Digest — 2025-02-06:

A very American fear

Guardians of the gibbons

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The small web is rehabilitating how I write

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you are not an optimization problem

When research is cheap, conviction becomes priceless

The hidden mathematics behind why you find things beautiful

Embrace your dark side: A new perspective on negative emotions

How glorifying ignorance leads to science illiteracy

The Stubborn Art of Turning Suffering into Strength: Václav Havel’s Extraordinary Letters from Prison

Palate cleanser: Cabel Sasser’s review of all of the weird new snacks...

Unsurprisingly, it would be bad if Elon Musk breaks into the computer...

A huge list of trans Girl Scouts who are selling Girl Scout...

McSweeney’s: Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse. “I...

Resegregation, Coups, Orwell, and the Importance of Precise Language

Business foot traffic is up within the [NYC] congestion pricing zone. “People...

“The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler”

The Musk staffer who broke into the Treasury Dept system has quit...

A list of all the lawsuits related to Trump administration executive orders....

Mister Rogers on How to Talk to Kids About Distressing News Events

State Attorneys General to Sue Over Musk’s Access to Government Systems. “The...

From Scientific American, Avoiding Outrage Fatigue While Staying Informed. “We can take...

Voting Results for the 2023 Review

MATS Applications + Research Directions I'm Currently Excited About

Detecting Strategic Deception Using Linear Probes

Open Philanthropy Technical AI Safety RFP - $40M Available Across 21 Research Areas

The Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AI

C'mon guys, Deliberate Practice is Real

Benchmarking caching in Rails with Redis vs the alternatives

The Three Basic Rules of Safety Hygiene

Fabrication begins for production OpenTitan silicon

GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens

Llama's Paradox - Exploiting Llama.cpp

A Decade of TILs

Frink data file for non-changing units

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

AI by Hand Exercises in Excel

A Closer Look At The Tanmatsu

The inevitability of the borrow checker

Profiling in production with function call traces

DOOM running on Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle

Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024

HTML Whitespace is Broken

Asdf Version Manager Has Been Re-Written in Golang

The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluation

How to Influence Query Planning in Postgresql

Hotline for modern Apple systems

FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time

Just because you’re getting an index scan, doesn't mean you can’t do better

String vs &str

It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety – Communications of the ACM

SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

My Final Days on the Maine Coast

Zorzal’s Song

The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA

How to Build a Human

Remember the Titans: An ‘Attack on Titan’ Reading List

We the undersigned three Apes and a Wombat

HTML Kaleidoscope

Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa

Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

Douglas McIlroy responds to Unix spell article with new implementation details

Atari 2600 vs. Atari 7800 Which Should You Get?

Cell-Based Architecture Explained, with Zombies

Antimony Atoms Function as Error-Resistant Qubits

Sand trafficking in Latin America

In the trenches: on being an Engineering Manager

How to GIF (2025 Edition)

Why LLMs still have problems with OCR

Implementing a Game Boy emulator in Ruby

A colorful Game of Life

The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange

Explorable Flexagons: Learn to create and flex flexagons (2020)

TKey – Security for the New World

Ask HN: Is Godaddy Running a Scam?

Show HN: An API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots

Trails of Wind (2019)

Aluminum Batteries Outlive Lithium-Ion with a Pinch of Salt

Show HN: Heap Explorer

Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field

Verse (YC W22) Is Hiring

Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"

Frank Lloyd Wright's mile high skyscraper proposal (2021)

Paper Apps

Simulating water over terrain

Show HN: SQLite disk page explorer

Understanding Reasoning LLMs

Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc

Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation

Origami by Meenakshi

I wrote a screenplay for a programming language introduction

Cloudflare R2 Global Outage

Cameras of 1930s Era

I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016)

Memfault (YC W19) Is Hiring an Android System (AOSP) Engineer

OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release

Linux Running in a PDF

Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon's Worth of Microplastics

You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free

My Career-limiting Communication

Got Invasive Plants? Call a Herd of Goats

Polishing the problem

The Bangladesh Awami League: From Dominance to a Legitimacy Crisis

Indonesia’s Interest in India’s BrahMos: More Than Just a Missile Deal

Cambodia: A Test for China’s ‘BRI 2.0’ Vision

The Rise of DeepSeek: China’s Answer to Silicon Valley’s AI Dominance

Thailand and China Should Deepen Relations Amid ‘Unprecedented Changes’, Xi Says

Some Thoughts On Sara Duterte’s Impeachment

Between Opportunity and Constraint: Recent Developments in Indonesia-France Security Ties

China Promises Support to Bangladesh’s Interim Government

Can Japan’s Ishiba Build a Good Personal Relationship With Trump?

