Digest — 2025-03-04:

Are you reading the same blogs over and over?

209. For the defense of the travel romance

how i deal with “fuck it, why bother” thoughts

i fell in love with reading again

The psychology behind “pressure pitfalls” and why it matters for leaders

The 3 cognitive scripts that subtly rule our lives

The hidden cost of AI: Trading long-term resilience for short-term efficiency

Big Think+ launches Interests & Role-Based Recommendations

The truth about banning “dangerous gain-of-function” research

Total Context Collapse: New Polls Show That 100% Of Americans Have Forgotten...

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance? “As the internet says, ‘This is not...

Criminal defense attorney Ken White: “What happens if federal, state, or local...

He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene...

“The ‘war on woke’ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea...

On Public Service

Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is not mere misinformation). “When...

Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds. A former anti-vax...

Josh Marshall looks closely at Trump’s Feb 11th “workforce optimization” EO for...

From Just Security: “A timeline of actions that highlight the alarming level...

“De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating...

Blogging for Democracy

On Saturday, Steph Curry dunked in a regular-season NBA game for the...

A good, long profile of author Robert Caro, in which he reveals...

Truth to power

The Semi-Rational Militar Firefighter

For scheming, we should first focus on detection and then on prevention

How Much Are LLMs Actually Boosting Real-World Programmer Productivity?

Could Advanced AI Accelerate the Pace of AI Progress? Interviews with AI Researchers

The Milton Friedman Model of Policy Change

Miners on CI/CD pipelines for Drone/Gitlab servers with open registrations

Encoding Hangeul, Koreas writing system

Thaiger Sprint 2025: Starring H2O, the HTTP server (& dropping Nginx)

Triangle of Separation

Lean 4, release v4.17.0

Solving SICP

hue.tools: An open source toolbox for colors

Why fastDOOM is fast

The Hierarchy of Hazard Controls

The Web Should Be A Conversation

Tailscale is pretty useful

Falsehoods programmers believe about languages

A case for feminism in programming language design

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 1: System Overview

Avoid the nightmare bicycle

DuckDB goes distributed? DeepSeek’s smallpond takes on Big Data

You Need Much Less Memory than Time

Making Flow – Interview with director Gints Zilbalodis —

Mozilla updates Firefox's Terms again after backlash

TigerBeetle Architecture

The Botfly Test: Characterizing parasitic automated behavior in online communities

Do not run any Cargo commands on untrusted projects

Feeling in Farsi, Writing in English: On Translating Your Life From One Language to Another

What Was A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius?

The Romance History Forgot

The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan

Learning Medicine from Animals

Body Doubling

(Reasonably) secure Azure Pipelines on-prem deployments

AI models makes precise copies of cuneiform characters

"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing

Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator

Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen

What if football championships were lineal?

Speeding Up Computational Lithography with the Power and Parallelism of GPUs

Static Site Generator for Emacs Lisp Programmers

Putting Bounties on My Goals

Words for the Heart: A treasury of emotions from classical India

Simple Explanation of LLMs

Learn How to Break AES

The Imaginary Engineer – Karl Hans Janke's Flights of Fancy

Show HN: Fork of Claude-code working with local and other LLM providers

Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows

Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Founding Engineer to Build an Internet-Scale Web Crawler

The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)

Show HN: ArchGW – An open-source intelligent proxy server for prompts

Show HN: Scholium, Your Own Research Assistant

Should managers still code?

What a crab sees before it gets eaten by a cuttlefish

Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe?

Show HN: Time travel debugging AI for more reliable vibe coding

Satellogic's Open Satellite Feed

DARPA exploring growing bio structures of "unprecedented size" in microgravity

Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control

Translating natural language to first-order logic for logical fallacy detection

ARC-AGI without pretraining

Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance

Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring Eng to Build the Best AI Agents for PDF

Let’s code a TCP/IP stack, 1: Ethernet and ARP (2016)

Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)

Global sales of combustion engine cars peaked

Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

What if your worry problem is really a planning problem?

