Digest — 2025-02-28:

The winter of civilisation

sick beings will never be zero waste.

6 Years Since Becoming a San Francisco Transplant

Migrating from Proton Mail to Fastmail

Is philosophy too Western for its own good?

Ask Ethan: Does mass or energy increase near the speed of light?

Touch Grass is a screen time limiting app for iOS that requires...

From Rolling Stone, a list of 20 essential movies starring Gene Hackman....

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy

More good reporting from Wired on white nationalist Stephen Miller’s role the...

From Zeynep Tufekci, a reminder that people who get the measles “lose...

Dana Milbank responds to the WaPo’s pivot to focusing on “personal liberties...

Re: fighting back against this criminal & corrupt administration: AOC sent a...

Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement. An excellent piece by...

Trump Ejects Zelenskyy From White House

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand...

On Emergent Misalignment

How to Corner Liars: A Miasma-Clearing Protocol

OpenAI releases GPT-4.5

Weirdness Points

What are you doing this weekend?

Interop 2025: another year of web platform improvements

garnix modules

Enough with all the Raft

Programming without pointers

Thoughts about rustdoc

Leader election with S3 and If-Match

Structured data extraction from unstructured content using LLM schemas

how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps

Windows NT for GameCube/Wii

Let's Hold Hands

3FS: A high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads

EA open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals

WASM Wayland Web (WWW)

The Perceptron

Simon Peyton Jones on Notes in source code (2021)

Who Killed the Footless Goose?

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Ludic's Guide To Getting Software Engineering Jobs

Animals Are More Rational Than You Think

No, no, no, sir! A thousand times no!

The Meter, Golden Ratio, Pyramids, and Cubits, Oh My

Ohio One Construction Timeline Update

Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread

Visualizing process trees with marimo and anywidget

Another Conflict Between Privacy Laws and Age Authentication–Murphy v Confirm ID

Virtual museum of socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria

Show HN: Free Kindle Scribe Weekly Planner Creator

ninjavis – generate visualization from ninja build logs

A Few of the Birds I Love

Imec demonstrates electrical yield for 20nm lines High NA EUV single patterning

Turning my ESP32 into a DNS sinkhole to fight doomscrolling

Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data

Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

A few words about indie app business

'Destiny 2' Reveals Its 'Content Shredder' as a Result of Recent Lawsuit

Reimagining Fluid Typography

'Slime' keeps the brain safe ― and could guard against ageing

Video encoding requires using your eyes

Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play

The Dino, the Llama, and the Whale (Deno and Jupyter for Local AI Experiments)

Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit

Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger

AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data

Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens

Show HN: Betting game puzzle (Hamming neighbor sum in linear time)

Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover

Write to Escape Your Default Setting

Show HN: Torii – a framework agnostic authentication library for Rust

Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

Japanese Toshiba Typewriter Model BW-2112 (2020) [video]

Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence

An Update on Mozilla's Terms of Use for Firefox

Why it's so hard to build a jet engine

400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure

3,200% CPU Utilization

Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype after 14 years of neglect

Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test

Meta apologises over flood of gore, violence and dead bodies on Instagram

Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser

Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge

Boris Spassky: 1937–2025

Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data

Openlayer (YC S21) is hiring a senior back end engineer

Netboot Windows 11 with iSCSI and iPXE

I found 1000 GitHub repos with malware. Can we get them deleted?

Mozilla owns "information you input through Firefox"

Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

Does iOS Have Sideloading Yet? No

Howardena Pindell: inner circle

The Physicist Working to Build Science-Literate AI

In Green Hydrogen, Experts See an Exit Ramp From Fossil Fuels

The lonely unicorn

Pakistan Under Shehbaz Sharif: The State of the Nation

To Russia With Waning Love: Changing Migration Dynamics in Central Asia

The New Age of Global Trade: Aggressive Neo-Mercantilism

Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran Complicates Central Asian Export Routes

Indo-Pacific Allies May Rethink US Intelligence Sharing After Gabbard, Patel Appointments

Beyond Terrorism: A Brief History of SAARC’s Failures

Budget Cuts, Insufficient Implementation, and Weak Enforcement Are Undermining Taiwan’s Cyber Defenses

Big Moves and Illusions of Reform in Southeast Asia’s Scam Industry

The Future of South Korea’s Nuclear Exports: The Czech Deal in Focus

Thailand Secretly Surrenders At Least 40 Uyghurs Asylum Seekers to China

Tokayev’s ‘New Kazakhstan’: Rebranding the Old Guard?

How Australia Can Reinforce Its Commitment to International Humanitarian Law

Japan and South Korea in the Age of ‘America First’

Is There an Axis of Autocracy?

