Digest — 2024-12-27:

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Nature’s “perfect balance” is a mystery scientists are trying to decode

Heidegger’s “mood theory” explains why you do anything at all

Inside the battle for FDA approval of MDMA therapy

From global to planetary: Is new governance needed in a post-Holocene world?

Ask Ethan: Could SETI detect a “twin” of Earth?

Absolutely brilliant interactive explainer on everything about the Moon: how it moves,...

Costco Board Pushes Back Against Anti-DEI Activists

The most popular Wikipedia articles of 2024 (thru Nov 22), including Deaths...

You can use this game to narrow down 30 monospaced typefaces to...

“Architecton is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how...

The 7 Coolest Mathematical Discoveries of 2024, including “the biggest prime number...

Crazy Football Commentary, Animated!

“Depending on the printer, trying to photocopy money might result in a...

What are the most interesting / challenging evals (for humans) available?

Review: Planecrash

apparmor.d: Extensive set of AppArmor profiles

Run MCP Servers On Android with Gemini & Chicory

Chimera Linux Entering beta

An Overview of Virtual Machine Architectures

What are you doing this weekend?

Does current AI represent a dead end?

sudo-rs: A memory safe implementation of sudo and su

Everything you ever wanted to know about “hello, world” but were afraid to ask

Debugging memory corruption: Who wrote ‘2’ into my stack?

38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming

Running NetBSD 10.1 on a 1998 Toshiba laptop

A Simple ELF

AI-generated tools can make programming more fun

Perfect Desk

How Does the Writer Say Etcetera?

Rabelaisian Enumerations: On Lists

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

I thought I said no more birds

Reverse Engineering the Duco Connectivity Board

Coding Font Selection 'Tournament'

Agentarium: Creating social simulations with AI Agents

Behind the Scenes: Alien Worlds – Jumpship over a tidally locked planet

RubyConf 2024: Cloud Native Buildpack Hackday (and other Ruby deploy tools, too)

Execution units are often pipelined

Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers

Reverse Video Search

Rod Serling on Doomsday

Against the Hydraulic Analogy

Wi-Fi and the Problem with Radar (DFS)

PolyDye: Full color printer mod for Marlin 3D printers

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998)

The last Inca bridge master

Hello World on z/OS (2018)

Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (2014)

Cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland 'was loaded with spying equipment'

TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips

Show HN: Houseplant – Database Migrations for ClickHouse

Spotify is full of AI music

The new science of controlling lucid dreams

They have not been trained for this

Programming Lewis Carroll's Memoria Technica

Show HN: I send myself automated emails to practice Dutch

Complain and Propose (2014)

The paper passport's days are numbered

Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram

VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles

DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years

Bench accounting services shutting down

Demystifying Common Microcontroller Debug Protocols [video]

Breaking the Mirror – A Look at Apple's New iPhone Remote Control Feature [video]

Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

How to Create HTML/ZIP/PNG Polyglot Files

Show HN: Minimal, self-hosted exercise tracker

Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders

Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

Search ArXiv Fluidly

Show HN: SkunkHTML – Markdown Blog with GitHub Pages

Harper (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineer #2

Implementing SM-2 in Rust

Building AI Products–Part I: Back-End Architecture

Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor

Project/Product managers

More Than Backpacking: The True Value of Australia’s Working Holiday Maker Visa

Pakistan’s Military Convicts Those Who Attacked its Installations

Propaganda Films Are Here to Stay in the Modi Era

Japan Approves 9.4 Percent Increase in Defense Spending for FY2025

South Korean Acting President Han Duck-soo Impeached

5 Factors That Catapulted Arakan Army to Unprecedented Success Against the Myanmar Military

[notes] TrainingPeaks Virtual and Garmin TacX NEO Bike

Release of XMLmind XSL-FO Converter v6.5.0

RBI permits UPI transactions via prepaid payment instruments using third-party apps

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu revives 70-hour work week debate, says no need to work to 'demographic decline'

Manmohan Singh: India's 'reforms' man and politician with a difference

2024 bloopers: Startup marketing fails; How drones dominated this year

SaaS fintech Zaggle plans at least 2 acquisitions next fiscal to drive growth

Arunish Chawla takes charge as Revenue Secretary

Fship COO shares the company’s bright present and ambitious future in D2C logistics

How D2C brands can ensure efficient logistics with cost-effective deliveries

Fresh capital commitments drive success of Bihar Business Connect 2024

How Manmohan Singh defended landmark 1991 Union budget

Drones in 2024: Pilot training, govt schemes bring drone tech into the mainstream

When innovation backfires: What 2024’s marketing fails teach us about sensitivity and strategy

Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [Part 153]

European Space Agency in 2024 - See the Highlights

Kabhi Electric, Kabhi Petrol #v3cars #mercedes #mercedesamg #amg

What the Indian economy can expect in 2025

Manmohan Singh attends a photo exhibition showcasing ThePrint’s Praveen Jain’s works

Conversations with Dr Manmohan Singh: lessons in reform, geopolitics & an admonition over lunch

