Digest — 2025-02-27:

Hegemony and childcare

Saving parasites

longcat post is long

How To Clean Your Glasses

How to get into (or catch up with) the mainline Pokémon games

Why does GRPO work?

did you know… (bearblog edition)

You don't have to use Proton

1 year HRT anniversary

The “existential crisis” of knowledge work

In praise of history’s famous first words

Turn life’s disruptions into a path forward with this 2-step process

4 key steps to transform the USA back into a scientific nation

Pure Independence

Legendary actor Gene Hackman has died at the age of 95. Hackman,...

The United States has fallen to a score of 65 (on a...

The MacArthur Foundation will increase its giving over the next two years...

The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since...

FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season’s shots. “Deciding...

The February 28 Economic Blackout

Women Are Scared And Scrapping Their Baby Plans Under This Administration &...

“The Covid Alarmists Were Closer to the Truth Than Anyone Else”

DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica. “If the Antarctic program budget is cut, then...

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” Wasn’t a Warning; It Was Our End Goal....

When Social Security checks stop showing up because of gov’t employee purges,...

What Makes for an Effective Boycott?

In What We Trust?

How to Persuade the Vaccine Hesitant

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of...

A Son Tries to Rescue His Dad From Conspiracy Theories

Self-Hosting Fonts

Why Can't We Hypothesize After the Fact?

How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018)

Streaming algorithms for embedding and computing edit distance in the low distance regime

Building Query Compilers

SafetyCore: new Android feature is scanning your photos for 'sensitive content'

Branded Types

Servo Security Report: findings and solutions

Git for Fansubbing: Probably a Mistake

Accessing region-locked iOS features, such as EU app stores

Tips to debug hanging Go programs

Command and Conquer: Red Alert source code

Why are Jujutsu's ID Prefixes So Short?

Goodbye K-9 Mail

Visual programming is stuck on the form

Release fish shell 4.0.0, now ported to Rust

The Pipe Operator In Generics Is Not A Sum Type

Testing Numbs Us to Our Loss of Intellectual Control (2020)

Compact normal forms + linear types = efficient network communication (2017)

Calling Rust from cursed Go

Semaphore CI/CD platform went Open Source

Launching RDAP; Sunsetting WHOIS

Why We Designed TigerBeetle's Docs from Scratch

Assorted macOS Tips & Tricks

Firefox adds terms of use

iMac G4(K)

From the Gut

Rappers Used to Sell the Booze. Now They Own It.

Solastalgia

Day 1,509 in the Big Brother House

The Creative Nest

Intelligent Life May Be Hiding in the Moons

We in-housed our data labelling

Math That Matters: The Case for Probability over Polynomials

Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water

Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud

Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair

Morphing robot turns challenging terrain to its advantage

A mechanically verified garbage collector for OCaml [pdf]

Evidence that our ancestors lived in rainforests 150k years ago

Show HN: Prompting LLMs in Bash scripts

API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value

The three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, after Wang and Zahl

Rifling Through the Archives with Legendary Historian Robert Caro

The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)

Show HN: Wampy, interface addon for Linux-based Walkmans

Automattic's "nuclear war" over WordPress access sparks potential class action

Distributed systems programming has stalled

Muon's magnetic moment exposes a hole in the Standard Model, unless it doesn't

Show HN: Probly – Spreadsheets, Python, and AI in the browser

Show HN: Superglue – open source API connector that writes its own code

Show HN: Wireless video streaming on POV bike display

What can be computed? A practical guide to the theory of computation (2018) [pdf]

A data analysis of speeches at the Oscars

Kastle (YC S24) Is Hiring – AI for Loan Servicing

Launch HN: Bild AI (YC W25) – Understand Construction Blueprints Using AI

A $100 DIY muon tomographer

Solitaire

Postgres as a Graph Database: (Ab)Using PgRouting

Nvidia emulation journey, part 1: RIVA 128/NV3 architecture history and overview

Turning a Bluetooth device into an Apple AirTag without root privileges

World-first experimental cancer treatment paves way for clinical trial

Some Command & Conquer games are now open source

IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp

GPT-4.5

DualPipe: Bidirectional pipeline parallelism algorithm

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Interns in Software Engineering in Austria

RoboPianist: Dexterous Piano Playing with Deep Reinforcement Learning (2023)

Abandoned Coal Mines Are Becoming the Batteries of the Future

Getting precise about tolerance

Could US Defense Cuts Affect Timor-Leste?

