Digest — 2025-01-07:

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Small Thoughts I: Indoctrination, Bookmarking, Human Image

The dark brilliance of John Graunt: “Father of modern statistics”

Navigate to the “three ports” of ancient philosophy to find the good life

Why great communicators listen to the music of “The Five Ps”

25 year update on the “Millennium problems” in physics

"Logic for Programmers" Project Update

Meta’s Free Speech Grift

The Criterion Channel’s collection of Surveillance Cinema, including The Conversation, Gattaca, Minority...

HTML: the Most Significant Computing Language Ever Developed

The 2024 Architecture and Design Awards. There’s a children’s book museum in...

Exercise is “the single most potent medical intervention ever known”. “People sleep...

Features of Adulthood

From MIT Technology Review, the 8 worst technology failures of 2024. Includes...

How to Make the World’s Rarest Pasta

HTML-over-the-wire is overrated

Alternative Cancer Care As Biohacking & Book Review: Surviving "Terminal" Cancer

Childhood and Education #8: Dealing with the Internet

Building Big Science from the Bottom-Up: A Fractal Approach to AI Safety

OpenAI #10: Reflections

[Fiction] [Comic] Effective Altruism and Rationality meet at a Secular Solstice afterparty

Testing for Scheming with Model Deletion

Oppression and production are competing explanations for wealth inequality.

RPP, a future protocol for creating and managing domain names?

Taskonaut – a CLI tool to simplify ECS container management

NVIDIA Project DIGITS

Solving NIST Password Complexities: Guidance From a GRC Perspective

Re-Decentralizing Development

Six Sins of Platform Teams

The short outburst of activity during Ruby Changelog preparation—2025 edition

SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck

Why nextest is process-per-test

Building Ultra Long Range TOSLINK

An Introduction to Corewar (2009)

Now I have two problems

Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer powered by Open-Source Software

Regex Chess: A minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

End-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer VPN tunnels for hackers

Servo Revival: 2023-2024

UK Users: Lobsters needs your help with the Online Safety Act

Zig's Comptime is Bonkers Good

I Am the “Other” in “Mother”

The Next Drug Epidemic Is Blue-Raspberry Flavored

They Were Looking for Endangered Tortoises. They Found Human Bones Instead.

Knotty Business: A Delightfully Tangled Reading List on Knots

Get out and begone to you, you horrible Old Year!

Picasso was suspected of stealing the 'Mona Lisa'

The engineering behind the San Antonio River Walk

Is XYplorer really written in VB6?

Common misconceptions about the complexity in robotics vs. AI (2024)

Visualizing Dimensional Relationships

Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins

Show HN: TubePen – My attempt to get more out of YouTube learning

Doing Hard Things While Living Life: Why We Built Vade Studio in Clojure

Kimchi Refrigerator

Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Fingerprinting

Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air

David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died

Nvidia releases its own brand of world models

Collection: More Doctors Smoke Camels

How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer (2021)

Learning Synths

SAT Solver Etudes I

PostgreSQL Support for Certificate Transparency Logs Now Available

Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]

The Patterns of Barricelli (2024)

Preventing conflicts in authoritative DNS config using formal verification

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry

OmniAI (YC W24) Hiring Engineers to Build Open Source Document Extraction

Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website

Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages

When will we fix the tools that run the world?

Streets GL – 3D OpenStreetMap

Physicists Magnetize a Material with Light

A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model

Automated Accessibility Testing at Slack

Show HN: HipScript – Run CUDA in the Browser with WebAssembly and WebGPU

Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines

Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option

Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds

Bog Standard (2005)

Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

Nvidia announces $3k personal AI supercomputer called Digits

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers

First time a Blender-made production has won the Golden Globe

AI and Startup Moats

How I Program with LLMs

The Hidden World of ‘Hedgehog Highways’

Busy-ness and leverage

Trump 2.0 and Japanese Firms: Assault, Acclimation, and Adaptation

Nearly 6,000 Prisoners Released in Myanmar Independence Day Amnesty

Court Grants Ex-Malaysian PM Najib Appeal in House Arrest Ruling

What Indonesia’s 2025 Budget Tells Us About Prabowo’s Fiscal Outlook

The Dark Underbelly of India’s Fast-expanding Gig Economy

Year of the ‘Known Unknowns’? Australia-China Relations in 2025

Will Former Friends Pakistan and the Taliban Be Able to Mend Relations?

