Digest — 2025-02-12:

A former slave’s letter to his old master

greetings, fellow boiled frogs

Griffith Observatory

Want to eliminate workplace friction? Become a “trustee of time”

No, we can’t geoengineer our way out of the climate crisis

Web Components

Living Against Time: Virginia Woolf on Reaping the “Moments of Being” That Make You Who You Are

Tressie McMillan Cottom’s latest is not easily summarized, but is well-worth a...

Jamelle Bouie: Trump’s War on DEI Is Really a War on Civil...

“We Are Hurtling Towards Having a Russian-Type Regime”

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by...

Trump’s Obsession With Immigration Is Really an Obsession With Segregation. His policies...

You’re Allowed to Feel like Garbage. “If you are a remotely informed...

Do Not Obey In Advance

What can I do to fight this coup? “We will succeed because...

The trailer for season six of The Handmaid’s Tale. Oh, no reason....

Josh Marshall: “This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as...

Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government...

The Trump administration barred an AP reporter from an event because the...

Progressively enhancing forms with an HTML Web Component (part 2)

Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs

The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit

Iteration in one language, then all the others (2016)

Zodiac: simple Clojure framework

Questioning the Criteria for Evaluating Non-Cryptographic Hash Functions

schemesh: A Unix shell and Lisp REPL, fused together

Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use

A survey of every iterator variant

Do you use a debugger?

Reasoning models are just LLMs

Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets

Skip: A reactive framework to code declaratively and compute continuously

Your Network, Your Rules: Take Charge With Own DNS

How I Automated My Computer Life With macOS Folder Actions

ouch: Painless compression and decompression in the terminal

Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds?

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji

you don't link all of libc

Text CRDTs from scratch, in code

A simple terminal helper to save keystrokes

Data scraping and reverse engineering League of Legends replays

HOTDOG: X11 Window Manager with Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand, Mac Classic and Aqua UI

Intensional Joy (a concatenative account of internal structure)

Rust for Linux

Go 1.24 is released

How does a Linux machine connect to the internet, really?

Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Banished Forever

Tired of Losing

Why Gen Z Will Never Leave Home

Murder in the Blue Mountains

The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind

The Unnatural History of Bird Flu

Words of Note

Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predicted

Terraform Config Root Setups

The dream of offshore rocket launches is finally blasting off

Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes

Surprise Magma Chamber Growing Under Mediterranean Volcano (2023)

It's a knowledge problem Or is it?

Tea Extensions [pdf] (2006)

TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information

Rust Memory Management Explained

Show HN: Letting LLMs Run a Debugger

Nping – ping, but with a graph or table view

Apache Iceberg now supports geospatial data types natively

First hybrid quantum supercomputer Reimei activated in Japan

Alt.Anonymous.Messages Newsgroup

Everything about Google Translate crashing React (and other web apps)

The Human Alphabet

WASM-Native Orchestration

Basis of the Kalman Filter [pdf]

Ask HN: Former employees' RSUs at risk after startup's IPO

Tiny Pointers

DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player

Visualizing Data Is an Art – We Should Treat It Like One

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Business Operations

Automated Capability Discovery via Foundation Model Self-Exploration

Show HN: I made my own OS from scratch because I was bored

Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework

Ask HN: What's the best implementation of Conway's Game of Life?

How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed

PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance

US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit

Show HN: yknotify – Notify when YubiKey needs touch on macOS

Show HN: Game Bub – open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld

Imapsync

5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows

Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected

The Prophet of Parking: A eulogy for the great Donald Shoup

The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time

ElevenReader by ElevenLabs

I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)

EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI

Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting

The year I didn't survive

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000

Hackers leak cop manuals for departments after breaching major provider

JJ Cheat Sheet

How Hans Bethe Stumbled Upon Perfect Quantum Theories

What We’re Reading: Near-Extinct Mussels Have Reappeared in Paris

Two kinds of creative feedback

China’s Challenges in 2025: Charting a Course Through a Stormy Sea

India’s 2025 Budget: A Missed Opportunity to Meet Climate Targets

In Photos: Rohingya Refugees’ Trial by Fire

A Crime Scene Near a Bangkok Monastery

Apple Considering iPhone Manufacturing Facilities in Indonesia: Report

How the RSS Propelled the BJP to Power in Delhi State Elections

Who Are the Potential Candidates to be South Korea’s Next President?

Does Anyone Care About the Climate Crisis in Tibet?

Trump 2.0 and US Leadership in the Indo-Pacific

Uzbekistan’s Corruption Crackdown: Progress or Perpetual Crisis?