Funding Freedom in China: Time for Private Donors to Step Up

Trump’s Foreign Policy Could Accelerate China’s Advance in Latin America

Leading Vietnamese Scholar and Journalist Imprisoned for Critical Facebook Posts

Unruly Israeli Visitors, Thai Resentment, and Potential Dangers

Iron and the Archeological Battle Between North and South India

India Could Put Chabahar on Slow Burner as IMEC Gathers Pace

The Manipur Polycrisis: Indigenous Pathways for Peace and Healing

Expanding Mongolia’s Partnership With Japan and South Korea

Conversations With Chinese Feminists

What’s Missing From Australia’s Gender Equality Strategy?

Bandit Rule: Pakistan’s Burning Domestic Security Issue

‘Dark Ads’ Challenge Truth and Democracy in Australia

Thai Deportation of Uyghurs Is Imminent, Rights Group Says

Trump Is Ditching America’s European Allies. Don’t Be Sure He Won’t Abandon Its Asian Allies, Too.

Vietnam, New Zealand Announce Comprehensive Strategic Partnership

India private consumption at $2.1T, set to be 3rd largest consumer market by 2026: Report

What Is a Dark Factory? Inside the Factories That Never Sleep!

Hugging Face Unveils FastRTC for Enhanced AI Communication

Indian business leaders prioritise AI adoption, but talent gap looms: LinkedIn report

Perplexity AI's Free Access to Pro Version for Indian Students

Sentient debuts AI chatbot with 15 agents to rival Perplexity

Women represent only 12-14% of India’s gaming workforce: Report

Flying Cars Are Finally Here: Alef's Model Zero Takes Off!

Amazon introduces Ocelot, its first quantum computing chip

Agentic AI: How robots will transform your life in 2025

How Pepsi’s "joke" advertisement led to a legal nightmare

6 Indian brands commonly mistaken to be international

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (February 27, 2025)

Mysuru layoffs: NITES threatens protest; Infosys says testing norms communicated to trainees

Want U.S. Citizenship? Now's Your Time...If You Have $5 Million to Spare!

IKEA looking for next phase of investment in India, aims profitable growth: CEO Susanne Pulverer

Startup Essentials Conclave 2025: Learn, Network & Scale Your Business

Ola Electric accelerates profitability drive axing regional warehouses, optimizing costs

Paytm, Perplexity partner to bring AI-powered search to the fintech's app

Uber launches peer-to-peer carpooling service in Assam

IIT Madras, Startup Policy Forum sign MoU to bridge industry-academia gap

Accelerating AI diffusion in governance: How Microsoft is powering 1.5 million civil servants & government officials in India

Instagram Considers Standalone Reels App Amid TikTok Rivalry

The $5 Million Path to U.S. Residency: Trump Gold Card Explained

Piyush Goyal asks industry players to be bold, focus on turning competitive

Karnataka govt, C-CAMP launch third edition of Agriculture Grand Challenges

New leaders on the block: AI100 unveils its second cohort of visionaries

Tysm for 1 million views 🥹 #BataBoyCrocsGirl

Design Experts Critique AI Interfaces

Live CEOing Ep 874: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Engine Connectivity Engineering]

How the Vatican's Embassies Work

Two charts show the crisis coming for our national parks #shorts #nationalparks #news

Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starlink batch on new Falcon 9 rocket, nails landing

