What our childhood shows taught us about cities (2019)(thomasbardenett.com)

9 points by omnibrain 2 years ago | 3 comments

Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health(architecturaluprising.com)

70 points by barry-cotter 3 years ago | 32 comments

Racter (1984)(ubu.com)

29 points by buescher 1 month ago | 8 comments

Hachi: An Image Search Engine(eagledot.xyz)

125 points by warangal 11 months ago | 14 comments

WebPKI and You(blog.brycekerley.net)

76 points by aragilar 7 months ago | 9 comments

Pasteur and the beer of national revenge (2017)(garshol.priv.no)

45 points by geox 2 years ago | 10 comments

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2(radical-elements.com)

150 points by lexx 23 days ago | 143 comments

Blog post by Alex Lingris, the second part of an essay arguing city-building games like Cities: Skylines 2 lack soul.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say(nbcnews.com)

479 points by MilnerRoute 4 months ago | 367 comments

NBC News exclusive reporting that the Defense Intelligence Agency raised the counterintelligence threat level for Israeli spying on the U.S. to its highest level.

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight(natesilver.net)

395 points by 7777777phil 5 months ago | 210 comments

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin essay on how Disney mismanaged and ultimately erased FiveThirtyEight's archive over ten years.