CutTheClutter: Conversations with Dr Manmohan Singh: lessons in reform, geopolitics & an admonition

Manmohan Singh's village in Pakistan mourns his death-- 'we lost a family member'

'He gave the country that was reeling under economic crisis, a new direction in terms of economy'

'Manmohan Singh was the first PM who worked for the upliftment of marginalised & Muslims'

LoP Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi pays last respects to former PM Dr Manmohan Singh

Congress Leaders pay last respects to former PM Manmohan Singh

'We used to solve difficult mathematics problems together,'recalls former PM Manmohan Singh's friend

Manipur violence: How ThePrint kept its feet on the ground as the crisis deepened

'Dr Manmohan Singh used to emphasise on studies and simple living'

Why the impending return of BNP's Tarique Rahman may raise pressure on Bangladesh govt to hold polls

Manipur violence: How ThePrint kept its feet on the ground as the crisis deepened

'Dr Manmohan Singh was the one who took steps to rehabilitate our Kashmiri pandits' Farooq Abdullah

'Did my best in serving this great nation', Manmohan Singh last address to the nation as PM In 2014

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar pays final tributes to former PM Dr Manmohan Singh

K Annamalai's self-whipping protest over Anna University alleged sexual assault case

Srinagar & Baramulla receive first snowfall of the season, marking the arrival of winter in Kashmir

Gobind Kaur, sister of former PM Manmohan Singh, at ‘loss for words’ over his demise

Levels

Web Developers Are Disconnected

साल 2024 में राजनीति, समाज और अर्थव्यवस्था

Leaders Across Parties Pay Last Tributes To Former PM Manmohan Singh | Rahul Gandhi, Modi, Amit Shah

Sense and sensitivity - Nancy Rothwell's 1998 Christmas Lectures 1/5

Fats and figures - Nancy Rothwell's 1998 Christmas Lectures 2/5

Chilling out - Nancy Rothwell's 1998 Christmas Lecture 3/5

How to make the best ice cream #science

Man Becomes Baby Goose's "Mom" | The Dodo

Pet Products I'd Repurchase: BISSELL Multi-Purpose Portable Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner | The Pack

Tiny Street Puppy Could Not Stop Wagging His Tail | The Dodo

We're In Tears ❤️ | The Dodo

Tiny Street Puppy Could Not Stop Wagging His Tail | The Dodo

Major Food Storage Upgrade | The Pack

Pet Products I'd Repurchase: Silvervine Sticks | The Pack

How China Solved Its Air Pollution Crisis | Why India Failed | Akash Banerjee & Adwaith

Three Times Ed Helms Rocked It As a Correspondent | The Daily Show

Desi Lydic teaches America's future CEOs about some powerful women in history #thedailyshow #shorts

Eagle Pass, TX, has been overrun by conservatives and the locals are not happy about it #shorts

How To Start Improving Yourself @TED #newyear #goals

How we measured my heart rate on my face

10 Incredible Buildings Nearing Completion

Caught red handed with ​@hayday…over and over again #sponsored #HayDay #HayDayHoliday #HayDayPartner

This Physicist Says We’re Using Maths Entirely Wrong

Rick Wakeman nails this! #classicrock #musicindustry #spotify #music #shorts 

"Yacht Rock" Is Bullsh*t

The Complex History Behind "Fake Tribes"

Stronger the support, stronger the headlines

Rajdeep Sardesai shares Modi’s media strategy to avoid another ‘dosti bani rahe’ moment

Dec 27, 2024: Aaj Ka AQI from the health minister’s home

This is how TV news jumped into the festival of propaganda joy

Rajdeep exposes the truth about Modi interviews on TV news

How Can We Import a Shared UI Library Using pnpm in a Monorepo by Lead Engineer, Sean Amarasinghe

How Do We Install NX in Our Monorepo with Lead Engineer, Sean Amarasinghe

The Ancestor Paradox

Pakistani Cricket Team Ka Raaz Kiya Hai?🙄 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Aapki Team ke paas "Spirit" nahi tha 😂🔥 #shorts #comedy #moinakhtar #loosetalk

The Top Tiny House Tours Of 2024! ⭐️

How Can Gangs Like Lawrence Bishnoi’s Be Stopped?

Inside Delhi's Horrible Night Shelters ft. Medha | Jist

Manmohan Landed Hard Punches With Poetry | Jist

Phoolan Devi Case: What Did the Special Cell Reveal?

Legends Together Ustad Sultan Khan Ustad Zakir Hussain & Karsh Kale #icmvocal #fusion #music #shorts

Ustad Ashish Khan & Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji 🙏✨#icmtabla #sarod #dholak #classical #music #shorts

Ustad Ashish Khan Ji & Goat Tabla Player🙏✨#sarod #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Everything you need to know about Starbucks exiting India? #shorts

The Experience of Experience Design • Mark Rickmeier • GOTO 2024

Navigating AI's Impact • Alistair Cockburn & Aino Vonge Corry

Do You Ride Less In The Winter? 🥶

Our Secret Plan To Beat The World's Best Climber.. | Epic Rouvy Challenge

Listen to the Universe. Isn't it gorgeous? 🎶

Fake steak - Future-proof food | DW Documentary

Josh Gates’s Mothman Mission | Expedition Unknown: After The Hunt | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

A showcase to India's engineering & technological prowess. ‘The Chenab bridge’ | Discovery Channel

2025 Theme System Journal Set Up

Pranking colleagues in the name of chocolate. Chef is definitely breaking the ice with this one

me trying to do math

edna mode being an icon

me when someone gives me advice

mike wazowski being an icon for like 5 minutes

What If You Flew A Plane on Another Planet?

