Digest — 2024-12-08:

The big problems driving nanotech development

Plato’s cave and the stubborn persistence of ignorance

The Sample Size Curve

Catherine Russell has starred in the same off-Broadway play for 37 years,...

It appears that the brutal reign of the Assad regime is over...

Just updated the 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide with suggestions from Kottke...

Jia Tolentino on the sometimes celebratory reaction to the death of UnitedHealthcare...

Litigate-for-Impact: Preparing Legal Action against an AGI Frontier Lab Leader

Parable of the vanilla ice cream curse (and how it would prevent a car from starting!)

Causal Undertow: A Work of Seed Fiction

Cognitive Work and AI Safety: A Thermodynamic Perspective

RL, but don't do anything I wouldn't do

Intricacies of Feature Geometry in Large Language Models

Measuring developer experience, benchmarks, and providing a theory of improvement.

Running TPC-H SF100 on Mobile Phones

Defusing AGPL-3 With Batch Processing

OpenWrt Affected by Security Issue That Could Have Led to Compromised Build Artifacts

VictoriaLogs: a Grafana dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – migrating from Grafana Loki

Should std::expected be [[nodiscard]]?

qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt

Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad

Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech

When is inlining useful?

Jepsen Test on Patroni: A PostgreSQL High Availability Solution

Protect mode support in the original Windows 3.0 was basically a 1-man skunkworks project

Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One

Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit

The errors of TeX

0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations

"All your base are belong to us" intro to my 2004 MIT Spam Conference talk

An Italian town that built its own sun (2021)

Librebooting the ThinkPad T480

The world of tomorrow

The Marvelous Disappearing Capacitor

The Cold Email Handbook

Watch carved from meteorite that hit Earth a million years ago

The Myth of Bananaland: The Marketing and Reality of the United Fruit Company

Show HN: Program a robot to solve a maze on a CPU emulator

NAND Flash Targets 1k Layers

One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107

Conjuring a Linux distribution out of thin air

Long Convolutions via Polynomial Multiplication

True Crime: Allan Pinkerton's Thirty Years a Detective (1884)

The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music (2006)

GPS constellation as a way to image the ionosphere (2011)

UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair

Small AI Chip Maker Marvell Now More Valuable Than Intel

Show HN: Replace CAPTCHAs with WebAuthn passkeys for bot prevention

SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)

Zizmor would have caught the Ultralytics workflow vulnerability

Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop

VictoriaLogs: A Grafana Dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – Migrating from Grafan

Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's

How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?

Broward Co. to vacate convictions for buying crack made by Sheriff's Office

The Rules of Programming (2023)

1,600 days of a failed hobby data science project

JSON5 – JSON for Humans

Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and Inet_ntop4

How to measure frequency response of a speaker at home

Show HN: A portable hash map in C

Black Hat Rust

Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family

Brian Krebs Investigates Internet's Most Vicious Hackers–From a Secret Location

Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One

Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format

Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

Lower-cost sodium-ion batteries are finally having their moment

Deepfakes weaponised to target Pakistan's women leaders

GroMo (YC W21) Is Hiring

Arctic uses a fan to cool another fan

Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse

What if they’re right?

What Makes a Great Engineering Manager?

Myntra sashays to profit in FY24 in dramatic turnaround

Meet the House of the Dragon beer! What travellers did in 2024

Pre-Budget meet: MSME stakeholders seek tech upgrade, PLI benefits, cut in GST

Echoes of Earth kicks off 7th edition of India’s greenest music festival

FPIs return to Indian equities with Rs 24,454 Cr inflow in Dec first week

IPO frenzy next week: Five main-board, 6 SMEs to hit primary market to raise Rs 18,500 cr

Platforms, efficiency, quality: test your business creativity with Edition 165 of our weekly quiz!

iStart’s Rising Rajasthan aims to give the state’s startup ecosystem a fillip

From ordinary to wow: How UI/UX tweaks turn apps into user magnets

Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Florida, nails landing

Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Florida, nails landing

Is SDL3 Ready For Production?