Growing Trans-Atlantic Rift on Russia Complicates EU Outreach to India

Misun Woo on Women’s Rights in the Asia-Pacific

The 2 Koreas Share Experience in Foreign Wars

Making Sense of China’s Latest Naval Exercises in the Asia-Pacific

Is the United States Relitigating Its Grand Strategy?

Thai Opposition Party Files No-Confidence Motion Against PM Paetongtarn

[notes] Cloudflare Worker Responses Require Manual Caching

NPCI to build 5 lakh sq ft HQ in Mumbai's BKC

[Weekly funding roundup Feb 22-28] VC investments plummets further

SEBI launches centralised database portal for corporate bonds

US bankruptcy court says BYJU’S, Riju Ravindran, Camshaft defrauded lenders

Blinkit to deliver iPhones, other Apple products in 10 mins in select cities

What's happening at DevSparks Pune? Here's the full agenda

Finance Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey appointed SEBI chief

Sensex and Nifty slump, investors poorer by Rs 7.46 lakh Cr

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (February 28, 2025)

UPI transactions in January surpass 16.99B; highest recorded in any month

OpenAI rolls out latest model GPT-4.5, GPU shortages delay wider rollout

Google Chrome's Split-Screen Feature: A Game Changer for Browsing

India needs to grow at average 7.8% to become high-income country by 2047: World Bank

Overcome self-doubt: 5 ways to overcome inner struggles

Meet ARI: You.com's AI That Researches 400+ Sources in a Second.

Chinese Brands Lead Global EV Sales, Commanding 76% Market Share

Skype's Shutdown in 2025: The End of an Era for Digital Communication

7 must-read books to help you set and smash your goals

Exclusive: Why Pristyn Care exited Bangladesh

Ola Electric takes the top spot in E2W market in February with 25,000 units sold

Bitcoin drops below $80,000 amid macro uncertainty but experts remain optimistic

India’s EV revolution: Are we ready for the Lithium battery waste tsunami?

Ethereal Machines signs MoU with Karnataka Government to establish factory in Bengaluru

4 must-read iconic books recommended by Prajakta Koli

Bengaluru-based Whizzo harnesses materials science to weave innovative textiles

There is no shortage of capital, but the funding game has changed, says Sanjay Nayar of Sorin Investments

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This Is What Young Founders Should Focus On

James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning view of spiral galaxy NGC 2283

IM-2 'Athena' moon lander captures stunning views of Earth and Falcon 9 upper stage

Are the Precision Ancient Stone Vases Modern Fakes? Provenance, and Scanning in the Petrie Museum!

Time to write UI in C++

Bangladesh's new political party signals a shift in politics,but challenges remain| #InstantAnalysis

Japan's population is shrinking, number of babies born in 2024 lowest in 125 years

Q3 GDP data shows India's growth is still lower than expected| #InstantAnalysis

'Trump thinks he can break us, he is mistaken. Canada is not for sale', says Ontario's Doug Ford

‘You are gambling with World War three’- Trump tells Zelensky during White House Meet

Geopolitical ripples of likely UK-US deal on Chagos Islands, Diego Garcia & the stakes for India

'You are gambling on World War 3,' on camera shouting match between Trump, JD Vance & Zelenskyy

‘You are gambling with World War three’- Trump tells Zelensky during White House Meet

Europe is imploding. Blame liberals for German elections, not Nazi terror

Europe is imploding. Blame liberals for German elections, not Nazi terror

'What lies ahead is far greater than what has already been,' says Ursula von der Leyen in Delhi

PM Modi meets President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at Hyderabad House

India's caution over cryptos while Trump welcomes them

Trump - Starmer joint press conference: Ukraine peace deal, NATO, US-UK trade deal & more discussed

‘Can you take on Russia by yourself?’ Donald Trump asks UK PM Starmer| #theprintuncut

LIVE: PM Modi and President of the European Commission address press meet at Hyderabad House

What’s the feud between Systra and MMRDA over Mumbai Metro works

भारत के 100 करोड़ लोग आर्थिक तंगी के शिकार

India has to Improve Conditions of its Citizens, Without Which it will have no Role Internationally

Entire Neighborhood in Rajasthan Gets Bulldozer Notice: What's the Truth Behind Beawar's Story?

