Articles by thunderbong
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Developers Are Using AI to Strip Ads and Tracking from Smart TVs (gadgetreview.com)

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Order of Adjectives (cambridge.org)

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What Is the Karakoram Anomaly? (nsidc.org)

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A paralyzed musician is using a brain implant to create music (techspot.com)

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Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment (atlasobscura.com)

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Cinemas have been getting away with lies. Films should begin on time (theguardian.com)

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Space Shuttle Endeavour Transport (cordobacorp.com)

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From Oracle DBA to Postgres Contributor with Karen Jex (talkingpostgres.com)

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Assessing AI agents at autonomous theoretical physics problem solving (arxiv.org)

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Hegemonic Logic (mattiasforsgren.substack.com)

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Texas' Telescope Ranches: Remote Astronomy Under Dark Rural Skies (newspaceeconomy.ca)

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The Center for Critical Research on Religion (criticaltheoryofreligion.org)

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Dogs Seem to Agree with Humans That 'Bouba' Is Round and 'Kiki' Is Spiky (sciencealert.com)

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Linus Torvalds to 'start being more hardnosed' about 'pointless pull requests' (theregister.com)

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Analytical Ballistic Trajectories with Approximately Linear Drag [pdf] (wiley.com)

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Could steam help California strawberry farmers grow more with fewer chemicals? (latimes.com)

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District 9 (wikipedia.org)

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Email green, secure, simple and ad-free – posteo.de (posteo.de)

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Vinyl Record Inner-Groove Distortion (A Simple Explanation) (yoursoundmatters.com)

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How Fungi's Evolutionary Delay Gave Us Fossil Fuels (medium.com/datavector)

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A new language has been born in the Northwest (2022) (opb.org)

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SQLite 3.54.0 Released (sqlite.org)

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District Six (wikipedia.org)

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The Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History (2019) (bloomberg.com)

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Vec1: Native vector search (ANN) in SQLite (sqlite.org)

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New open source cross-platform sandboxing library from Microsoft-looks promising (twitter.com/simonw)

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Marchetti's Constant (wikipedia.org)

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The Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History (2019) (bloomberg.com)

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I made my iPhone a second GPU for my MacBook-Qwen 3.8 27B prefills 29–44% faster (reddit.com)

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How Delhi Built a World-Class Metro for a Bargain (nytimes.com)

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CTTI is Exponential, RTTI is Linear (gingerbill.org)

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Golden Retriever Follows Google Maps Photographer, Appears in over 1k Images (2024) (distractify.com)

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Running in sari, 47-year-old woman wins race for daughters' education (edexlive.com)

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Van Eck Phreaking (wikipedia.org)

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Slump in eastern Australia gas demand shows no signs of easing (2025) (ieefa.org)

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Cardiovascular Risk Declines with Heated Tobacco Uptake (emjreviews.com)

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Trazor: An image vectorizer that runs in the browser (github.com/phenx)

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Milky Way's fastest star orbits a black hole so close, it feels its spin (eso.org)

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The Company That Zips the Globe – YKK's Ninety-Year Obsession (carryology.com)

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Compactor: A user interface for Windows 10 filesystem compression (github.com/freaky)

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Adapting Fossil-scm as a platform for AI agentic workflow (github.com/bensiv)

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The Deathbed Confession of a Bank Robber – Episode #133 [audio] (jimmystable.com)

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ISRO will not make any launch vehicle, all tech to be handed to private sector (indiatoday.in)

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Walmart adding Tap to Pay after years of shoppers asking for it (dexerto.com)

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Wind energy offers a lifeline for this Kansas rancher (edf.org)

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The Horse and Sparrow Economic Theory (the13thtribe.blogspot.com)

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Chimpanzees Make the Same 'Laugh Faces' When They Emit Laughter and When Silent (plos.org)

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WaveHouse: Open-source real-time API gateway for ClickHouse (wavehouse.dev)

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Git to Fossil Translation Guide (fossil-scm.org)

