Digest — 2025-02-11:

So many unmarried men

Outgrowing Friendships

The sound of silence

Numbers vs narratives: Unraveling the truth behind today’s global migration statistics

Did LIGO just see its most important gravitational wave ever?

Is Social Media Doing You Dirty? Apply the CUE Test.

Unsurprising: a recent study of 32M tweets from politicians from 27 countries...

Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies. “Washington created the modern civil service...

I loved Russell Shorto’s The Island at the Center of the World...

The Trump administration is defying federal court orders and maintaining the funding...

A federal judge has ordered the HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore...

Pitching a Big Tent in an Emergency

Law professors are a staid bunch. But: “We are in the midst...

Progressively enhancing forms with an HTML Web Component (part 1)

Knocking Down My AI Optimist Strawman

Nonpartisan AI safety

Proof idea: SLT to AIT

On Deliberative Alignment

The News is Never Neglected

Why Did Elon Musk Just Offer to Buy Control of OpenAI for $100 Billion?

The skill of the future is 'Focus', not 'AI'

Boring tech is mature, not old

Writing git extensions in Perl

Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line

Windows 7: A 2025 perspective (rose-tinted or not)

Machine: Learning; Human: Unlearning

Is it okay?

Stages of Denial

ROPing our way to RCE

Open Source Software and Corporate Influence

Composiphrase: Composable editing language like Vim, but moreso

Turning down Upspin infrastructure

42links: A bookmarking server, written in Lisp

Writing my own dithering algorithm in Racket

llm-sort: Sort input lines semantically with LLMs

Solving the ABA Problem in Rust with Tagged Pointers

How about trailing commas in SQL?

Feature Flags vs Configuration Options (2020)

GameFontLibrary | Video Game Fonts & Typography Database

NixOS and Actually Portable Executables

Introduction to Operating System Abstractions using Plan 9

We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly - Dagger

How Copyover MUD Servers Worked

Anansi-tags (now in NodeJS!)

Here Come the Lionfish

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

Mike White’s Mischievious Vision for “The White Lotus”

Goku Flow Based Video Generative Foundation Models

Recurring checklists using Org Mode in Emacs

Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migration completes

Ghosts in the Shadow of the Mouse

Elements of Programming (2009)

Do Lake Names Reflect Their Properties?

Feature Flags vs. Configuration Options – Same Difference?

JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform

Down the rabbit hole: Implementing SSH port forwarding over AWS Session Manager

E Ink’s color ePaper tech gets supersized for outdoor displays

Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC

LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future

Japan can be a science heavyweight once more if it rethinks funding

Intel's Battlemage Architecture

NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV

A Year of Telepathy

DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL

Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting

The first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmarks

ASTRA: HackerRank's coding benchmark for LLMs

Empirical Health (YC S23) Is Hiring Design Engineers in NYC

Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US

Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)

Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024

Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator

The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars

I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)

Nocc – A Distributed C++ Compiler

Elementary Functions and Not Following the IEEE754 Floating-Point Standard(2020)

How about trailing commas in SQL?

A catalog of ways to generate SSA

TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up?

Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights

The Floppotron 3.0 (2022)

Noticed

The Contradictions of Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia

What’s Driving China’s Controversial Mega-Dam in Tibet?

Legacy of a Reformer: Manmohan Singh and India’s Economic Liberalization

India’s Turn Toward Its Extended Neighborhood

North Korea Is Sending a Second Wave of Soldiers to Ukraine. Here’s Why.

Will China Take Advantage of Future EU-US Rifts?

The Imperial Presidency and the China-US Trade War

With the US in Retreat, a Chance for Australia to Lead

How the Curtailing of US Aid Impacts Mongolia’s Development

Turkmenistan Settles Gas Swap Deal With Turkiye, Iran

Philippines on Cusp of Major Defense Pacts with New Zealand, Canada

Neil Loughlin on Cambodia’s Coercive State

Campaigning Begins in Philippine Mid-term Election Amid Vice-Presidential Impeachment Drama

The Continued Threat of Online Radicalization in Malaysia

Leaving Cambodia: A Conversation With Gerald Flynn

Become a Better Engineering Manager with JQL

[notes] Robin Sloan—“Is It Okay?”

