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PG Back Web: Effortless PostgreSQL backups with a web UI (github.com/eduardolat)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Songs in the Key of Childhood (thebeliever.net)

a month ago | thunderbong | thebeliever.net | newest

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Xeres: Uncensorable Peer-to-Peer Communications (xeres.io)

a month ago | thunderbong | xeres.io | frontpage

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1I/ʻOumuamua (wikipedia.org)

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The literary and recent scientific history of the ear worm [pdf] (reading.ac.uk)

a month ago | thunderbong | reading.ac.uk | newest

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Doomsday Scoreboard (march1studios.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | march1studios.com | newest

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Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility – Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes and Updates (github.com/christitustech)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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What Is Kapla? (kaplaworkshopstaiwan.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | kaplaworkshopstaiwan.com | newest

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SSH Pilot: a connection manager with built-in terminal (flathub.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | flathub.org | newest

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The Rabbit Hole of Building a Filesystem Watcher (amandeepsp.github.io)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.io | newest

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Craniopagus Parasiticus (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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Identity Types (bartoszmilewski.com)

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International Physics Olympiad Problems and Solutions (olimpicos.net)

a month ago | thunderbong | olimpicos.net | newest

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Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres (dizzy.zone)

a month ago | thunderbong | dizzy.zone | newest

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Consistent Hashing Explained: The Algorithm That Powers Modern Internet (javarevisited.substack.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | substack.com | newest

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Why Don't Liquids Splash in a Vacuum? [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | youtube.com | newest

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Just Let Me Select Text (aartaka.me)

a month ago | thunderbong | aartaka.me | newest

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Drops in the ocean: France's marine territories (2016) (economist.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | economist.com | newest

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Why I Keep Business Logic Out of SQL (ewaldbenes.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | ewaldbenes.com | newest

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Colima: Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup (github.com/abiosoft)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Under the hood: Vec<T> (marma.dev)

a month ago | thunderbong | marma.dev | newest

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The FLP Theorem (shachaf.net)

a month ago | thunderbong | shachaf.net | frontpage

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Storing Unwise Amounts of Data in JavaScript Bigints (jonathan-frere.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | jonathan-frere.com | newest

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@ts-ignore is almost always the worst option (evanhahn.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | evanhahn.com | newest

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The Blots Programming Language (blots-lang.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | blots-lang.org | newest

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September That Never Ended (catb.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | catb.org | newest

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Hammerspoon: A tool for powerful automation of OS X (github.com/hammerspoon)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | frontpage

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Australian 'firehawks' use fire to catch prey (wildlife.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wildlife.org | newest

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Make Windows 11 less annoying with these 11 Registry tweaks (theregister.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | theregister.com | newest

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How to stop functional programming (2016) (brianmckenna.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | brianmckenna.org | frontpage

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Thoth Blueprint: software to visualize and modify database schema (github.com/ahs12)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | frontpage

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SparkyFitness: Selfhosted Alternative of MyFitnessPal (github.com/codewithcj)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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How a Parasitic Worm Forces Praying Mantises to Drown Themselves (scientificamerican.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | scientificamerican.com | newest

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Microsoft Garage Mouse Without Borders (microsoft.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | microsoft.com | newest

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New research shows how the Vesuvius eruption turned a man's brain to glass (theconversation.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | theconversation.com | newest

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Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident (2019) [pdf] (nature.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | nature.com | newest

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King's Messenger (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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[flagged] For comedians around the world, the laughs often end as democracy fades (theguardian.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | theguardian.com | frontpage

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The paths of unmanned bicycles pushed until they fall over (2018) (cyclingmagazine.ca)

a month ago | thunderbong | cyclingmagazine.ca | frontpage

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Haddock: A Man Who Was More Than a Sidekick (medium.com/jessenazario)

a month ago | thunderbong | medium.com | newest

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Scar Programming Language (github.com/scar-lang)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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List of 87 Programming Ideas for Beginners (inventwithpython.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | inventwithpython.com | newest

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REST API endpoints for repositories – GitHub Docs (docs.github.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Webinspector: Ruby gem to inspect a web page (github.com/davidesantangelo)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Neosqlite: NoSQL for SQLite with PyMongo-Like API (github.com/cwt)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Why Horses with Broken Legs Are Often Euthanized (thesprucepets.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | thesprucepets.com | newest

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13-year-old boy has become the first person to be cured of a deadly brain cancer (upworthy.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | upworthy.com | frontpage

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Mise En Place (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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World Record for Typing Numbers in Words (recordholders.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | recordholders.org | newest

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I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years (mataroa.blog)

a month ago | thunderbong | mataroa.blog | best

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Myrtle Corbin (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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China bans its biggest tech companies from acquiring Nvidia chips, says report (tomshardware.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | tomshardware.com | frontpage

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Intermountain West (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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Examining the 'Lump of Labor' Fallacy Using a Simple Economic Model (2020) (stlouisfed.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | stlouisfed.org | newest

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Fiverr cuts 30% of staff in pivot to 'AI-first' (theregister.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | theregister.com | frontpage

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Bridgetown: Next-Generation Progressive Site Generator (bridgetownrb.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | bridgetownrb.com | newest

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Forme: HTML Forms Library for Ruby (github.com/jeremyevans)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Indian Vulture Crisis (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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Cigarette Filter (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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Inletsctl – the fastest way to create self-hosted tunnels (github.com/inlets)

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | frontpage

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Towers of Silence (99percentinvisible.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | 99percentinvisible.org | frontpage

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The Work of Magic (2008) (newyorker.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | newyorker.com | newest

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Postwave: An opinionated flat-file based based blog engine (postwave.blog)

a month ago | thunderbong | postwave.blog | newest

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From Nginx to ngrok: Dogfooding our own website with Traffic Policy (ngrok.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | ngrok.com | newest

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Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date (nytimes.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | nytimes.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | latimes.com | newest

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Cagot (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | relation.to | newest

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Falkirk Wheel (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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D. B. Cooper (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | iximiuz.com | frontpage

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

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Js1024 Revisited in 2025 (i-programmer.info)

a month ago | thunderbong | i-programmer.info | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | avi.im | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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

a month ago | thunderbong | windowsreport.com | frontpage

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

a month ago | thunderbong | calculusmadeeasy.org | newest

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Hypnic Jerk (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | thunderbong | wikipedia.org | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | arxiv.org | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | nature.com | frontpage

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

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | cubistheart.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | substack.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | livescience.com | newest

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Dependi: Dependency Management Made Easy (dependi.io)

a month ago | thunderbong | dependi.io | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | cerbos.dev | newest

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Get Excited About Postgres 18 (crunchydata.com)

a month ago | thunderbong | crunchydata.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | reuters.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | github.io | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | medium.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest

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Fenwick Layout for Interval Trees (purplesyringa.moe)

a month ago | thunderbong | purplesyringa.moe | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | 43081j.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | engadget.com | newest

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When more threads make things worse (ordep.dev)

a month ago | thunderbong | ordep.dev | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | substack.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | rorvswild.com | newest

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

a month ago | thunderbong | github.com | newest