Articles by thunderbong
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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)

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OpenClaw vs. Hermes Agent: The race to build AI assistants that never forget (thenewstack.io)

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The Bizarre Biology of Bdelloid Rotifers (biologicalrecording.co.uk)

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Lumitime Automata – The Most Amazing Digital Clock Is a Machine [video] (youtube.com)

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2FA: A dedicated two-factor authenticato to securely manage one-time passwords (codeberg.org/979)

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Ghost 6.0 (ghost.org)

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Kemal – Fast, Effective, Simple Web Framework for Crystal (kemalcr.com)

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Developer Builds Script That Calls Back Spam Callers in Endless Loop [video] (youtube.com)

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Bash-ships: A Bash implementation of the classic strategy game Battleships (github.com/starshovel)

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What's new in JavaScript (and what's coming next) (neciudan.dev)

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India has splurged billions on metro trains. But where are the commuters? (bbc.com)

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Let's enable MFA for all Ruby gems (thoughtbot.com)

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Twenty: The open alternative to Salesforce, designed for AI (github.com/twentyhq)

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Highlights from Git 2.54 (github.blog)

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How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File (sqlite.org)

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Lap: An offline-first photo manager for large local libraries (github.com/julyx10)

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Mother Earth Mother Board (efdn.notion.site)

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Svelte-check-native: Blazing fast svelte-check built with Rust (github.com/harshmandan)

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How the Heck Does Shazam Work? (perthirtysix.com)

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HelloESP: A Website,Hosted on an ESP32 (helloesp.com)

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Resolve-DnsName vs. Nslookup in Windows (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

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Why Crystal, 10 Years Later: Performance and Joy (serdardogruyol.com)

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GitHub Trip Report (2019) (fossil-scm.org)

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The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver (atlasobscura.com)

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Presentator: Free and Open source design feedback and presentation platform (presentator.io)

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How to Make a Lichtenberg Machine from Your Microwave: A Step-by-Step Guide (kitchenpearls.com)

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Third Place (wikipedia.org)

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Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location (tomshardware.com)

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Anna's Archive to pay $322M after losing court case for scraping from Spotify (nme.com)

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Biangbiang Noodles (wikipedia.org)

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Breakthrough takes big step toward safe, reversible male contraception (cornell.edu)

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Shaken Cocktails vs. Stirred Cocktails (tommacy.com)

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Long-term adaptation pathways for Venice and its lagoon under sea-level rise [pdf] (nature.com)

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Kitum Cave: A Natural Wonder Hosting a Deadly Disease (explorersweb.com)

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Uigen: A runtime front end for any OpenAPI described API (github.com/darula-hpp)

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World of Logotypes Volume 1: Al Cooper (archive.org)

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Breathing Exercises to Relieve Stress (bhf.org.uk)

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Nginx 1.30.0 (github.com/nginx)

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Henry's Pocket (wikipedia.org)

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Welcoming the New Executive Director (opensource.org)

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Scandinavian Governance: A Story of Trust and Shared Power (polycentricleadership.com)

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Quetta Browser: Chromium browser for Android, iOS supporting Chrome extensions (quetta.net)

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Anker's EufyMake E1 Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages (gizmodo.com)

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Jules: A terminal-based AI assistant written in Ruby (github.com/rathrio)

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Inland Customs Line (wikipedia.org)

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David Wynn Miller (wikipedia.org)

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Scientists Captured Flash of Light That Sparks When a Sperm Meets an Egg (2016) (sciencealert.com)

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SSH Pilot: Scala-based SSH tool for managing and testing remote server clusters (github.com/openmole)

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Warp DB (thegeeksquad.io)

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Universal surface-growth law confirmed in two dimensions after 40 years (phys.org)

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New metal with triple copper's heat conduction challenges fundamental physics (scientificamerican.com)

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Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB to run on 90s comps (tomshardware.com)

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VaulTLS: Selfhostable web app to manage mTLS certificates (github.com/7ritn)

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PostgreSQL Credential Rotation in Production: A Zero-Downtime Runbook (elydb.com)

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How Poor Am I? – See Where You Stand in Global Wealth (howpoorami.org)

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These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why (nytimes.com)

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How have we changed since our species first appeared? (australian.museum)

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Chaoskampf (wikipedia.org)

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The mystery of the lost Roman herb (2017) (bbc.com)

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Tabularis: A lightweight, cross-platform database client. Hackable with pkugins (github.com/debba)

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Gigi – Geometric Intrinsic Global Index – A new approach to database queries (davisgeometric.com)

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Daily You: A Personal Diary (github.com/demizo)

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Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet – Songfacts (songfacts.com)

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Did the Selective Service Harvest Names from a 'Free Ice Cream' List? (1998) (snopes.com)

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Rage: A modern Ruby framework designed for non-blocking I/O (github.com/rage-rb)

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Do Jews Control the Media? (2010) (slate.com)

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SQLite Release 3.53.0 (sqlite.org)

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Greece to ban social media for under-15s from next year (bbc.com)

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Dyson just announced its first-ever handheld fan, with a 65,000 RPM motor (engadget.com)