SpaceX deploys IM-2 moon lander, NASA 'trailblazer' in amazing views from space

Blastoff! Russia launches Progress 91 cargo mission to space station

Blastoff! SpaceX launches IM-2 moon mission for NASA , nails booster landing

Replay! SpaceX launches IM-2 moon mission atop Falcon 9 rocket

Inside Chicago’s Infamous Gang Underworld (Full Documentary)

Ancient Egyptian Hard Stone Vases - The Tiny Artifacts Changing History! #ancient #technology

🔥 Amul’s SHOCKING Protein Strategy!💥 How AMUL is Disrupting India’s Protein Industry 🥛💪 | Case study

Dark side of being a CEO

Qualities of a Great Leader

Traits of Powerful Leaders

The Secret Behind Success

Exit polls, enter mystery. A new business model where politics is key & sample sizes rarely matterOr

Exit polls, enter mystery. A new business model where politics is key & sample sizes rarely matter

Meitei group 'Arambai Tengol' surrenders their arms following a meeting with Manipur Governor

Why TN, Karnataka see BJP agenda in timing of delimitation & what's in store for other states

Meet Heino Falcke, the astrophysicist who took the first images of blackhole

'Sam Pitroda is all that the Chinese are talking about, and chinks in India’s policy'

Experts call CBSE’s two-board exam policy a step toward reform, but further deliberation required

All you need to know about the 'City Killer' asteroid & why it is unlikely to hit the Earth in 2032

'Najafgarh should be changed to 'Nahargarh',' demands BJP MLA from Najafgarh, Neelam Pahalwan

'From Solar dos Colaços to Harvalkar House, Goan homes hold the stories of a dying era'

3 years of Russia-Ukraine War: Key military lessons, change in modern warfare & role of US

'South Asian University failing to live up to its original vision, must change its approach'

Delhi Assembly Session LIVE: Discussion on CAG Report & Liquor Policy

Russia, India, & China: Problems & Prospects of building Greater Eurasia

पवन खेड़ा ने क्यों कहा, China और अब USA से भी डरते हैं PM मोदी | Arfa Khanum

The Wire Wrap: Shocks at the UN, Trump's Business of Diplomacy, Manipur Tapes

Telangana Tunnel Collapse Explained: फंसे मजदूरों को निकालने में क्या दिक्कत आ रही है?

Despite High Growth, Gujarat Closer to Bihar Than TN in Poverty, Education: Christophe Jaffrelot

“Shashi Tharoor is an Outstanding Writer, an Asset to Congress, an Adornment to Indian Politics”

Europe in Turmoil The Wire Live

Oscar Worthy Oscar Memories | Oscars 2025 | The Graham Norton Show

Who controls the West Bank?

Heir-raising: the boom in inheritance

She Spotted Puppies in Trouble — What She Did Next Will Amaze You | The Dodo

She Spotted Puppies in Trouble — What She Did Next Will Amaze You | The Dodo

From Hissing Feral Cat to Purring Love Bug | The Dodo

Raised Food Bowl Review | The Pack

Naked Street Dog Couldn't Stop Wagging Her Tail | The Dodo

Resilient Baby Pig Leaps Off Truck and Now Lives for Love and Cheerios | The Dodo

Resilient Baby Pig Leaps Off Truck and Now Lives for Love and Cheerios | The Dodo

Dog Birthday Party Ideas | The Pack

CM Stalin Ready For 'MAJOR WAR' | Modi Govt Playing With Fire Over Delimitation? | Akash Banerjee

Meet the Choreographer Teaching Elon Musk How to Move Like a Normal Person | The Daily Show

Is a sexy accent Trump's kryptonite? #dailyshow #Trump #Macron

Trump held his first Cabinet meeting and even invited President Musk!

Trump just dropped green card plus privileges while Desi Lydic is still getting America with ads

Elon Musk Crashes Cabinet Meeting & Trump Touts $5M "Gold Card" for VIP Immigrants | The Daily Show

Rosebud Baker - "The Mother Lode” & Portraying an Honest Journey to Motherhood | The Daily Show

Which species would you get rid of?