Japan Aims to Make Sasebo a Strong Foothold for Amphibious Operations for the Self-Defense Forces

Could Afghanistan’s Qoshtepa Canal Worsen Water Scarcity in Central Asia?

Blinken’s Last Trip to Seoul and Its Implications

Pass First, Think Later: Déjà Vu in Australian Tech Lawmaking

Making an Electric Car Battery, Minus China

Former Cambodian Opposition MP Gunned Down in Bangkok

WeakRefs in JavaScript: Explained In Simple Terms

[notes] Big Picture Planning Makes Little Picture Planning Easier

AI entering into next phase of bigger and bolder things: Microsoft CEO

Early-stage startup accelerator Peercheque opens applications for its 2025 Origins programme

Pay to Flex Your Social Life: A Disturbing Trend in the Pursuit of Social Validation

Why H&M is shifting its India HQ from Delhi-NCR to Bengaluru?

Botanic Healthcare raises Rs 250 Cr in its maiden PE round

How OpenAI o1 Went Full Maverick and Broke Chess As We Know It

NCLAT to hear Meta plea against fair trade regulator's penalty on Jan 16

Akasa Air appoints marketing veteran Belson Coutinho as Chief Operating Officer

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (January 7, 2025)

Beauty and Superstore lead Nykaa’s growth; Shaping the future of logistics

Udaan Co-founder Amod Malviya launches new company, Pre6

Crypto platform CoinSwitch launches Rs 600 Cr initiative to help WazirX users recover loss

Mobikwik swings to Rs 3.59 Cr loss in Q2 of FY25 as costs surge

Pune Start-Up Fest 2025: Pitch Your Ideas & Win Investments

Bengaluru EV maker Oben Electric bags Rs 50 Cr in Series A funding to expand operations

How Vmaker AI is pioneering the future of video editing

Microsoft to pump $3B to boost AI and cloud in India: CEO Satya Nadella

Electric tractor maker Moonrider raises $2.2M seed funding

Orbit Startups and Sanabil Invest launch new accelerator for tech startups in MENA

EMO Energy raises $6.2M in Series A funding

Blume Ventures leads Zoplar’s $3.4M Series A funding

Security solutions provider Vehant Technologies raises $9M from True North

Incorporating AI into higher education: Resisting v/s Embracing

Chinese astronauts test 'intelligent flight robot,' check on fruit flies

From Naukri.com to Unicorns: Sanjeev Bikhchandani’s Entrepreneurial Secrets?

Investor’s Mastersclass?

Trudeau has resigned but will it help Canada and its ties with India?

'India must revise its definition of middle class. Those earning Rs 1 cr aren’t ‘rich’ anymore'

Tearful Trudeau, rampant Trumpism & Musk as liberal dominos fall in rout of Left in rich democracies

Priyanka’s ‘cheeks’ to Atishi ‘changing her father’- Sexist barbs by BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri

'I have been placed under house arrest', says MP Amritpal Singh's father

'No one has been placed under house arrest', says DSP, Baba Bakala sub-division, Arun Sharma

Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai lifts the coffins of DRG jawans killed in IED blast

Cleared UPSC in 2008,appointed 2024—visually impaired candidate’s 15-year long fight with the system

'Feel like we are lost people, we do not know who we are,' says Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi

Delhi elections on 5 February, results to be out on 8 February| EC Press Conference LIVE

Art & science of raising a university:Ashoka founders in conversation with Shekhar Gupta|#OffTheCuff

How Delhi elections may reshape national politics & what's at stake for AAP, BJP, Congress

Israel Soldiers Fire at UN Aid Trucks

Shah-yogi Tussle Takes A New Turn | Lucknow Central

BPSC Student Protest का चेहरा बने Prashant Kishor की Politics क्या है?

