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Train an image or sound classifier from your own webcam in about three minutes, no code involved. The clearest explanation of machine learning built.
Hundreds of players carve up a real world map using one attack slider. Diplomacy emerges in the chat within ninety seconds.
Competitive multiplayer stacking with modern rules and opponents who will finesse you into the floor within ninety seconds.
The official browser Tetris, marathon mode included, so you can settle the argument about whether you are still any good.
Daily edit of objects, gear and short videos picked by somebody with taste and no obvious interest in sponsorship.
Satire from a conservative and Christian angle, useful mainly as a read on what the other newsroom finds absurd.
Canadian satire that assumes you follow Canadian politics, and rewards you handsomely if you happen to.
Australia's oldest newspaper, filed from a town with no remaining population, covering the nation with dead-eyed accuracy.
Teaches the pen tool by making you trace shapes with the fewest possible anchor points. Level nine is genuinely cruel.
Combine shapes with union, subtract and intersect to hit a target silhouette in as few operations as you can manage.
Sweet wrappers collected and annotated for decades, arranged by how well the graphic design has survived contact with the present.
The Australian team that built a career on television stunts, still publishing headlines that get them into trouble.
Every component you might need to build, with links to how twenty different design systems each named and handled it.
A reference of every chart type and what each is genuinely for, worth reading before defaulting to a bar chart.
Scroll from the surface to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, meeting every creature at the depth it actually lives.
Animal rescue stories with the video attached, engineered from the ground up to make you cry quietly at your desk.
A playable account of why cooperation appears and then collapses, using game theory and roughly ten minutes of attention.
A quarterly printed newspaper of good news and everyday heroes, illustrated throughout, with the archive online.
Punk and hardcore scene satire, written by people who clearly still go to shows and still resent everyone there.
Aggregates everything the music blogs posted today into one stream, which is how people found new records before playlists took over.
Jay Alammar's diagram-by-diagram walkthrough of the architecture underneath every modern language model.
Multiple-choice questions where the correct answer is a pun, a trick or an outright lie, and three wrong ones end the whole run.
Coin-operated arcade cabinets from the seventies onward, emulated in a tab, attract mode and all.
Community-maintained film and television database with an open API, which is why half the apps you use are quietly built on it.
The listing that has catalogued live text MUDs since 1994, and still tells you which of them have people logged in tonight.
Long-form comics about grammar, cats, running and grief, from the man who also invented Exploding Kittens.
A proxy that serves archived pages as period browsers expected them, so a 1998 machine can still get online and see 1998.
The original fake newspaper, whose headlines get quoted as fact often enough to sustain a small correction industry.
A hand-maintained index of free books online, run out of Penn since before search engines were any good.
Five solutions-focused stories a day, from a team that has been running this beat since the mid-nineties.
Timeline readings that describe periods rather than days, phrased as amateur psychology rather than fortune telling.
Beautifully drawn strips that set up a sweet premise and then take it somewhere very dark in the final panel.
Sixty-odd propositions place you on economic and social axes, then show you exactly where Thatcher and Gandhi ended up.
Campaigns for the right to repair and runs community fixing parties, publishing the data on what breaks and why.
A crime you solve by writing database queries, and easily the least painful SQL tutorial ever built.
A team counted every squirrel in Central Park and published the data, the maps and a full illustrated report on the findings.
Cecil Adams' archive of exhaustively answered daft questions, invented decades before you could just ask the internet.
A free course that starts on the home row and builds up, with keyboard layouts for whichever language you actually type in.
One family documenting Chinese home cooking across two generations, with real detail on ingredients and what you can substitute.
Pour coloured sand into layered dunes with the mouse, which is considerably more absorbing than it has any right to be.
Daily gift catalogue for things nobody needs, and the reason several of your friends own a novelty tap they never use.
Fifty years of home renovation broken into how-tos, with actual tradespeople explaining why the obvious shortcut fails.
Superhot's trick in a browser: time only moves when you do, so every room becomes a slow-motion puzzle with guns.
A photograph from the last century that you place on both a map and a timeline, which is much harder than either alone.
Wikipedia's calmly written schedule of everything still to happen, ending long after the last star has gone out.
Cast, catch, sell, upgrade the line, cast deeper. The loop is completely transparent and it still takes forty minutes off you.
A rescue that livestreams its foster kittens and feral colonies around the clock, with vets narrating in the chat.
One line of maths drives a sixteen-by-sixteen grid of dots, and the gallery of what people fit into that line is humbling.
One button, one detour. Press it as often as you like.