How Stockholm Is Sprouting Healthy Trees From Concrete

Across and within

Tajikistan Holds Parliamentary Elections Without Independent Observers

China, America, and the Great Railway Race in Africa

In Moscow Meeting, Myanmar Junta Chief Praises ‘King’ Putin

Singapore’s Budget 2025, Explained

Federal Social Democracy: The Right – and Only – Path Forward for Myanmar

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government Seeks Dialogue With Afghanistan Amid Rising Militant Attacks

The Taliban-US Deal 5 Years Ago Remade Afghanistan. Was It Worth the Cost?

US About-Face on Ukraine Sparks Diplomatic Dilemma for South Korea

Uzbek Security Service Shakeup Continues With Dismissal of Internal Affairs Minister

What Do Chinese Analysts Think of Trump’s China Policy Thus Far?

The COVID-19 ‘Lab-Leak Origin’ Theory: Fact or Fiction?

Japanese Foreign Minister Banned by Russia Over Ukraine Sanctions

Philippines Confident on US Alliance Despite Trump Disruptions, Ambassador Says

Thailand Considers Building Wall on Cambodian Border to Halt Scammers

The Impact of Technological Weapons in the Myanmar Conflict

[notes] Yes, Hallucinations are the “Least Dangerous”—Exactly

AI is replacing coders, only domain experts will survive and thrive: Akash Sureka at DevSparks Pune 2025

ValueBridge Capital acquires VC-focused investment banker Boon Capital

7 historical fiction books that bring the past to life

Looking beyond AI: Industry experts bullish on deeptech to solve real world problems

Zoho Corp's big AI thrust: SaaS major plans to roll out foundational models this year

Micro-investing platform Deciml raises $3M in seed round led by Jainam Broking

Amazon-backed Anthropic valued at $61.5B post Series E funding round

Are TN’s online gaming rules roadblocks?; Fighting plastic waste with innovation

Trump vs. Zelensky: Inside Their Heated Oval Office Clash

Blue Tokai appoints Umwelt.AI's chatbot Nikki as chief listening officer

InsuranceDekho raises $70M from Beams, MUFG and BNP Paribas Cardif

The one skill you'll need in 2025 (Spoiler: It's not AI)

Why Parle-G biscuits still cost Rs 5: A crunchy mystery!

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (March 4, 2025)

M2P Fintech to boost AI stack with Mad Street Den acquisition

10 scripts to turn disagreements into productive conversations

OYO races to IPO as debt deadline looms: Report

60,000 Years of Free Electricity for All! China's Big Find on Unlimited Energy

Beams Fintech Fund leads $70M funding round in InsuranceDekho

Perplexity Delivers Every Ball of Cricket LIVE – Scores & Expert Views!

No more whispers: How women are confronting taboos in health, career, and beyond

MS Dhoni family office invests in real estate platform SILA

Mintoak acquires Digiledge to expand bill payments and CBDC capabilities

Midnight curfew and more: Tamil Nadu’s online gaming regulations have companies racing for clarity, alternatives

AI agents and the future of workflows: From automation to intelligent collaboration

Meet the 19-year-old who is transforming Indian classical music with AI-driven stem isolation

SUIMONTEI / 翠門亭 short ver.

Watch live! SpaceX Starship to launch on ambitious 8th test flight

See IM-2 'Athena' lander’s stunning views of the moon in time-lapses

SpaceX Crew-9 on ISS, incl. Starliner astronauts, talk long-awaited return trip

See Firefly Blue Ghost's descent and landing on moon in amazing video

SpaceX scrubs Starship flight 8 launch attempt to troubleshoot rocket

The Bloody, Brutal Therapy of Spartan Bare Knuckle | New VICE Documentary

How Modi govt bet on gold bonds,got hit by 930% spike in liabilities & is now furiously backtracking

'SNA system had led to a saving for the Centre of Rs 11,000 crore since 2021-22': Nirmala Sitharaman

US halts military aid to Ukraine days after Trump-Zelenkskyy clash: Here's how it will impact Kyiv

‘Just-in-Time’ Modi Govt reform saves money, exposes states’ governance sclerosis & failure to spend

DNA analysis uncovers identity of 1800s serial killer, Jack the Ripper

Vedas don’t mention Hindu pilgrimages. When did they become mainstream?

