Articles by thunderbong
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The Surprising Origins of 'Left' and 'Right' in Politics (time.com)

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Modulejail: Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface (github.com/jnuyens)

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ArXiv Will Ban You for Hallucinated References (4gravitons.com)

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Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool after nine months (qz.com)

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My Hermes and Obsidian Setup and Use Cases (metedata.substack.com)

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When Code Is Cheap, Does Quality Still Matter? (yusufaytas.com)

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Move to pnpm from NPM Now (prateekjain.dev)

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Plex's Lifetime Pass is (basically) dead (gardinerbryant.com)

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Crooked Forest (wikipedia.org)

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Why Svelte Is Better Than React in the Agentic Era (zackwebster.com)

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Can a Mouse Survive a Fall from a High-Rise? (johnmjennings.com)

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The fastest manmade object ever was a manhole cover launched by nuke (wearethemighty.com)

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Gopass: The slightly more standard Unix password manager for teams (github.com/gopasspw)

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Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers (2022) (ieee.org)

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PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident (2024) (bbc.com)

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Mummy Brown (wikipedia.org)

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List of Alleged Extraterrestrial Beings (wikipedia.org)

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Ignis: Run Obsidian as a self-hosted web app (github.com/nystik-gh)

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Vollebak alters emotions with new sonic jacket (designboom.com)

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Marine scientists discover record number of new species (abcnews.com)

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Newborns' cry melody is shaped by their native language (nih.gov)

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Why do Indian trucks say "Horn OK Please"? (postoast.com)

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Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020) (extension.org)

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Aspirations and Inequality (2017) [pdf] (econometricsociety.org)

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Invisible_playwright: Stealth Firefox that passes every bot detection test (github.com/feder-cr)

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Understanding the Go Runtime: The Select Statement (internals-for-interns.com)

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Microsoft is sunsetting SMS Organizer for Android (techmesto.com)

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The Strange Rock Ship of Masuda (offbeatjapan.com)

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PgBackRest Will Continue (pgbackrest.org)

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Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI (wired.com)

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FuriPhone FLX1s Linux Phone (sitespawn.ai)

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Building a multi-agent system from scratch: 50 lines of bash and Git (andros.dev)

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Ben Affleck Banned from Hard Rock Casino When Caught Counting Cards (2014) (yahoo.com)

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Hand plane competition (Kezuroukai USA) (daizen.com)

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'News will find me' mindset makes people trust algorithms and online networks (psu.edu)

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Whatever Happened to the Near East? (jonn.substack.com)

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Ruby-charts: Generate pie, bar, and line charts from data files (github.com/ggerman)

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Refactor: Unified codebase for better performance by vishxrad- Pull Request #517 (github.com/thesysdev)

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Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears (popsci.com)

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What Is Rails-Way? (paweldabrowski.com)

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Goodgallery: WebGL sprite engine that can load 100k thumbnails in 1 second (s80.me)

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WxRuby3: A cross-platform GUI library for Ruby (github.com/mcorino)

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Tabular-nums for numbers that line up (iprodan.dev)

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Arrive by skeletonics is a 9-feet-tall kinetic exoskeleton (designboom.com)

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Contrek: Ruby gem with C++17 library for fast contour tracing, edge detection (github.com/runout77)

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BBC announces David Attenborough is returning to narrate Blue Planet III (themanc.com)

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The inventor hoping to fix your washing machine to stop microplastics (theguardian.com)

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How Mamdani and Hochul Are Solving New York City's Budget Crisis (nytimes.com)

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That ostrich over there? It is into you. (2012) (gizmodo.com)

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Your Rails App, in the App Store (rubynative.com)

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Leak reveals Google's Aluminium OS with a 16-minute video (androidauthority.com)

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The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End (astrodigital.org)

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Making a Mark on the Ocean Floor (si.edu)

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Great Trigonometrical Survey (wikipedia.org)

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End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging rolling out for Android and iPhone users (blog.google)

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Mona Lisa's Identity Established Beyond Doubt (2008) (uni-heidelberg.de)

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What if the browser was the server? (arthurcornil.com)

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Bill Gates' Mosquito Factory in Colombia and Its Contribution to Health (aldianews.com)

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NYC Mesh (wikipedia.org)

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Microsoft is upgrading Windows 11 touchpad with four new gestures (windowslatest.com)

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Here's why all flyers should be worried if Spirit Airlines goes away (2025) (cnn.com)

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What Color Is a Tennis Ball? (theatlantic.com)

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What do figureheads on ships represent? (thedockyard.co.uk)

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Cluster of lost cities in Ecuador that lasted 1k years mapped (2024) (thehill.com)

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Aube: Fast Node.js package manager that works with your existing lockfiles (en.dev)

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Stop Using Yarn Classic (charpeni.com)

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HIV pandemic's origins located (2014) (ox.ac.uk)

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Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers (en.dev)

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RubyLLM 1.15: Image Editing, Cost Tracking and Less Tool Boilerplate (paolino.me)

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Why Are Morel Mushrooms Hard to Grow? (mushroomwowhub.com)

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The HTML Sanitizer API (alfy.blog)

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TOML: A config file format for humans (toml.io)

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Rivercane: Our Native Bamboo (nps.gov)

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The Ant Odometer: Stepping on Stilts and Stumps (science.org)

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Bun project's GitHub bot has now made more contributions to Bun than Jarred (twitter.com/i)

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How AI Works Under the Hood – LLMs Explained with Code (nitayneeman.com)

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The Loudest Known Sound Ever (2024) (audiology.org)

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Going Full Time on Open Source (jdx.dev)

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Solving the Problem of Kerosene Fungus (shell.com)

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Exploring Ruby Algorithms for Fibonacci Numbers (rorvswild.com)

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Garmin releases new luxury home audio system globally (notebookcheck.net)

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Performance trick: optimistic vs. pessimistic checks – Daniel Lemire's blog (lemire.me)

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Qwe (kiwi): lightweight, flexible, file-first version/revision control system (github.com/mainak55512)

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What Happened to Notre Dame's 180k Bees? (2019) (dailyobjectivist.com)

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OpenAI smartphone leak reveals next-gen chipset and more details (notebookcheck.net)

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London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211 (atlasobscura.com)

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Two Ways to Run WordPress on SQLite (exclusive.org)

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Solving the Third Condiment Mystery with Primary Source Documents (gale.com)

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Postgresparser: ANTLR-based PostgreSQL query parser for Go (github.com/valkdb)

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Flipper: Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby (github.com/flippercloud)

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Last Universal Common Ancestor (wikipedia.org)

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Hanakai: Family of Ruby tools to help you write clearer, more maintainable apps (hanakai.org)

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Banger: One-command dev sandboxes on Firecracker microVMs (thaloco.com)

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HyperList: A powerful TUI for creating, editing, and managing HyperLists (github.com/isene)

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Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) (audubon.org)

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The AI Revolution Hollywood Feared Is Happening – In India (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Notes on the Vulnerable World Hypothesis (michaelnotebook.com)

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Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services (github.com/matheus-git)

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When Microsoft saved Apple (2017) (cnbc.com)

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Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab (theconversation.com)