Digest — 2025-02-07:

Let’s Try This Again

The Hidden Treasure of Blogging

coffee with my younger self

It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

Get Ready for More

Learning to Embrace My Feelings

At what distance could a “twin Earth” detect our signals?

Ask Ethan: What are the worst cosmic misnomers?

“In 2022, one of Peter Thiel’s favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism. “When it comes to...

Outrage Fatigue Is Real. These Tips May Help. “Repeated exposure to outrage-inducing...

Wired is reporting that the Treasury Secretary and the White House press...

A kid named Big Balls (with some shady stuff in his past)...

Trump tried to illegally fire US Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub....

“The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified”

David Kurtz argues that we should refer to Trump’s mass removal of...

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting, including donating to a...

Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert

According to Wired’s reporting, a US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis has called...

Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger

The world has probably passed ‘peak air pollution’. “Global air pollution is...

Named colors

How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

How should we control access to user data?

CODE beyond FAIR

polysubml-demo: A simple ML-like language with subtyping, polymorphism, higher rank types, and global type inference

A Brief History of Code Signing at Mozilla

Cloudflare incident on February 6, 2025

Fun Friday: what's the weirdest automation you've ever made?

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Refined: simple refinement types for Rust

getaddrinfo sucks. everything else is much worse

CPython tail-call interpreter merged for Python 3.14, a 10% speedup in benchmarks

Gleam v1.8.0 released

What the f*** is reflection?

What are you doing this weekend?

FOSDEM 2025 - 14 Years of systemd

numbat: A statically typed programming language for scientific computations with first class support for physical dimensions and units

The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers

The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura

Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

My Quest to Find the Owner of a Mysterious WWII Japanese Sword

Death by a Thousand Pecks

Ukrainian War Widows on the Edge

Allocator Hints for Btrfs

Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales from an Ancient Sea Monster

Making Software Fun

Solving Sudoku with Tmux

Explainable Linear Programs

Genetic Evidence of Killer Whale Predation on White Sharks in Australia

Memory profilers, call graphs, exception reports, and telemetry

Balcony solar is taking off

Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware

The other 99% – CERN Courier

Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family

Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture

Building an "Easy" Web Application

Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities

A whirlwind tutorial on creating teensy ELF executables for Linux (1999)

Obscure islands I find interesting

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts

Pantograph: A Fluid and Typed Structure Editor

When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago

Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019)

The Age of Agent Experience

Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor

Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math

Portland's Exploding Liberty Bell

Zep AI (YC W24) Is Hiring Engineers to Build SOTA Agent Memory

The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency

Three-nanite: Unreal Nanite in Three.js

Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing

Radiation belts detected around Earth after solar storm

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker

There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training

Boeing reports Starliner losses of more than half a billion dollars in 2024

Google Fixes Android Kernel Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks

Robust autonomy emerges from self-play

Announcing the data.gov archive

Copilot stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from GitHub

InspectMind AI (YC W24) Is Hiring for AI in Construction

Easy 6502

Transformer – Spreadsheet

Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]

Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data

Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a city built on scams

California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots

Claude, RTFM For Me: Building a VS Code Extension in the Age of LLMs

How Noether’s Theorem Revolutionized Physics

Ethiopia’s Utopian Experiment in Gender Equality

Figs, ivy, silphium and of course, commerce

Own it and label it

Trump’s Opportunities and Challenges in Dealing With the Likely Next President of South Korea

Iran’s Taliban Charm Offensive

What Does the DeepSeek Disruption Mean for Southeast Asia?

2024 Was a Dismal Year for Chinese Philanthropy

Chabahar in the Crossfire: How Trump 2.0’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Squeezes India’s Strategic Ambitions

How the US Could Undermine Its Biggest Advantage Over China

Coal Mine Disaster in India’s Assam Opens Can of Worms

Could China Fill the US Aid Vacuum in Afghanistan?