'I have had negotiations at PM level but never seen a leader so angry': Balbir Singh Rajewal

'We could have rebuilt our entire US Navy with $350bn': Trump on US & Ukraine minerals deal

‘No room left,’ says Donald Trump as 25% tariffs on Mexican & Canadian imports take effect

A tea-ser about new EC chief & the Maharashtra Congress president who started off on the wrong foot

NCP's Dhananjay Munde resigns as Maharashtra Minister:What this means for Mahayuti|#InstantAnalysis

PM Modi inaugurates Vantara rehabilitation centre, in Gujarat’s Jamnagar

Trump 2.0, Europe in turmoil & challenges for India #cuttheclutter

India’s tough choice between US & Russian stealth fighter jets, & growing obesity problem

LIVE: UP CM Yogi Adityanath's address during state's Budget Session

महायुति के अंदर सियासी जंग: क्या शिंदे को भाजपा कर रही है कमजोर?

“शेर” नहीं शेयर बाज़ार का हाहाकार देखिये मोदी जी | Arfa Khanum

Beed Sarpanch Murder: ‘राजनीतिक हत्या’ के फोटो वायरल, महाराष्ट्र में मंत्री का इस्तीफ़ा

Stalin’s Advice to Immediately Have Babies is Thoughtless, Reckless and Won’t Work: Exec Dir PFI

रणवीर Allahabadia को SC से राहत, लेकिन नैतिकता पर मिला लेक्चर

Decoding quantum reality - with Vlatko Vedral

Why AI Can Be the Best Thing Ever…Or the Worst Thing Ever (And How to Respond to Either One)

The AI Revolution No One Is Ready For

Dog Found By Highway Sprints To His New Family | The Dodo

He Carries His Senior Dog On Morning Walks | The Dodo

Tiny Spider Wants To Fight Family Dog | The Dodo

Golden Retriever Runs A Day Care For Kids | The Dodo

Rescue Dog Who Was Scared Of His Foster Dad Finally Warms Up | The Dodo

The Comfiest E-Collar Alternative | The Dodo

Golden Retriever Runs A Day Care For Kids | The Dodo

Obese Chihuahua Loses Half Of His Body Weight | The Dodo

Obese Chihuahua Loses Half Of His Body Weight | The Dodo

Our Cats Love These Silvervine Sticks | The Pack

Trump Pulls The Plug On Military Aid To Ukraine | Can Europe Alone Save Zelensky? | Akash Banerjee

Trump just made it easier for Russian oligarchs to buy their way into America

An interview with Elon Musk? Jon would be delighted!

Trump & Zelenskyy’s Oval Office Meeting, Foxsplained | The Daily Show

According to Trump and his allies, either Ukraine totally capitulates or it's World War III?

Jon Stewart on Trump’s Heel Turn on Zelenskyy In Favor of Putin’s New World Order | The Daily Show

Matthew Desmond - “Poverty, by America” & What It Takes to Close the Poverty Gap | The Daily Show

The tale of the brothers who outwitted the demon queen - Malay Bera

Our Ever-Evolving Relationship with AI | TED Talk Watch Party

Collagen’s Dirty Secret — and Its Clean Future | Fei Luo | TED

Neil & a Plasma Physicist Discuss the Future of Fusion Energy

Turns out we’re all floating in a plasma soup! 🌌

The Biggest Misconceptions About Ancient Warriors

#MayMadham - #arrahman - #PhysicalMedia #Collection (#Cassette - #ACD - #DVD - #VHS) 📼💿