DeltaXignia Unveils New Brand, Strengthening Its Position in XML Change Management

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (February 11, 2025)

65% of Indians used AI, more than double the global average: Microsoft study

BGMI hits record sales in 2024, fuels Krafton’s 35.7% YoY mobile revenue growth

10 self-love promises to make this Valentine’s Week

10-minute human delivery: Bengaluru startup creates a stir

Valentine’s week for singles: A guide to 7 days of self-love

Dutch-listed firm NXP to buy AI edge chipmaker Kinara for $307M, giving exits to Tiger Global, Exfinity Venture

Invest Karnataka: Rajnath Singh expresses confidence in Bengaluru to launch India’s first foundational AI model

GenAI Set to Revolutionise India's IT Industry with 45% Productivity Boost

Hoping to increase govt-registered startups to 10 lakh in 10 years: Goyal

AI startup 75F raises $45M in Series B led by Accurant International's Net Zero Alliance

How telSpiel helps businesses grow by enabling effective business communication

Apollo HealthCo swings to Rs 32 Cr profit in Q3 FY25

OYO to invest $10M in US-based G6 Hospitality's digital assets

PM Modi seeks global efforts to establish governance and standards for AI

IXP launches Rs 200 Cr fund to support early-stage biotech startups

Shailesh Lakhani and Abheek Anand quit Peak XV amid investment strategy shift

The 18-day life reset: Simple habits for lasting change

Here's how to make February 2025 your most impactful yet

Empowering small businesses: How PAN 2.0 simplifies compliance and drives innovation

ToneTag bags Rs 674 Cr in Series B2 round led by ValueQuest S.C.A.L.E. Fund

India has many possibilities in energy sector in next five years, PM Modi tells investors

The Whole Truth bags Rs 133.3 Cr in Series C round at 3.5X valuation

KiranaPro acquires Joper.app to expand AI-powered retail network

PhysicsWallah set to be India’s most valuable edtech with $3.7B valuation

Pet care startup Supertails enters offline space with its first clinic in Bengaluru

ICONN-NINJA Demo Day: Paving the way for innovative Indo-Japanese startup collaborations

magicpin clocks multifold growth in FY24 with improved profitability

Why D2C brands are putting their money on small packs with big hopes

Ranveer Singh-backed sexual wellness brand Bold Care raises $5M in Series A funding

This Chennai-based startup is matching startups with the right talent using AI

9가지!! 노오븐! 초간단! 초콜릿! 2-3재료로! 놓치면 안되는 놀라운 방법!

Live CEOing Ep 870: Design Review of LLMGraph

Is it time to worry about bird flu?

Blastoff! SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg

Blastoff! SpaceX launches 2nd Starlink batch in less than 24 hours, nails landing

Mahindra BE 6 Variants Explained | Pack One, Pack One Above, Pack Two, Pack Three Select, Pack Three

Here is the list of the top 10 best-selling cars of Jan 2025! #V3Cars

‘Our blood not cheap:’Engineer Rashid raises J&K civilian deaths during 1st Lok Sabha appearance

LIVE: MEA briefing on Prime Minister’s visit to France

What Global media said about 'rising hate speech in' India and Modi-Trump meet in US

'Devotees going to the Kumbh were stuck in a 300km-long traffic jam. Is this 'Viksit Bharat'?

Sudha Murty stresses importance of story telling in schools to attract more students

‘$5 trillion dollar economy will happen anyway even if Finance Minister doesn’t do anything'

Antipathy, ideology & Congress: Challenges for fraught INDIA bloc | Shekhar Gupta & DK Singh discuss

25 hearings in 2023, 6 in 2024 - Where does Manipur violence case stand in Supreme Court?

How engineered heart patches can be a gamechanger for heart failure treatment

PM Modi's remarks during India Energy Week

LIVE: Rajya Sabha Proceedings | Budget Session

LIVE: Lok Sabha Proceedings | Budget Session

IAS officers’ happily ever afters in Haryana & Fadnavis’s sweet escape

PM Modi arrives for dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron

Love, Marriage & Haryana postings

PM Modi shares highlights from the Paris visit

'Will use Delhi's experience in Punjab', says CM Mann after meeting AAP national convener Kejriwal

'Governance is about ensuring access to all, especially in Global South,'PM Modi at AI Action Summit

'Beer Biceps' comment wasn’t funny, it was crass. But, FIR is unwarranted'

Biren Singh’s exit & the Myanmar threat: Why turmoil in Manipur is far from over

'Standing up against Biren Singh is also a capacity to stand up against diktats from Amit Shah'

New Research On CoPilot And Code Quality

The Greatest Software Engineers of All Time

Cops at Ranveer Allahabadia's House, But Why a Crass Joke Became a National Issue?

Ground Report: UP में order के बिना मस्जिद पर फिर चला बुलडोजर

Can Modi’s Washington Visit Lay the Foundations for Close Relations With the Us During Trump 2.0?