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Kopi Luwak (wikipedia.org)

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The Horse and Sparrow Economic Theory (the13thtribe.blogspot.com)

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Damn Vulnerable Nginx Proxy (DVNP) (owasp.org)

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OpenAI's Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face (wired.com)

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If You Weren't Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks (nytimes.com)

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Choking victims should perform Heimlich manoeuvre on themselves – scientists (independent.co.uk)

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Lucille Ball Is the Reason We Have 'Star Trek' – Here's What Happened (2016) (businessinsider.com)

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Honey loses over 7M users and 7k stores following YouTuber's viral expose (dexerto.com)

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LineageOS support comes to the Galaxy S22 series (9to5google.com)

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If You Cut Down a Tree for a Better View in Australia, Authorities Block It (greenmatters.com)

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Human ancestors may have almost died out after ancient population crash (2023) (nhm.ac.uk)

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Population Bottleneck (wikipedia.org)

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Microsoft Is Retiring Excel's Copilot() Function After Just One Year (windowsreport.com)

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Conservation efforts help an endangered dipterocarp spread roots in Bangladesh (mongabay.com)

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Harvestman Spider with a 'Black Bunny' Head Captured on Video (allthatsinteresting.com)

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Jason Steffen's Home Page (unlv.edu)

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Quick-search: An universal search app for Android (github.com/teja2495)

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A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (rand.org)

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A century after Goscinny, Asterix remains a witty guide to resisting authority (indiatimes.com)

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South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North (bbc.com)

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Minimally Invasive Education (wikipedia.org)

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Tiny glitches appear over South America due to a weak spot in Earth's field (reddit.com)

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Reverse Overshot Water Wheel (wikipedia.org)

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An Inside Look at the NYC Subway's Archaic Signal System (2025) (nytimes.com)

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Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Condition 2025/26 (aims.gov.au)

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Capyreader: A smallish Android RSS reader (github.com/jocmp)

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Asus Oxiis turns bicycle into e-bike with USB-C and 500W motor (notebookcheck.net)

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Manjhi – The Mountain Man (wikipedia.org)

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Hop from server to server without ever leaving your terminal (github.com/p-arndt)

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A hurricane has never crossed the equator. Here's why (accuweather.com)

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A small battery has been ringing a bell since 1840. No one knows what's inside (upworthy.com)

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GNU Parallel (gnu.org)

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Chinese bullet train breaks acceleration record by going from 0-800kmph in 5 sec (the-independent.com)

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Amur Tiger Center (amur-tiger.ru)

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After a lot of thought, we've decided to retire SvelteJobs (sveltejobs.com)

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Hardware researcher creates project to find the slowest single x86 instruction (tomshardware.com)

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Watermarks-remover: Strip multi-vendor AI provenance marks (github.com/guillaumemeyer)

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Openhare: AI-powered desktop SQL client. Cross-platform. Built with Flutter (github.com/sjjian)

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Footage Shows Dolphins Hunting with Shells Off the East Coast of Australia (sciencealert.com)

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After WWII, Mutton Fell Out of Favor in the U.S. Can It Make a Comeback? (npr.org)

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How to turn off (or on) sounds from Visual Studio Code? (stackoverflow.com)

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Electric is joining team Neon at Databricks (neon.com)

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Unsloth Desktop: Open-Source App for Local Models (github.com/unslothai)

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Junkyard Jumbotron: combine many displays into a single, large virtual display (github.com/mitmedialab)

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On Comments (helsing.ai)

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VSCode-code-widgets: Interactive widgets embedded in source code (github.com/czdanol)

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NYC, MTA eye first-of-its-kind plan that might keep subway platforms cooler (cbsnews.com)

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Whats: A CLI command explainer, pure man pages, –help outputs (github.com/iamkaran)

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Letos: Create, edit, browse SQLite databases (letos.org)

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Scientists Find Way to Turn Sperm Production Off and Back On (scitechdaily.com)

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A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite (github.com/nsrht)