Japan’s Pragmatic Model for AI Governance

What the US Aid Suspension Means for Pakistan

Thai PM Calls For Study Into Effects of Trump Trade Policy

Thailand Promises Further Measures Against Scam Operations in Myanmar

Is Narendra Modi Preemptively Bending the Knee to Donald Trump?

Don't bullshit

[photos] Three Horses

XML Schema Visualizer for VS Code (SchemaViz): Open Beta

SpotDraft raises $54M in Series B funding led by Vertex Ventures and Trident Partners

From a Viking King to Wireless Tech: The Surprising Origins and Function of Bluetooth

Cybercriminals Won’t Like This! RBI’s New Domains to Fortify Online Banking

Snowflake launches Cortex Agents to enhance AI data retrieval and decision-making for enterprises

SoftBank to scale back on $500B Stargate expansion if financing deteriorates: CFO Yoshimitsu Goto

Lucidity raises $21M in Series A led by WestBridge Capital

SoftBank’s investments decline in latest quarter but Stargate may ramp them up

Honasa Consumer’s revenue rebounds in Q3; profits remain flat

PM Modi meets Pichai in France, discusses 'India’s digital transformation’

Freshworks pares down loss by 31% in FY24; Q4 revenue jumps 22%

D2C pins big hopes on small packs; Zeta valuation surges to $2B

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (February 12, 2025)

Epsilon to invest Rs 15,350 Cr for EV battery facility in Karnataka

Finance platform Mysa raises $2.8 M in seed funding round led by Blume Ventures

Karnataka govt launches new single-window system at Invest Karnataka 2025

Rapido to raise Rs 250 Cr in Series E funding from Prosus

Audio stories platform Velvet adds actor Pankaj Tripathi as co-founder

Co-working solutions provider Awfis posts Rs 15 Cr profit in Q3 FY25

SoftBank swings to a $2.4B loss in Q3 amid lacklustre tech bets

Amazon pilots quick commerce service in select pincodes of Bengaluru

Webtoon app Toonsutra bags $3.4M in seed funding

Productivity myths exposed: 7 traps holding you back

Karnataka's New Industrial Policy 2025-30 targets investment of Rs 7.5 lakh crore

Will AI steal your job? Bill Gates' view on job security

Nivaan Care secures $4.25M in Seed funding to expand chronic pain management services

AI infrastructure company Future AGI secures $1.6 M in pre-seed funding

Somaiya Vidyavihar University invites changemakers to Somaiya Innovation and Impact Festival 2025

Aggressive growth, not an IPO, is Zeta’s priority: CEO Bhavin Turakhia

The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup

Live CEOing Ep 871: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Cyclic, Function Settings and More]

Business, Innovation and Managing Life (February 12, 2025)

Nilavai Konduva Songs with comments 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

My proud son vs others son 😂😂

NASA fires up X-59 supersonic aircraft's engine in preparation for 1st flight

Boom Supersonic XB-1 breaks sound barrier 3X #xb1 #jet #aircraft #shorts

Highest energy neutrinos ever observed detected deep in Mediterranean Sea

Top 25 Best-Selling Cars in India January 2025 | WagonR, Baleno, Creta, Swift, Punch

Kylaq Quick Review + Real-World Mileage Test! #V3Cars #V3CarsDriveReview #Skoda #SkodaKylaq #Kylaq

Russia offers Su-57 but India firm on AMCA| Report from Aero India 2025 in Bengaluru

'Ramayana is a text of Dharma, rather than Good vs Evil' - Anand Neeelakanthan

Inside the newly constructed RSS office in Delhi built at a cost of Rs 150 crore

'Not confident of HAL', says IAF Chief over delay in Tejas aircraft delay, HAL CMD responds| Watch

What Ex-Cong MP Sajjan Kumar's conviction says about the pace of 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases

Modi's 6th visit to France: Abridged Ep 1270 on why it's India’s all-weather strategic ally

'Some in bureaucracy accrued millions while their salary was around $100,000,' says Elon Musk

What global media said about Modi-Trump’s ‘bromance’ & 'caste hierarchy' on India's roads

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

'Modi govt can’t ignore sectors in state list. Offer incentives to build hospitals, schools'

Devotees take a holy bath in Ganga on Maghi Purnima

NITI Aayog highlights lack of English proficiency as barrier to youth employability

Visuals from Naik Mukesh’s residence who was killed in suspected IED blast

'Go see India’s Stonehenge, our country is dotted with megalithic structures'

'Trump sees India as an important strategic partner', says Rorry Daniels ahead of Modi's US visit

PM Modi & President Macron pay tributes to Indian soldiers who died during World Wars