'I Am Disturbed, Disappointed at S. Jaishankar’s Statement in Parliament' | Vivek Katju

How can we solve the world's water crisis? - with Tim Smedley

Eye to the chancellor: interviewing Friedrich Merz

Ducks Ask Woman To Help Their Friend Who Isn't Moving | The Dodo

Ducks Ask Woman To Help Their Friend Who Isn't Moving | The Dodo

Cat Has Her Own Bedroom And Bathroom | The Dodo

Cat Has Her Own Bedroom And Bathroom | The Dodo

Rescued Donkey Is Completely Infatuated With His Dad | The Dodo

Sweetest Stray Cat Gets A New Lease On Life | The Dodo

@carhartt Jackets For Your Pup | The Pack

Sweetest Stray Cat Gets A New Lease On Life | The Dodo

Scared Cat Who Screamed at Pets Now Loves To Cuddle | The Dodo

ELON MUSK - World's Most Powerful Man? | What His Politics Means For The World? | Akash Banerjee

Trump was so jealous of the Super Bowl that he and decided it was Gulf of America Day

We might have figured out a way to get Trump to shut up

If Congress and the courts can't stop Trump from abusing his power, who can?

Jon Stewart & John Oliver Welcome America to Its Trump Monarchy Era | The Daily Show

David Remnick - 100 Years of The New Yorker & Journalism in the 2nd Trump Era | The Daily Show

The medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde - Iseult Gillespie

This is your sign to POST the thing #TEDTalks #JonYousaei #creativity

Climate Progress Isn’t a Sprint — It’s a Marathon | Greg De Temmerman | TED

Answering Questions About Why the Big Bang Happened, The Shape of the Universe & More

Who remembers Patous McGore? Should we bring him back? | #shorts

Project Baby | Baby Chiki Chiki - Violin Variant | Kadhalikka Neramillai BGMs | A.R.Rahman

Yennai Izhukkuthadi Cues | Kadhalikka Neramillai BGMs | A.R.Rahman

How To Solve Game Theory's Unsolvable Problem

PRODIGAL SUMMER: Author Livestream and Q&A with Barbara Kingsolver - #SciFrBookClub

“I'm pretty terrified by the pace of AI development” says OpenAI researcher who left company

In The Room With The Doors: Robby Krieger and John Densmore

Cutting போட்டாலே படுத்திருவான் ஒன்றை Beer வேறையா🙄 | Parithabangal #shorts

MOVIE UPDATE -Title Teaser| Gopi |Sudhakar |Vishnu Vijayan |Parithabangal Productions |GoSu Pictures

Arun Shourie on why the resurrection of Savarkar spells ruin for India

Aao dubki maarna seekhiye

The Chilean Miner Rescue

Preparing NASA’s CADRE Moon Rovers for Launch

These Countries are Stacking Their Militaries in 2025

Indian Movies Dekhte ho? 🤔 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

90 Saal ka aadmi 😂🔥 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

Loost Talk Band!! 😭😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

Getting order sheets in cases filed by women

Don't rush to police to file your complaint against wife

Think of your case like a businessman

#love Looks Like Brinjals | #storytelling by Anushka Bajpai Jain | Spoken Fest Mumbai 2025 #shaadi

Adopting a new cat? Here’s my #1 tip! #cats #adoptdontshop #cattips

Electrifying Performance By Purbayan Chatterjee & Musicians 🔥✨#sitar #icmtabla #classical #music

Bharatnatyam Dance Beautifully Choreography By Soorej Nair ❣️✨#icmdance #classical #dance #icmtabla

Sitar Recital By Swayam Siddha Priyadarshi ❣️✨#sitar #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

played Assassin's Creed Shadows Early - first impressions

How to transfer shares from another Demat Account to Groww in 2025 | Easy step-by-step guide

From XP to TCR & Limbo • Kent Beck & Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2025

The Strangest Training Hack That Might Just Work | GCN Show Ep. 631

Episode 1 of the NEW SERIES, this Saturday! ⁠ #ZwiftAcademy #GCN #globalcyclingnetwork

Build a Memory Game in React Tutorial

Playing some Billy Joel 🎹 live at the Steinway Spirio Studio in Hamburg! #shorts

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬

How artificial light affects animals | DW Documentary

Did the Catholic Church in Germany hide abusers abroad? | DW Documentary

Chinese Astronauts Demonstrate First 'Artificial Photosynthesis' In Space

The Moon, The Men, The Sacrifice | NL Apollo: The Lost Tapes | Discovery Channel

Walking the Path of Jesus! | Jesus: Refugee, Renegade, Redeemer with Bear Grylls | Promo | Discovery

Chasing Fortune Beneath the Earth! | Gold Rush: White Water | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

What Does Race Have to Do with Religion?: Crash Course Religions #21

A classic sweet treat you can make for your partner/friend/yourself this Valentine’s Day!💖✨

Surprising Result from New Asteroid Sample

Carlsen outplayed by Keymer | Freestyle Chess (#360)

Wholesome Player & Friend Moment ♥️ #chess #hikarunakamura

World Champion Gukesh takes on Hikaru Nakamura | Semis + 5th place fight | Freestyle Chess 2025

