Digest — 2025-02-14:

Beyond causality

What's an expert?

Small Thoughts II: Old Internet, Fucked Society, Ghoul Takeover

The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind

Ask Ethan: Could there be dark matter aliens out there?

An Update

Jerry Lawson was one of Silicon Valley’s first Black engineers and is...

From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK....

Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All...

Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips

Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama...

Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen,...

I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a...

Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million...

The Crazy Thing About Babies

Thought-provoking musings on AI from Robin Sloan. “The language model reads Everything,...

Ken Burns’ Criterion Closet Picks include Seven Samurai, a Fellini box set,...

How Trying Became Cool Again

My Recent Media Diet, the Endless January Edition

The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions

How to stop Trump’s power grab. “Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan...

Ambiguous out-of-distribution generalization on an algorithmic task

≤10-year Timelines Remain Unlikely Despite DeepSeek and o3

The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales

A short course on AGI safety from the GDM Alignment team

A computational no-coincidence principle

Self-dialogue: Do behaviorist rewards make scheming AGIs?

Haiku Activity & Contract Report, January 2025

Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite

Hickory DNS is moving toward production readiness

How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?

First analysis of Apple's USB Restricted Mode bypass (CVE-2025-24200)

XOR

The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 Wifi Networks

Hosting Multiple Websites Under One NearlyFreeSpeech Site

TeX and Typst: Layout Models

Type safe variadic printf, without macros

Siren Call of SQLite on the Server

Custom asserts in LLVM

OCaml GADTs for Authentication Tokens

Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration (2009)

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking

Launching Interop 2025

Switching on Strings in Zig

Terminader: merging the Finder and Terminal

On Bloat

What are you doing this weekend?

The UNIX Operating System is an IDE (2021)

Zed now predicts next edit with new open model

Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono

shot-scraper 1.6 with support for HTTP Archives

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Seth Rogen is the Boss Now

Life in an Atmospheric Zoo

I intend firmly to ignore St. Valentine’s day

Barcoding brains

New Technology Reveals Details About Indigenous Habitations in Desert Canyons

Visualize Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust

Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks [pdf]

You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)

Extreme supersonic winds measured on a planet outside our solar system

Reflections on AGI from 1879

A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chile

Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?

OpenVINO AI effects [denoising and transcription] for Audacity

Edgware 1924: The Making of a Suburb

Diffusion Without Tears

The NBA Apple Vision Pro app now has a 3D tabletop view

Detecting AI agent use and abuse

Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website

Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer?

Codeberg appears to be under a DDoS attack

AI is stifling new tech adoption?

Yash: Yet Another Shell

Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI

Show HN: OpenSCAD configurable calendar 3D model

Kevin Mitnik FOIA Final

A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field

The largest sofa you can move around a corner

Show HN: VimLM – A Local, Offline Coding Assistant for Vim

The Iconic 3DBenchy Enters the Public Domain

If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad

Complex dynamics require complex solutions

We were wrong about GPUs

A decade later, a decade lost

Exposing concurrency bugs with a custom scheduler

On Bloat

Evaluating RAG for large scale codebases

Yhangry (YC W22) Is Hiring

Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on OCR in Dynamic Video Environments

Ricochet: Peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services

OCR4all

Rust: Doubling Throughput with Continuous Profiling and Optimization

Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review

Linux kernel cgroups writeback high CPU troubleshooting

Extensible WASM Applications with Go

The New York Stock Exchange to Launch NYSE Texas

CDC Study Finds Silent Bird Flu Infections in Dairy Veterinarians

Apple Comes Crawling Back to X Like a Dog

Doctor Droid (YC W23) Is Hiring a Back End Engineer

We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality

MIT evolves virtual eye from scratch

The Pioneering Paralegals Helping Women Take Back Their Land

“I’ve got your back”

Defying Pakistan’s Repression, Baloch People Are Demanding Their Rights

Debunking the Myth of Foreign Meddling in Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution

Terrorism in Bangladesh: Political Manipulation, Ideological Roots, and Western Influence

The Sea People of Southeast Asia: Forgotten Guardians of Maritime Security

Cutting Aid to Afghanistan Is Collective Punishment. America Must Do Better.

