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JPL Wasn't Making a Fashion Statement (1997) (latimes.com)

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Cagot (wikipedia.org)

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Why you should care about the JDBC fetch size (relation.to)

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Falkirk Wheel (wikipedia.org)

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D. B. Cooper (wikipedia.org)

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Better-sqlite3: The fastest and simplest library for SQLite3 in Node.js (github.com/wiselibs)

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How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch (iximiuz.com)

18 hours ago | thunderbong | iximiuz.com | frontpage

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Backup and restore your dotfiles, packages and tooling – using GitHub Releases (github.com/xzar-x)

19 hours ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Js1024 Revisited in 2025 (i-programmer.info)

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Setsum – order agnostic, additive, subtractive checksum (avi.im)

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TargetJS: JavaScript UI framework designed to simplify development, enhance UX (github.com/livetrails)

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Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (wikipedia.org)

a day ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Mozilla Firefox Is Officially Getting MKV Video Support (windowsreport.com)

a day ago | thunderbong | windowsreport.com | frontpage

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Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (calculusmadeeasy.org)

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Hypnic Jerk (wikipedia.org)

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Universality in quantum critical flow of charge and heat in ultra-clean graphene (arxiv.org)

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Universality in quantum critical flow of charge and heat in ultraclean graphene (nature.com)

2 days ago | thunderbong | nature.com | frontpage

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Pgdbtemplate: Go library for creating PostgreSQL test databases using templates (github.com/andrei-polukhin)

2 days ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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BorrowedTime: A new clock every day (cubistheart.com)

2 days ago | thunderbong | cubistheart.com | newest

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Git's hidden simplicity: what's behind every commit (allvpv.substack.com)

2 days ago | thunderbong | substack.com | newest

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James Webb Space Telescope reveals something strange on comet 3I/ATLAS (livescience.com)

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Dependi: Dependency Management Made Easy (dependi.io)

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The Productivity Paradox of AI Coding Assistants (cerbos.dev)

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Get Excited About Postgres 18 (crunchydata.com)

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World's oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC (2008) (reuters.com)

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An Introduction to Program Synthesis (mchav.github.io)

3 days ago | thunderbong | github.io | newest

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Python Is Dying and Nobody Wants to Admit It (medium.com/codeelevation)

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Webstrates: Prototype enabling collaborative editing through DOM manipulations (github.com/webstrates)

3 days ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Fenwick Layout for Interval Trees (purplesyringa.moe)

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The bloat of edge-case first libraries (43081j.com)

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MotoE, electric bike world championship, going on hiatus due to lack of interest (engadget.com)

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When more threads make things worse (ordep.dev)

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Pohlig-Hellman Discrete Logarithms (leetarxiv.substack.com)

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Fibonacci Funhouse: Exploring Ruby Algorithms for Fibonacci Numbers (rorvswild.com)

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The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms (github.com/voultapher)

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Conway's Law and Data Modeling (practicaldatamodeling.substack.com)

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Lessons from NPM's Security Failures (oneuptime.com)

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I love UUID, I hate UUID (epsiolabs.com)

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NPM Debug and Chalk Packages Compromised (codeant.ai)

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Can My $12 Box Survive the Reddit Hug of Death? (rafaelviana.com)

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Pulling an Inverse Conway Maneuver at Netflix (2023) (jivimberg.io)

a week ago | thunderbong | jivimberg.io | frontpage

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Sonoluminescence (wikipedia.org)

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Natural Transformations as a Basis of Control (muratkasimov.art)

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Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application (github.com/basecamp)

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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search (simonwillison.net)

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Trend: A general-purpose, efficient trend graph (thregr.org)

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Building a Search Engine 15 times fuzzier than Lucene (andrewjsaid.com)

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ActiveRecord Enhanced SQLite3 Adapter (github.com/fractaledmind)

