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I Made 56874 Calls to Explore the Telephone Network
A researcher dials tens of thousands of Finnish toll-free numbers and reports the odd things that answer, from forgotten…
I Printed My Instagram Feed for a Month
A writer prints out her Instagram feed every day for a month instead of scrolling, and reports what changed about attent…
I Scraped Hacker News for TLD Popularity
A data post that scrapes Hacker News submissions to count which top-level domains get linked most, ranking the TLDs behi…
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
A short, playful hack-of-the-week write-up on hiding a whole working web page inside the tiny favicon image of a site, w…
I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape
A hilarious first-person account of tasting Honda's capsaicin-laced rodent-repelling wire tape, and what happens when cu…
I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games
A cavapoo named Momo types random keys and an AI turns them into playable Godot games, with the full pipeline, rewards a…
I Wired Up My Bike's GPS to Order Me Pizza
A fun write-up of a geofence hack that triggers a pizza order from a bike's GPS mid gravel race, so dinner is waiting wh…
I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 notice
A curious developer mails a letter to the old Free Software Foundation address printed in the GPLv2 notice and shares wh…
I'd Rather Read the Prompt
A short, sharp essay arguing that when someone hands you machine-generated prose, you would rather see the prompt they t…
IMG_0416
A short, fascinating dive into the long-forgotten iPhone feature that sent photos to YouTube, and the odd digital artifa…
Immersive Quarries
An essay by Marie Foulston tracing why the 2010s were flooded with near-identical immersive Van Gogh projection shows, f…
In Praise of the Botched Potato Christ
Elephant magazine looks back at Cecilia Gimenez's infamous restoration of the Ecce Homo fresco in Borja, Spain, and how…
In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Neal Stephenson's classic 1999 essay on operating systems, user interfaces and culture, comparing Windows, Mac, Linux an…
IndieWeb Wiki
The living wiki documenting the IndieWeb movement, a community-driven effort to help people own their content instead of…
Infocom Authors - Brian Moriarty
A fan-archive profile of Brian Moriarty, the Infocom implementor behind Wishbringer, Trinity and Beyond Zork, tracing hi…
Insane in the Chromatophores
Neuroscience hobbyists wire an iPod to the fin nerve of a squid and make its color-changing chromatophore cells flash in…
Inside a Low Budget Hardware Espionage Implant
A teardown of the S8 data line locator, a USB cable with a hidden GSM tracker that can listen in, call back and report l…
Inside a Viral Website
The creator of a viral site tracking the ship stuck in the Suez Canal shares what five days of internet fame looked like…
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Inside the first issue of Macworld
Scott Knaster flips through the first issue of Macworld from 1984, showing scanned pages, vintage ads and the early Mac…
Installing Every Firefox Extension
A funny and technical account of attempting to install every extension in Firefox's add-on store at once, with the chaos…
Internet Coke Machine
The story of the Carnegie Mellon Coke machine that students wired to the early network so anyone could check whether col…
Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
A community-driven encyclopedia documenting the origins and spread of internet memes, viral content, and online phenomen…
Interview with demoscener 0b5vr
An interview with Japanese demoscene creator 0b5vr about live-coded visuals, tiny size-limited demos, shaders and the cu…
Introducing BrainTripping
A write-up introducing BrainTripping, Matt Huebert's language model comedy project, where an AI is pushed to produce str…
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