5 Years of Delhi Riots: Wounds of 2020 Still Haunt Victims in 2025

What actually is a calorie? #science

Chris Pratt & Arnold Schwarzenegger Get Competitive | The Graham Norton Show

Bulldog Refuses to Sleep Without His Skateboard | The Dodo

Play Tent for Cats | The Pack

Meet The Fake Microwavable Cat | The Pack

Meet the Man Who’s Fostered and Saved Over 40 Pitties | The Dodo

Bulldog Refuses to Sleep Without His Skateboard | The Dodo

Tiny Kitten Saved Just In Time Needs A Home | The Dodo

@ChunkTheGroundhog On How He Became Famous | The Dodo

The Tiny Rescue Kitten Saved at the Last Minute Now Needs a Loving Home | The Dodo

Rescued Street Dog Can't Stop Wagging Her Tail After Finding Love | The Dodo

Even Fox News isn't backing up Trump's Russia-Ukraine stance #dailyshow #Trump #Ukraine

Is it possible to talk about MLK or Rosa Parks without banned DEI words? #JoshJohnson investigates

Are Democrats Taking the Rizz Out of Resistance in Their Opposition to Trump? | The Daily Show

Gabrielle Union - “Riff Raff” and Creating True Equality in Entertainment & Beyond | The Daily Show

Josh Johnson Asks How NYCers Honor Black History Without Breaking DEI Bans | The Daily Show

Do Electrons Really Have "Intrinsic" Angular Momentum?

Want to make CHANGE? Tap into the skills you already have. #TEDTalk #Democracy

How to Divorce as Allies, Not Enemies | Allison O’Brien | TED

Watch how this microscope uses touch!

You Can't Hate Yourself Into Loving Yourself

5 Shocking Things About Knights

Let the rant begin… | #shorts #funnyshorts

#Thala x #PathuThala | #GoodBadUgly | What if | #ARR & #AK

Sonnalum (BGM - All Versions) | Kadhal Virus | A.R.Rahman | Background Score

We Know Exactly Who This Guy Is

The Discovery of a Surprising Brain-Body Connection #science #vagusnerve #brain

EASY ORIGAMI GIRAFFE TUTORIAL | HOW TO MAKE ORIGAMI GIRAFFE STEP BY STEP EASY FOLDING

🔴 LIVE: Drugs in the City | To Catch a Smuggler | S4 FULL EPISODES

Love of food starts with family. #NoTasteLikeHomewithAntoniPorowski

As defense mechanisms go, this one is pretty explosive 🪲 #ARealBugsLife

What's Up: March 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA

The Teleprompter Paradox

Why Seaweed Is Perfect for Vegetarian Stocks

India se kiyun haartey hein? 😏 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood

Hotel ka Raaz khol diya! 🙄🙊 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Hotel mein kya hota hai? 🙊😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood

She Designed the Ultimate Off-Grid Sanctuary for Simple Living

Wife bank statements and ITR to show she earns

DV Act gender neutral?

Some stories arrive like signs from the universe—too perfect to ignore. ✨

"There are lies we tell ourselves so often that they start to sound like the truth.“

Baar Baar Dekho | Story of The Gentlemen’s Club, Shammi Kapoor & Signs | Spoken Fest Mumbai 2025

Govt Opposes Life Ban On Convicted MPs-MLAs| InFocus Episode 14 | Jist

Justin Webb on The Trump World Order (Part 1)

Amazing Kathak By Radhika Karandikar ❣️✨#icmdance #kathak #classical #dance #icmtabla #shorts

Pakhawaj Jugalbandi By Krushna Maharaj Kadam Amazing🔥✨#pakhawaj #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Pt Bheemsen Joshi Ji 🙏✨ #icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

The Best Way to Learn as Shown by Research | Dr. Andrew Huberman

The Fake Currency That Saved Brazil’s Economy

2 Cement Stocks Outperforming in a Crashing Market!

Microservices, Where Did It All Go Wrong • Ian Cooper • GOTO 2024

How to Deliver Quality Software Against All Odds • Daniel Terhorst-North & Julian Wood

The Pros Apply The Pressure – Which Finalists Crack? | Zwift Academy 2025 Ep. 3

24 Hours To Go! Zwift Academy Episode 3! DON'T MISS THIS! #zwiftacademy #globalcyclingnetwork #gcn

Can I Get Top 20 In The World's Biggest Gravel Race? | Road to Unbound

How to become a developer in your 30s with Anjana Vakil [Podcast #162]

Episode 3: The Nature of Insect Niches

Episode 4: What Islands and Lotteries Tell us about Community Assembly

The American abortion war | DW Documentary

Zoonotic Diseases in India: A conversation with Dr Rajesh Bhatia

The Sunita Narain Show | The Road to 500 GW of Clean Energy

E-Mobility in India | Sunita Narain | AAD 2025

Participants learnings and experiences at AAD 2025 #AAD2025 #latestnews

Soil Health in India | Schemes, policies and organic farming with Dr. Biswapati Mandal | AAD 2025

Hunting The Lost Time Machine! | Expedition: Back to the future | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Parker’s Most Insane Adventure Yet! | Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail | Discovery Channel

Top Unexplained Events in the Devil’s Sea! | Curse of the Bermuda Triangle | Discovery Channel

your simple way to no oven no egg chocolate cake!❤️

How Many Organisms Am I?