What Will South Korea’s Post-Yoon Foreign Policy Look Like?

Taiwan’s Stalled Energy Transition

China’s London ‘Super Embassy’ Would Be a Super Surveillance Hub

Former Kyrgyz Natural Resources Minister Sentenced to 8 Years

How the Real Murders Behind the Hit Novel ‘Butter’ Exposed Japanese Media Misogyny

Vietnam’s Bureaucratic ‘Revolution’ Falls Short of True Reform

[notes] Today I Learned: Redirect Emails

TrueFoundry raises $19M in Series A round led by Intel Capital

BluPine Energy, Amazon sign PPA for 99 MW renewable energy project

Info Edge commits $115M to third venture fund

Break these 8 bad habits to fast-track your career

Unicorns, startup discuss with Altman ways to cut cost of AI model, India's data sovereignty

CleanMax, Amazon partner for 100 MW renewable energy project in Karnataka

Trent Q3 profit rises 34% to Rs 497 Cr, sales at Rs 4,656.6 Cr

Women's Wellness brand Nua raises Rs 35 Cr in pre-Series C round led by Mirabilis Investment Trust

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (February 6, 2025)

Eruditus’ five-year revenue plan; Making contract management smarter

Infibeam Avenues faces Rs 32 Cr GST demand; plans to appeal

InnovateX, MathWorks flagship event, boosts innovation in regional startup communities

Nazara Technologies to challenge Rs 2.84 Cr GST demand over export payment delays

Meet Mithra Kosur Venuraju: Balancing scalability, resilience, and inclusivity at Atlassian

Are you a high performer? Check yourself for these 9 signs

Swiggy shares fall 4% as loss widens in third quarter

5 Non-negotiable days you should always schedule each Month

Zomato umbrella company to now be called Eternal, announces CEO Deepinder Goyal

WestBridge-backed Phenom acquires talent mobility startup EDGE

Strategies for navigating disruption in the B2B SaaS landscape

Smarter Than Einstein, Sadder Than Most: The Life of William James Sidis

[Exclusive] Y-Combinator-backed Infinity bags $1.9M in pre-seed funding

How DOQFY is making contract management smarter for businesses in India

The Slav Defense

Did the COVID Stimulus Cause Inflation? | The Problem With Jon Stewart

Converting OpenStax Textbooks for Use by LLMs, with an Example Application to Chemistry Education

Everything You Wanted to Know About Dates

A Wolfram Consulting User Story: LabV's Digital Assistant

Agent-Based Modeling in Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Code Assistance Powered by LLM Kit

Game Theory

Nest Numerical Algorithms

Automated Planar Geometry in Wolfram Language

Computational Symbolic Mathematics: A Course Overview

Control Design Made Easy

Largest early Universe radio jet discovered! At least 200,000 light-years wide

Real Engineers Don't Use Libraries

UK-Brazil-Colombia-Panama-Costa Rica-Mexico-California—The Route a Deported Indian Took to Reach US

Debunking myths about Savarkar, his legacy, where RSS is wrong: Arun Shourie on his new book & more

IAF’s Mirage 2000 aircraft crashes in Gwalior during a routine training sortie, pilots eject safely

Indians' deportation causes uproar in Parliament, but it's a reality check for India| #SnapOpinion

India's Artillery Modernisation: Lessons from Kargil, Russia-Ukraine War & catching up with China

The route taken by a deported Indian to reach US #ThePrintOnGround

Bangladesh's 'fragile nationalism' unravels: End of Mujibism, Hasina's speech & revision of history

‘All-weather friendship’ with Pakistan is increasingly becoming a liability for China

LIVE: Rajya Sabha proceeding | Budget Session 2025

LIVE: Lok Sabha proceedings | Budget session 2025

'We do not have a homeland other than Palestine,' says Palestine's Ambassador to UN Riyad Mansour

Mob sets on fire the house of Sheikh Hasina's father & former Bangladesh President Mujibur Rahman

'Why did PM Modi let this happen'- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on deportation of Indians by US

Opposition raises US deportation of Indian nationals in Parliament

LIVE: Lok Saba proceedings | Budget session 2025

S. Jaishankar's statement in Parliament amid row over Indians' deportation by US| Watch LIVE

S. Jaishankar's statement in Parliament amid row over Indians' deportation by US| Watch LIVE

Deportation Row: S. Jaishankar says, 'must encourage legal mobility & discourage illegal'

