Digest — 2025-01-03:

bear blog question challenge

four thousand weeks

On digital privacy and, well, privacy

what if everything goes wrong?

The “unethical” myth about having children

Why the golden unlock with nuclear power will be mental

Don’t waste time correcting misinformation. Instead, try the “bypassing technique”

Ask Ethan: Can a lumpy Universe explain dark energy?

Go's bytes.Buffer vs. strings.Builder

Fact-Checking the Spiciness of ‘Hot Ones’ Sauces

An online-only conversation from the British Library with Lauren Groff about her...

Depictions of children dying were rife in 19th century literature, mirroring high...

A list of advice for defeating the authoritarian threat. “Authoritarians want you...

Man-Made Structures Now Outweigh the Mass of the Living World

Male college enrollment could be dropping because of male flight. “Male flight...

I loved the first volume of this, so I’m pleased to see...

Clip is a “plug & play” unit that upgrades almost any bike...

Custom attributes in Web Components

The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed

The subset parity learning problem: much more than you wanted to know

Introducing Squiggle AI

Practicing Bayesian Epistemology with "Two Boys" Probability Puzzles

Alignment Is Not All You Need

Preventing data races with Pony

2024 ML Review (For Technical Writers)

Spline Distance Fields

SQLite4 – SQLite on LSM Tree (2014)

Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice

The intractable challenges of technical writing

zizmor v1.0.0

An Empirical Study of Rust-for-Linux: The Success, Dissatisfaction, and Compromise

Introducing Docker to CS Freshmen - Advice Needed

Building NetBSD in meta mode

Reversing the Animal Crossing letter system (2018)

The JIT calculator challenge

What was the best research paper you read in 2024?

Project idea: pkg-config support in compilers

Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time

The State Of Garnet in 2025

Helix 25.01 Highlights

Explicit Specialization

I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone

usb on the go (2024)

What are you doing this weekend?

Never Have Outdated Footer Dates Again

The Evolution of SRE at Google

Bevy Efficiency on Mobile

How “Vanilla Tourists” and Threesome-Hunters Ironed Out Feeld’s Kinks

They Missed Their Cruise Ship. That Was Only The Beginning.

Scent Makes a Place

Breaking a Cycle of Apocalypse

Print Edition 59: The Kinship Issue

Choosing an op-amp for your project

TiDB – cloud-native, distributed SQL database written in Go

A Note on the Changing Faces of (D)ARPA – By Eric Gilliam

42 - Spacecraft Simulation

The Art and Science of Mess Management (1981) [pdf]

We Invested in Silicon Box and the Advanced Chiplet Packaging

Einsum in Depth

DeepFace: A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python

Rohlang3: A point-free, homoiconic, and dependently typed "SK calculus"

Chip-8 Emulation Introduction

Hornet, RNA structure visualization method correlates sequence and 3D topology

Wildcard: Customize HN using a spreadsheet view

The DIY Multideck

Don't Clobber the Frame Pointer

Transcendental Syntax

Perplexity got ads

The Recursive Book of Recursion

How Saffron, a precious import, became an American cash crop

Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers

My Takeaways From 12 Months Of Therapy

Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce

Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app

Triangulation of a polyline with thickness (a.k.a. line strip)

Savoy Style vs. Hollywood Style: A Fight to the Death (Hopefully?) (2011)

In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs

Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair

Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013)

Two Turntables and a Microphone (2006)

Oral history of Caroline Rose, writer of Inside Macintosh (2023) [video]

Why Canada Should Join the EU

Swc4j: SWC for Java

What we learned copying all the best code assistants

B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know

SpaceSim

Yemeni Coffee Shops Are Everywhere in Texas: Alcohol-Free Spaces That Open Late

VoxelSpace: Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code (2020)

F-Droid Fake Signer PoC

A path to O1 open source

"A Digital Prison": Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia

China reduced sulphur dioxide emissions by more than two-thirds in past 15 years

Kuvasz-streamer: open-source CDC for Postgres for low latency replication

Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)

CoinTracker (YC W18) hiring product engineer to solve crypto accounting

A free, unlimited online PDF converter with Privacy focus

Court strikes down US net neutrality rules

UK ICO response to Google's policy change on device fingerprinting

Digital gardens people maintain outside the "Big Tech" walled gardens

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "write better code"?

Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles

The Welcoming Climate Shelters of Barcelona

“Does it work?”

Myanmar Military Junta Enacts Repressive New Cybersecurity Bill

Indonesia’s Constitutional Court Voids Threshold for Presidential Nominations

Anwar Ibrahim’s ‘Postnormal Times MADANI Exhibition’ Aims to Change Malaysia’s Conversation

Investigators Fail to Arrest South Korean President

3 Years on: Kazakhstan’s Kafkaesque System Fails Bloody January Torture Victims

Navigating Taiwan’s Pacific Identity: Challenges for Lai Ching-te’s Hawaiian Shirt Diplomacy

Taiwan’s TikTok Liberal Paradox

China vs India: Economic Outreach to Central Asia

China’s Middle East Moment: Will Beijing Seize the Opportunity in Syria?

Looking Back at India-Japan Security Ties in 2024: A Way Forward

From Leadership to Limbo? South Korea’s Democracy Faces Its Toughest Test

China Alleges Taiwan Is Paying Bribes for US Support

Is Japan’s Sudden Pivot to China Naïve?

The TTP and the Pakistan-Afghanistan Conundrum

The Trump Effect: Will India Lean Into the China Thaw in 2025?

[notes] A Year of Shipping

[elsewhere] True Myth v8.2.0—Now With a Task Type!

Hindustan Unilever in talks to buy skincare startup Minimalist

[Weekly funding roundup Dec 28-Jan 3] VC inflows kick off the year with a weak start

Hospitality tech startup Guestara secures $500,000 in pre-seed funding

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (January 3, 2025)

Start 2025 right: self-care steps for a fulfilling year

The Good Glamm Group delays December salary payments

DPIIT partners with Startup Policy Forum to establish India as global innovation hub

Start fresh: 5 must-read books for a purposeful 2025

Automating video creation with GenAI; Social media movements of 2024

Mystery 'Big Client' in SEBI's Ketan Parekh probe points to Tiger Global

Hero MotoCorp posts 7.5% rise in sales at 59,11,065 units in 2024

Former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg leaves Meta

Ranjan Pai's Claypond Capital hires Shravan Subramanyam to lead medical tech platform

The Billion-Euro Lottery: El Gordo’s Impact on Spain’s GDP

Growth of health insurance sector enabling healthcare access across India

5 ideas to start your work-from-home business in 2025

5 Rules That Will Make Your 2025 Fruitful!

How AI and data analytics are redefining new possibilities in patient care

How visual storytelling can help D2C brands create a visual edge

5 Reasons why early 2025 is the best time to find a job

How these former MyGate executives are redefining locker services for societies

How do OpenAI’s o1 and o3 models perform complex reasoning?

Future of Science and Technology Q&A (January 3, 2025)

Martian New Year tracked by NASA - Avalanches, exploding jets and more!

SpaceX delivers highlights of Starship's epic 6th flight ahead of next launch

NASA solar probe survives closest-ever encounter with Sun

No More Overspeeding Challans #V3Cars #EQS

The strength & weakness of the banking sector in 2025

What will be the political fallout of Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan's remarks over Sanatan Dharma?

Why do fish eat only Pakistan’s internet cables? Bilawal Bhutto is asking own govt

US levels hacking charge at China, Taliban’s growing restrictions on women & Georgia crisis

Kiran Rijiju presents 'chadar' at Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah on Urs of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat arrives in Indore to participate in the Swar Shatakam program

'We all prayed & sought blessings,' says Kiran Rijiju after presenting 'chadar' at Dargah Nizamuddin

‘We won't reach Viksit Bharat unless we do new set of reforms,’ says Montek Singh Ahluwalia

'Most of the freebies are justified, but many of them are not and can be cut,'Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Protest in Pithampur after Bhopal’s Union Carbide waste relocation, Police use lathi charage

LIVE: PM Modi inspects newly constructed flats for ‘JJ’ cluster dwellers

Mumbai’s long-pending infrastructure projects which are likely to be completed in 2025

‘We have positive developments to report’ EAM S Jaishankar tells Maldives FM Abdulla Khaleel

