see them via Medium #
December 6, 2023
— they claim their most powerful model beats GPT-4 in most benchmarks, but it won’t be available until next year #
— a wholesome Twitter thread these days feels like a glimmer of light from a dying star #
December 5, 2023
— despite leaking early on X/Twitter, it broke YouTube records for most views in 24 hours for a non-music video #
— an open-source tool for growing 3D procedural plants in the browser with nodes #
— Hbomberguy’s excellent four-hour exposé on video essayists passing off others’ work as their own #
November 30, 2023
— tldraw’s latest experiment generates images as you draw on a canvas in real-time #
— a collection of 4,210 classic 88×31 buttons, a standard started by the Netscape Now! campaign in 1996 via Michael Eades #
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