alive internet theory: Spencer Chang used millions of files from the Wayback Machine to make a chaotic (sometimes NSFW) collage of the personal web of the last 22 years https://alivetheory.net/

The Atlantic on Common Crawl, the nonprofit funneling paywalled articles to AI companies: a brutally efficient exposé, Alex Reisner caught them in several lies by simply looking at their crawl data https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

The Art of Interacting Incorrectly: Isabel Fish made 12 animated horses from Excel, Google Maps routes, desktop icons, GarageBand, screen fingerprints, and more https://interactingincorrectly...

Egg: VVVVVV/Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanagh made a wonderfully strange free platformer https://terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

Space Type Generator: don't miss the "Select" menu at the top for many more options https://spacetypegenerator.com/

Winners of the 2025 Interactive Fiction Competition: always worth checking out https://ifcomp.org/comp/2025

Channelvue: new from Joe Veix, a short film shot on Betacam using the Amiga's Prevue Channel software for the listings https://www.channelvue.biz/

My First Months in Cyberspace: Phil Gyford revisits the heady days of 1995, I was also a regular on Club Wired and Spacebar back then https://www.gyford.com/phil/wr...

The Collector: made in two days for Ludum Dare, a clever browser game where you try to collect orbs while fighting off enemies https://split82.itch.io/the-co...

50 Cent Adjusted for Inflation: click for a helpful interactive chart https://50centadjustedforinfla...

Ghost Waltz: Louie Zong kicks off spoopy season with his annual ghost song https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

DFACE.app: Adam Harvey made a face redaction app that's entirely private with photos never leaving your device, and can hide up to 1,000 faces in a single crowd shot https://adam.harvey.studio/dface/

Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film: from the creator of the Soviet animation Steamed Hams, German expressionist film Steamed Hams, and many more https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Find My Parking Cops: Riley Walz scraped SF parking ticket data to infer traffic police routes, with a leaderboard of total fines per day https://walzr.com/sf-parking/

TV Simulator Says: a smoking television with beefy arms responds to all your questions with Simpsons clips https://tvsimulator.com/says/

Greig Johnson makes a Hitchhiker's Guide prop from junk: plus a Babel fish, Vogon ship, original animations, and a short film to show it all off https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A Clock, a fan-made recreation of Christian Marclay's The Clock: the copyright implications here are interesting, Marclay's unique arrangement of thousands of clips can be copyrighted even if he never got permission to use them https://kottke.org/25/09/a-clo...

I'm Not A Robot: Neal.fun's latest is a game of increasingly ridiculous CAPTCHAs https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/

Kitboga forced scammers to solve impossible captchas: YouTube's best scambaiter ran a game jam to design the most infuriating and hilarious captchas https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

HushCrasher's taxonomy of videogame production scope: instead of subjective terms like "indie" or "AAA," they charted games based on their size on disk and individuals named in the credits https://hushcrasher.substack.c...

Tunnel Girl recaps three years of her underground tunnel project: after the city stopped work for over a year, Kala finally got official permits in March and kept digging https://www.tiktok.com/@engine...

Trucker built scale model of NYC over 21 years: constructed alone in his basement, the 50' x 30' model grew to cover all five boroughs and their surroundings https://gothamist.com/arts-ent...

Hosting a website on a disposable vape: the vape server is overloaded right now from Hacker News traffic, check it out later https://bogdanthegeek.github.i...

how to use the subway: a minimalist chill subway system simulator https://quewon.github.io/subway/

chyrons: Riley Walz extracted live lower thirds found on ten TV news channels https://walzr.com/chyrons

goodbye, computer: a little tune by April Clucks that's "dedicated to the first machine i loved, before they were unloveable" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

More Objects from Films: Marcus Merritt's ongoing series of ink drawings of lamps, phones, televisions, and other objects found in movies https://marcusjmerritt.com/obj...

Fill Harmonics: Parker Higgins made a crossword puzzle-inspired drum machine for 10k Drum Machines https://parkerhiggins.net/2025...

I tracked down the couple at the center of the viral Will Smith AI concert video. What does it feel like for millions of people to think you're an AI hoax? https://waxy.org/2025/09/interviewing-the-couple-in-the-will-smith-ai-crowd-video

DOOMscroll: a game you play just by scrolling, the NYT headlines ripped from their homepage are a clever touch https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/

Gina Trapani returns to blogging after a decade away: Lifehacker's founding editor, Thinkup cofounder, former Postlight CEO, and one of my favorite people https://notetoself.studio/

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring: great Verge feature on how Wikipedia evolved policies to resist attacks on its neutrality https://www.theverge.com/cs/fe...

Vole.wtf's Reload Clicker: a clicker game designed to implode any web server, try it before Matt Round takes it offline https://vole.wtf/reload-clicker/

Kowloon Walled City in Minecraft: a detailed approximation based on books, photos, and videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

After 22 years, Typepad shutting down with one month's notice: they turned off new signups at the end of 2020, but were still reassuring users as recently as last March https://everything.typepad.com...

21 years since my first C&Ds: - From EMI for being first to put the Grey Album on the web waxy.org/2004/02/dang... - Then from Disney for the Kleptones waxy.org/2004/11/disn...

Will Smith is being accused of generating fake fans with AI, but it's complicated: the crowds are real, but the videos were manipulated by Smith's team and YouTube itself. https://waxy.org/2025/08/will-smiths-concert-crowds-were-real-but-ai-is-blurring-the-lines

Bluesky blocks all of Mississippi over new age verification law: the next stage of the Splinternet: every social site must now somehow verify the identity of every user or block entire states/countries https://bsky.social/about/blog...

VTV: Matt Round made music video channel for Vole.wtf with "the weirdest and worst novelty songs ever created" https://vole.wtf/vtv/

How to Draw a Space Invader: another fun interactive explainer from Stanko Tadić https://muffinman.io/blog/inva...

ldial.org: some of the best independent radio stations streaming online on a single page https://www.ldial.org/

Kristie De Garis on community protest and solidarity in Wplace: their server has been down for days, but the pixel-art layer drawn over the world map tells a thousand stories https://kristiedegaris.substac...

"I've got a solution: wolves": improve every stupid newspaper op-ed headline with this one simple trick https://robmanuelfuckyeah.subs...

Reddit will block the Internet Archive: they say because AI companies are scraping data from the IA instead of paying Reddit directly https://www.theverge.com/news/...

The finalists for the 2025 Tiny Awards are out, which I helped judge again this year. Here's a little roundup of the 11 contenders. Voting ends September 1! https://waxy.org/2025/08/vote-on-the-2025-tiny-awards-finalists

Ben Holmen spent six years building a 1,000 pixel wooden display anyone can draw on: go to kilopx.com to watch it recreate the most upvoted 40x25 pixel images https://benholmen.com/blog/kil...

Wplace, paint the world: like r/Place on a world map, zoom out to find your city and zoom in to see what people drew there https://wplace.live/

The Bluesky Dictionary: Avi Bagla is tracking every unique English word posted to Bluesky, 33% out of 275k dictionary words in 24 hours https://www.avibagla.com/blues...

The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath: identifying obscure typefaces with help from commenters over the last 10 years https://fontsinuse.com/uses/35...

CloudGazing: draw images in clouds and share the results https://cloudgazing.online/