Articles by thunderbong
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Understanding Android's Project Treble, Project Mainline, APK Signature Schemes (medium.com/max_sir)

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F-Droid and the Future of Open-Source Android; an Interview with DocWolle (gardinerbryant.com)

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Are Lobsters Immortal? (nhm.ac.uk)

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The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators (theregister.com)

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Kalyazin RT-64 Radio Telescope: Russia's Gateway to the Cosmos (thedefensenews.com)

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Atlantic "Warming Hole" Heat Content Variations Caused by Ocean Heat Transport (wiley.com)

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Direct observation of the superallowed α-decay of 104Te (nature.com)

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Chrome Extension to Bypass Paywalls (gitflic.ru)

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Reef: Paste bash into fish. It just works (github.com/zstud)

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The great herbivores of the Caucasus stage a comeback (unep.org)

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What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning [video] (youtube.com)

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Ping pong: A game that requires a C compiler to play (ioccc.org)

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Nomad: Portable, offline media server powered by the ESP32-S3 in a thumbdrive (instructables.com)

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Evolving the Node.js Release Schedule (nodejs.org)

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Cory Doctorow on the Right – and Wrong – Way to Criticize AI (jacobin.com)

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Andromachi Papanikolaou (wikipedia.org)

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Secret gifts from public swell Treasury's coffers (bbc.co.uk)

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Snap's Evan Spiegel, Miranda Kerr help erase $550M in med debt for Californians (latimes.com)

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We Rewrote WAL-G for Postgres Backups in Rust: Meet WAL-RUS (clickhouse.com)

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Phases of Ice (wikipedia.org)

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Fighting for the Higher Self (garlikov.com)

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The View Layer Rails Couldn't See (davidslv.uk)

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Curse of Knowledge (wikipedia.org)

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A Y2K bug surfaced 26 years late today (reddit.com)

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The Other Side of Android: My Favorite F-Droid Apps (gardinerbryant.com)

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Chinese scientists unveil glowing Avatar-like plants that could light cities (euronews.com)

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Welcome to Gentoo is Rice, the Volume goes to 11 here (shlomifish.org)

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Harry Edwood (lambiek.net)

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Vite 8.1 (vite.dev)

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Cory Doctorow on the Right – and Wrong – Way to Criticize AI (jacobin.com)

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Bash Line Editor: a command line editor written in pure Bash (github.com/akinomyoga)

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Scientists discover 'ballista spider', launches prey 140x the force of gravity (dexerto.com)

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Butterfly that barely ages could help unlock longevity secrets (sciencedaily.com)

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How I made the firewood splitting simulator (reddit.com)

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Everyone Was Wrong About Maximum Siphon Height [video] (youtube.com)

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Little Alchemy 2 (crazygames.com)

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Altermagnets can turn neighbouring materials altermagnetic, too (physicsworld.com)

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Polaris: A Native macOS App for Kamal (polaris-deploy.com)

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Microsoft researcher built goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II (xda-developers.com)

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Cool Magnetic Field Viewer [video] (youtube.com)

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An Ascendant Constitutional Theory Is a Threat to American Science (theatlantic.com)

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Napoleon Was a Guitarist (yamaha.com)

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Ozempic Came from a Monster – and It's Not Alone (sciencealert.com)

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Chile Eliminates Leprosy (paho.org)

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DokuWiki Markdown Support (patreon.com)

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Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes [pdf] (nih.gov)

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Sales Legend Walking in Different Shoes (2008) (cbsnews.com)

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Indian Households Now Hold Four Times More Gold Than U.S. Official Reserves (baaghitv.com)

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The Pneumatic Tube Mail System in New York City (untappedcities.com)

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Some of Android's Most Interesting Games Aren't Just on the Play Store (gardinerbryant.com)

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With Every Breath You Take, Thank the Ocean (si.edu)

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22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery' (classicfm.com)

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Parse, Don't Validate – In a Language That Doesn't Want You To (cekrem.github.io)

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Pake: Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command (github.com/tw93)

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A Chin-Stroking Mystery: Why Are Humans the Only Animals with Chins? (smithsonianmag.com)

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How Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to live forever (vox.com)

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Rethinking Modularity in Ruby Applications (noteflakes.com)

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Trump administration reverses decision to scrap ocean monitoring system (theguardian.com)

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Crash Blossom (merriam-webster.com)

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Rubyterm: A terminal emulator written in Ruby (github.com/vidarh)

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Ideonella Sakaiensis (wikipedia.org)

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Phoebus Cartel (wikipedia.org)

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My suitcase robot gets high off a real gas sensor wired into the LLM sampler (reddit.com)

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Olympic Cyclist vs. Toaster: Can He Power It? [video] (youtube.com)

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Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests (gajus.com)

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Kanzi (wikipedia.org)

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World’s “most famous” tree dies after 1000 years in England (dexerto.com)

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Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 246 (webkit.org)

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Video calling could help lonely pet parrots (2023) (bbc.co.uk)

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The Suicide Clusters That Threaten Mountain Towns (outsideonline.com)

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Don't run SQL migrations in tests: How I sped up the test suite by 2x (gaultier.github.io)

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Al Arabiya English obtains 14-point draft of US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (alarabiya.net)

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Qwen and Fable: An open-weights agentic coding model. 35B Mixture-of-Experts (huggingface.co)

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Breakthrough in electron microscopy delivers sharper images of tiniest proteins (news.berkeley.edu)

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Greenville TX "Welcome Sign" – The Story Behind (dallasgateway.com)

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World-first: therapy to make cells young again given to a person (scientificamerican.com)

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Pipkin's Light Bulb Moment (iop.org)

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Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests (gajus.com)

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Writing a browser-use agent from scratch – Part 1/3 – The Capture (pdufour.substack.com)

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The History of How School Buses Became Yellow (smithsonianmag.com)

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Frederic Tudor (wikipedia.org)

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SVGs and PDFs can both be interactive (vexlio.com)

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Sand Bubbler Crab (wikipedia.org)

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NCERT covers Mohenjo-daro 'Dancing Girl' torso in new Class 9 textbook (indianexpress.com)

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Washburn School teacher took tech out of the class. Students call it a success (kare11.com)

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The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic (psychedelics.co.uk)

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Git merges can be better (brandondong.github.io)

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Everyone Was Wrong About Maximum Siphon Height [video] (youtube.com)

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The Australian Town Where More Than Half the Population Lives Underground (terralocate.com)

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Buildermark: Measure how much of your code is written by agents (buildermark.dev)

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70th Anniversary of the first hurricane seeding experiment (2017) (noaa.gov)

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The Philips Skylight Lets You Recreate Natural Daylight Anywhere in Your Home (engadget.com)

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

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Dhtmlx Gantt – JavaScript Gantt Chart (Community Edition) (github.com/dhtmlx)

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Michelangelo's Prisoner Graffiti (thehistoryblog.com)

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The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling (garlikov.com)

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A Mathematical Theory of Communication [pdf] (math.harvard.edu)

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Blindzone Glare Elimination Mirror Method [pdf] (nhtsa.gov)

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Can Magnetic Forces Do Work? [pdf] (arxiv.org)

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History of the Alphabet (wikipedia.org)