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June 17, 2016
— poetry made with Google autocomplete and Raspberry Pis #
— the open web’s fading away in favor of consolidated convenience and algorithmic relevance #
— breaking crises are one of the few times a homepage still matters #
— making a real difference there, GOP #
June 16, 2016
— nicely timed, the channel posted its first new video in seven years #
— Lockheed-Martin’s school bus motion ride with real-time imagery based on geolocation #
— at least 41 were shut down #
June 15, 2016
— interviews with Jim Guthrie, Chipzel, Toby Fox, Chris Remo, and Disasterpeace #
— losing a child is tragic enough, but the pro-life right insists on compounding women’s suffering #
June 14, 2016
— Buzz Andersen on Gawker and Peter Thiel #
— prayer isn’t cutting it #
June 13, 2016
— nice to see my representatives refused NRA cash #
— sad to see, I had fun working on its open-source incarnation #
— algorithmically creating soundtracks for silent video; related: water sound synthesis #
June 11, 2016
— mesmerizing motion capture and material rendering; this should be fun when the metaverse arrives #
June 10, 2016
— no heroes in this story, but I worry about other billionaires using this technique on smaller publications #
— this is fun to play with #
— including an easter egg hidden for 33 years; now you can play it in the browser #
June 9, 2016
— I can’t watch the show without triggering flashbacks #
June 8, 2016
— tracking where migrants died crossing from Mexico to Arizona; more on the project #
June 6, 2016
June 4, 2016
— incredibly powerful indictment of rape culture on campus and in the courts #
June 3, 2016
— like a computer’s memory after “watching” it six times; of course, it got a DMCA takedown #
June 1, 2016
— Good Magazine on the online subculture of shoplifting teen girls #
— oh wait, this is a tuba #
— not a huge YC fan, but I like this #
— reconstructing 3D space using film stills from The Shining for VR via Belong.io #
— 7.6 million event pages back from the dead from Upcoming’s first ten years #
May 31, 2016
— today’s the effective last day of the Echo Nest’s pioneering Remix API #
May 29, 2016
— experimental game of colorful landscapes and exploration #
May 27, 2016
— The Thermals’ Hutch Harris on day jobs, money, and ego in indie music #
May 26, 2016
— I’m getting VRML flashbacks #
May 25, 2016
— more than half their most popular posts go to the image-hosting service #
— a visual index to human-made objects #
— draw looping sounds, from the creator of typedrummer #
— visual search engine for satellite imagery; example: baseball in Detroit, planes in NYC #
May 24, 2016
May 23, 2016
— surprising how similar the two competing headsets are #
— machine learning for dumb coding interview questions #
— auralization of real-time collision data from the ATLAS detector at CERN #
May 20, 2016
— with the help of Mystery Show’s Starlee Kine, they researched every attendee in the room #
— how an illustration about equality transmuted and spread #
— you’d think Content ID would factor in the publication date of copyrighted works, but I guess not #
May 19, 2016
— from the creator of the popular Augmented (hyper)Reality short #
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