As US Withdraws From WHO, China Supercharges Its Public Health Diplomacy

The Paradox of Pakistan’s Dependence on China

What the Trump Administration Can Learn From Aid Reorganizations in Australia, NZ, and Canada

Malaysia ‘Strongly Opposes’ Forced Resettlement of Palestinians From Gaza

[library] Tidy First? A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

Logistics unicorn Delhivery's profit more than doubles in Q3; to exit Bangladesh

[Weekly funding roundup Feb 1-7] First week of the month sees steep drop in venture capital inflows

Perfios acquires Clari5 to expand fraud detection capabilities

Ola Electric’s gross margins surged in January, with more gains ahead: Bhavish Aggarwal

Akasa Air raises funds from Azim Premji, Ranjan Pai family offices

Former Airtel global CEO Vani Venkatesh joins Delhivery as chief business officer

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

Paytm grants 1.36 lakh equity shares under ESOP plan

Repo rate cut to provide long-awaited relief on interest rates: Experts

First DeepSeek, Now OmniHuman-1: China’s Bold AI Strategy Unfolds

Flipkart's Dark Store Expansion: Gearing Up for Big Billion Days 2025

ITC to expand presence in frozen foods with Prasuma and Meatigo acquisitions

WhatsApp Tests Bill Payment Feature in India: A Game-Changer for Digital Payments

Ola Electric sees Q3 FY25 losses widen, dampened by lower demand

Hiring platform Vahan.ai secures investment from Persol Group

RBI's rate cut sets stage for further easing of interest rates in near term: India Inc

PhonePe exits account aggregator business; will now partner with AAs

6 Historical Fiction Books with Timeless Lessons for Today

Sam Altman on AI vs cybersecurity: The future of coding

Fintech co Zaggle’s revenue hits Rs 336 Cr in Q3, net profit up 29% YoY

Cognida.ai bags $15 M in Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners

6 daily habits to learn from Warren Buffett for success

Anthropic’s hiring rule: No AI-written job applications

Infibeam’s Rediff secures NPCI nod for UPI payments via RediffPay

From a viral Instagram page to a streetwear brand, meet Shark Tank-backed Burger Bae

Udemy sees surge in learners as Indians opt for GenAI upskilling: CEO Greg Brown

How To Get AI Startup Ideas

How F1 Exploded

Are your fingerprints really unique?

Asteroid 2024 YR4 safely flies by Earth in 2032 - ESA and NASA orbit animations

LIVE: Delhi Election Verdict | ThePrint | AAP | BJP | Congress | Arvind Kejriwal | Narendra Modi

LIVE: Delhi Election Verdict

US private prisons system & El Salvador's offer that Trump will accept 'if US had legal right’

Crackdown on 'dunki' agents: Punjab forms SIT, Haryana files FIRs after return of deportees from US

Delhi has always voted with its pockets. Modi, Kejriwal’s politics reflects this all too well

Russia's foothold in Syria

Private Prisons in US & El Salvador’s offer

Fire breaks out in Maha Kumbh, no casualty reported so far

‘If Gazans have a better alternative, they will not go back to Gaza,’ says Donald Trump

‘We have to bring religion back much stronger,’ US President Donald Trump

LIVE: Rahul Gandhi, Supriya Sule and Sanjay Raut address a press briefing

Post Monetary Policy Press Conference by RBI Governor

Rahul Gandhi alleges irregularitiesin maharashtra assembly polls

'39 lakh voters added between Lok Sabha 2024 & Maharashtra Assembly elections,' allages Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi, Supriya Sule and Sanjay Raut address a press briefing

LIVE: Rajya Sabha proceeding | Budget Session 2025

ACB officials at AAP national convener & former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's residence

How Budget 2025 balances consumption, growth, and fiscal prudence

LIVE: Rajya Sabha proceeding | Budget Session 2025

MEA holds Special briefing on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's overseas visit

Will Russia be able to keep its foothold in Syria post-Assad? Fight for Tartus & Khmeimim

