Articles by thunderbong
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Who Bit My Border? (2012) (nytimes.com)

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Detectron2: Platform for object detection and visual recognition tasks (github.com/facebookresearch)

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The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today (xakpc.dev)

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Aluminium: Why Google's Android for PC launch may be messy and controversial (theverge.com)

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DragonFire (Weapon) (wikipedia.org)

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Helix: A post-modern text editor (helix-editor.com)

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Predicting Math.random() in Firefox Using Z3 SMT-Solver (yurichev.com)

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Termix: Web-based platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, file editing (github.com/termix-ssh)

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Scrcpy (wikipedia.org)

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Fresh – The Terminal Text Editor (getfresh.dev)

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Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate (nobelprize.org)

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NanoStorage: High-performance LocalStorage compression using native API (github.com/qantesm)

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How One Line of Python Triggers 12,000 Lines of Code [video] (youtube.com)

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Why aren't we using SSH for everything? (2015) (shazow.net)

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Forget Extinct: The Brontosaurus Never Even Existed (2012) (npr.org)

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Vivaldi 7.8: No AI Slop. Just Powerful Features (vivaldi.com)

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Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool (tomshardware.com)

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What the US TikTok takeover is revealing about new forms of censorship (theguardian.com)

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Islechat: Tiny chat server powered by SSH (github.com/ashfn)

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The United States Releases Millions of Flies over Panama Every Week (newsroompanama.com)

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The Hidden Conversation in Breast Milk: Katie Hinde's Groundbreaking Research (ifeg.info)

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Voith Schneider Propeller (voith.com)

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A high mountain lizard from Peru: the highest-altitude reptile (pensoft.net)

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Dieter Rams – Ten principles for good design (vitsoe.com)

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Group at CNIO eliminates pancreatic tumours in mice (cnio.es)

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Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges (tomshardware.com)

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Why the Sound Design of Cast Away Is One of Film's Greatest Hidden Achievements (nofilmschool.com)

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Hippo's 'Magic' Sweat Explained (bbc.co.uk)

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The Rotten Science Behind the MSG Scare (sciencehistory.org)

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Sidekiq 8.0 Is Here (rubyconth-news.notion.site)

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Vacuum Airship (wikipedia.org)

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Leak shows Google's new Aluminium OS in action for the first time (pcworld.com)

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Deism (wikipedia.org)

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Vacuum Engine (wikipedia.org)

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Incredible Rolling Objects which aren't Spheres [video] (youtube.com)

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Kimurai: AI-First Web Scraping Framework for Ruby (github.com/vifreefly)

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BlankCal: A clean, free tool to generate printable blank calendars (blankcal.app)

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Goodbye Java, Hello Go (wso2.com)

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The 30-Step Rule Part 1: A Lesson in Customer Observation from Walt Disney (jeremiahgardner.com)

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Android’s desktop interface leaks (9to5google.com)

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Spree: Open-source eCommerce platform Built using Ruby on Rails (github.com/spree)

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SS64 Command Line Reference (ss64.com)

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A Ruby Regular Expression Engine (kddnewton.com)

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Thermus Aquaticus (wikipedia.org)

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

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World's Biggest TikToker from Senegal sells company in $900M deal (businessinsider.com)

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Freedium: Paywall Breakthrough for Medium (github.com/freedium-cfd)

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Qwen3-TTS: Ultra-Low Latency (97ms), Voice Cloning and OpenAI-Compatible API (github.com/qwenlm)

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What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously? (worksonmymachine.ai)

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BookLore: A self-hosted, multi-user digital library (github.com/booklore-app)

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My Comments Run on Email (ckardaris.github.io)

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Reactive jQuery for Spaghetti-Fied Legacy Codebases (css-tricks.com)

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MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery (2018) (news.mit.edu)

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Apple Cash is making instant transfers more expensive soon (9to5mac.com)

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Mappa Mundi (herefordcathedral.org)

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Fuggerei (fugger.de)

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Embrace Limitations (bathysphere.org)

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Pdf-light: Enterprise-grade HTML to PDF generator – No Puppeteer needed (github.com/thisha-me)

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Conus Geographus (wikipedia.org)

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Previewing Claude Code for Web Branches with GitHub Pages (simonwillison.net)

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Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI (windows.com)

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Post-Micturition Convulsion Syndrome (wikipedia.org)

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Batocera.linux (batocera.org)

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The importance of humidity control in textile processing (condair.co.uk)

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Can Humans Smell Rain Better Than Sharks Smell Blood? (safewaters.ai)

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Realistic Designs N-Q – Atomic Rockets (projectrho.com)

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Ruby_LLM-agents: A Rails agent framework for RubyLLM (github.com/adham90)

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Terminal UIs, the Ruby way (ratatui-ruby.dev)

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Verizon carriers start switching to 365day device unlock policy, up from 60 days (9to5google.com)

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No Name: The Colorado town that accidentally named itself (kdvr.com)

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Weaponizing Calendar Invites: A Semantic Attack on Google Gemini (miggo.io)

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Agentic RAG for Dummies (github.com/giovannipasq)

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Sam Altman's reply to Elon Musk's tweet telling people not to use ChatGPT (twitter.com/sama)

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Microsoft's AI Chief says we'll have intimate AI companions within 5 years (windowscentral.com)

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Better-Docker-ps: Because `Docker ps` is annoying and does not fit my terminal (github.com/mikescher)

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Photic Sneeze Reflex (wikipedia.org)

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Westermarck Effect (wikipedia.org)

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Ribs (Recordings) (wikipedia.org)

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Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2025? (rhaas.blogspot.com)

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Sony Xperia 1 IV and Xperia 5 IV gain LineageOS 23.0 support (9to5google.com)

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ClovaLink: Enterprise file management without the enterprise price tag (github.com/clovalink)

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Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org)

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Edbrowse: A command-line editor and web browser (github.com/edbrowse)

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Fast_topk_batched: High-performance batched Top-K selection for CPU inference (github.com/razzullix)

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Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours (arstechnica.com)

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Sheety-CRM: A stateless, open-source CRM built on Google Sheets (github.com/sdntsng)

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Writing Your First Compiler (popovicu.com)

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Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source (optimizedbyotto.com)

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Discovering New Horizons (2015) (washu.edu)

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Beszel: Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats (github.com/henrygd)

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Picoruby-calculator: Write and execute Ruby anywhere with this M5Stack Cardputer (github.com/engneer-hamachan)

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Archaeologists find the oldest-known shell beads (2021) (leakeyfoundation.org)

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Tunnl.gg: Expose Localhost to the Internet (github.com/klipitkas)

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What the Ancient Pigment Ochre Tells Us About the Human Mind (discovermagazine.com)

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the Limits of AI in Movie Making [video] (youtube.com)

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Dagwood Sandwich (wikipedia.org)

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I turned my 10 year old tablet into a digital photo frame, showing Google photos (pankajtanwar.in)

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NotiFilter: Silence Annoying Notifications (github.com/burg3r5)

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Terminal Lucidity (clevelandclinic.org)

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Temporal API Ships in Chrome 144, Marking a Shift for JavaScript Date Handling (socket.dev)