Assad flees,Syria falls to radical groups:2020 National Interest on crisis in global political Islam

Yuval Noah Harari on India's role in ensuring ‘just end to Russian invasion’ & AI cooperation

Filmmaker Kanu Behl on his film Despatch, Manoj Bajpayee & the world of crime journalism

Bottled water is now high risk food in India. What does it mean for you?

French President Emmanuel Macron meets Donald Trump

'What we wear is unimportant, what is important is how we are thinking'—Indira Gandhi in 1974

'A good, productive meeting with Trump and President Macron,' says Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris

Jaishankar calls for innovative, participative diplomacy to solve conflicts at Doha

'India has never been for de-dollarization, no proposal for BRICS currency,' says EAM S Jaishankar

Syrian PM Mohammad Ghazi Al-Jalali set to handover govt to HTS in Damascus

Police shower farmers with flowers at Shambhu border as they begin 'Dilli Chalo' march

Assam beef ban, Parliament seat allocation, Manipur violence, Congress's Adani issue protest & more

With Arakan Army insurgents poised to take over Myanmar’s Rakhine, big challenge looms for India

INDIA BACKSLIDING ON HARD-WON ECONOMIC FREEDOMS OF 1991

friend.com is really bad...

$75M Founder: A Message To Entrepreneurs

Baby Rescue Squirrel Waits At The Window For Her Foster Moms | The Dodo

Dad Finds A Box Of Kittens Outside And Brings Them All In... | The Dodo

Study Abroad Student Finds A Puppy On The Beach, And...❤️ | The Dodo

Why I Am Passing On This Cat Toy | The Pack

Study Abroad Student Finds A Puppy On The Beach, And...❤️ | The Dodo

Baby Rescue Squirrel Waits At The Window For Her Foster Moms | The Dodo

Is This Dog Car Seat Worth It? | The Pack

The Ugly Cat Pillow That Your Cat Will Love Or Hate | The Pack

Baby Raccoons Climb All Over Their Rescuer | The Dodo

Who stops at a Starbucks on the way to an assassination? #dailyshow #unitedhealthcare #nypd

Pete Hegseth took getting drunk at the work holiday party to the next level #daily show #trump

A New Physics Breakthrough Could Change Everything

Why ‘Summer Breeze’ Still Gives Me Chills

How Mossad Pulled Off Its Greatest Mission Ever

An update on the Sambhal violence

Kim Jong Il: The Son of God (Full Episode) | Inside North Korea's Dynasty | Nat Geo

Plane Takeoff Goes Wrong

Gareeb Aadmi ko Chahye Aik Biwi 🤭😳 Moin Akhtar | Loose Talk

Sau Bar Gaye Tambu 🤭😂 #shorts #comedy #moinakhtar #loosetalk

Pakistan Mein Election Ka Pehla Din 🤭😂 #shorts #comedy #moinakhtar #loosetalk

So Michael Bublé is the Grinch!? 🤯

Ragini Maharaj & Yashaswini Maharaj❣️✨Granddaughter Of Pt Birju Maharaj #kathak #icmdance #icmtabla

Rahmat Siddhu Tabla Solo Snippet ❣️✨#icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Mahesh Kale Ji ❣️✨ #icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

How to Desolder Components! #diy #soldering #guide #tutorial #electronics

Deploying & Scaling Microservices • Sam Newman • YOW! 2015

The Future of Mars Exploration • Anita Sengupta • YOW! 2017

The Bike Of The Future?

What's It Like To Ride SUPER Wide Road Bike Tyres?

Vega-C and Sentinel-1C launch highlights

How big AI companies exploit data workers in Kenya | DW Documentary

Dr Shashi Tharoor conversation on “life lessons” at IIMUN Baroda in front of 25,000 students, 6Dec24

NASA Spot Wreckage on Mars

Conquering the Bering Sea for Gold! | Bering Sea Gold | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Gukesh beats Ding 🔥🔥 #gukesh #chess

Fans Go Crazy As Gukesh Beats Ding Liren | Game 11 | World Chess Championship 2024

Gukesh NODS after the INSANE WIN Against DING! #gukesh #chess

This one is for the history books! | Gukesh vs Ding Liren | Game 11 | World Championship 2024

Gukesh meets his Father after beating Ding ♥️🔥 #gukesh #chess

What The Experts Thought Of Game Eleven As Gukesh Beats Ding | World Chess Championship

Ding vs Gukesh | Game 12 | FIDE World Championship 2024 | Ft. Sagar, Tania, Amruta and Sahil

Why did Ding Liren hesitate on move no.1 | Ding vs Gukesh | Game 10 | World Championship 2024

Fast and Furious Queen Endgame - Coach Shambo Dutta v IM Utsab Chatterjee

Gukesh’s Father is a Chess Player? 😍 #chess #gukesh

What are Arjun Erigaisi's chances of making it to the Candidates via FIDE circuit?

