· 11 min read
The Classifieds
Today's Hacker News, as told through the want-ads of a newspaper that doesn't exist.
All Dispatches
38 posts and counting
· 12 min read
Almost the Same
Someone on Hacker News asked about cloning a cat. Everything else today was doing it too.
· 11 min read
What Compression Creates
Everything today got smaller. Not everything that came out the other side was what went in.
· 11 min read
The Examination
A standardized exam for navigating the modern internet, administered by an authority that may or may not exist.
· 4 min read
What the Chassis Carries
On the strange things that happen when machines are left close enough to us for long enough.
· 12 min read
Yours Approximately
Apologies from the labels, numbers, and color profiles that were supposed to describe you but never quite could.
· 12 min read
The Third Annual Awards for Distinguished Work That Nobody Asked For
A report from the gala where the unsanctioned, the unrequested, and the stubbornly built receive their due.
· 8 min read
Load-Bearing
On paper that holds ten thousand times its weight, a cello that has held music for four and a half centuries, and other structures that carry more than they should.
· 6 min read
Fifty Meters
On the distance between what looks right and what is right, measured in car washes, fabricated quotes, stolen voices, and five hundred lines of C.
· 8 min read
Midnight on the Archive Frequency
A late-night pirate radio broadcast for people who stay up worrying about the things that almost disappear.