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You Could Buy This Wacky Two-Tire, One-Wheel Setup for a Car in the '80s (2021) (thedrive.com)

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Multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions:Responses to criticisms (sciencedirect.com)

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Augmented Coding: Beyond the Vibes – By Kent Beck (tidyfirst.substack.com)

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Create a Phishy URL (phishyurl.com)

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Visualizations on Statistics and Signal Processing (laszlokorte.de)

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How Do Committees Invent? – Melvin E. Conway (1968) (melconway.com)

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40 years later, are Bentley's "Programming Pearls" still relevant? (shkspr.mobi)

a week ago | thunderbong | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species (science.org)

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OpenArchiver: Open-source platform for email archiving (github.com/logiclabs-ou)

a week ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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WASM in PowerShell (gist.github.com)

a week ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future (theregister.com)

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Zola: One-stop static site engine (getzola.org)

a week ago | thunderbong | getzola.org | frontpage

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Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ (github.com/carbon-language)

a week ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Linux Lite 7.6 keeps it simple, shiny, and mostly slim (theregister.com)

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Here's How the Pixel's AI zoom compares to a real 100x lens (theverge.com)

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Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (wikipedia.org)

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Plato's Allegory of the Cave (wikipedia.org)

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DebDroid: Debian on Android (github.com/nicup14)

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Simple but Powerful Pratt Parsing (matklad.github.io)

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Stop using tail -f (mostly) (2015) (brianstorti.com)

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Float Exposed (float.exposed)

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Explore Models in AI Toolkit in VS Code (visualstudio.com)

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Chimps, Humans and Macaques All Have a Drive to 'People Watch' (scientificamerican.com)

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The Obesity Paradox (2010) (nih.gov)

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India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That (nytimes.com)

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Benchmark for Local LLMs with German "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" Questions (github.com/ikiruneo)

a week ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers? (nolanlawson.com)

a week ago | thunderbong | nolanlawson.com | frontpage

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Ble.sh: Bash Line Editor with syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, Vim modes (github.com/akinomyoga)

a week ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Astronoby: Astronomy, astrometry Ruby library for astronomical data and events (github.com/rhannequin)

a week ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Go for Bash Programmers – Part I: The Language (github.com/go-monk)

a week ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Phyphox: Physical Phone Experiments (phyphox.org)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | phyphox.org | newest

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PocketFast: Multi-tenant PocketBase SaaS deployment automation tool (github.com/idea2547)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old (archaeologymag.com)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | archaeologymag.com | newest

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Stunning Discovery Deep in the Ocean Dwarfs the Famous 'Lost City' (sciencealert.com)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | sciencealert.com | newest

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Building an Elm Playground That Compiles in the Browser (cekrem.github.io)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | github.io | newest

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Songlink: Automated, customizable links for songs, albums and podcasts (odesli.co)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | odesli.co | newest

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Ecash (wikipedia.org)

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Tempest Prognosticator (wikipedia.org)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Next.js Is Infuriating (meca.sh)

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How Magnetic Suspensions Work – Magnetic Ride Control [video] (youtube.com)

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EVs reduce climate pollution, but by how much? New U-M research has the answer (umich.edu)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | umich.edu | newest

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Physicists observe an elusive form of the Hall effect (phys.org)

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Quantum Lamb Model (aps.org)

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This Commit Made Me Smile Today (deepdocs.dev)

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South Africa pigeon 'faster than broadband' (2009) (bbc.co.uk)

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Google Pixel 10 series review (arstechnica.com)

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Pyret: Is a programming language for programming education (pyret.org)

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How VMware's Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source (fastcode.io)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | fastcode.io | frontpage

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What Can We Remove? (stephango.com)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | stephango.com | newest

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Cognitive Load is what matters (github.com/zakirullin)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Shadowgit-MCP: MCP server for AI assistants with read access to ShadowGit repos (github.com/blade47)

2 weeks ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Expression Problem (wikipedia.org)

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