'We request govt to help us in getting our money back,’ says deported Indian national

CM Revanth Reddy holds back Telangana caste census report:Here's why & what's next| #InstantAnalysis

PM Modi's reply to the Motion of Thanks on President's address in Rajya Sabha

Deportation row in Rajya Sabha: Jaishankar makes statement, Opposition seeks clarifications

“विश्व-गुरु” की किरकिरी, बेड़ियों-जंजीरों में भारतीय अमेरिका में मैंने जो देखा: Arfa Khanum Sherwani

Trump’s Gaza Plan is “Imperialism & Ethnic Cleansing”; He's “The Most Dangerous Person in the World”

Tax cuts: “No Economist Would Call The Beneficiaries Middle Class,” Limited Impact on Growth

Video Proof of Deported Indians Chained, Handcuffed on US Military Plane

You Never Get Rich Investing

Hollywood Superheroes Spill Their Costume Secrets | Suited & Booted | The Graham Norton Show

Leeward: we meet South Korea’s probable president

Michael Urie Finds His Valentine On Dodo Dream Date | The Dodo

Pittie Who Spent His Whole Life Living Outside Gets A "Barkcuterie" Board | The Dodo

Michael Urie Finds His Valentine On Dodo Dream Date | The Dodo

Pittie Who Spent His Whole Life Living Outside Gets A "Bark Cuterie" Board | The Dodo

Michael Urie Tries To Win Over His Valentine | The Dodo

Michael Urie Puts His Chef Hat On To Win Over His Date | The Dodo

Dog Keeps Sneaking Over From The Neighbor's Yard | The Dodo

Raccoon Sneaks Into This Pig's Pool | The Dodo

Raccoon Sneaks Into This Pig's Pool | The Dodo

Ko$ta Doing Business: Stick Your Cash in Avocados and Steer Clear of Eggs | The Daily Show

Democrats: stop trying to make Chuck Schumer happen. It's not gonna happen. #dailyshow #ChuckSchumer

The GOP is so desperate to support Trump's Gaza plan that they're just making up phrases

Has Trump considered a "Face/Off" solution for Palestine? No bad ideas, right?!

Trump Proposes Gaza Takeover as GOP Tries to Defend Palestinian Relocation Plan | The Daily Show

Julia Stiles - From Acting to Directing "Wish You Were Here” | The Daily Show

Would you sell your kidney for $100,000?

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown

Passenger ships were negative 100m long in 1700

The Politicization of Climate 🌀

TRID Forgets an Entire Day (3 min)

Beauty & the Beast(ish) | #shorts #singing #funnyshorts @amirawal

So You Want to Carve an Ad Into the Moon

The Wave-function of the Universe Might Finally Be Calculable

Paul Gilbert Van Halen licks! #guitar #guitarist #eddievanhalen #shorts

Robby Krieger and John Densmore on “Light My Fire” #thedoors #guitar #drums #keyboards #shorts 

The Stabilizer Formalism | Understanding Quantum Information and Computation - Lesson 14

Ray Dalio - The U.S. Government is At Risk of Going Broke

The Great Gerbil Herd

அக்கா-க்கு கோவம் வந்திருச்சே😂 | Parithabangal #shorts

NL turns 13: Re-releasing our most combative interviews as we celebrate becoming a teenager

Feb 06, 2025: Aaj Ka AQI from BJP’s headquarters

Modiji x Nikhil Khushamat: When Newslaundy met non-biological PM

Anthony Mackie: Brave New Mountains | Running Wild with Bear Grylls | National Geographic

See the Spacecraft: SPHEREx Nears Launch (LIVE Q+A)

Ex. Army Officer Exposes Everything That's Wrong With Indian Army | Jist

FSEX Teaser 3 : Abhigyan Jha | Sumit Kaul & Student

Bharatnatyam Classical Dance By Aishwarya Stunning❣️✨#icmdance #classical #dancer #icmtabla #shorts

Aasha Bhosle Ji's Riyaz Tips🙏✨#icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Classical Vocal By Rahul Deshpande Ji❣️✨#icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

How Your Mind Can Change Your Body | Dr. Ellen Langer & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Impact of income tax changes on stocks in 2025 | 2 stocks worth researching

@stevemcconnell578: Should Engineering Managers Code?

