Digest — 2024-12-26:

The Elixir Year: A Technical Sabbatical

Is social media dead?

2024 - My Personal Life Year in Review

every love story is a ghost story

My Default Apps for 2024

The Military Con No One Talks About

How to build something that lasts

Hungry or horny? Whale makes record swim halfway across planet

Can science solve the poverty problem?

Devouring “the Kraken” led to the modern Milky Way

10 years ago, I wrote about why I support Wikipedia with a...

Whooping cough cases reach highest level in a decade. “The U.S. has...

California’s raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers and contrary to some...

Minnesota Guaranteed Free School Meals for All Kids. Now Let’s Do It...

You can watch the first five seasons of The Dick Van Dyke...

How to Make 80s School Cafeteria Pizza

An Epic 2024 Movie Trailer Mashup

The unbearable slowness of being: “Streaming a high-def video takes about 25M...

A reader found her father in a photo on the back cover...

A Three-Layer Model of LLM Psychology

ReSolsticed vol I: "We're Not Going Quietly"

The Field of AI Alignment: A Postmortem, and What To Do About It

AI #96: o3 But Not Yet For Thee

Use of Time in Distributed Databases (part 2): Use of logical clocks in databases

ChatGPT search vs. Google: A deep dive analysis of 62 queries

The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

The Matrix Holiday Special 2024

Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato

USB-C head-to-head comparison

Lua is so underrated

Ghostty 1.0

One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj

what's some of your favorite software?

Accurate Timekeeping in a DAW (2022)

Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated

Faster Positional-Population Counts for AVX2, AVX-512, and ASIMD

Racket School 2019: How to Design Languages

Planet Puppet

A Portrait of the Artist as an Amazon Reviewer

Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously

Faster CI with Selective Testing

Melbourne Train Control System is running on a hardware emulated PDP11

TWISTED: The dramatic history of twisted-pair Ethernet

Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps

Exploring Microsoft's Phi-3-Mini and its integration with tool like Ollama

Analyzing North Korean Malware

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders

NASA, Axiom Space Change Assembly Order of Commercial Space Station

Ancient genomes provide final word in Indo-European linguistic origins

Building a 3D safety sensor with Rust

Numbers Are Leaves

Name a Quasi-Moon

Should more of us be moving to live near friends?

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law

Neutron Stars with Less Mass Than a White Dwarf Might Exist

Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck+

Ocular AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Founding Backend Engineer ($120K to $200K, SF)

The trap of "I am not an extrovert"

Cull Front: A new front end generator for Htmx and AlpineJS

OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly

Early Improvements with Atogepant for the Preventive Treatment of Migraine

Thermodynamic model identifies how gold reaches Earth's surface

Inverse Design of Complex Nanoparticle Heterostructures via DL on Graphs

Gondwanaland: The search for a land before (human) time

Magnetic swarm intelligence of mass-produced, programmable microrobot assemblies

Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU

Write a Shell in C (2015)

Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022)

Sub-pixel distance transform (2023)

A Tongue-in-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund's 'The Print Shop'

The CAP theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something

The Rise of Post-Literate History

DeepSeek-V3

A Minecraft server written in COBOL

Design Space for Code Search Query

Seconds Since the Epoch

RIP W3C's HTML working group 1994-2024

Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software

Show HN: A singing synthesizer for the browser with automatic 3-part harmony

Differential Growth Addon for Blender

Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust

Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

Taxonomy as a service

Digital Sovereignty: Securing India’s Submarine Cables

Bangladesh’s Bid to Rewrite History

Nepal Bans Everest Helicopter Sightseeing

On Great Nicobar: 20 Christmases After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Competing Visions: Gwadar and Chabahar in Regional and Global Rivalries

[journal] Deferred Conflict Resolution in Jujutsu

[notes] Why the Jujutsu posts are all about differences from Git

Peak XV Partners sells 1.5% stake in MobiKwik for Rs 82 Cr

Govt orders probe into ride-hailing apps over alleged price discrimination

Prasar Bharati's OTT platform Waves crosses 1M downloads in a month

Ex-PM Manmohan Singh dies at 92, leaves behind a legacy of economic reforms

Composio makes AI integrations more efficient by saving developer time

Warren Buffett's essential reading list for investors

EPFO adds 13.41 lakh net members in October

Metropolitan Stock Exchange to raise Rs 238 Cr from Groww promoters, Nithin Kamath's Rainmatter, others

Boost productivity today: Transform tasks into games

Delhi, Dehradun top the spending trends on Instamart: Swiggy

The future of trading: How QuantMan and InstaOptions are empowering retail traders