Patients with physical & mental illness entitled to same insurance benefits, rules Jharkhand HC

'Indian Air Force Chief is right in being critical of HAL': #SnapOpinion

What global media said about Modi-Trump’s ‘bromance’ & 'caste hierarchy' on India's roads

'Modi govt thinks the middle class has no dreams or aspirations'- Raghav Chadha's speech

PM Modi and French President Macron jointly inaugurate Indian consulate in Marseilles

'Indian Air Force Chief is right in being critical of HAL': #SnapOpinion

Ryan Dahl vs Oracle: The Creator of Node & Deno Responds

“मोदी केजरीवाल को छोड़ेंगे नहीं, चाहे कुछ हो जाये”आशुतोष | Arfa Khanum

Trump के Tariff War को कैसे समझें?

FIR Against 30-40 Creators From India's Got Latent, Is It a Step To Bring Broadcast Bill? | Ranveer

Can Modi s Washington Visit Lay the Foundations for Close Relations With the Us During Trump 2 0

Ranveer Allahbadia Controversy Live: What's Unsaid

The Psychology of Male Loneliness

How To Be Remembered

Leo DiCaprio's Wild Nickname For Stephen Graham | The Graham Norton Show

War hoarse: is Zelensky being heard?

Grandma Who's Scared Of Dogs Gets Won Over By Daughter's Pit Bulls | The Dodo

Grandma Who's Scared Of Dogs Gets Won Over By Daughter's Pit Bulls | The Dodo

Horse Rescued From Kill-Pen Has The Goofiest Baby Days Later | The Dodo

Horse Rescued From Kill-Pen Has The Goofiest Baby Days Later | The Dodo

DIY Valentine's Day Kissing Booth | The Pack

Guy Spends 7 Months Rescuing Dogs From The Desert | The Dodo

Man Spends A Year Earning a Stray Desert Dog’s Trust—But Then Saved An Entire Pack | The Dodo

Ashok Desai & Richard Rossow on Manmohan Singh and India’s Economic Liberalization

Ranveer Allahbadia Controversy | Just The Tip Of India’s MASSIVE Vulgarity Crisis? | Akash Banerjee

Sports War: Klepper & Ronny Spar Over Super Bowl LIX & Kendrick’s Halftime Show | The Daily Show

America's only hope to fight Trump are "Republicans who are willing to lose"? America is cooked.

Fort Bragg is back...but a totally different Bragg

Kendrick Lamar made sure the Chiefs weren't the only ones getting dragged at the Super Bowl

Trump Confused by His Own Tariffs & Hegseth Goes Diet Woke on the Military | The Daily Show

Jesse Eisenberg - Writing, Directing, and Starring In “A Real Pain” | The Daily Show

Spirituality for Sinners (w/ Nadia Bolz-Weber) | How to Be a Better Human, a TED Podcast

Is it WISE to admit you're IGNORANT?

Why Do China's Rainbow Mountains Look Like That?

Educate Event: Brain Awareness Week Kick Off

A Big Nuclear Bomb Could Fix Climate Change, Physicist Says

Skunk Baxter on the “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” solo #guitar #guitarist #steelydan #shorts

இவன் திருந்த மாட்டான் போலையே | Parithabangal #shorts

Breakup Paavangal | Parithabangal

ORIGAMI WORLD DRAGON TUTORIAL FOR 2 YEARS CELEBRATION OF ORIGAMI CHANNEL | DIY PAPER DRAGON FOLDING

Should you pre-rinse dishes? YES or NO?

Ye konsa Drama hai? 🤣😭 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

Tumharey Peechay bohat "HATH" hein 😂 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Amma ne Pata liya 🤣🔥 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

How this husband prevented wife from taking over his House

Can wife force husband to pay lawyer fees?

Nayab Midha ✨️ captivates with her words at Spoken Fest Mumbai 2025

How to make inferences | Reading | Khan Academy

Using context clues to determine the meaning of a word | Reading | Khan Academy

Properties of homogeneous mixtures | Middle school chemistry | Khan Academy

Types of mixtures | Middle school chemistry | Khan Academy

Inside World's Largest Human Gathering, Mahakumbh ft. Medha | Jist

Ex-Mantri’s ‘Kidnapped’ Son Tracked on Jet En Route to Bangkok | InFocus Episode 9 | Jist

Magical Money Saver #lifehacks

Adulting | Jack Whitehall

Bharatnatyam Classical Dance By Ananya Shanbhag Stunning❣️✨#icmdance #bharatnatyam #dance #icmtabla

