Articles by vinnyglennon
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Top Gear, the biggest car show,faked a negative review of Tesla Roadster (twitter.com/timjcarden)

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Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video] (brightonruby.com)

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Sprite (Lightning) (wikipedia.org)

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Notice how logos recently all look the same? (twitter.com/hosun_chung)

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Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire (wikipedia.org)

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Product management is broken. Engineers can fix it (posthog.com)

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Google pulls bad McDonald's reviews after Luigi Mangione's arrest (aljazeera.com)

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Assad Has Left Damascus (reuters.com)

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Aftermath of Neutron Star Collision Resembles Conditions in the Early Universe (universetoday.com)

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Book Review: The Rise of Christianity – By Scott Alexander (astralcodexten.com)

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Cops Have Less Time to Break into iPhones Thanks to iOS 18.1 Security Measure (gizmodo.com)

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Biden and Trump put in danger by Secret Service agents, via agents using Strava (lemonde.fr)

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James Jameson Once Bought a Girl to Watch Her Be Eaten by Cannibals (allthatsinteresting.com)

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Bhutan Cashes Out $33.5B in Bitcoin, Still Holds $1.11B in BTC (yahoo.com)

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There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch – Engineering at Slack (slack.engineering)

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Irish Election, Ask the manifestos of all parties than listening to politicans (chatgpt.com)

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xPrize Rainforest Winner (teamwaponi.org)

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GitHub Reduced Repo Storage size by over 90% (betterstack.com)

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Company trained GPT-4 rival with 2k GPUs –spent $3M compared to OpenAI's $80M (tomshardware.com)

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Bitcoin breaks above its all-time high of $73,777 (fxstreet.com)

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[flagged] New documentary reveals that 21,000 laborers have died working Saudi Vision 2030 (archpaper.com)

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How To – Choose the Right Instance Size for AWS RDS (reliabilityengineering.substack.com)

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Why Could Lebanon Be Rich, but Is So Chaotic? (tomaspueyo.com)

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The Best Inventions of 2024 - Time Magazine (time.com)

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What surprising thing have you learnt about me, given all our conversations?

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JavaScript in Space: SpaceX Devs Have Shared CrewDragon's Tech Stack (os-system.com)

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Megabits at 390M Kms (techno-science.net)

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Israel confirms it has struck Iran, as explosions rock Tehran (jpost.com)

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Alphaguess: A Word Game (alphaguess.com)

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Detailed Maps of Water in and Around Landmasses (nasa.gov)

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E6B (wikipedia.org)

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Can you unscramble the city map tiles into the correct order? (tripgeo.com)

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90s Lord of the Rings – Mel Gibson, Sean Connery – Retro AI Concept [video] (youtube.com)

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TCAS Trouble: Why We're Getting It Wrong – 2020 (ops.group)

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The tiniest of impact craters (jatan.space)

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'Gaza's Bin Laden,' Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Killed in Gaza (jpost.com)

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Fake GitHub Site Targeting Developers – Sans Internet Storm Center (sans.edu)

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TikTok Shop's affiliate marketing program is paying commissions to influencers (restofworld.org)

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Lusitania Sinks in Real Time – 18 Minutes of Terror (Scored) [video] (youtube.com)

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Reduplication (wikipedia.org)

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Rising tension in South China Sea disrupts Asia's subsea cable system (washingtonpost.com)

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I don't like discussing action items during incident reviews (surfingcomplexity.blog)

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Israel–Hamas War or Israel–Gaza War – Wikipedia Debate (wikipedia.org)

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Hot Take: Don'T provide incident resolution estimates (firehydrant.com)

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Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan (tabletmag.com)

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Adam Neumann Launches Workflow, New Coworking Venture – CRE Daily (credaily.com)

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Multiple exoatmospheric intercepts can be seen as bright purple bursts in sky (twitter.com/osinttechnical)

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Arkadiko Bridge – oldest preserved bridge in Europe (wikipedia.org)

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Mount Sinai (wikipedia.org)