Toxic Waste Removed From Gas Leak Site in Bhopal. But Are Survivors Happy?

A new way to understand quantum - with Bob Coecke

Codie Sanchez: How to Become a Millionaire on a 9-5 Salary

Codie Sanchez Reveals Secrets Rich People Don’t Want You To Know

Grieving Goose Gets A Second Chance At Love | The Dodo

Stray Black Cat Walks Right Into Her Boyfriend's House...💕 | The Dodo

Cat Prefers A Martini To Milk | The Dodo

Cat Prefers A Martini To Milk | The Dodo

Grieving Goose Gets A Second Chance At Love | The Dodo

Heated Cat Beds For Winter | The Pack

Woman Couldn’t Believe Her Neighbors Abandoned Their Senior Cat | The Dodo

Kamala Harris certifying the election she lost? That's gotta sting.

MAGA media were quick to assume the Bourbon Street attacker wasn't from Connecticut

Jon Stewart Unpacks The NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | The Daily Show

Rep. Jamie Raskin - Jan. 6 & Reevaluating Democrats’ Priorities | The Daily Show

A day in the life of a martial artist in medieval China - Peter Lorge

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer

The Mind-Reading Potential of AI | Chin-Teng Lin | TED

Mike Retires from Astronomy - Sixty Symbols

5 Things Your Teachers Never Taught You About The Cold War

I give myself an A everyday | #shorts #comedyshorts

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We have a big announcement!

Will We Get AGI In 2025?

Tori Amos on playing live #toriamos #piano #song #livemusic #shorts

The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attraction

Life and Death on Tiny-Dino Island

What does it take to bring an investigation? Time, truth. and YOUR support.

अयोध्या में रामलला ने भाजपा को क्या सजा दी? | #nltippani

Kumar Vishwas और Aniruddhacharya के बीच लंपटई की होड़ और हस्तिनापुर दरबार | NL Tippani 219

आखिर क्यों भाजपा के छुटभैये नेता भागवत जी से बगावत कर बैठे? | #nltippani

Jan 7, 2025: Aaj Ka AQI from Central Pollution Control Board’s office

Why is air pollution not a priority?

Jasmine Shah on Gujarat ‘propaganda’, AAP’s ‘real work’, and Delhi ‘model’ | TEASER

How Can You Create a New Card Variant in Shadcn-ui with Eyal Cohen, Frontend Lead at Groundcover

How Do You Add a 'Clear All' Button That Actually Works in shadcnUI with Eyal, Lead at Groundcover

The journey up Mount Kilimanjaro is about the people who make it possible. #Superskilled

How to Travel the World as a Family of Six | Blink | National Geographic

Aap ko Pakistan se Pyaar hai? 🙄 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

DVD Chahiye? 😂🔥 #shorts #comedy #moinakhtar #loosetalk

Voter List Se Naam Gayab, Pehchan Gayab ft. Anil Sharda | Delhi Elections | Jist

Trudeau's Endgame Dawns | Jist

Madhuban Me Radhika Nache Re By Mohmmad Rafi Ji❣️✨#icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Ustad Zakir Hussain Interview On Aap Ki Adalat❣️✨ #icmtabla #interview #classical #music #shorts

Bandish Bhor Bhayi By Sniti Mishra Ji ❣️✨#icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

3 Levels of Happiness | Dr. Laurie Santos & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Everything you need to know about Sriram Finance's stock split #shorts

@eleanorsaitta4486: How to Defend a Service

If You’re A Cyclist In 2025, You NEED To Do This | GCN Show Ep. 626

33 Spreadsheet Projects Course for Beginners – Excel and Google Sheets

DNA: The future of archiving? | DW Documentary

The Cocaine wars - Germany's fight against drug gangs | DW Documentary

US Military Unleashes Weaponised Robotic Dogs

How Immigration and depopulation is going to shape 2025?