Vivek Pandya Tabla Solo Snippet On Sarangi Aman Hussain 🔥✨ #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Tarana By Ashwini Bhide Ji 🙏✨#icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Train to Gain Energy & Avoid Brain Fog | Pavel Tsatsouline & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Get Stronger with Grease the Groove Training | Pavel Tsatsouline & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Watch this before making real estate investment! #shorts

Apache Kafka Meets Apache Iceberg: Real-Time Data Streaming • Kasun Indrasiri • GOTO 2024

Just One Coffee Will Do... 🫨

This is a robot farmer

A Level Computer Science – Essential Programming Concepts in VB.NET

The Stone Age diet - What did our human ancestors eat? | DW Documentary

What is the right #windows #design to keep your house #cool ? | Cool it

GBS outbreak and Mahakumbh: Is there a connection?

Digging Through the Gold Rush Chaos! | Bering Sea Gold | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Small Steps for Man, A Giant Leap for Mankind! | NL Apollo: The Lost Tapes | Discovery Channel

Wrapped in a banana leaf, cooked to perfection! Meen Pollichathu is an experience!✨❤️

Watch the full episode now! Match 2 Cookd Premier League

A Practical Guide To User Stories & Requirements

It's ARMAGEDDON between Sindarov & Caruana | Freestyle Chess (#500)

Which chess player makes you laugh the most? | Semi Finals + 5th place fight | Freestyle Chess 2025

Magnus FURIOUS after SHOCKING Loss to 20 year old 😱🔥 #magnuscarlsen #chess

Hikaru Nakamura vs Gukesh | When two World Champions Clash | Freestyle Chess 2025

The thrilling and joyous Behind the Scenes of Vincent Keymer beating Magnus Carlsen

Cutest Chess Couple ♥️ #chess

Commentators also struggle along with players at Freestyle Chess

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

Fabi DRAWS in a Winning Position!

Magnus Is ELIMINATED!

One Missing Piece? Or A Few...

Magnus GETS ELIMINATED???

When You're About To Knock Out Magnus Carlsen

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus: Magnus vs. Vincent & Fabiano vs. Sindarov! Semifinal Games 2

Naa, ये word ही नहीं bolna 🙄 #masterchefindia #vikaskhanna #ranveerbrar #funnymemes

How To Decrease Your Sciatica Pain While Walking #sciaticarelief #backpain #backstretches

Is an electric vehicle better for the environment?

Bold Gamble for the Cowboys

Colombia’s Deadliest Profession: Journalist

Elon Musk defends US government cost-cutting plans | BBC News

Japan ministry worker loses sensitive files on night out. #Japan #Beer #BBCNews

Elon Musk denies "hostile takeover" of US government. #ElonMusk #BBCNews

Return to Ukraine's 2014 borders 'unrealistic’, says US defence secretary | BBC News

President Trump says negotiations will begin on Ukraine after call with Putin | BBC News

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano puts on fiery display as eruption intensifies. #Hawaii #Volcano #BBCNews

London's first Roman basilica found under office basement | BBC News

The story of the MI5 neo-Nazi spy | BBC Newscast

Trump "has agreed with Putin" to negotiate end to Ukraine War | BBC News

One killed in ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, Ukraine says | BBC News

Egypt to present ‘comprehensive vision’ for Gaza reconstruction | BBC News

Marc Fogel welcomed by Donald Trump after release from Russia | BBC News

When your stomach says ‘meat’ but your heart says ‘bamboo'🎋 #BBCEarthWildFiles #Pandas #Shorts

Not This Time! || Carlsen vs Keymer || Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus (2025)

How Earth's size was computed by Eratosthenes

Jeene Laga Hoon | Ramaiya Vastavaiya | Atif Aslam | Zendria

Crystal Meth and Fentanyl Addict-Sonny

Bella

Mother & Son Addicts-Kelly and Shane

Artificial Intelligence ll மனிதனை உருவாக்குமா செயற்கை நுண்ணறிவு ? ll எஸ். கிருஷ்ணசாமி ll இரா.முரளி

मारवाड के पारंपरिक तरीके से बनाई दही वाली साबुत मिर्ची, हर खाने का स्वाद हुआ 100गुणा #DahiWaliMirchi

Tutorial: गौ माता को गले कैसे लगाएं? | Valentines Day

Arnab somehow reporting on dirty jokes & life threatening pollution at the same time..

Veettoda Mappillai - Tamil Full Movie | Napoleon | Roja #ddmovies #ddcinemas

Sarathkumar And Anandaraj Making Fun In Court Scene From Palaivana Paravaigal Movie | Sarath Kumar

How Mountains Make Evolution Weird