Articles by thunderbong
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US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands (yahoo.com)

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Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (2016) (xkcd.com)

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Can Animals Be Right- or Left-Pawed? (discovermagazine.com)

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Pg_savior: A Postgres extension to avoid accidental mistakes (github.com/viggy28)

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Necropolitics (wikipedia.org)

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China Crosses Energy Milestone as Coal Falls Below 50% of Power (financialpost.com)

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How to Model the True Cost per Token Across GPU Architectures (softwareseni.com)

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What's Up with the Weird Mouths of These Finch Chicks? (audubon.org)

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The NUMBER – trusted number infrastructure (rounded.lol)

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Libration (wikipedia.org)

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Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate (nasa.gov)

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Churchill's Ersatz Meeting with Lincoln's Ghost (2018) (richardlangworth.com)

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How Did America Get Its Name? (2016) (loc.gov)

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FoxSchema: Compare and migrate SQL database schemas across 10 dialects (foxschema.com)

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Mary Celeste (wikipedia.org)

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Mass Psychosis in Food Science (sciencehistory.org)

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LinkedIn adds a 'Seems like AI slop' button (thenextweb.com)

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How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name (pbs.org)

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Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com/bashalarmistalt)

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In Mauritania, every divorce is a reason to party (observer.co.uk)

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South Korea's stock market plunges as AI-driven boom fades (aljazeera.com)

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10 Year Old's Research Shocks Scientists Around the World [video] (youtube.com)

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Scientists Uncover Hidden Structures Beneath the Amazon (sciencealert.com)

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Where the Rain Fell – Monthly Precipitation Explorer (visquill.com)

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Fnox: Manage secrets with encryption or cloud providers – or both (jdx.dev)

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Hister: Your Own Search Engine (github.com/asciimoo)

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"Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win (arstechnica.com)

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ZFS Scrubs with no ECC (what could possibly go wrong?) (2025) (truenas.com)

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How did The Shawshank Redemption become the highest rated #1 movie on IMDB? (reddit.com)

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The Great Canadian Story of Canola (canadianfoodfocus.org)

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The Linguistic Genius of Prairie Dogs (2015) (animalcognition.org)

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Qantas tests ultra long-range Airbus in 17K km flight from France to Melbourne (theguardian.com)

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GitBook: The open source front end for GitBook doc sites (github.com/gitbookio)

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

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The Jac Programming Language (jaclang.org)

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A simple clustering algorithm for lists (cassidoo.co)

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Modeling Facts and Reactions with Domain Events (deniskyashif.com)

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)

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BYD Yangwang U8 has remarkable emergency floating function that would save lives (supercarblondie.com)

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Microsoft launches new in-house AI models. Cuts costs up to 89% versus OpenAI (venturebeat.com)

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India's 'Cockroach' Protesters Declare Rare Victory over Government (nytimes.com)

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Do People Swallow 8 Spiders a Year While They Sleep? (2014) (scientificamerican.com)

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How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet (lord.io)

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Landmark victory as plans for first octopus farm withdrawn (eurogroupforanimals.org)

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A Rubyist in Go Land: Your First Pokémon API Client (baweaver.com)

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The Cretan Method (hintjens.com)

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Alain Bombard (wikipedia.org)

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Black Perl (wikipedia.org)

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Altitude adaptation in Tibetans due to introgression of Denisovan-like DNA [pdf] (nature.com)

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Making a Watch from Scratch [video] (youtube.com)

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Brockovich Data Center Reporting – U.S. AI Data Center Awareness and Issue Map (brockovichdatacenter.com)

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You Should Get to Own Your Media, Not Rent it Forever (currentaffairs.org)

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Milgram Experiment (wikipedia.org)

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JavaScript Date Is Lying to You (gaborkoos.com)

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Agatha Christie's Disappearance: Amnesia, Suicide, or Despair? (historicmysteries.com)

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Zannanza (wikipedia.org)

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AFAWA's support for women entrepreneurs has promoted business expansion in Kenya (afdb.org)

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Jeff Bridges photographs of behind the scenes movie making (washingtonpost.com)

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Déjà View: Someone already tried this (bsct.so)

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Proposed bill could make New York the first U.S. state with universal healthcare (weny.com)

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Roda on Spinel (intertwingly.net)

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Pan Am Clipper Endeavor Is Found After over 70 Years Lost at Sea (nytimes.com)

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Volkswagen blocks custom ROM users from VW app (heise.de)

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How Kim Kardashian Indirectly Brought Home Nedjemankh (2021) (egyptianstreets.com)

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Throw, Result, or Neither? (architecture-weekly.com)

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Snake-and-commits: Turn your GitHub contribution graph into a real game of Snake (github.com/dahan8473)

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Homeric Question (wikipedia.org)

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Fairy Circles of Namibia: Africa's Strangest Mystery (namibia-safaris.com)

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Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect [pdf] (nature.com)

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Apopo: 100M Square Meters Cleared of Landmines (apopo.org)

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Homo Floresiensis (wikipedia.org)

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LSU physicists create first room-temperature quantum material (lsu.edu)

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Why It's So Hard to Add a Column in the Middle of a PostgreSQL Table (bytebase.com)

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Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes (2009) (bbc.co.uk)

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Dumber Mini: A Nokia-Style Phone with WhatsApp and Maps (dumbermini.com)

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Sue (Dinosaur) (wikipedia.org)

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PersonalDrive: Personal Cloud Storage (personaldrive.xyz)

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Miserere (Allegri) (wikipedia.org)

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Apple bug crashes apps that display Telugu character (2018) (theguardian.com)

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Livermore's Centennial Light Bulb (centennialbulb.org)

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India's largest nuclear power plant Kudankulam exposed in data breach (reuters.com)

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The Man Who Killed Google Search (2024) (wheresyoured.at)

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The biologist dedicated to tackling human-wildlife conflict (theguardian.com)

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Things you didn't know about indexes (chrt.dev)

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Bridgetown: Next-Generation Progressive Site Generator (bridgetownrb.com)

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In remote northern Philippines, a local solution to the global energy shock (csmonitor.com)

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Bombyx Mori (wikipedia.org)

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How the Black Death shaped human evolution (nih.gov)

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Things you didn't know about indexes (chrt.dev)

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Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe (theverge.com)

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OneCommander: Modern File Manager for Windows 11 and 10 (onecommander.com)

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Umuganda (wikipedia.org)

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Fyne: Build beautiful cross-platform apps in Go (fyne.io)

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Firefox-WASM: Firefox in WebAssembly (github.com/heyputer)

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OpenAI Launches Hardware for Codex (theverge.com)

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Venetia Burney (wikipedia.org)

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Wp-SQLite-db: A single file drop-in for using a SQLite database with WordPress (github.com/aaemnnosttv)

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Beeper: All your chats in one app (beeper.com)

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The Battle of Blair Mountain (nps.gov)

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HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext (chiply.dev)