Malaysia Will Amend Law on Public Protests, Prime Minister Says

‘Ne Zha 2’: China’s Latest Tech Success

India and the New Trumpian World Order

Indifferent to Alarming Surge in Hate Speech, India Outrages Over Comic’s Crass Comment on YouTube Show

Geonomics, Not Geopolitics is Driving Pakistan’s Courting of Bangladesh

Beijing Targets UK-based Hong Kong Activists as Families Face Pressure at Home

[notes] Prototyping/Sketching in Code

Mattress maker Duroflex bets on recliners and offline strategy for Sleepyhead

PMI Electro Mobility Solutions gets Rs 250 Cr funding

[Weekly funding roundup Feb 8-14] VC inflows see a sharp rise

3 classic Indian books PM Modi shared with Musk’s children

10 sneaky habits ruining your focus and productivity

Almonds Ai Secures Rs 16 Cr from Haldiram’s Promoters, JIIF

Canva expands presence in India with localised content and AI-driven tools

5 Bollywood movies for Valentine’s Day with your partner

Burning billions in the 10-min delivery game; Plans for faster drone adoption

Preventative healthcare: A wake-up call for India

How to Burn 500 Calories This Valentine’s Day? Fun, Romantic & Effective Ways!

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (February 14, 2025)

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

PhonePe’s guardrails: real-time fraud detection

Sachin Bansal hands over CEO role; transitions to Executive Chairman

Marico Innovation Foundation’s Scale-Up accelerator on track to produce six soonicorns by next year

Meet VOGIC AI, which turns raw CCTV footage into searchable, actionable intelligence

14 January 2025

How Blake Scholl Built The First Independent Supersonic Jet

Advancing Physics Research and Teaching with Wolfram Language

Future of Science and Technology Q&A (February 14, 2025)

See a 'cosmic bouquet' from the Chandra X-Ray Telescope for Valentine's Day

Wow! Cosmic Valentine's Day views from James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble in 4K

Cosmic Valentine's Day ❤️ #webbtelescope @LoganSpaleta #music #hubble #space #shorts

How to bowl perfectly

Livestream! Back from Peru and Bolivia, reviewing the trip with the Snake Bros and Prof Shy!

Post-Apocalyptic Web

How BJP is likely to have a tough time ahead to balance Delhi’s finances

President's rule imposed in Manipur, Imphal residents hope peace will return| Ground Report

F-35, Javelin, military ties, trade-tariffs, China & immigration—key takeaways from Modi-Trump talks

Trade, reciprocal tariff, military ties, China & immigration—key takeaways from Modi-Trump talks

‘US is going to have a very good relationship with China’, says Trump

‘PM Modi is a much tougher, better negotiator than I am’, says US President Trump

‘India is ready to take them back’— What PM Modi said on Indian illegal immigrants in US

Trump-Modi press conference: US to provide F-35 stealth fighters, illegal immigration & more

A Tamil Nadu mill is also a college, workers graduate & get jobs in Tata, Mahindra

US President Trump- PM Modi hold bilateral meeting in Washington DC

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri addresses media on PM Modi’s US visit

Tahawwur Rana to be extradited. A look at his role in 26/11 attack & links with Headley, ISI

Trump, Modi brief media on Russia-Ukraine war, Bangladesh, & China

Real story of Naga sadhus: Maha Kumbh’s rockstars watch T20, OTT, reels, don’t live in caves

Rift in Mahayuti 2.0 widens amid differences between Shinde & Fadnavis: What's next in Maharashtra

How Global Media viewed Modi-Trump reunion, & the ‘MAGA+MIGA’

President's rule imposed in Manipur: What changes in the violence-hit state| #InstantAnalysis

Takeaways from Modi-Trump talks:Defence,trade,'Counter China' strategy & stand on Russia-Ukraine war

Formal F-35 offer from US is yet to come but question marks over MRFA| #SnapOpinion

10 Years Later: Software Opinions I’ve Completely Changed

A Different Approach To Frontend

भारतीयों के अपमान ख़ामोश मोदी अडानी के सवाल पर छूट गया पसीना | Arfa Khanum

IHL Report: Hate Speech in India Rises by 74%, BJP Becomes the Largest Organiser

Adani to China: Highlights From Modi-Trump Press Conference | Trump's 'Tariff King' Snub At Modi

President's Rule Imposed in Manipur After Biren Singh's Resignation: What's Next? | The Wire Live

Is Adani's Case "Personal Matter"? Why did PM Modi Say This in USA | Gautam Adani, Donald Trump

The #1 Problem Solving Skill

Pamela Anderson Was Discovered In A Football Stadium | The Graham Norton Show

Are lab-grown diamonds too successful?