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (December 26, 2024)

Jeff Bezos’ leadership playbook: Lessons for every leader

The fast and furious rise of quick commerce; Creating AI agents

5 Things you must stop doing before 2025 for success

In 2024, quick commerce growth boomed. Players now eye the sweet spot of profitability

How To Focus On The Right Problems

Never give up 🫡 #vikkals #comedy

Dei enna da panra 😭😭 #vikkals #comedy

NASA in 2024 - See the Highlights

Sun's most powerful X flares of 2024: See the top 10

All the Loopholes Billionaires Use To Live Above the Law | Offshore

'Indian development policies don’t priortise the common man', says author Amitava Kumar

TN BJP chief K Annamalai pledges 'not wear any footwear' until 'DMK is removed from power'

33 years since USSR's fall, how it shaped modern politics & fueled China's rise in abrudged Ep 906

Why AAP is targeting the Congress in Delhi

What is Ken-Betwa river link project that will bring reprieve to people in water-starved Bundelkhand

What is Ken-Betwa river link project that will bring reprieve to people in water-starved Bundelkhand

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrives at AIIMS where former PM Manmohan Singh is admitted

Manmohan Singh’s 1992 Budget speech, the first after liberalisation of Indian economy

Manmohan Singh's last press conference as prime minister, on 3 January, 2014

BJP’s 4-pronged attack on Brand Kejriwal, AAP-Congress tussle in Delhi & implications for INDIA bloc

Dan Cortez: Meet the doctor who is the first to implant a dual chamber leadless pacemaker in a child

India’s ‘Turtle Man’ walked most of 7,516 km coastline. Now, a film is winning awards in US

Modi brighter than his supporters. His Muslim outreach is calculated, Hindu oppression is rhetoric

UP CM Yogi Adityanath brings a copy of Shri Guru Granth Sahib to his govt residence

Delhi WAQF Imams allege non-payment of salaries by Delhi govt, demand 18 months salary

Congress leader Sabha Rahul Gandhi arrives in Belagavi to attend the extended two-day CWC meeting

Modi brighter than his supporters. His Muslim outreach is calculated, Hindu oppression is rhetoric

Trump White House, ties with Europe & India focus: China's foreign policy strategy for 2025

Overwhelmed?

are we cooked w/ o3?

2024: The Year With The Wire

22 Minutes of Robbie Williams Telling His Wildest Stories | The Graham Norton Show

Grieving Dog Finds Love Again Thanks To This Cat | The Dodo

Watch This Owl Re-Learn To Fly | The Dodo

Cats Think Everything For Their New Baby Brother Is Theirs | The Dodo

Pet Products I'd Repurchase: Pawaboo Interactive Cat Toy | The Pack

Grieving Dog Finds Love Again Thanks To This Cat | The Dodo

Cats Think Everything For Their New Baby Brother Is Theirs | The Dodo

Rescue Pittie Thinks He's A Cat | The Dodo

DECODED - What Brought Down The German Economy? | Opportunity for India? | Akash Banerjee

Every Jon Stewart After the Cut of 2024 | The Daily Show

Jon’s For You Page is an interesting place #jonstewart #thedailyshow #tiktok #shorts

Trumpers say one thing, their hats say another #jordanklepper #thedailyshow #shorts

The Parker Solar Probe Just Did The Impossible

NASA UAP chair David Spergel explains why gov confidential info "leaks" 👽

Reporting is more than a crash course but…

NL Charcha 351: साल की आखिरी चर्चा LIVE । अलविदा 2024

Ambedkar, Savarkar और Golwalkar से Sarangi तक पहुंचा संसद का अखाड़ा | NL Tippani 217

Dec 26, 2024: Aaj Ka AQI from the Supreme Court

1 reporter, 75 stories: This is the power of a subscription

“Narendra Modi giving me an interview will break the internet.”

Let’s Talk About: Kerala’s Cuba connection TEASER

Why Do We Use a Filter Command in Our Pnpm Workspace with Lead Engineer, Sean Amarasinghe

How Can You Ensure Dependencies Exist Before Running Your App with Lead Engineer, Sean Amarasinghe

Getting Lost in the Amazon with the Matis Tribe | Superskilled with Eva zu Beck

Is Your Dishwasher Better at Cleaning Than You Are?