#Duet - #arrahman - #PhysicalMedia #Collection (#Cassette - #ACD - #DVD - #VHS) 📼💿

Sound DOES Travel in Space (and 10 Other Space Things You Got Wrong)

WHEN THE EARTH WAS GREEN: Author Livestream and Q&A with Riley Black - #SciFrBookClub

Microsoft’s Topological Qubits Probably Don’t Exist, Researchers Warn

"Analog is NOT Better Than Digital" — Answering My Viewers' Questions

Led Zeppelin “Ramble On” breakdown #guitar #ledzeppelin #jimmypage #shorts

All Dams Are Temporary

What Niche Do Humans Occupy? (Mailbag Episode!)

என்னடா வகை வகையா வெச்சுருக்கீங்க| Parithabangal #shorts

OTT Paavangal | Parithabangal

Bharatnatyam dancers are cute, can’t blame him 🤝

Sambhal: गिरफ्तारी के बाद भी अज्ञात लोगों की सूची में क्यों लगी है फैज़ान की तस्वीर?

Abhay K on who destroyed Nalanda, and what ‘no one knows in Nalanda’ | Teaser

Is DOGE the revolution of the billionaire? Was there a need for it in the first place?

Voodoo, Torture, and Pirates: New Orleans History Revealed | Hidden History | National Geographic

Surviving a Tsunami: Cici’s story | Tsunami: Race Against Time | National Geographic

Malik mein hun ya Tu? 😡 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Oor bolo Happy Birthday 😭😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood

The Apartment Of The Future? 🌱 #hometour #sustainableliving

My wife is Threatening me.

Few Moves.

Trump & Ukraine

The Gold Card - U.S. Citizenship Subscription

What you NEED to know about Bird Flu!

BRITs 2025 | Best Bits | Jack Whitehall

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

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

Beutiful Choreography By Nayantara Kurma Parpia❣️✨ #icmdance #classical #dance #icmtabla #shorts

Niladri Kumar & Ustad Zakir Hussain Ji Legends 🙏✨ #sitar #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Amazing Gayaki By Kaushiki Chakraborty Ji 🙏✨ #icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

500 Terrible Topics We Didn’t Make Videos About

How can women start their investment journey? Ft Radhika Gupta and Twinkle Jain

Small PRs, Big Impact: The Art of Code Reviews • Adrienne Braganza Tacke & Sasa Juric • GOTO 2025

The Future Of Bike Tech Might Be Fast, But It Looks Sh*t! | GCN Show Ep. 634

Zwift Academy 2025 Final Episode! 8 March 2025 #gcn #globalcyclingnetwork #zwiftacademy

ChatGPT for DNA

Unity Tutorial – Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) Game with SpacetimeDB

Could water protect astronauts from radiation? 💧

No water in your tap? | DW Documentary

War in Sudan | DW Documentary

Scientists Create Potential Cure for Heart Attacks

Roaming Naked In The Jungle! | Naked and Afraid | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Berger Paints- A Symphony of Colors | Strokes of Legacy, Innovation | Coming Soon

Vadivelu Goundamani Tamil Movie | Vadivelu | Goundamani #ddmovies

Vadivelu Goundamani Tamil Movie | Vadivelu | Goundamani #ddmovies

Vadivelu Goundamani Tamil Movie | Vadivelu | Goundamani #ddmovies

Vadivelu Goundamani Tamil Movie | Vadivelu | Goundamani #ddmovies

Vadivelu Goundamani Tamil Movie | Vadivelu | Goundamani #ddmovies

Vadivelu Goundamani Tamil Movie | Vadivelu | Goundamani #ddmovies

Poorvi | Jyoti Hegde | Music of India

Missing Ken Zuckerman | Music of India

COP Illusions S1 Ep1 For Youtube

Religions and Pop Culture: Crash Course Religions #24

Carbon: (C++)++ ? Can Carbon De-Throne C++? - Computerphile

Mikhail Tal slays Wade's Dragon in 25 moves

Incredible preparation against the Catalan | Shankland vs Wei Yi | Prague Masters 2025

