Mark Frauenfelder on losing $30k in Bitcoin — he forgot his PIN, forcing him to hack his own wallet #

Spelunky 2 announced — I couldn't be more excited #

Engare — gorgeous new game inspired by Islamic art and architecture #

Floppy Disks in Anime  #

Jazzari — make music with Javascript; try the Partly Purdie example #

Ftrain at 20 — Paul Ford on 20 years of blogging #

Echochamber.js — LocalStorage comments viewable only to the person who made them #

One person’s history of Twitter, from beginning to end — Mike Monteiro on how Twitter's inability to address harassment became a global threat #

Line Rider – Mountain King — fun to see Line Rider still thriving more than a decade after its release (via) #

Universal Paperclips — new game by Frank Lantz, in which you play an AI making paperclips (via) #

Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse — 1:6 scale dioramas of a hoarder, from 2012 but new to me; more work by the same artist #

Untitled Goose Game — very very good trailer from the creators of Push Me Pull You #

Protanopia — free iOS comic that uses the accelerometer to change perspective #

deeplearn.js — hardware-accelerated machine learning in the browser #

Google Pixel Buds, wireless earbuds that translate 40 languages real-time — not quite the Babel Fish, but getting closer #

SolarBeat — sonification of our solar system with the WebAudio API (via) #

Teachable Machine — interactive machine learning in the browser with your camera #

Incredible Doom — Matthew Bogart's new comic about teens on the '90s internet, first issue up now #

The Secret Costs of Pivoting to Video — decentralized videos are hard to make, measure, and monetize #

Long Live the Group Chat — wonderful marriage of great writing and creative web design #

Short Trip — absurdly charming hand-drawn train journey; hold left or right to move #

Internet Archive’s Third Eye Data project — real-time tracking of TV news chyrons, with APIs and bots #

The Outline on the W3C’s official embrace of DRM — the EFF resigned in protest this week #

Centrism Dot Biz — "Take inaction. You can make an indifference." #

Mapbox’s time maps — try the live map #

Wired on the Snopes’ legal battle — rewriting its own history #

The First Web Apps — the stories behind five web apps that launched in 1995, with extensive research and interviews #

AI Spy — absurdist "I Spy" with a very literal Google Cloud Vision #

80s.NYC — street view of mid-80s NYC compiled from 800,000 city-commissioned building photos #

Instagif Camera — copies the three-second GIF to a Raspberry Pi cartridge with its own display, fading in Polaroid-style #

DOOM running on a phone running on Unreal Engine 4 — it's playable, too #

Coin — from the creators of Plug & Play #

Lauren, the human intelligent smart home — the cookie from Black Mirror's White Christmas episode as performance art #

Select All interviewed the Disloyal Boyfriend photographer — and Laura and Mario, the two stock photo models #

Dance Tonite — collaborative WebVR music video from LCD Soundsystem, Jonathan Puckey, and Moniker #

Hiveswap — the Homestuck adventure game, five years in the making, is out on September 14 #

AR Experiments — what if walls could scream #

HyperCard on the Internet Archive — add your stacks #

Intolerable — Jeremy Keith on the Google manifesto #

Wick — open-source JS toolkit inspired by Flash animations #

BuzzFeed News analysis of hyperpartisan political sites — some opportunists are publishing both conservative and liberal sites; data here #

Baldur’s Gender — the 19 genders of Baldur's Gate #

I’m a Google Manufacturing Robot and I Believe Humans Are Biologically Unfit to Have Jobs in Tech  #

Alt-Right vs. Silicon Valley — they're creating hate-friendly versions of popular sites instead #

Following links through portals in A-Frame — WebVR is now shipping in Firefox for Windows, Mac support is in nightly #

Google fires knucklehead engineer who wrote screed on gender differences — the Hacker News thread was closed to new users because of trolling #

Buzzfeed analyzed flight patterns to find spy planes — intriguing use of machine learning for reporting #

Mirage — annotating the real world with augmented reality #

NONI NONI — draw pictures, convert to shapes with AutoDraw; try it on mobile #

Stack Overflow Importer — hilarious/dangerous module to import highly-voted code samples as Python modules #