Articles by thunderbong
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The Melanesian: Dark-skinned people with blonde hair region of Oceania (guardian.ng)

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2001: A Space Odyssey originally had a 20-foot-tall green alien, a 'crap' script (polygon.com)

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Bigme Hibreak: dual screen color eInk smartphone (bigme.vip)

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Altar: The town where migrants shop for a perilous journey (2014) (bbc.com)

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Trafficators/flippers: how old cars used to indicate (1900s.org.uk)

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In California, wildfires are prevented by crews of unlikely firefighters: goats (npr.org)

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SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File (ultrathink.art)

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Mary Jo Foley: What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately? (geekwire.com)

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Pale Blue Dot (wikipedia.org)

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I built a WiFi bell system in my garage for a local school. Now used across US (reddit.com)

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Five Survivors of Spectacular Falls (bbc.com)

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Ubiquitous data-driven framework for traffic emission estimation (nature.com)

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Notebooks: SQL Analysis, Reimagined (tabularis.dev)

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Zperiod: Interactive Periodic Table and Chemical Equation Balancer (zperiod.app)

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University researchers develop way to measure how sleeps cleans the brain (oulu.fi)

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Why do gas prices always have an extra 9/10 of a cent added on? (thehill.com)

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Podroid: Run Linux Containers on Android (github.com/extv)

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Microsoft cracks down on old Windows kernel drivers (theregister.com)

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Blind marathon runner to be guided by smart glasses (bbc.co.uk)

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Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had (slicker.me)

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Australia's "Red Centre" Turns Green (nasa.gov)

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Automated Pigeon Defense System (reddit.com)

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Amine Swingbed: technology for removing CO² from a habitable spacecraft [pdf] (astronautical.org)

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Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022) (intelligentliving.co)

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Nuclear Batteries Could Change Everything, and China Is Ahead (bgr.com)

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The Habitable Zone (nasa.gov)

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I built a local, open-source thermal printer appliance (reddit.com)

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US patent office revokes Nintendo's patent on summoning characters to battle (videogameschronicle.com)

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CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI (radiologybusiness.com)

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Scientists Discover Plants Can "Count" (scitechdaily.com)

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Michael Rockefeller: The Heir at the Edge of the World (arcarcana.substack.com)

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Bun's front end development server – Source map incorrectly served in production (github.com/oven-sh)

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The "Majority Illusion" in Social Networks [pdf] (plos.org)

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Microsoft is bringing the best of Windows Terminal to Windows 11's native Cmd (windowscentral.com)

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Every Time Zone (everytimezone.com)

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FBI Confirms Kash Patel Email Hack as US Offers $10M Reward for Hackers (securityweek.com)

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How I Dragged Phantom Tide Out of an OOM Kill Loop (github.com/tg12)

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Critical: Active supply chain attack on axios – one of NPM's most used packages (twitter.com/i)

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I went down a rabbit hole on who owns every power tool brand (reddit.com)

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Joins Are Not Expensive (database-doctor.com)

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Scientists observe pairs of atoms existing in two places at once (anu.edu.au)

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Quadratic gravity theory reshapes quantum view of Big Bang (phys.org)

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Empty Diagonal (wikipedia.org)

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Why tech CEOs suddenly love blaming AI for mass layoffs (bbc.com)

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ZimaOS: A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports All x86-64 Hardware (zimaspace.com)

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Bike Parking Utrecht Central Station (livetheworld.com)

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YAMLResume: Resumes as Code in YAML (yamlresume.dev)

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How We Rewrote 130K Lines from React to Svelte in Two Weeks (strawberrybrowser.com)

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Lasers used to seal paper – no adhesives or plastics required (newatlas.com)

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Barrer (wikipedia.org)

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What fork() Actually Copies (daniellbastos.com.br)

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A simple explanation of the key idea behind TurboQuant (reddit.com)

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How Did Hollywood End Up in...Hollywood? (pbssocal.org)

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Basic Physics Engine in about 100 lines of pure JavaScript (slicker.me)

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Michael Mosley: 'Forget walking 10k steps a day' (2018) (bbc.com)

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Ukraine's military brings exoskeletons to the front line (popsci.com)

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I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back [video] (youtube.com)

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Costasiella Kuroshimae (wikipedia.org)

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Object-Relational DBMSs – The Road Ahead (acm.org)

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Apple Mac Pro Fades into Oblivion (cnet.com)

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Systemd-free antiX 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form (theregister.com)

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The Eye of Sauron? Réservoir Manicouagan (abioticdesignstudio.blogspot.com)

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Android Canary blesses the Linux Terminal with a modern UI, new features (androidauthority.com)

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The average phone now has a bigger battery than the S26 Ultra (androidauthority.com)

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Brixton squirrels have taken up vaping (dangerousminds.net)

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Solved Game (wikipedia.org)

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Vivaldi 7.9: Immerse yourself in the web with every pixel (vivaldi.com)

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Making of Live 2D Moving Girl Made with Paper Crafts Analog [video] (youtube.com)

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Departure from Google: All Philips TVs from 2026 with Titan OS (heise.de)

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Meadow: An ultra-compact smartphone without web browser, social media or email (notebookcheck.net)

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Hypnic Jerk (wikipedia.org)

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Günter Schabowski (wikipedia.org)

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Luddite (wikipedia.org)

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Sand Under a Microscope – Magnified Sand Photos (magnifiedsand.com)

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Where did 400 MiB go? (frn.sh)

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Brahma Kumaris (wikipedia.org)

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History of the Baumann Weltrecord (metmo.co.uk)

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A giant cloud of alcohol has been discovered in the universe (2022) (universemagazine.com)

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Where the Sun Is the Chef: The World's Largest Solar Kitchen (thebrighterworld.com)

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Adult adoptions: Keeping Japan's family firms alive (2012) (bbc.com)

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Horsehair: The Stuff of Early and Modern Luxury Mattresses (beds.org)

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Polybar: A fast and easy-to-use status bar (github.com/polybar)

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Enigmalite: An Unusual Mineral Phenomenon (enigmalite.com)

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The Sphinx: a Soviet-era, retrofuture smart home dream (theoutline.com)

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Ant Mill (wikipedia.org)

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Gea: A batteries-included, reactive JavaScript UI framework (github.com/dashersw)

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Important clarifications on the new advanced flow for sideloading on Android (androiddev.social)

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US, Germany, Canada disrupt botnets that infected devices (reuters.com)

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Albert's Swarm (wikipedia.org)

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The development of ChatGPT killed Chegg. I watched it happen live as an employee (reddit.com)

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Microsoft confirms a major Windows 11 update with faster Explorer, less Copilot (windowslatest.com)

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Release of ReVanced Manager v2 (revanced.app)

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Chaturanga for Four Players (chessvariants.com)

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Kimchi probiotic promotes the excretion of nanoplastics from the gut (dongascience.com)

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The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia [pdf] (nature.com)

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Lenovo brings retro arcade cabinet gaming to high-end Android tablets (notebookcheck.net)

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The new economics of sex work (economist.com)

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Performance Leaderboard for News Sites (webperf.xyz)

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Fossil: Login Groups (fossil-scm.org)

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Costa Rica makes history with strict, nationwide ban on hunting (thecooldown.com)