LIVE: Lok Saba proceedings | Budget session 2025

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

Illegal तरीके से जाएंगे तो हथकड़ियां ही लगेंगी- इस कुतर्क का जवाब

Maharashtra चुनाव में 'धांधली'? 6 बजे के बाद बढ़े मतदान पर ECI को High Court का नोटिस |VBA, Ambedkar

The UIDAI is Not Answerable to Anyone, There Has Been Only One Audit So Far | The Wire Talks

No ‘Amrit’ in Amritkaal Budget | Cracknomics Ep 28

25 करोड़ गरीबों को गरीबी से बाहर निकालने की Modi के दावे की सच्चाई

'Maha Polls Irregularities': Rahul Gandhi, Supriya Sule & Sanjay Raut Address Media From New Delhi

Modi Should Personally Take Up Treatment of Indian Deportees With Trump in Washington Next Week

The Wire Wrap: Indians Deported From US, Union Budget, Delhi Elections

DMK Student Wing Staged a Strong Protest Against the UGC’s New Draft Rules

The Capital Counts: Delhi Election Analysis 2025

Do we really want a world free from plastic? #science

Elton John Faces Mortality... In A Song | The Graham Norton Show

Trump: imperial president or hustler-in-chief?

It could happen to you: introducing “Scam Inc”

Guy Adopts Puppy Who Wouldn't Stop Crying And Gives Her A Bath | The Dodo

Huge Matted Dog Found In A Busy Intersection | The Dodo

Huge Matted Dog Found In A Busy Intersection | The Dodo

Guy Adopts Puppy Who Wouldn't Stop Crying And Gives Her A Bath | The Dodo

Man Reunites With Lost Dog After Palisades Fire | The Dodo

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

Story Time On How I Saved $$$ In Vet Bills | The Pack

EXCLUSIVE - Is Trump Taking Lessons From Modi On Immigrants, Akhand America & More? | Bhakt Banerjee

Charlamagne Tha God Begs Dems & Republicans to Stand Up Against Elon Musk | The Daily Show

Maybe Trump should worry about his U.S. properties before trying to redevelop Gaza #dailyshow #Trump

Walking back crazy statements is a rite of passage for Trump's spokespeople #dailyshow #trump #gaza

Conservatives warning about George Soros but make the footage Elon Musk #dailyshow #ElonMusk

Charlamagne Tha God's wake-up call to Republicans: Elon is constitutionally cucking you! #dailyshow

Team Trump Does Damage Control on Gaza Plan & Issues Trans Sports Ban | The Daily Show

Ke Huy Quan - “Love Hurts,” Becoming an Action Hero & His Supervillain Audition | The Daily Show

Low key banger from Amy Klobuchar #dailyshow #AmyKlobuchar #Greenland

A Bold New Chapter for TED | Chris Anderson in conversation with Jay Herratti and Anna Verghese

Is Perfectionism Just Procrastination in Disguise? | Jon Youshaei | TED

The Incredible Engineering of Prison Weaponry

THAT’s what he would do in my body?? | #shorts

Poop Treats Parkinson’s (and Allergies, and MS, and Liver Disease, and...)

Music Exec Accidentally Explains How Useless Record Labels Are

Maynard James Keenan on Tool’s odd-time signatures #tool #maynardjameskeenan #dannycarey #shorts

How AI Predicts A Protein's Folded Shape: AlphaFold2 #science

Ray Dalio's Advice For New Investors

பொண்ண தானே குடுத்திருக்க என்னயுமா சேத்தி குடுத்திருக்க🙄 | Parithabangal #shorts

Maaman machan Paavangal | Parithabangal

DIY PAPER CATAPULT EASY TUTORIAL | ORIGAMI CATAPULT SHOOTING FAR | WEAPON PAPER CRAFT FOLDING ART

DIY CATAPULT PAPER CRAFT ORIGAMI WORLD TUTORIAL | HOW TO MAKE CATAPULT FROM PAPER EASY ORIGAMI WORLD

Results with Newslaundry: Decoding the 2025 Delhi mandate

NL@13: What did the last 13 years of NL look like to you?