PM Modi addresses a rally in Ashok Vihar, hands over flats to slum dwellers

'Our partnership dates back to centuries,' Maldives FM Abdulla Khaleel tells EAM S Jaishankar

LIVE: AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal Address a Press Conferencees

'A few 'kattar beimaan' people have pushed Delhi towards 'Aapda': PM Modi attacks AAP govt in Delhi

Modi likens AAP to ‘aapada’ for Delhi, calls on voters to wipe out ruling party in assembly polls

I Hate Files

You Shouldn't Always Listen to Advice

Golden Globe Nominees 2025 On The Sofa | The Graham Norton Show

All the president’s money men: the Trumponomics team

30-Year-Old Tortoise Guides Her Mom On Daily Walks | The Dodo

Paralyzed Dog Found On The Side Of The Road Walks Again | The Dodo

Husky Who Spent His Whole Life Alone In A Yard Gets Rescued | The Dodo

Pet Products I'd Repurchase: Outward Hound | The Pack

Training Your Cat To High Five | The Pack

Husky Who Spent His Whole Life Alone In A Yard Gets Rescued | The Dodo

30-Year-Old Tortoise Guides Her Mom On Daily Walks | The Dodo

Little Owl Learns To Use His Wings Again | The Dodo

Sports War Covers the Biggest Sports News of 2024 | The Daily Show

Jon Stewart advises on how to handle political conversations in college #dailyshow #college

New York sneakerheads sound off on Trump's $400 kicks. #JoshJohnson #DailyShow #Trump

Nothing is punk anymore...

How To Achieve Limitlessly | Emmanuel Acho @TED #newyear

What Does Poverty Look Like on a Plate? | Huiyi Lin | TED

An Astrophysicists' Party Trick! 📄 How to Walk Through Paper

Discoveries in Psychology that Will Change Your Opinion on Human Behavior

George Benson on his first gig #guitar #guitarist #jazz #shorts

Ramnath Roenka Awards 2024: Recognising the worst of TV journalism

Delhi AQI data is unreliable – air monitors flout norms, blocked by trees

शोषितों की आवाज़ बनें, शासकों की नहीं

3 जनवरी, 2025: केंद्रीय कृषि मंत्री शिवराज सिंह चौहान के दरवाजे से 'आज का AQI' | Fight To Breathe

Jimmy Carter Special: StarTalk (Full Episode) | National Geographic

Bakron Wala Haal Kar Denge Tumhara 🤣🔥 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Qasai kis ko bola? 🙄 #shorts #comedy #moinakhtar #loosetalk

Protest Over Union Carbide Waste Disposal | Jist

Rescue Boats Take Marcos to Safety | Jist

Ravindra Singh Bhati Shares His Election Preparation Strategy

Who Are the Shooters in Lawrence Bishnoi’s Gang?

Do Criminals Like Lawrence Bishnoi Continue Crimes After Jail?

30 Students vs Sonu Sood | Fateh

Ravindra Singh Bhati: Can't Escape the Battle, You Must Fight.

I can tell JUST by the way it opens #cars #couplegoals

Pt. Ravi Shankar Ji & George Harrison Learning Sitar🙏✨#sitar #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Kathak Padhant By Prachi Shah Paandya Ji❣️✨#icmdance #kathak #classical #dance #icmtabla #shorts

Maestros Together Ustad Bismillah Khan Dr N Rajam & Pt Kishan Maharaj🙏✨#classical #music #icmtabla

Practical Steps for Finding Your Purpose | Dr. Jordan Peterson & Dr. Andrew Huberman

How to Set & Achieve Long-Term Goals | Dr. Jordan Peterson & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Everything you need to know about RTI on car insurance #shorts

How to Master Growth Investing: Strategies and Case Studies Explained | Ab India Karega Groww

My Response To The Nonsense McKinsey Article On Developer Productivity • Dave Farley • GOTO 2025

Navigating Complexity with Systems Thinking • Diana Montalion & Andrew Harmel-Law

See and hear three years of solar fireworks

What is a gravity surrogate? 🧑‍🚀

Europe's oak trees - Are the mighty giants in danger? | DW Documentary

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Waste from the Union Carbide factory site left for incineration

Dustin Hurt’s Last Gamble for Gold! | Gold Rush: White Water | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

ReWrapping Darbar Player | Music of India

A delicious upgrade to your regular idiyappam!

