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Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month

Posted by ams1 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:32AM
from the propublica.org dept.

https://www.propublica.org/article/foia-requests-responses

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Explore Financial Disclosures from President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees

Posted by ams1 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @11:06AM
from the projects.propublica.org dept.

https://projects.propublica.org/trump-team-financial-disclosures/

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Why Houston's ‘Once-In-A-Lifetime' Floods Keep Happening

Posted by ams1 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:13PM
from the projects.propublica.org dept.

https://projects.propublica.org/houston-cypress/

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Re:OxyContin's 12-hour problem on Sunday May 08, 2016 @03:14PM (#11655316)

Want to see if you doctor has been taking money from pharma for meals/consulting/speaking/etc? Look them up in ProPublica's Dollars for Docs: https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

Telecoms Delaying Critical Patches for Classified Military Smartphones

Posted by ams1 on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:49AM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/article/critical-patches-for-classified-military-smartphones-delayed

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New data on payments from drug and device companies to doctors

Posted by ams1 on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @07:42PM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/article/a-pharma-payment-a-day-keeps-docs-finances-ok

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40 Years of Growth in Las Vegas, via Landsat and WebGL

Posted by ams1 on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @10:05AM
from the projects.propublica.org dept.

https://projects.propublica.org/las-vegas-growth-map/

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How we turned the Colorado River into a plumbing system for 7 states

Posted by ams1 on Thursday May 28, 2015 @07:06PM
from the projects.propublica.org dept.

https://projects.propublica.org/killing-the-colorado/explore-the-river

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How U.S. Commanders Spent $2B of Petty Cash in Afghanistan

Posted by ams1 on Friday May 15, 2015 @03:35PM
from the projects.propublica.org dept.

https://projects.propublica.org/cerp/

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Antebellum Data Journalism: How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln

Posted by ams1 on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:42AM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/antebellum-data-journalism-busted-abe-lincoln

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Louisiana’s Moon Shot – Plan to save its coastline

Posted by ams1 on Monday December 08, 2014 @02:03PM
from the projects.propublica.org dept.

http://projects.propublica.org/larestoration/

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Re:Somebody’s Already Using Verizon’s ID to Track Users on Sunday November 16, 2014 @05:58PM (#8615855)

ProPublica reporter/developer here.. There's a tool embedded in the article to see if your carrier is setting a tracking header.

We also published a follow-up about how AT&T has said they will stop using the header: http://www.propublica.org/article/att-stops-using-undeletabl...

Meet the Telecom Industry's Fake Grassroots Campaign Against Net Neutrality

Posted by ams1 on Thursday October 09, 2014 @10:53AM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/article/mysterious-campaign-appears-to-be-latest-salvo-in-net-neutrality-battle

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Tilde Club

Posted by ams1 on Friday October 03, 2014 @10:23PM
from the tilde.club dept.

http://tilde.club

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Draining California

Posted by ams1 on Friday September 19, 2014 @07:02PM
from the nationalgeographic.com dept.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west-snow-fail/draining-california/index.html

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LiveJournal Helping Russia Block Prominent Putin Critic

Posted by ams1 on Monday September 08, 2014 @01:46PM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/article/us-company-helps-russia-block-prominent-putin-critic

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Re:Losing Ground on Friday August 29, 2014 @11:09AM (#8242839)

If anyone is curious, the tool we wrote for rendering raster map tiles on the fly for this project is open source: http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/announcing-raster-suppo...

Data on Transfer of Military Gear to Police Departments

Posted by ams1 on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @01:41PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/upshot/data-on-transfer-of-military-gear-to-police-departments.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&abt=0002&abg=1&utm_content=buffer24016&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&_r=0

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Re:Sprint Will Sell a $12 Wireless Plan that Only Connects to Facebook... on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @08:36PM (#8111812)

We've already got TweetFTP: https://github.com/NYTimes/tweetftp

How Do I Declare a Closure in Swift?

Posted by ams1 on Sunday June 08, 2014 @02:40PM
from the fuckingclosuresyntax.com dept.

http://fuckingclosuresyntax.com/

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Gnutls goto fail

Posted by ams1 on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @12:16PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/thejefflarson/status/440895881655898112

( Read More... | no comments | 10 points | on HN )

Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency'

Posted by ams1 on Monday February 24, 2014 @09:25AM
from the notebooks.jsvine.com dept.

http://notebooks.jsvine.com/reverse-engineering-xkcd-frequency/

( Read More... | 50 comments | 251 points | on HN )

How Dark Money Flows Through the Koch Network

Posted by ams1 on Sunday February 16, 2014 @11:42PM
from the projects.propublica.org dept.

http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch

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Neither Confirm Nor Deny

Posted by ams1 on Sunday February 16, 2014 @02:02PM
from the radiolab.org dept.

http://www.radiolab.org/story/confirm-nor-deny/?.com

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The Year I Didn’t Retweet Men

Posted by ams1 on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @07:51PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/p/79403a7eade1

( Read More... | 1 comment | 6 points | on HN )

How to Start Learning to Program

Posted by ams1 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @06:59PM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/how-to-start-learning-how-to-program

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The Weight of Rain

Posted by ams1 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @05:46PM
from the style.org dept.

http://style.org/visualized/

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How Six People Who Had Never Worked Together Before Made a News App in Two Days

Posted by ams1 on Saturday February 01, 2014 @07:06PM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/how-to-make-a-news-app-in-two-days-as-told-by-six-people-who-tried-it-for-t

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Spy Agencies Probe Angry Birds and Other Apps for Personal Data

Posted by ams1 on Monday January 27, 2014 @12:31PM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/article/spy-agencies-probe-angry-birds-and-other-apps-for-personal-data

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World of Spycraft: NSA and CIA Spied in Online Games

Posted by ams1 on Monday December 09, 2013 @08:22AM
from the propublica.org dept.

http://www.propublica.org/article/world-of-spycraft-intelligence-agencies-spied-in-online-games

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