Fujian Type 003: China's Incredible First Aircraft Carrier

Kashmir Ka Masla Kab Hal Hoga ? 🤔 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Anwar Maqsood came out of syllabus 😂😁 #shorts #comedy #moinakhtar #loosetalk

How EXACTLY Does Beaming Work? #shorts

Protest At “Main Atal Rahunga” Event | Jist

Paparazzi On How They Spot Celebrities | Jist

Khalistanis Isolated in Melbourne | Jist

How Do Criminals Like Lawrence Bishnoi Communicate From Jail?

Who Goes to High-Security Wards in Jail?

AAP Threatens To Split INDIA Bloc | Jist

One Camera, One Lens: What I've Learned...

Pt Rajan Sajan Mishra, Pt Birju Maharaj & Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji🙏✨#legend #icmtabla #kathak #shorts

Amazing Singing By Osman Mir ❣️✨#icmvocal #semiclassical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Ustad Dilshad Khan & Begum Parveen Sultana Ji 🙏✨#icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

The $18.8 Bil, Borderline Useless Bridge Between Hong Kong and Macau

Everything you need to know about 18% GST selling used cars ! #shorts

Chris Atherton about Facebook’s #DataHarvesting. #DataBrokers #DataCollection

🧐 POV: When You're Killing It Upfront Even On An Ancient Bike 👀

Latvia's Russian minority | DW Documentary

Tsunamis - How can we prepare for this kind of catastrophe? | DW Documentary

The Haunting Disappearance of Witchcraft | Curse of the Bermuda Triangle | Full Episode | Discovery

The Best of Unexplained and Unexplored! | Unexplained and Unexplored | Discovery Channel

Gift of Music | Uday Bhawalkar | Music of India

Fries made rice and dal is the new innovative recipe you need to try for your snack time!😋

Watch the 3 foolish monkeys create chaos now!

Bobby Fischer's discovery vs Petrosian

What’s Pragg doing in New York? 😱 #chess #praggnanandhaa

From winning to lost to Checkmate! | Li Di vs Tin Jingyao | Sunway Sitges playoffs

Most BEAUTIFUL Chess Venue 😍 #chess #newyork

Free Tournament Tools for All: Santino Puleio's Vesus.org

Arjun's final chance of making it to the Candidates via FIDE circuit 2024 | The Race against Caruana

Levy Rozman @GothamChess on Magnus, Gukesh, New York, Hikaru Recaps, Chessly, Europe Tour and 2025!

2600 GM is no match for young Indian IM | Ilamparthi vs Jules | Sunway Sitges playoffs

How I Treat My Brilliant Pawn

“You Didn’t Even Try For Me” by Ding Liren

Shoulder Pain? NEVER Sleep In These 3 Positions. Do THIS Instead!

Helicopters Arctic Rescue: Risking All to Save Lives

Another Child (Documentary) How many generations will keep the secret? | Full Movie

Boxing Day 2004 tsunami in Indian Ocean remembered 20 years on | BBC News

Israel says it has hit "Houthi terrorist" targets across Yemen with air strikes. #BBCNews

Israeli air strikes hit Yemen's main international airport | BBC News

Dozens survive deadly Kazakhstan plane crash | BBC News

It Has Begun... WITH FIREWORKS!! || Erenburg vs Firouzja || FIDE World Rapid Championship (2024)

NO. REVERSE. GEAR. || Dubov vs Aravindh || FIDE World Rapid Championship (2024)

Thinking through double slits

The Dome Paradox: A Loophole in Newton's Laws

Tomes will tell: books that predict the future

4 Steps to Unlock Your Kid's Math Potential | Shalinee Sharma | TED

Peaches (Update-December 2024)

Recovered Opiate Addict-Travis

We All Have Synesthesia

எதுக்கு யா தரீங்க இதயெல்லாம்🙄 | Parithabangal #shorts

चाय☕ बनाते वक्त ये मसाला डालेंगे तो आपकी चाय का स्वाद और बढ जाएगा | Perfect Chai Masala Recipe

Happy Birthday, Manoj 🎂

THIS IS WHY MSV IS AS IMMORTAL AS HIS SONGS

Can I get divorced without ever coming to India?

Main Title "Somewhere in My Memory" (From "Home Alone")

Carol of the Bells

When Relatives Gift Money #lifehacks

2025 - THE END

Test of survival: Generation alpha inherits a world irrevocably warmer by 1.5 °C

Bombil se Bombay 'Duck' #podcast #bombil #bombayduckfish #ranveerbrar

Kal ke लिए ready?😎 #teaser #PakakeDikhao #gajrajrao #KrishnaBeuraa

Span Floors | Official Promo #buildofy #showroom #interiordesign #shorts