Love match: Modi-Trump’s tariffs tussle

Woman Rescues Six Tiny Kittens From A Parking Garage | The Dodo

Leslie Bibb Shows Her Dream Date How She Balances Self-Care And Filming White Lotus | The Dodo

DIY Pet Valentine's Day Cards | The Pack

Leslie Bibb Goes On A Dodo Dream Date | The Dodo

Narcoleptic Dog Falls Asleep Every Time He's Happy | The Dodo

Leslie Bibb And Her Date Do The Cutest "Puppy Yoga" | The Dodo

Leslie Bibb Surprises Her Date With A Paw-cuterie Board | The Dodo

Rescue Horse’s Baby Is the Goofiest Little Boy | The Dodo

Woman Rescues Six Tiny Kittens From A Parking Garage | The Dodo

DADAGIRI? - Trump’s Deal With PM Modi Extracting A Lot More From India?? | Akash Banerjee

Trump saying he'll “take Gaza, hold it, and cherish it” has him sounding like Boyz II Men #dailyshow

Trump knows Ukraine didn't ask for this war, right? #dailyshow #trump #ukraine

Trump Makes a Mess of Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks & Gets "Hot" for Kennedy Center | The Daily Show

Brady Corbet - “The Brutalist” & Creating Provocative Films in Trying Times | The Daily Show

How Much Are New Yorkers Willing to Pay for Eggs? Josh Johnson Investigates | The Daily Show

Maybe having a WEIRD relationship is a good thing #TEDTalks #StephAnya #relationships #love

Natasha Rothwell: Embrace Your Main Character Energy | On the Spot

The Unique Love Between Humans and Dogs | Elias Weiss Friedman | TED

Why do these bizarre patterns show up when you eat any fluid!

A Mysterious Square "ALIEN" Structure on Mars? 🪐🔴👽

What’s Up With That Square Structure on Mars

The Most Incredible “X-Planes” Ever Built

How Shaking Unmixes Your Breakfast Cereal

We asked our listeners to tell us how they found love while doing or appreciating science.

Gregg Bissonette Led Zeppelin “Rock and Roll” beat #drums #drummer #ledzeppelin #johnbonham #shorts

Dark Energy: Probing the Biggest Mystery in Physics #darkenergy #physics #science

The Debt Can Be Managed if the Policy Makers Do These Things Now

An Engineer’s Love Letter to Cable-Stayed Bridges

என்னடா இப்டி பண்றீங்களே டா | Parithabangal #shorts

Oh God Beautiful | Gopi | Sudhakar |Vishnu Vijayan | Parithabangal Productions | GoSu Pictures

counterculture for profit: the commercialization of street art

Valentine’s Day just got even sweeter with Antoni 💗 #NoTasteLikeHomewithAntoniPorowski

Your Favorite YouTube Channels Might Not Survive This

Headlines 😂🔥 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

Mere abba kon thay? 😭 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

Pehle Gulab Jamun do phir baat hogi 😂😋 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

A Deceptively Simple Looking Tiny House Hides Brilliant Design!

Not just the law but also the implications

Do you really need a lawyer for your divorce case?

My close friend asked me how to get a divorce

What Falling in Love Does to You #shorts

Miss Clarke is making learning fun and interactive with Khanmigo and @blooket7572 ! 🎉

What draws millions to gather at the Kumbh Mela?

What do foreigners think about Kumbh?

The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Martin Wolf (2025)

Ustad Vilayat Khan , Ustad Shujaat Khan & Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji🙏✨#sitar #icmtabla #classical #music

Ustad Ashish Khan & Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji 🙏✨ #sarod #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

"Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert" - Official Trailer

Why are diamond prices crashing? #shorts

How Neurodiversity Can Help Your Life, Team & Business • Katrine Hald Kjeldsen • GOTO 2024

Learning Microsoft Azure • Jonah Andersson & Håkan Silfvernagel

Can Cold Weather Training Enhance Performance?

24 HOURS TO GO! #ZwiftAcademy #gcn #cycling

The Competition To Find Cycling's Next Superstar | Zwift Academy 2025 Ep. 1

Is this the "iPhone" of robots?

Euclid discovers a stunning Einstein ring 🤩

How farmers are protecting the soil and our food security | DW Documentary

How NASA Beat the Soviets to the Moon | NL Apollo: The Lost Tapes | Discovery Channel

When Two Hearts Beat as One: The Science of Love 💕 | Discovery Channel India

Alaska’s Hidden Treasure Trove! | Gold Rush: White Water | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

4 Tiny Romances That Are Almost Too Freaky to Share | Deep Look

Chupke Chupke Raat Din | Ojas Adhiya | Music of India

Here’s Madras Mixture that’s packed with protein and no compromise on taste!!

Finding The Slope Algorithm (Forward Mode Automatic Differentiation) - Computerphile

This Plane is Bringing Supersonic BACK

Vincent Keymer Wins $200K, Dominates Freestyle Chess in Weissenhaus!