Vincent Keymer stuns Magnus Carlsen with some high class chess | Freestyle Chess 2025

Heartbreak of Hikaru Nakamura 😓💔 #hikarunakamura #chess

Gukesh LOSES in 18 Moves! 😱💔 #chess #gukesh

The sound proof meeting of all the players inside a cubicle at Freestyle Chess in Weissenhaus

When Fabi shows his class! | Gukesh vs Caruana | Quarter Finals at Freestyle Chess 2025

Cutest Hikaru Moment ♥️ #chess #hikarunakamura

From Poker to the Chess Board - Magnus Carlsen! Keymer and Sindarov excel

The amazing streaming booths in Weissenhaus | Freestyle Chess 2025

Gukesh vs Nakamura, Carlsen vs Keymer | Semi Finals + 5th place fight | Freestyle Chess 2025

LAST MOMENTS of Sindarov vs. Hikaru | Sindarov's HEART RATE Reaches 170 Beats/Minute

Magnus is ANGRY to Himself After the Game Against Keymer in 2025 Freestyle Chess

Hikaru PLAYS vs. WORLD CHAMPION and Then He STREAMS TITLED TUESDAY

Magnus WINS Titled Tuesday After His Loss in 2025 Freestyle Chess

Magnus Doesn’t LIKE Fedoseev’s Move SUGGESTION: BRAVO 😅

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus: Magnus vs. Vincent & Fabiano vs. Sindarov! Semifinal Game 1

Shocking Trends in 1,400 Sciatica Cases

Jungle Ambush : The Nightmare of Vietnam’s War

Hungary PM Viktor Orban to meet AfD party leader Alice Weidel | BBC News

'We're going back to plastic straws', says US President Trump. #US #Trump #BBCNews

UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration | BBC News

Rare black devil fish filmed in daylight for first time. #Ocean #Fish #BBCNews

ChatGPT boss rejects Elon Musk-led investors' $97bn bid | BBC News

Trump says he believes Hamas won't make Saturday hostage return deadline | BBC News

Tremors hitting Greek island of Santorini reach new strength. #Santorini #Greece #BBCNews

Plughole-like whirlpool in California, US, creates mesmerising water display. #US #BBCNews

Lawyer in Saudi trans student's suicide note had embassy links, BBC finds | BBC News

Why has London's Met Police been left in a "hopeless position"? | BBC Newscast

Israel says ceasefire ends if hostage release delayed | BBC News

Israel to resume “intense fighting” in Gaza if hostages not freed by Saturday | BBC News

Trump says Gaza ceasefire should be cancelled unless all Israeli hostages freed | BBC News

Spy Tortoise Adopted by Chimpanzee | Spy in the Wild | 4K UHD | BBC Earth

A geomagnetic storm illuminates Iceland's stunning Brúarfoss waterfall with green and red hues 💚

Gazelle Risks Its Life To Cross This Railway | The Making of Asia | BBC Earth

My baby daddy is my EMERGENCY CONTACT

A Masterclass! || Keymer vs Carlsen || Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus (2025)

"Time to Retire!" || Nakamura vs Sindarov || Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus (2025)

இதுல என்ன இருக்கா??😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Ultra Level Brother In Law & Sisters😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Semmangudi R Srinivasa Iyer | AIR Sangeet Sammelan, 10/11/1963 | #Sammelan series

#CatherineZetaJones makes #MichaelDouglas drop his trousers 🏌️‍♂️ #grahamnorton #thegrahamnortonshow

Leaving Cambodia: A Conversation With Gerald Flynn

Nancy

Xanax and Crystal Meth Addict-Tim

Pippi

Veg kurma #food #cooking #lunchrecipe #recipe #vegkurmarecipe

अंगूर खट्टे निकल गए? तो बनाएं अंगूर की ऐसी रेसिपी जो न पहले देखी होगी, न बनाई होगी Khatte Angoor

No Hands Needed! Watch This Artist’s Magic Unfold 🎨🏡

MSV'S RAGAPRAYOGAM PART 2- BY MELLISAI ARADHANAI GROUP ON 26.01.25 CHIEF GUEST MADURAI SRI G S MANI

Nitin Saluja On Building Chaayos

The SURPRISING connection between Odia and Mandarin!

The Making of Bandish Bandits w/ Anand Tiwari & Anubhav Bansal

From Jaggery to Gajak: The Art of Making a Winter Delight | Green Kitchen

Climate Conflicts: What is happening in Palk Bay?

Malai Kofta | मेथी से बनाएं बेहतरीन कोफ़्ता | No Fail perfect Methi Malai Kofta | Chef Ranveer Brar

Discover How These 4 Friends Built Their Dream Home in Bengaluru (House Tour).

What’s the secret to winning arguments? #bbcideas #debate #discussion #argument

What if all the world's biggest problems have the same solution?