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Italy and Switzerland have agreed to shift their shared border in the Alps (cnn.com)

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Iran has launched missiles toward Israel, the Israeli military says (cnn.com)

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Automatic takeoffs are coming for passenger jets (cnn.com)

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Leaders Facing Justice 1945-2021 – Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org)

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Longest-serving death row inmate acquitted in Japan – CNN (cnn.com)

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Irish Government secret call with Israeli finance minister (ontheditch.com)

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NATO ran the first Software Engineering Conferences (wikipedia.org)

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Titanic in 2007? How it Almost Happened Again [video] (youtube.com)

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Scientists looked deep beneath Antarctic ice.What was found could spell disaster (cnn.com)

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Fritz X (wikipedia.org)

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A year in exile: The fading hopes of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians (newarab.com)

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047. Don't Ship the Org Chart (learningbyshipping.com)

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Baily's beads – Related to solar eclipses (wikipedia.org)

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Threema – The Secure Messaging App Without Data Collection (threema.ch)

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Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday when their pagers exploded (twitter.com/phildstewart)

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The Investors List of Lists (thevccorner.substack.com)

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A landslide triggered a 650-foot mega-tsunami in Greenland last year (cnn.com)

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The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way (2000) (cfa.harvard.edu)

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Most performant DOM-based table (fast-grid.vercel.app)

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How Joe Rogan Remade Austin (theatlantic.com)

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Hostelworld – State of Solo Travel Report 2024 (hostelworld.com)

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Ukraine machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck for Halo (msn.com)

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In plain sight: A tweak to planning rules could unlock up to 350k small homes (substack.com)

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Sony announces digital-only Playstation 5 Pro, costs £700 – Eurogamer.net (eurogamer.net)

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Bangladesh's tech sector faces $300M loss post five-day internet blackout (restofworld.org)

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Pakistan's China-style firewall rattles its tech industry (restofworld.org)

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OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator (openscope.co)

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'If journalism is going up in smoke, I might as well get high off the fumes' (theguardian.com)

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Kailasa Temple, sculpted from a single rock (wikipedia.org)

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Why Sudan's catastrophic war is the problem (economist.com)

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Coca-Cola didn't invent Santa the 10 biggest Christmas myths debunked (theguardian.com)

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Transpiling Go and Java to Ruby Using GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (symflower.com)

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Google Lens rolling out to Chrome address bar [U] (9to5google.com)

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Denmark wants to ban encrypted Telegram, Signal chats – Cybernews (cybernews.com)

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Timeline of first images of Earth from space (wikipedia.org)

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Israel agrees to pauses in fighting in Gaza for polio vaccination – CNN (cnn.com)

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Easy to Overlook PostgreSQL Performance Issues in Rails Apps (pawelurbanek.com)

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The Haditha Massacre Photos That the Military Didn't Want the World to See (newyorker.com)

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New invention harvests ambient WiFi and Bluetooth signals to power small devices (livescience.com)

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Bolt and Uber drivers targeted after Miss South Africa controversy (restofworld.org)

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Great AI revenue data for the "AI Bubble Math" debate (twitter.com/saasletter)

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The Lost Treehouse Tribes of the Rainforest (messynessychic.com)

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Mild electricity can help fight coastal erosion (techexplorist.com)

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A Chinese man nicknamed "Blyat" built a tank to play World of Tanks (twitter.com/togajano21)

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An Ancient Martian Lake Was Larger Than Any Lake on Earth – Universe Today (universetoday.com)

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Uber doing $1B in advertising sales(ads requesting/waiting for/taking a ride) (uber.com)

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Choose an Open Source License (choosealicense.com)

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Inciting rioters in Britain was test run for Elon.Just see what he plans for USA (theguardian.com)

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The Turbulent, Secret World of the AP3 Militia (propublica.org)

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The massive and controversial attempt to preserve an iconic island (smithsonianmag.com)

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Ukrainian soldiers are reviewing Russian restaurants on Google (twitter.com/iammattaustin)