Caught ON CAMERA BIKE STOLEN 🥷

AI Engineer Roadmap – How to Learn AI in 2025

"We Are The World" live at Piano City Milano 2024 🌏 #shorts

Fermilab news: New accelerator's cryogenic device on the move

Rwanda - Living together after genocide | DW Documentary

Should we bring extinct species back to life? | DW Documentary

Scientists Capture Moments of Cells Division

Fred Hurt’s Early Birthday Gold Gift! | Gold Rush: White Water | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

The Mighty Veena | Interview with Jayanthi Kumaresh

Should Art Be Political?

Marubadiyum Chutney ah?!😜Yes and this time it’s “Cheena Chutney” - full recipe on the Cookd App❤️

A brilliant conversation on Food Entrepreneurship | Watch now!

How CPU Memory & Caches Work - Computerphile

willy wonka being iconic part 2

Leela's Nimzo-Indian crushes the Classical in 31 moves

World Champion Gukesh is Back 🔥 #chess #gukesh

All Hackers in the Same Lobby 🔥💀 #chess #magnuscarlsen #gukesh

"I am very much looking forward to playing Gukesh" - Magnus Carlsen

Gukesh As The Brand Ambassador | The Story Of How They Made It Possible | Gaurav Kumar | CircleChess

Two Split Passed Pawns Too Strong - IM Bortnyk v GM Praggnanandhaa | World Blitz 2024

"Leaving the house for US$100,000 - I am not that expensive!" - Levy Rozman

Top Grandmaster are LEARNING A COMPLICATED CHESS RULE 👀

NextGen Cup 2025 | Watch Chess Talent From African Diaspora ft. Tunde, Kassa, Maurice Ashley!

Magnus’ Coach Tells Him What He Missed in the Chess Game

How to Fix Shoulder Pain in Seconds (This Works!)

The math of beauty

Deadly Prescription

Echoes of Survival : The Escapees of Rawa Ruska

Meet the “squirting cucumber” (it’s not what you think)

Sweden mourns after deadliest shooting as gunman details emerge | BBC News

Waitangi Day: Thousands gather in New Zealand with Māori rights in focus | BBC News

Could President Trump actually "take over" Gaza? #DonaldTrump #Gaza #BBCNews

Cristiano Ronaldo statue unveiled in Times Square on footballer’s 40th birthday. #BBCNews

Hottest January on record puzzles climate scientists | BBC News

Unconcious man saved from out of control boat in Florida. #Florida #Boat #BBCNews

Can US President Donald Trump really 'take over' Gaza? | BBC News

This Is Why Lizards Sunbathe | Life In Cold Blood | BBC Earth

Fox Attacked by Eagles While Eating | Asia | BBC Earth

Playtime in the peaks 🐻 #Bears #HimalayanBrownBear #Wildlife #CuteAnimals

when PREGNANCY HUNGER kicks in

Baby Daddy answers PREGNANCY QUESTIONS

Positional Masterpiece of The Highest Calibre || Wesley So vs Anand || Bundesliga (2025)

Samudhiram In Parallel Universe😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

நம்ம Casual-ஹா இருப்போம் 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Kia Syros Diesel Variants Explained | HTK, HTK(O), HTK+, HTX, HTX+, HTX+(O) | Which variant to buy?

Will Reliance and Shein destroy ZARA, H&M and ZUDIO? | Business case Study

Sharp Returns

Kasey and Cece

मकई के आटे में दूध मिलाकर १बार बनाओ और पूरे हफ्ते खाने के साथ बेहद स्वादिष्ट​ Makkai ka Atta Recipe

Madrid Designers Create a Bright, Functional Small Apartment, 38sqm/409sqft

You Won’t Believe This Art! 🤯 | MFPA | Eduardo Ado Artes.

Mid dispute wife says I want to live together again

Our brains have become mechanical | Krishnamurti

Mitta Mirasu - Tamil Full Movie | Prabhu | Roja | Vadivelu #ddmovies #ddcinemas

What does Peri Peri mean? 🤔 #periperisauce #cookingtips #ranveerbrar

Sirishala | Official Promo #buildofy #architecture #home #tour #reels #shorts #hyderabad #telangana

Debunking dementia: 'See the person, not the diagnosis' | BBC Ideas

What if you just keep zooming in?

The Greatest Programmers In History (ft Uncle Bob)

What Is Wrong With Your Golang???? #coding #chatgpt #software