NL@13: Madhu Trehan interviews Karan Thapar. Can he take it?

NL turns 13: Newslaundry’s now a teenager. Come join the party

I Want To Talk, American Manhunt: OJ Simpson, Destroy Valentine ad | Awful and Awesome Ep 379

Exclusive: Mahakumbh भगदड़ पर सरकारी कबूलनामा 30 का, असल में कितनी मौत?

Vyshak’s Art Shines at The Leela ✨ | MFPA | Vyshak Ettukudukka.

Mein Show ke baad "Bajaunga" 😭😂 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Meri tind karo 😭😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

Dobara bakein 😂😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

They Built An Off-Grid Tiny House In The Australian Wilderness… and It’s Amazing!

Second marriage still maintenance?

False Cases filed by Atul Subhash's wife.

"Mil Gayi Mohobbat?" | #storytelling by Nayab Midha | Spoken Fest Mumbai 2025 #sayitwithsilk #love

FSEX Teaser 4 : Sumit Kaul & Abhigyan Jha

Oh I get it

Here’s how to get your cat to JUMP! #Cats #PlayWithYourCat

RIOTS | Jack Whitehall

Comedy in Dark Times, with Armando Iannucci and Helen Lewis (part 2)

Amazing Dance By Bhavna Reddy Ji 🙏✨ #icmdance

Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji 🙏✨#icmtabla #classicalmusic #shorts

Garaj Garaj Bandish By Maithili Thakur ❣️✨ #icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

4 Rules for Dealing with Difficult People | Bill Eddy & Dr. Andrew Huberman

BEWARE: Watch out for this new scam #shorts

The Most Important Programming Invention In 20 Years • Dave Farley • GOTO 2025

Innovations in Serverless & Event-Driven Solutions • Ben Ellerby & Julian Wood

From freeCodeCamp to CTO with Robotics Engineer Peggy Wang [Podcast #159]

Gaia just made an unexpected discovery 🪐

Don’t Let Others Define You | Sartre’s Existentialism

Emilie Schindler - A forgotten heroine who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust | DW Documentary

Simulating an Ant Colony for 1000 Days

The Green Kitchen - Season 3, Episode 1 | The Sweetness of Tradition: Unlocking the Power of Gur

Sonam Wangchuk: 'India can teach the world how to live with less'

Are #building materials making our #cities hotter? | Cool It #environmentalscience #education

The Battle to be Alaska’s No. 1! | Bering Sea Gold | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Come and experience the grandeur , magnificence, and the unimaginable Mahakumbh!

Raga Sriranjani | Jayanthi Kumaresh | Music of India

Raga Pantuvarali | Jayanthi Kumaresh | Music of India

The Mighty Veena | Interview with Jayanthi Kumaresh

Electric Jayanthi Kumaresh Concert | Music of India

Raga Sriranjani | Jayanthi Kumaresh| Music of India

An insightful conversation with brilliant Food Entrepreneurs! Watch the full episode now🔗❤️

Ragi Kali can make your mouth water when it’s decribed the right way🤤 Watch the show now!

What If You Just Kept Running Up?

Carlsen is squeezed by Sindarov in Freestyle Chess (#836)

Uzbekistan's super talent Javokhir Sindarov makes his debut in Freestyle Chess

Gukesh vs Carlsen | Day 2 | Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 | Weissenhaus Germany

"It's always exciting to play Magnus Carlsen" - Gukesh | Freestyle Grand Slam Chess Tour

"India has the perfect example of how a chess ecosystem should develop" - Hikaru Nakamura

Alireza Firouzja on his ambitions to fight for the ultimate world title

Hikaru's wife Atousa draws her husband's card | Drawing of Lots | Freestyle Chess 2025

The most democratic technical meeting ever | Freestyle Grand Slam Tour 2025

"I have accepted uncertainty" - The deep and philosophical side of Vladimir Fedoseev

