Articles by thunderbong
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Weaponizing Calendar Invites: A Semantic Attack on Google Gemini (miggo.io)

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Agentic RAG for Dummies (github.com/giovannipasq)

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Sam Altman's reply to Elon Musk's tweet telling people not to use ChatGPT (twitter.com/sama)

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Microsoft's AI Chief says we'll have intimate AI companions within 5 years (windowscentral.com)

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Better-Docker-ps: Because `Docker ps` is annoying and does not fit my terminal (github.com/mikescher)

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Photic Sneeze Reflex (wikipedia.org)

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Westermarck Effect (wikipedia.org)

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Ribs (Recordings) (wikipedia.org)

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Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2025? (rhaas.blogspot.com)

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Sony Xperia 1 IV and Xperia 5 IV gain LineageOS 23.0 support (9to5google.com)

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ClovaLink: Enterprise file management without the enterprise price tag (github.com/clovalink)

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Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org)

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Edbrowse: A command-line editor and web browser (github.com/edbrowse)

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Fast_topk_batched: High-performance batched Top-K selection for CPU inference (github.com/razzullix)

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Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours (arstechnica.com)

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Sheety-CRM: A stateless, open-source CRM built on Google Sheets (github.com/sdntsng)

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Writing Your First Compiler (popovicu.com)

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Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source (optimizedbyotto.com)

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Discovering New Horizons (2015) (washu.edu)

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Beszel: Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats (github.com/henrygd)

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Picoruby-calculator: Write and execute Ruby anywhere with this M5Stack Cardputer (github.com/engneer-hamachan)

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Archaeologists find the oldest-known shell beads (2021) (leakeyfoundation.org)

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Tunnl.gg: Expose Localhost to the Internet (github.com/klipitkas)

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What the Ancient Pigment Ochre Tells Us About the Human Mind (discovermagazine.com)

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the Limits of AI in Movie Making [video] (youtube.com)

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Dagwood Sandwich (wikipedia.org)

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I turned my 10 year old tablet into a digital photo frame, showing Google photos (pankajtanwar.in)

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NotiFilter: Silence Annoying Notifications (github.com/burg3r5)

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Terminal Lucidity (clevelandclinic.org)

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Temporal API Ships in Chrome 144, Marking a Shift for JavaScript Date Handling (socket.dev)

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Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons [pdf] (nature.com)

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RubyShell: Ruby way to create shell scripts (github.com/albertalef)

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GoodJob, Solid Queue, Sidekiq, Active Job, in 2026 (island94.org)

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Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs (wired-humanities.org)

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YouTube is adding over 100 classic Sesame Street episodes (9to5google.com)

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Alpine.js: Your new, lightweight, JavaScript framework (alpinejs.dev)

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Personal Intelligence: Connecting Gemini to Google Apps (blog.google)

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California Gold Smelt [video] (youtube.com)

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Writing First, Tooling Second (susam.net)

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New map of landscape beneath Antarctica unveiled (2025) (bas.ac.uk)

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Nametag: A simple, effective Personal Relationship Manager (github.com/mattogodoy)

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Pages CMS: The No-Hassle CMS for Static Sites Generators (pagescms.org)

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I Cut My Docker Image by 99.7% (846MB to 2.5MB). Here Is the Full Breakdown (hexplain.space)

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Imperial Boomerang (wikipedia.org)

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Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance with first major model trained on Huawei stack (scmp.com)

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Beszel: Simple, Lightweight Server Monitoring (beszel.dev)

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How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (catb.org)

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Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box (github.com/microsoft)

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Keybox Might No Longer Work from February 2026 (droidwin.com)

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Marine Snow (wikipedia.org)

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Sargasso Sea (wikipedia.org)

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Warmer climate, spicier food. But which country is the spiciest? (bigthink.com)

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Map of 'Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon by Kenneth Field' (arcgis.com)

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Organizing My Stuff (bezoar.org)

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Nukitori is a Ruby gem for HTML data extraction (github.com/vifreefly)

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Iconic Folk Singer Disappeared 35 Years Ago – Where Is She Now? (parade.com)

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Chinese woman discovers her iPhone X can be unlocked by her friend's face (2017) (mothership.sg)

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Reversal of the Leloir pathway for galactose and tagatose synthesis from glucose (cell.com)

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Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: The Missing Manual (paradedb.com)

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Chromium Has Merged JpegXL (googlesource.com)

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The marula and elephant intoxication myth (nih.gov)

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Yellowstone Bison Herd (wikipedia.org)

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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (recorderfilm.com)

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Docker Hardened Images (github.com/docker-hardened-images)

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Belphegor's Prime (wikipedia.org)

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Miracle Recovery for Rarest and Strangest Deer – Just 39 Became 8,200 (focusingonwildlife.com)

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Time without end: Physics and biology in an open universe-Freeman J. Dyson [pdf] (aps.org)

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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star (eso.org)

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Tintcd: Directory-aware terminal theming for PowerShell. CD, but colorful (github.com/ymyke)

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Kreuzberg: Extract text and metadata from a wide range of file formats (github.com/kreuzberg-dev)

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Came to CES to Check Solar Power Innovations. China Is Running Laps Around Us (pcmag.com)

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Data on AI Chip Sales (epoch.ai)

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India's surveillance state and the future of democracy (washingtonpost.com)

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Instagram breach exposes data of 17.5M accounts (twitter.com/h4ckmanac)

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Eat More Deer (theatlantic.com)

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Extended Periodic Table (wikipedia.org)

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How British colonialism increased diabetes in south Asians (theguardian.com)

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Zim Framework: Modular, customizable, and fast Zsh framework (zimfw.sh)

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I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem (tiespetersen.substack.com)

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Docker Socket Myths (amf3.github.io)

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Introducing Agent Skills in VS Code [video] (youtube.com)

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Bash by the Numbers (mckern.sh)

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Lidify: Self-hosted, on-demand audio streaming platform like Spotify (github.com/chevron7locked)

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Slowly booting full Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit (dmitry.gr)

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London–Calcutta bus service (wikipedia.org)

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Titanic: The Disappeared (encyclopedia-titanica.org)

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Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready (devclass.com)

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Dendrometers challenge the 'moon wood concept' [pdf] (nature.com)

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We had six months left [audio] (transistor.fm)

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Bose open-sources SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life (arstechnica.com)

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Estranged Wife of Indian Software Tycoon Claims He Transferred Ownership (forbes.com/sites/luisakroll)

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Pentagon Pizza Theory (wikipedia.org)

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Xpipe: Access your server infrastructure from your local desktop (github.com/xpipe-io)

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The most popular Go dependency is (thibaut-rousseau.com)

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Observations on Dutch Physical Stature from Late-Middle Ages to Present [pdf] (researchgate.net)

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Vertebrates Breathing in Water (amnh.org)

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Do kangaroos drown predators and do dogs poo facing north? (abc.net.au)

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'Autofocus' glasses can change their lenses in real time (cnn.com)

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A new type of microscope lets scientists observe life unfolding inside cells (thebrighterside.news)

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Jellyfish sleep like humans – even though they don't have brains (nature.com)