Carlsen's 14-move Freestyle Friday WIN vs Norowitz

CAUTION: This Rapid chess video may put you to sleep #16

Kids LOVE Gukesh 🥹♥️ #gukesh #chess

Ediz Gurel vs Praggnanandhaa | Prague Masters 2025

Prague Masters 2025 | Round 3 | Ft. Pragg vs Nguyen, Wei Yi vs Aravindh, Giri vs Navara

Aravindh Chithambaram stuns man in form Vincent Keymer | Enters top 20 in the world

What a game by Divya Deshmukh! STUNNING | Prague Challengers 2025

"I cannot go for positional chess with Vincent! He is too good!" - Aravindh Chithambaram

Put Your Fingers HERE

Chess.com 3-Check Championship Is Here!! Has The Community Mastered This Variant?

Relieve Sciatica with Nerve Flossing #sciaticarelief #nerveflossing #backpainrelief

Texas’s economy grew faster than China’s

From Maidan to Today | Is Ukraine’s Fate in Trump’s Hands?

Has Buddhism Turned to Extreme Nationalism in Myanmar?

What’s the longest song?

Mass protests in Greece on train tragedy anniversary | BBC News

Man's brain turned to glass by hot volcanic ash cloud. #Volcano #Brain #AncientRome #BBCNews

Will President Trump's leaders meetings bring Ukraine closer to peace? | BBC News

Actor Derek Jacobi on Shakespeare, luck, and coming out in the 1950s | BBC News

Zelensky arrives at White House for talks with Trump | BBC News

Arrests over AI-generated child abuse material | BBC News

Why is Trump sharing an AI video of Gaza? | BBC Americast

What happened during Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting? #BBCNews

What happened when President Trump met the UK PM Starmer? | BBC Newscast

Private lunar lander captures marvellous views of Moon. #LunarLander #BBCNews

Zelensky arrives in Washington, after 'successful' UK-US talks | BBC News

Almost a million young people not in work or education. #NEET #BBCNews

Stunning 4K Underwater Nature Footage | BBC Earth

My boyfriend is so NONCHALANT

BABY MOON update on pregnancy

Gentleman - Champion - Legend || Boris Vasilievich Spassky

Legendary Game - Legendary Tournament || Spassky vs Fischer || Second Piatigorsky Cup (1966)

When being beautifully wrong leads to discovery

பாவம் பண்ணிட்ட டா பாவம் பண்ணிட்ட 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Ode to dread: Europe after Trump

SWU Subscription Channel Promo-Bunny

Car Chase/Adrenaline Junkie-Johnny

Retired LAPD Sergeant-Randy Holcomb

The New Girl In Town-Lily

என்ன இப்டி இறங்கிட்டான் | Parithabangal #shorts

बेबाक और बेख़ौफ़ पत्रकारिता, विज्ञापन मुक्त पत्रकारिता

Transformative Cabin in Netherlands Doubles In Size! 😱 #nevertoosmall #shorts

Don't escape from suffering | Krishnamurti

What I am now will be what I am tomorrow, unless I change now | Krishnamurti

Is the brain merely concerned with security? | Krishnamurti

There must be freedom to observe | Krishnamurti

Fear is a movement away from ‘what is’ amurti

Don’t make these teachings into a system | Krishnamurti

Are you deceiving yourself? | Krishnamurti

Is there such thing as security? | Krishnamurti

Does awareness of disorder bring order? | Krishnamurti

Where do you find security? | Krishnamurti

Insight implies instant perception | Krishnamurti

What is it to be related? | Krishnamurti

The dualistic process within us | Krishnamurti

Can action and reaction stop? | Krishnamurti

The gift of miracles | Krishnamurti

A Photographer's Most Complicated Tool.

Why is Kannada so Kasturi?

Gehna | Professional Category Nominee Film | 50 Hour Filmmaking Challenge #IFP14

Sarathkumar vs Anandaraj Best Friend Betrayal Fight Scene From Palaivana Paravaigal | CMM

Chicken Dalcha | लज़ीज़ चिकन दाल | Kashmiri Chicken Dal | मुर्ग़ दालचा | Chef Ranveer Brar

Kerala Architecture Comes to Life in This Stunning Bengaluru Home! (House Tour)

Saravanan sir is very impressed with the way I narrate story - #Bhagyaraj

How I got into Television- #Raghuvaran

About 'Belleilakka' from the film 'Sivaji The Boss' from Cinematographer KV Anand

Shri AVM's prediction- #Vaali

The biggest turning point in my career- #Arjun

Rick Rubin asks me about what I’ve learned from YouTube #guitar #rickrubin #socialmedia #shorts

The Greatest Art Heist In History

Microsoft Announces World's First Topological Quantum Chip - Majorana 1 Explained