The brain behind the content on Take Take Take App | Life story of Kaja Snare

Freestyle Grand Slam Tour 2025 | Weissenhaus Germany| ft. Gukesh, Carlsen, Nakamura

Magnus vs World Champion Gukesh 💀🔥 #chess #gukesh #magnuscarlsen

Magnus FINDS a TRICK to Finish the Game vs. Hikaru Nakamura in 2025 Freestyle Chess

Magnus is the final boss of chess 🕵️‍♂️

Magnus, Levon, Nodirbek and Alireza ENJOYING the PAWN SACRIFICE IDEA in the OPENING

Not sure how Nodirbek felt about this draw...

It must be a world champion thing

Top Grandmasters Say YES But ONLY Nodirbek Says NO to Increment Rule in Armageddon 😂

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus | ft. Magnus, Hikaru & World Champ Gukesh! Rapid RR Day 1

Check this out! Firouzja finds a gorgeuos combination

How to Stop Tripping When Walking #anklemobility #SeniorFitness #stretchingexercises

Powering human civilization with sunlight, air, and synthetic gas | The Freethink Interview

Rogue Cows and Restaurant Dreams

The Pillaged Paradise

Inside the brand new city 'built on scams' on the Myanmar-Thai border | BBC News

Football Manager 25 cancelled after multiple delays. #FM25 #FootballManager #BBCNews

Donald Trump’s sanctions condemned by International Criminal Court | BBC News

Withdraw from Democratic Republic of Congo, UN rights chief urges Rwanda | BBC News

Elon Musk vs The U.S. Government | BBC News

Is Project 2025 shaping Donald Trump’s policy in the US? | BBC News

Global condemnation as Trump sanctions International Criminal Court | BBC News

Why is the United Kingdom Debating Brexit Again? | BBC Newscast

President Donald Trump sanctions International Criminal Court | BBC News

Arab Americans react to Donald Trump’s Gaza ‘take over’ comments. #DonaldTrump #Gaza #US #BBCNews

Keir Starmer sets out nuclear power plan and Kemi Badenoch's first major policy | BBC Newscast

Trump restates plan for US ‘takeover’ of Gaza, with Palestinians ‘resettled in region’ | BBC News

🔴 LIVE: Unbelievable Orca Moments | BBC Earth

an armageddon of armageddons

World #1 vs World #2 || Magnus vs Hikaru || Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus (2025)

Magnus Blunders a Piece in the Opening!

Checkmate or The Queen? || Carlsen vs Sindarov || Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus (2025)

Modi and Nirmala like taxes 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Crystal Clear Recording of Radha & Jayalakshmi's concert | AIR Sangeet #Sammelan series, 10/11/1963

TJ-SWU Subscription Channel Promo

One Rough Childhood-Bryson

Fentanyl Addict-Terry

Fentanyl Addict-Terry

Light-Filled Spain Apartment With Japanese Shoji #nevertoosmall #shorts

Kids react to bugs—and dung! #ARealBugsLife

Vidaamuyarchi Movie Review - உண்மையா படம் எப்படி இருக்கு? Ajith Kumar | Magizh Thirumeni | Anirudh

abuelita being scary for 12 seconds

Junior Ntr Interesting Climax Scene From Vella Tamil Dubbed Movie |Junior Ntr Shankar Pehlwaan #cmm

'Haveli' style Keema Tahari | मटन कीमा तहरी | Lehsun Mirch Chutney | Keema पुलाव | Chef Ranveer Brar

This Delhi Luxury Home has UNIQUE Staircases (House Tour)

#KS Chitra about 'Janaki Devi' song from 'Samsaram Athu Minsaram'

Acting Trends- #Jaishankar

I have been involved in patriotism since childhood- #DKPattammal

My entry in AVM- #TMS

How did I get the chance to work in 'Naam Iruvar'- #K.Shankar

How I Think About Climate Change

18 Year Old Indian Deported by Trump Relates His Ordeal | InFocus Episode -5 | Jist