Stories by basilesimon

Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code

"The Blast Shack", on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks (2010)

Felt, a visual map-making tool for the masses, out of private beta, raised $15m

How the curling ice in Beijing was made for the Olympics

Boris Johnson will face Lord Buckethead and interplanetary time lord Yogenstein [pdf]

Turning the Yield Curve into Music

Arq now supports backups to Backblaze B2

Citymapper launch first commercial east London bus route to fill Night Tube gaps

'Mother lode' of hacked passwords revealed – includes ministers and officials

DemoJS Paris promo

Ask HN: Should I leave my encrypted emails to Fastmail?

Hack your IKEA furniture

Electronic euthanasia: set up your death folder

FSF wants to replace "the" pronoun in Linux Kernel by the more neutral "xhe"

The nerdiest New Year's week

The Pirate Bay's plan to avoid blockades: decentralise. How can we defend it?

In 2013, so many people still search for a site instead of writing the URL

UK blocks Europe text on privacy - or why your government won't help