Articles by thunderbong
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That ostrich over there? It is into you. (2012) (gizmodo.com)

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Your Rails App, in the App Store (rubynative.com)

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Leak reveals Google's Aluminium OS with a 16-minute video (androidauthority.com)

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The Space Shuttle and the Horse's Rear End (astrodigital.org)

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Making a Mark on the Ocean Floor (si.edu)

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Great Trigonometrical Survey (wikipedia.org)

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End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging rolling out for Android and iPhone users (blog.google)

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Mona Lisa's Identity Established Beyond Doubt (2008) (uni-heidelberg.de)

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What if the browser was the server? (arthurcornil.com)

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Bill Gates' Mosquito Factory in Colombia and Its Contribution to Health (aldianews.com)

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NYC Mesh (wikipedia.org)

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Microsoft is upgrading Windows 11 touchpad with four new gestures (windowslatest.com)

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Here's why all flyers should be worried if Spirit Airlines goes away (2025) (cnn.com)

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What Color Is a Tennis Ball? (theatlantic.com)

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What do figureheads on ships represent? (thedockyard.co.uk)

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Cluster of lost cities in Ecuador that lasted 1k years mapped (2024) (thehill.com)

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Aube: Fast Node.js package manager that works with your existing lockfiles (en.dev)

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Stop Using Yarn Classic (charpeni.com)

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HIV pandemic's origins located (2014) (ox.ac.uk)

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Pitchfork: A devilishly good process manager for developers (en.dev)

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RubyLLM 1.15: Image Editing, Cost Tracking and Less Tool Boilerplate (paolino.me)

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Why Are Morel Mushrooms Hard to Grow? (mushroomwowhub.com)

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The HTML Sanitizer API (alfy.blog)

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TOML: A config file format for humans (toml.io)

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Rivercane: Our Native Bamboo (nps.gov)

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The Ant Odometer: Stepping on Stilts and Stumps (science.org)

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Bun project's GitHub bot has now made more contributions to Bun than Jarred (twitter.com/i)

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How AI Works Under the Hood – LLMs Explained with Code (nitayneeman.com)

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The Loudest Known Sound Ever (2024) (audiology.org)

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Going Full Time on Open Source (jdx.dev)

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Solving the Problem of Kerosene Fungus (shell.com)

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Exploring Ruby Algorithms for Fibonacci Numbers (rorvswild.com)

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Garmin releases new luxury home audio system globally (notebookcheck.net)

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Performance trick: optimistic vs. pessimistic checks – Daniel Lemire's blog (lemire.me)

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Qwe (kiwi): lightweight, flexible, file-first version/revision control system (github.com/mainak55512)

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What Happened to Notre Dame's 180k Bees? (2019) (dailyobjectivist.com)

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OpenAI smartphone leak reveals next-gen chipset and more details (notebookcheck.net)

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London Is Still Paying Rent to the Queen on a Property Leased in 1211 (atlasobscura.com)

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Two Ways to Run WordPress on SQLite (exclusive.org)

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Solving the Third Condiment Mystery with Primary Source Documents (gale.com)

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Postgresparser: ANTLR-based PostgreSQL query parser for Go (github.com/valkdb)

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Flipper: Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby (github.com/flippercloud)

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Last Universal Common Ancestor (wikipedia.org)

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Hanakai: Family of Ruby tools to help you write clearer, more maintainable apps (hanakai.org)

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Banger: One-command dev sandboxes on Firecracker microVMs (thaloco.com)

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HyperList: A powerful TUI for creating, editing, and managing HyperLists (github.com/isene)

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Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013) (audubon.org)

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The AI Revolution Hollywood Feared Is Happening – In India (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Notes on the Vulnerable World Hypothesis (michaelnotebook.com)

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Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services (github.com/matheus-git)

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When Microsoft saved Apple (2017) (cnbc.com)

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Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab (theconversation.com)

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Pgxbackup: Continuity Support for PgBackRest (thebuild.com)

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Bash with No Letters (2024) (jrb.nz)

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Fungi and the Rise of Mammals [pdf] (plos.org)

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Microsoft brings a Linux-style window trick to Windows 11 via PowerToys (windowslatest.com)

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Started using Linux terminal on Android. Now I can do things no app store allows (makeuseof.com)

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ICANN opens applications for new top-level domains for the first time since 2012 (theregister.com)

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Inspiring Female Heavy Equipment Operators in Construction (heavydutyjournal.com)

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Wirken: Secure AI agent gateway. Encrypted vault. Single static binary (github.com/gebruder)

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Spring House (wikipedia.org)

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Thermal Grill Illusion (wikipedia.org)

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The Forbidden Experiment (bostonreview.net)

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When NASA Told Its Astronauts to Quit Smoking (2014) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Portabase: Database Backup and Restore Tool (github.com/portabase)

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Dividing 1 by 998,001 Yields a Very Strange Decimal (brilliantlearning.in)

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Tell HN: Fossil SCM Server Overloaded

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Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines to Alleviate Inequity (2019) (kuow.org)

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Highline: Ruby gem for a higher level command-line oriented interface (github.com/jeg2)

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Box: Private on-device AI suite for Android (github.com/jegly)

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LiveSunset: Watch an Endless Amount of Sunsets (livesunset.io)

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Gremlin (wikipedia.org)

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Physicists reveal universal speed limit on quantum information scrambling (phys.org)

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Humanoid Robots Are Still a Body Problem with Jerry Pratt [video] (youtube.com)

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Ruby One-Liners Guide (learnbyexample.github.io)

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NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he's fighting for Pluto (space.com)

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Sea Silk (wikipedia.org)

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Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space [pdf] (arxiv.org)

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The Great Oxidation Event: How Cyanobacteria Changed Life (asm.org)

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Full List of Cars with Soy-Based Wiring (2026 Update) (box-kat.com)

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Why does walking through doorways make us forget? (2016) (bbc.com)

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The Neuroscience Behind Writing: Handwriting vs. Typing [pdf] (nih.gov)

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Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters (technologyreview.com)

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Microsoft TRELLIS.2: An Open-Source, 4B-Parameter, Image-to-3D Model [pdf] (arxiv.org)

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Turkey's underground city of 20k people (2022) (bbc.com)

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Microsoft, OpenAI end exclusivity agreement, opening up potential partnerships (tomshardware.com)

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More Minitest:Spec Shenanigans (remimercier.com)

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A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination (vice.com)

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Build your own voice assistant and run it locally – Whisper, Ollama, Bark (2024) (medium.com/vndee.huynh)

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I'm Not a Robot (sheets.works)

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The Foldable iPhone Is Basically an iPad Mini That Folds in Half (gizmodo.com)

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Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models [pdf] (biorxiv.org)

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Sabastian Sawe smashes two-hour barrier in marathon's Roger Bannister moment (telegraph.co.uk)

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Disneyland guests can opt out of facial recognition at park entrances (thehill.com)

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Cooking for Engineers: Step by Step Recipes and Food for the Analytically Minded (cookingforengineers.com)

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EarTrumpet: Volume Control for Windows (eartrumpet.app)

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Google Search to classify 'back button hijacking' as spam (9to5google.com)

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Tabularis: A lightweight, cross-platform database client for developers (github.com/tabularisdb)

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Farting Fish Fingered (2005) (theguardian.com)

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"There's No Such Thing as Plain Text" – Dylan Beattie (slideshare.net)