Niemann Attacks Carlsen with the Rossolimo

The game that made two World Champions | Nepo vs Carlsen | World Blitz Finals tiebreaks Game 3

Press Conference with World Blitz 2024 Champions ft. Carlsen, Nepo, Ju Wenjun

Why was Magnus Carlsen upset? | Nepomniachtchi vs Carlsen | World Blitz Finals Tiebreaks Game 1

Both hands' usage allowed? So v Firouzja | World Blitz 2024 Quarterfinals

Magnus or Nepo - who has the better nerves? | World Blitz Finals tiebreaks Game 2

How many games does Magnus need against Duda? World Blitz 2024 Semifinals

How did Nepo miss that? Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Wesley So | Semi Finals 1

Who missed the win? Wesley So vs Ian Nepomniachtchi | FIDE World Blitz 2024, Semi Finals Game 2

Mark Rober Gives Chess.com The SECRET Tour Of CrunchLabs

Professional Chess is VERY STRESSFUL

How To Get Rid of Plantar Fasciitis! #footpainrelief #plantarfasciitis #physicaltherapy

Having children in an uncertain world | Christine Emba

Iconic Flavors, Passionate Locals: State Plate's Season 3 Delivers!

Munich Agreement: The Deal That Fed a Dictator

Brother of New Orleans attacker speaks to CBS. #NewOrleans #BBCNews

Brother of New Orleans attacker speaks to CBS | BBC News

Attempt to arrest South Korea president suspended after dramatic standoff | BBC News

Brother of New Orleans victim on their last phone call. #NewOrleans #US #BBCNews

What do we know about the New Orleans attack so far? | BBC Americast

South Korea's impeached president protected from arrest by wall of supporters. #SouthKorea #BBCNews

US lawmakers begin a new Congress | BBC News

Can Keir Starmer solve Britain’s social care problem? | BBC Newscast

Mike Johnson survives razor-thin vote to remain US House Speaker | BBC News

Sir Nick Clegg leaves Meta ahead of Donald Trump's return as US president | BBC News

Apple to pay $95m to settle Siri 'listening' lawsuit | BBC News

New Orleans victim's brother says family will have to deal with his death 'every day' | BBC News

🔴 LIVE: A Winter Wildlife Wonderland | BBC Earth

"The Finest Game Played Since the War" || Vidmar vs Yates || San Remo (1930)

நான் சொல்வதை விட நீங்களே கேட்டு பாருங்க ❤️ #vikkals #shorts

When he is a die hard fan of Suriya 😂 😂#vikkals #shorts

440 जिलों के Ground Water में जहरीले Nitrates की बहुत ज्यादा मौजूदगी

It's Coated with ☢️Uranium☢️! #experiment #science

Ex-Mexican Mafia Hitman-"Mundo" AKA Ramon Mendoza

Porn Actor-Ron Jeremy

What Would Happen If We Just Kept Digging?

வருஷத்துக்கு ஒருத்தன் இப்டி கிளம்பிடுறான் | Parithabangal #shorts

This Foot Artist's Masterpiece Will Leave You Amazed! 👀 | MFPA | Swapna Augustine

My first divorce case: Lessons in failures

அவ்ளோதான் முடிச்சிவிட்டீங்க😰Vidaamuyarchi Postponed - 2025 Memes Reaction | Tamil

सर्दियों में बनाएं चटपटा रसम वड़ा सूप | Rasam Vada | unique Soup recipe | Chef Ranveer Brar

This Kerala Home Blends With Nature and A Stunning Waterbody (House Tour)

Buildofy Family Hits 1 MILLION Members Strong!

I will give my full effort for music till my last breath- #MSV

How I got the chance to act in Kanthan Karunai film- #Sivakumar

My bond with my Guru K.Balachander sir will never be forgotten- #KamalHaasan

Director Bharathiraja shares about Muyarchi Thiruvinaiyakkum book

ACTirulokchandar says that I got the biggest gift from Saravanan sir

Any conversation with my Gen Z kids! | #shorts #genz #funny