Articles by thunderbong
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Curses, Vengeance, and Fishtails: The Cornish Mermaid in Perspective [pdf] (academia.edu)

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When Penn and Teller Pranked Arno Penzias [video] (youtube.com)

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When good threads go bad (jpcamara.com)

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Nvelox: Lightweight, event-driven load balancer built for high-concurrency (github.com/nvelox)

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Why Are the Seas Named Black, White, and Yellow? (si.edu)

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New brain implant restores lost senses using light (newatlas.com)

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Luna – Space Simulation (watermelonson.com)

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Simple Made Easy – Rich Hickey (infoq.com)

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Daily Mosnodenvir as Dengue Prophylaxis in a Controlled Human Infection Model (nejm.org)

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EpisodeElf: A simple, free, plugable tracker for TV shows (episodeelf.com)

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Decades-old mystery solved as scientists identify what makes ice slippery (thebrighterside.news)

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With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial (theverge.com)

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Pyimagecuda-studio: Design image pipelines visually. Automate with Python (github.com/offerrall)

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Rails 8.2 introduces Rails.app.creds for unified credential management (prateekcodes.com)

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Barebone Scripts to Check SSL Certificate Expiration (heyoncall.com)

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Libredesk: Modern customer support desk packed into a single binary (libredesk.io)

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Hacker claims to leak WIRED database with 2.3M records (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Vacuum legend Dreame teases 1,000+ HP EV (notebookcheck.net)

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China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles over Safety Concerns (autoblog.com)

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Here's Why Your Turn Signals Make That Clicking Noise (jalopnik.com)

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Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024) (unilad.com)

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The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior (gaultier.github.io)

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Is the US Media Captured? – Columbia Journalism Review (cjr.org)

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Substack Network error = security content they don't allow to be sent (simonwillison.net)

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Where scrollbars are clicked, and why [pdf] (springer.com)

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JavaScript creator warns against "rushed web UX over native" for Windows 11 (windowslatest.com)

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Exploring how deaf people 'hear' voice-hallucinations (ucl.ac.uk)

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Macsvcs: Disable Unnecessary macOS Services (github.com/hyuni)

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Tuxmate: The Missing Bulk App Installer for Linux (github.com/abusoww)

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Better-captcha: Framework-agnostic wrappers for a bunch of captcha providers (github.com/luggapugga)

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Keeping a suspense file gives you superpowers (2024) (pluralistic.net)

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Move Over, Genghis Khan. Many Other Men Left Genetic Legacies (smithsonianmag.com)

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Qron0B: A sleek and low-power binary wirstwatch (github.com/qewer33)

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Extremal descendant integrals on spaces of curves: inequality proved with AI (arxiv.org)

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T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types (type-ruby.github.io)

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Elevator Wiki: wiki about elevators and their related topics (elevation.fandom.com)

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Tinykit: Self-hosted Lovable/v0 alternative. Realtime database, storage included (github.com/tinykit-studio)

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You don't need Elasticsearch: BM25 is now in Postgres (tigerdata.com)

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It Happened One Christmas (wikipedia.org)

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China is building most powerful hydropower system deep in the Himalayas (cnn.com)

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The Compiler Is Your Best Friend, Stop Lying to It (daniel-beskin.com)

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URL Pattern API (developer.mozilla.org)

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Select2 – The jQuery replacement for select boxes (select2.org)

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Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study (case.edu)

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What Is Santa's Address at the North Pole? (parade.com)

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Mercury – Multimodal Drone (mercuriustech.com)

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Edgeshark: Docker networks visualization and inspection tool (siemens.io)

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GoGPU: Pure Go GPU Computing Ecosystem (github.com/gogpu)

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TermsTooLong: Plain-language analysis of Terms and Conditions (termstoolong.com)

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Microsoft rolls out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Research shows sharing of cavity-causing bacteria may not be only from mothers (uab.edu)

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Lie-to-Children (wikipedia.org)

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Aircraft Graveyard (wikipedia.org)

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List of inventors killed by their own invention (wikipedia.org)

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Nissan says customers exposed in Red Hat breach (bleepingcomputer.com)

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List of Unsolved Problems in Physics (wikipedia.org)

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Granular Convection (wikipedia.org)

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A dangerous guide to beachcombing (2017) (chemistryworld.com)

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Living plants and animals emit a faint glow that fades after death (thebrighterside.news)

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Water Cremation (wikipedia.org)

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Rocus: Re-ImaginingBookmarks and History (rocus.io)

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BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove (carbuzz.com)

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Hema Sane, botanist who lived without electricity, died on September 19th (mongabay.com)

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Inverted Border Radius CSS Generator – Corner Inverter (douiri.org)

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Internet, Inequality, and Regime Stability (wiley.com)

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Efficacy and safety of transcranial AC stimulation in adults with ADHD [pdf] (nature.com)

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Why can't a gear have less than 17 teeth (machinemfg.com)

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Glory (Optical Phenomenon) (wikipedia.org)

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Docker Registry you can query, built with SQLite (writethat.blog)

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The Pointe Shoe Makers of Hackney (spitalfieldslife.com)

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Ntfy: Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST (github.com/binwiederhier)

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New Design for the Official Ruby Website (ruby-lang.org)

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SA Surgeon Performs Successful Middle Ear Transplant Using 3D Printing (2019) (3dprint.com)

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What's New in Ruby 4.0 (codeminer42.com)

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Microsoft releases native Windows feature for performance boost to Servers (neowin.net)

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Waffle House Index (wikipedia.org)

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SQLite: The Session Extension (sqlite.org)

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Sony Is Buying Peanuts (engadget.com)

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Private donors pledge 860M euros for CERN's Future Circular Collider (home.cern)

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Gut microbe Turicibacter prevents weight gain (newatlas.com)

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Humans are now the minority online (euractiv.com)

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Pangolin: Remote Access to Anything, Anywere (pangolin.net)

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China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs (bbc.com)

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Helical rover wheel balloons from 9 to 20 inches and survives fire (newatlas.com)

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Boyd's Law of Iteration (2007) (codinghorror.com)

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U.S. Plans Largest Nuclear Power Program Since the 1970s (ieee.org)

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What Is Orthokeratology? (aao.org)

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Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite – Evan Schwartz (emschwartz.me)

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Why Your WordPress Site Needs a Paywall for Robots (402gate.xyz)

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Bortle Scale: Measuring Your Night‑Sky Darkness (spectralore.com)

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What Is Ultorg? (ultorg.com)

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Almond noiseless right angle drive for line shaft [video] (youtube.com)

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The Complete Bash Scripting Course-Full Length Guide to Learning the Bash Shell [video] (youtube.com)

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Pupils reveal 'aphantasia', the absence of visual imagination (unsw.edu.au)

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Geometric-Constraint-Solver: A Simple Geometric Constraint Solver (github.com/kasznar)

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The perfect plastic? Plant-based saltwater degradable, zero microplastics (eurekalert.org)

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Vic: Trim Videos in the Terminal (github.com/wong-justin)

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GitHub Store is a cross‑platform "Play Store" for GitHub releases (github.com/rainxchzed)

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Pornhub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Vampire Ground Finch (wikipedia.org)