When Arjun Erigaisi goes all wild | Surya Ganguly vs Arjun Erigaisi | Qatar Masters 2024

Gukesh is the Main Character ☠️🔥 #gukesh #chess

Huge Indian Crowd Arrives In Singapore | Game Eleven | Gukesh vs Ding | World Chess Championship

Passed Pawns must be Pushed - GM Diptayan Ghosh v Puspal Datta | Tata Steel Festival 2024 Blitz

Huge Indian Crowd CHEER for Gukesh 🔥🔥 #gukesh #chess

The Moment Ding BLUNDERS a Knight, Gukesh SACRIFICES His QUEEN to Win Game 11 of the Championship

REACTIONS From Game 11's Critical Moment In 8 Languages!

Gukesh REALIZES Ding BLUNDERED a KNIGHT in the 2024 FIDE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

World Champion REALIZES It’s OVER

Gukesh SACRIFICES a QUEEN! HIGHLIGHTS of the Game 11 in the 2024 World Chess Championship

World Champion FAKES Making the First Move

Ding Liren Makes One of the Most Horrible Blunders In World Championship Matches

The Lost World - Easter Island

New York: The C-11 Squad vs Harlem Gangs

Who are the Syrian rebels and where is Bashar al-Assad? | BBC News

Is Iceland the best place in the world to be a woman?

How soon will robots be able to behave like humans? | BBC Click

Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to take action against 'possible threats' in Syria | BBC News

Frontline report: Inside Damascus as rebels seize power and Assad flees | BBC News

From doctor to dictator - the rise and fall of Syria’s President Assad | BBC News

Syrian rebels capture Damascus, saying President Assad has fled | BBC News

Rebel forces in Damascus have declared Syria's capital "free" of ruler Bashar al-Assad. #BBCNews

Gukesh vs Ding Liren || GAME 11 || FIDE World Chess Championship Match 2024

50th Day Of Vikkals Fitness | Vikkals

2024 Citroen Basalt Rear Seat & Boot Space Review | Can 3 People Sit In Rear Of The Basalt?

NREGA Workers Protest: Aadhaar, Budget Cuts, and the Fight for Fair Wages

Coldplay REALLY Want To Sell Their New Album | The Graham Norton Show

Neurodivergent Psychopath interview-Cassy

Skid Row Resident-Tina

Mamanaar Paavangal | Parithabangal

Maintain பண்ணிட்டு போறனே விடேன்😅 | Parithabangal #shorts

Give the gift of a 12 month NTS Magazine subscription 🎁 #nevertoosmall #shorts

MSV On KVM's GESTURE and HELP

False implication in narcotics cases?

I am jobless. Why not ask alimony from wife?

What does it mean to learn? | Krishnamurti

Why is Malayalam so MYSTERIOUS?

5 loài cây muỗi ngửi thấy... chạy không dám quay đầu! | 5 mosquito repellent plants

2 beaten down stocks with high ROCE | Market cap over ₹20,000 cr

Sigappu Rojakkal - Tamil Movie | Thiagarajan | Silk Smitha | Ilaiyaraaja Balu Mahendra #ddmovies

Karam Kattapa’s Andhra Chilli Chicken: Spicy, tangy, and full of flavor! Can you handle the heat? 🌶

What did Sanjyot cook?😎 #PakakeDikhao #sanjyotkeer #yfl #butterchicken

Unique Teakwood Staircase Design Secrets from The Designers | Design Talk

The World's Rarest Bear Cub | Asia | BBC Earth

The Secrets of an Undercover Cop | Informer