Stories by thunderbong

The Forbidden Experiment

When NASA Told Its Astronauts to Quit Smoking (2014)

Portabase: Database Backup and Restore Tool

Dividing 1 by 998,001 Yields a Very Strange Decimal

Tell HN: Fossil SCM Server Overloaded

Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines to Alleviate Inequity (2019)

Highline: Ruby gem for a higher level command-line oriented interface

Box: Private on-device AI suite for Android

LiveSunset: Watch an Endless Amount of Sunsets

Gremlin

Physicists reveal universal speed limit on quantum information scrambling

Humanoid Robots Are Still a Body Problem with Jerry Pratt [video]

Ruby One-Liners Guide

NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he's fighting for Pluto

Sea Silk

Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space [pdf]

The Great Oxidation Event: How Cyanobacteria Changed Life

Full List of Cars with Soy-Based Wiring (2026 Update)

Why does walking through doorways make us forget? (2016)

The Neuroscience Behind Writing: Handwriting vs. Typing [pdf]

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