Naroditsky carves Woodward with the KID

This is what pure Magnus Carlsen magic looks like | Carlsen vs Kadric | World Rapid 2024

Arjun Erigaisi's love for London System | Arjun vs Eltaj Safarli | World Rapid 2024

Magnus watching Hans Niemann ☠️☠️ #chess #magnuscarlsen #hansniemman

This time he wakes up! | Alireza Firouzja vs Raunak Sadhwani | World Rapid 2024

Pragg & Anish SHOCKED by the BLUNDER 😱 #chess #praggnanandhaa #anishgiri

An unbelievable Finale | Alice Lee vs Valentina Gunina | World Rapid 2024

18 year old SHOCKS Magnus Carlsen 😱 #magnuscarlsen #chess

Indian Prodigy CRUSHES Alireza 🥶 #chess #alirezafirouzja

The Chess Wolves of the Wall Street ft. Carlsen, Naka, Vishy, Aronian & Co.

LUCKIEST ESCAPE EVER! | Nakamura vs Donchenko | Round 3 | World Rapid 2024

Hikaru SHOCKED after Opponent Tricks Him 😱 #hikarunakamura #chess

What's up with Magnus Carlsen? | World Rapid Day 1 recap by Sagar and Harshit

18-year-old super talent stuns Magnus Carlsen | World Rapid 2024

FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship 2024 | Day 1| Live Commentary by Niklesh, GM Harshit

Wesley So SHOWS His FAVOURITE MOVE

Hikaru REMEMBERS SOMETHING Right BEFORE THE GAME

That Pawn GLOWUP!!!

Hikaru is ONE MOVE AWAY FROM CHECKMATE But Grandmaster CLAIMS a DRAW

A terrible Start for Magnus Carlsen At 2024 FIDE World Rapid Tournament

Buildofy Yearbook 2024!

This New Delhi Showroom Caters To All Things Wood | Span Floors (Showroom Tour)

How to Not Slip on the Ice! #dontfall #safetyfirst #balance #physicaltherapy

How trees eat salmon: The circle of life, explained | Sean B. Carroll

Taylor Hicks Dishes Up America’s Culinary Treasures in State Plate!

Toxic Somalia

Hitler’s Climb: From Soldier to Führer

Nasa makes history with closest-ever approach to Sun | BBC News

UN condemns Israel-Houthi escalation | BBC News

What just happened in South Korea? | BBC News

How Keir Starmer won and how Rishi Sunak lost the UK General Election | BBC Newscast

Netanyahu: bomb attacks on Yemen are “just the beginning” | BBC News

Like Looking In A Mirror || Lazavik vs Carlsen || FIDE World Rapid Championship (2024)

A Feast For The Eyes || Bjerre vs Dubov || FIDE World Rapid Championship (2024)

Absolute Cinema! || Naroditsky vs Abdusattorov || FIDE World Rapid Championship (2024)

The Steroid Epidemic | From Boys To Men - Dr. Chris Raynor

촉촉하고 꾸덕한 2가지 식감의 "브라우니 치크케이크" 만들기 :: Brownie Cheesecake Recipe

2024, in 4 minutes

இவ்ளோ தான் Bro Life 🥲 #comedy #vikkals

Try this.. It will work 😂😂 #comedy #vikkals

who knew #DaisyRidley was a huge #Gavin&Stacey fan?! 🤩 #TheGrahamNortonShow #GrahamNorton

Passing mentions: the notable lives lost in 2024

Porn Actress interview-Addison

Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivor-Mari

The Top 10 Space Pictures of 2024 (and What They Mean)

न आटा, न मैदा, न ब्रेड - झटपट बनने वाला गरमा-गरम नाश्ता जिसे खाकर समोसा, कचोरी खाना भूल जायेंगे

Micro Paris Studio with Cosy Mezzanine, 13sqm/139sqft

எங்கே நிம்மதி பாடல் பின்புலம் மெல்லிசை மன்னரின் நினைவுகள்

Can foreign lawyer advise on my divorce case in India?

Rubble Recast: Navigating The Road to Efficient C&D Waste Recycling

Vijayakanth Super Hit Movie Introduction Scene - Nenjile Thunivirunthaal | Swapna | Goundamani | CMM

Goan Egg Curry by Gajraj Rao & Krishna Beuraa | अंडा करी | Pakake Dikhao | Chef Ranveer Brar

How an infinite DNA glitch saved millions

What makes a good science book?