Astrophysicists Try to Resolve the Wave-Particle Duality

What Are the Limitations of the Human Brain?

What do you think of Zara’s disco on a budget party? | #shorts

#Keys of #ARR (Episode-2) 🎹 | Compilation of #Piano BGMs from #OkKanmani ❤️

Permafrost Is Not What You Think It Is

Should we defund academia?

Billy Strings: Face Melting Acoustic Guitar Shred

Which came first, childhood or big brains?

எல்லாம் ரொம்ப மோசமா போய்க்கிட்டு இருக்காங்களே🥴 | Parithabangal #shorts

Phone Addiction Paavangal | Parithabangal

Pacific War Wrecks (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans | National Geographic

Q&A with Antoni Porowski #NoTasteLikeHomewithAntoniPorowski

David Blaine faces his greatest challenge yet 🔥

AH-64 Apache: The US' Most Terrifying Helicopter

ABCD Ki...😭🤣 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood

Interview with CSP Officer 🔥😂| Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Ghusna kahan se hai? 😭 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood

📝 Khan Academy Writing Coach is now FREE ✨

For Gains in Bihar, BJP Needs Nitish Kumar | InFocus Episode 13 | Jist

Veeba’s founder on why hustle culture matters early but true growth needs balance@TheRockfordCircle

Veeba’s founder calls the 70-hour work week a bat-shit crazy idea. Do you agree?@rockfordcircle

Is that a complement or…

Pt Bhavani Shankar Ji Playing Shiv Paran On Pakhawaj Adbhut🙏✨#pakhawaj #classical #music #icmtabla

Stunning Kuchipudi By Deepika Reddy And Group #icmdance #kuchipudi #classical #dance #icmtabla

Amazing Singing By Disha Prakash & Shweta❣️✨ #icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Mold Toxicity: Signs, Symptoms, & Treatment | Dr. Roger Seheult & Dr. Andrew Huberman

#FredGeorge about #AgileTransformation

Zwift Academy Ep 3: DON'T MISS IT! 🚨 #zwiftacademy #zwift #gcn #globalcyclingnetwork

An update about our show Hard Reset

Linear Algebra for Machine Learning

Here are some practice techniques, hope they help! 😂 #shorts

Episode 1, Insect Life History Strategies: Tiny Eggs & Big Decisions

Episode 2: What Controls Insect Population Abundance?

From threat to no sweat: Asteroid 2024 YR4 ☄️

How does blind football work? | DW Documentary

Africa‘s tech pioneers - Innovative solutions for a sustainable future | DW Documentary

Anumita Roychowdhury on causes of air pollution in Delhi | AAD 2025

Urban Heat: In conversation with Anand Sharma

Meghalaya: Major issues and challenges | Patricia Mukhim | AAD 2025

Humans vs wildlife: Conversation with Dr Pranav Chanchani

How Have Indian States Progressed with SDGs? | Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2025 #AAD2025 #environment

Exploring Andhra Pradesh's Crop Insurance: Key Features, Challenges & Future Improvements | AAD 2025

Nude Survival in Limpokwena’s Scorching Heat! | Naked and Afraid | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Shocking Discoveries They Don’t Want You to Know! | NASA’s Unexplained Files | Discovery Channel

Chasing the DeLorean Time Machine | Expedition: Back to the future | Full Episode | Discovery

The Moment Amish Cried at Kedarnath! | Legends Of Shiva with Amish | Discovery Channel

Gold Miners’ Fight for Nome’s Riches! | Bering Sea Gold | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Alien Civilization in NASA's Universe! | Nasa's Unexplained Files | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

CEO cooks for our warehouse team!❤️✨

Watch the full show on Cookd YouTube channel 🤣

Generative AI's Greatest Flaw - Computerphile

Damn, that Stare 🔥🔥🔥 #chess #chessbaseindia #praguechess

Get a feel of 7th Prague International Chess Festival 2025

Prague Masters 2025 | Round 2 | Ft. Ediz vs Pragg, Keymer vs Aravindh, Giri vs Wei Yi

Vincent Keymer is absolutely unstoppable | Keymer vs Wei Yi | Prague Masters 2025

Aravindh Chithambaram is a cat with 9 lives! | Aravindh vs Nguyen Van | Prague Masters 2025

How OLD is GUKESH really?