Prague Masters 2025 | Round 6 | Ft. Pragg vs Sam, Vincent vs Anish, Aravindh vs Liem

Why was Anish Giri Shocked? Arjun Erigaisi vs Anish Giri | World Blitz 2024

Indian food and Mango Lassi with Anish Giri in Prague | Rest day Vlog

When the arbiter looked at the ChessBase India video to decide the game

Marc'Andria Maurizzi vs Divya Deshmukh | Ultimate heartbreak in the end! | Prague Chess Challengers

Sacrificed Both Rooks...

Your Plantar Fasciitis Won’t Go Away Until You Do This!

Can Boys Escape Toxic Masculinity ?

They Died… And Came Back to Tell the Truth!

US President Donald Trump's tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico begin | BBC News

Over 50% of adults worldwide predicted to be obese or overweight by 2050 | BBC News

Car swept into sea as Canary Islands hit with floods. #Spain #BBCNews

President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine ready to work on peace deal | BBC News

The Bafta Game Award nominations are in! #BaftaGameAwards #Gaming #BBCNews

MPs launch smoke grenades inside Serbian parliament during protests. #Serbia #BBCNews

What a pause in US military aid could mean for Ukraine | BBC News

Canadian PM Trudeau retaliates against US and calls Trump's tariffs ‘very dumb’ | BBC News

Ukrainian President Zelensky ‘wants to make things right’ with US President Trump | BBC News

JD Vance denies disrespecting UK over ‘random country’ remarks | BBC News

Has President Zelensky backed down from war of words with President Trump? | BBC Newscast

What is President Trump's history with Ukraine? | BBC News

Trump ends Ukraine military aid and begins trade war with Canada, Mexico, China | BBC News

US pauses military aid to Ukraine as EU chief says Europe is 'ready to step up' | BBC News

M23 rebels leader denies assistance from Rwanda | BBC News

How to stop wasting SO much food #bbcideas #foodwaste #moneysavingtips

Spend Time With Kangaroos And Their Babies | Animal ASMR | BBC Earth

Boyfriends sister matches my ENERGY

Telling my FILIPINO PARENTS im pregnant

"Awoken From his Slumber" || Shankland vs Wei Yi || Prague International Chess Festival (2025)

Dr Joe Dispenza - Break the Habit of Being Yourself

계란 1개로 바나나 케이크 만들기 :: 후라이팬 바나나빵 :: 발효X 이스트X :: Banana Bread, Banana Cake

First time love experience Part - 2😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Stress, Stress Everywhere Stress 😂😂 #comedy #vikkals

Emma Thompson's trousers gets the couch excited 😜

Buck off: US pauses Ukraine aid

Stuntman/Daredevil interview-Crazy Mike

Skydiving, DMT and Regenerative Agriculture-Arthur "Alive" Lopez IV

Pimp-King Mazi

Asteroid Trajectories (extra) - Sixty Symbols

How is it possible for a human being to change? | Krishnamurti

The Champions Trophy begins

As the budget debate wraps up, let’s cut through the noise and face the facts

Not-in-kind (NIK) #cooling methods in modern #buildings | Cool it

"The Next Pandemic Might be Happening and We Don't Know": Pranay Lal

Mango Pickle in Fried Rice?! A fusion you never knew you needed!🥰 Try it now❤️

தேவி Wait பண்ணிட்டு இருப்ப அதலம் பாத்துக்கலாம் 😔 | Vaazhvey Maayam Movie | Kamal,Sridevi,Sripriya

Dhaba style Kadhai Paneer | कढ़ाई पनीर की spl रेसिपी | Kadhai Masala bonus | Chef Ranveer Brar

Explore Kerala’s Vernacular Architecture in This Kochi Home (House Tour)

I love how my kids just play along with the madness that is my husband | #comedyvideos #shorts

Why are conspiracy theories going mainstream?