Penultimate day drama captured in 125 seconds | Freestyle Chess 2025

Players arrive for the final day of FreeStyle Chess 2025. Who is going to win?

Cutest Chess Couples ♥️♥️ #chess #magnuscarlsen #hikarunakamura #valentinesday

Vincent Keymer is the Champion of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam | Wins 200,000 USD in Weissenhaus!

20 year old DEFEATS Magnus & Fabi 💀❤️ #chess #magnuscarlsen

Vincent Keymer Wins $200,000 | Closing Ceremony of Weissenhaus Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025!

The GOATs of Chess Together 🔥💀 #chess #magnuscarlsen #hikarunakamura

Gajewski on Freestyle Chess, Gukesh's performance and Future plans

Carlsen's phenomenal understanding of Freestyle Chess | Sindarov vs Carlsen

Vincent Keymer is just too good | Keymer vs Caruana | Freestyle Chess 2025

Keymer vs Caruana, Carlsen vs Sindarov, Gukesh vs Firouzja | Finals | Freestyle Chess 2025

Ella Carlsen watches Magnus play on Valentine's Day 💞

Together in EVERY universe 👩‍❤️‍👨

Vincent Keymer WINS THE First Freestyle Chess Grand Slam!

What Is Freestyle Chess Anyway?

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus FINAL Game 2: Fabiano vs. Vincent! Magnus v. Sindarov For 3rd

Happy 'Valentines Day' ji 😜 ☘️ #ValentinesDay #dhaniya #ranveerbrar #funnymemes

Egg/Anda Biryani | अंडा दम बिर्यानी | Restaurant style Anda Biryani | Dum Biryani | Chef RanveerBrar

Flexibility Benefits of Downward Dog #yogapose #stretchingexercises #fitness

How an AI chip war could destroy the global economy | Chris Miller for The Freethink Interview

Two types of love

Why Is Medical Cannabis Still Out of Reach?

Canada’s Brutal Fight for Holland

Foreign Volunteers: In the Hell of Raqqa

We need to talk about how weird these are

Jihadist motivation in Munich attack, German prosecutors say | BBC News

Donald Trump wants peace but Ukrainians fear what that might look like | BBC News

Does Trump and Putin's Potential Ukraine Deal Mean the Start of a New World Order? | BBC Newscast

Can Ukraine rely on Europe alone, if Trump pulls US support? | BBC News

Hamas names three hostages to be freed | BBC News

Zelensky meeting with US Vice President | BBC News

Could Donald Trump stretch the power of the presidency?| BBC Americast

Scientists warn there’s 1 in 50 chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 striking Earth | BBC News

Chernobyl reactor shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says | BBC News

Chernobyl radiation shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says #Ukraine #Chernobyl #BBCNews

🔴 LIVE: One Hour of Love in the Animal Kingdom | BBC Earth

Shoal mates 🦈💙 #Sharks #Wildlife #Shorts #Maldives

Like father like son 👶

Seeing what our AI BABY looks like

Is There No One Else? || Caruana vs Keymer || FINALS - Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus (2025)

Winning Isn't Everything! || Carlsen vs Sindarov || FINALS - Freestyle Grand Slam Weissenhaus (2025)

Strategy For Investing In IPOs?

Every Baby's Mind Voice 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Valentines Wishes 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

சும்மா கேட்டேன் வந்துட்டான் 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

ML Vasanthakumari | AIR Sangeet Sammelan, 09/11/1963 | #Sammelan series

Skoda Kylaq Prestige vs Kia Syros HTX: Sub Rs 14 Lakh Battle | Which Car Is More Value for Money?

My Bizarre Valentine’s Day Quickie with the Raanda Union

IED Blast Survivor-A Veteran’s Story-Estefan

Cuban Refugee- Iris

Strings of Kadhalikka Neramillai | Violin/Cello BGMs | A.R.Rahman ❤️ Valentine's Day Special

EASY ORIGAMI JUMPING FROG TUTORIAL | FUNNY ORIGAMI FROG FROM CHILDHOOD | DIY ORIGAMI JUMPING FROG

Bright, Colourful And Stylish Swedish Apartment 😍 #nevertoosmall #shorts

if the Bryan Johnson interview happened in my area ..

Green Kitchen: How Jaggery is Made and why is it good for us and the planet?

AI Summit 2025: Safety concerns and an Energy-guzzling future

American Icons: FDR | Full Documentary

Sarathkumar and Anandaraj Jail Scene | Superhit Tamil Movie | Palaivana Paravaigal | CMM

This Hyderabad Home Has the Best of Nature and Luxury (House Tour)

I guess size does matter! | #shorts #funny