Chess x Disc Golf?

10 Surprising Things To Avoid With Herniated Disc & Sciatica

Hope can be both a promise and a prison

Crime | Labor Day Week-end Turns Into A Nightmare

The Haunted Bride of Featherstone

UK PM Keir Starmer says US needs security role in Ukraine ahead of Donald Trump meet | BBC News

Tributes paid to Buffy and Gossip Girl actress Michelle Trachtenberg. #MichelleTrachtenberg #BBCNew

Thousands stranded after being freed from Myanmar's scam centres | BBC News

Roof of New York firehouse collapses under heavy snow. #NewYork #BBCNews

Pokemon fans try to guess who's that Pokemon? #PokemonDay #Pokemon #BBCNews

Tate brothers arrive in Florida after Romanian prosecutors agreed to let them leave. #BBCNews

Tate brothers arrive in Florida after Romanian prosecutors agreed to let them leave | BBC News

What made Pokemon an instant hit? #PokemonDay #Pokemon #BBCNews

Why have the Tate brothers gone to the US? | BBC Newscast

Donald Trump says he's hopeful for Ukraine peace deal after talks with UK PM | BBC News

UK flatters Donald Trump with invitation from King for second state visit | BBC News

Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after Hamas hands over four hostages' bodies | BBC News

Pokémon's CEO and fans reveal why they think the franchise is still so popular | BBC News

Gene Hackman and his wife found dead at their home | BBC News

Andrew and Tristan Tate leave Romania on jet bound for the US, sources tell BBC | BBC News

Pokemon Day: What happened to Ash Ketchum? #Pokemon #Gaming #BBCNews

Golden Frogs Battle for Territory and Love | BBC Earth

Frozen bonds 🐻‍❄️ ❄️ #PolarBears #Wildlife #Shorts #AnimalFacts

When my girlfriend is getting MORE PREGNANT

Rating what kind of DAD my boyfriend will be

16 Year Old Kasparov Shows Why You Must Value Space and Grab as Much as Possible!

Why the ancient Greeks rejected heliocentrism

Heckling Doctor 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

If Dhoni is a rugged man Part - 2 😂😂 #comedy #vikkals

Skoda Kylaq vs Skoda Kushaq | Which Car Is More Value For Money?

How Little Experiments Can Lead to Big Success | Emmanuel Acho and David Epstein | TED

Laila

Crystal Meth Addict-Abby

Question & Answers ll சில கேள்விகள்! சில பதில்கள் ll பேரா. இரா.முரளி

बच्चों का मनपसंद - १बार बनाएंगे तो बाजार से चिप्स और नमकीन फिर कभी नहीं लाएंगे Crispy Nachos Recipe

Feb 27, 2025: Aaj Ka AQI from Wazirpur bus depot

Poet-diplomat Abhay K on Nalanda’s myths, legacies and new book | Trailer

Reconfigurable Off-Grid Cabin Designed for Flexible Living, Netherlands 30sqm/323sqft

This Mouth Artist’s Portrait Will Leave You Speechless! 😍🎨

If you are a man, You're a criminal

Sensation is natural | Krishnamurti

The desire for power is manipulative | Krishnamurti

Keep Your Mum at Home | Jack Whitehall

Jack is Back | BRITs 2025 | Jack Whitehall

UltraTech behind cable stocks decline?

இத போட்டா 40% GAS மிச்சமாகுமா?? Gas saver | Live Experiment, Live Results..

Interview | Kala Ramnath | Music of India

Romantic Tamil Movie Vijayakanth and Swapna Love Scene - Nenjile Thunivirunthaal | Goundamani | CMM

Story of Anarsa #podcast #ranveerbrar #anarsa #bodhgaya

K House | Official Promo