Dustin and Fred’s Gold Nuggets on the Line! | Gold Rush: White Water | Full Episode | Discovery

Want a Cozy, Free Home? Ask This Caterpillar How | Deep Look

Who Speaks for a Religion?: Crash Course Religions #16

Cookd Off | Aathi VS Sanjna | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Cookd

Food Entrepreneurs Round Table | Part 3 Out now!! Tap this link to watch now!

Computer Timescales Mapped onto Human Timescales - Computerphile

Capablanca breaks the Vienna Gambit in 9* moves

Pragg vs Vidit | Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus Grand Slam Play-in Knockouts

Sports Day with Gukesh in Bangalore!

From a completely winning position to... | Pranav Sai v Prathamesh Sherla

Can you FIND A SOLUTION for 8 QUEEN PUZZLE?

San Antonio Spurs Basketball Players Wemby and Sochan PLAY CHESS Against Benny 🔥

Gukesh REALIZES He is BECOMING THE WORLD CHAMPION; Shocked, Shaking, Smiling, Excited

Eva Braun: Amor y obsesión por el Führer

Vancouver : War on Fentanyl Terror

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Far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen dies aged 96 | BBC News

Tibet earthquake search for survivors under way in freezing temperatures | BBC News

How hundreds of Indian children have been maimed or killed by bombs mistaken for toys. #BBCNews

Five dead as huge winter storm grips US | BBC News

Italian village bans residents from becoming ill. #Belcastro #Calabria #BBCNews

What are Elon Musk's political interventions in Europe about? | BBC News

Facebook and Instagram to get rid of fact checkers, Mark Zuckerberg announces | BBC News

Is Mark Zuckerberg removing fact checkers because of the return of President Trump? | BBC Newscast

Trump refuses to rule out military force to seize Greenland and Panama | BBC News

China earthquake: At least 53 people dead as tremor strikes Tibet | BBC News

The Chinese military has launched rescue efforts after an earthquake hit the Tibet region. #BBCNews

UN warns Gaza aid work at 'breaking point' | BBC News

The bombs killing and maiming children in India | BBC News

Black Rhino Family Spotted In The Wild | BBC Earth

Cuddle time 🦦 #Otters #Ocean #OtterPup

"His Games Are A Work of Art!" || Alekhine vs Tartakower || San Remo (1930)

How To Be Fully Alive Now - Alan Watts

Typical Cricket Fans🏏 #vikkals #cricket

One guy with his old phone 😂 😂#vikkals #shorts

Compilation of Kshetrayya's Iconic Padam 'Mora Topu/Meragadu Rammanave' in Raga Sahana

VW Is Recording Your Every Movement

#JudiDench turned her co-stars against #OliviaColman 😳 #TheGrahamNortonShow #GrahamNorton

It’s no longer Trudeau: Canada’s PM resigns

Prostitute-Exotic

Heroin Addicted Prostitute-Caroline

Nana

Prostitute-Rene

J Krishnamurti on Gnana ll எது ஞானம்? - ஜே.கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி ll பேரா.இரா.முரளி

Baby Paavangal | Parithabangal

இத வச்சு ஒன்றை வயசு பிள்ளை விளையாட போகுது🙄 | Parithabangal #shorts

Big Basket x MFPA: Celebrating 50,000 Works of Art! | MFPA | Big Basket | Collaboration.

Happy Birthday Sunitha🎂| MFPA | Sunitha Thrippanikkara

CARNATIC AND FILM SINGER UNNIKRISHNAN ON MELLISAIMANNAR AND HIS FAVOURITE MSV'S CARNATIC BASED SONG

Should I marry girl giving threats of false 376?

पहाड़ी खट्टे आलू की नायाब रेसिपी | Khatte Aloo | Aloo ke Gutke | Chef Ranveer Brar

This Showroom in Gurugram Blends Luxury with India Craftsmanship (Showroom Tour).

What Makes An Animal Smart?