Digest — 2025-04-16:

Building an artificial scientist

My Name is Sebastian, and I Am a Discoveryholic

Re: Why I don't want to have kids

Website Manifesto

Science’s value, unlike NASA, cannot be destroyed by politics

Why the people who actually drive history aren’t in the textbooks

What a historian in 2100 might say about Trump’s America

The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder

The Jobs to be Done Framework as a Method to Understand Demand

How to Monetize Volunteer-Driven Platforms

How—and When—to Adapt Your Leadership Style

Great Strategy Starts with Experimentation

How the Construction Sector Is Using AI to Cut Waste and Fraud

Future-Proof Your Business with Smarter Talent Strategies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM VERIZON

Robin Sloan’s monthly newsletter is one of my favorites, chock full of...

The Guggenheim Fellows for 2025 have been announced and they include Miranda...

Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored For It

How Well Is [NYC’s] Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. “The number of complaints...

Here’s a gift link to the WSJ article about Elon Musk’s “legion”...

The First Sighting of the Colossal Squid

Timothy Snyder on “the beginning of an American policy of state terror”...

Here’s the full trailer for season two of Poker Face (Natasha Lyonne,...

The Traditional Designs of Ukrainian Egg Decorating

On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families....

Was The Great Gatsby’s titular character a Black man who passed for...

Ben Werdmuller on how he would run Bluesky. “Anyone will be able...

An HTML Web Component library

OpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety Testing

OpenAI rewrote its Preparedness Framework

Ctrl-Z: Controlling AI Agents via Resampling

AI-enabled coups: a small group could use AI to seize power

ASI existential risk: Reconsidering Alignment as a Goal

swank-decorators: Python-inspired decorators for Ruby

codex: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

Introducing Herb: A new HTML-Aware ERB Parser for smarting developer tooling

Resonate

Raw loops for performance?

Getting better performance out of object storage

What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work

Learning Fennel from Scratch to Develop Neovim Plugins

(All) Databases Are Just Files. Postgres Too

TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days

deb-books: books hidden in Debian source packages

go-away (another http proxy for LLM scraper defence)

An Intro to DeepSeek's Distributed File System

Mastodon Exit Interview

Update on Spain and LaLiga blocks of the internet

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting

the lifecycle of a pull request

Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids

Atomicless Concurrency (2023)

The Story Behind K2 Mode and How It Works | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Diary of a Spreadsheet

There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People

Course of Treatment

In North Carolina, Juvenile Lifers See a Pathway to Freedom

We’re All Wild Things

We Could Have Been Warthogs

The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death

Living with Lab Mice

Healthy soil is the hidden ingredient

Calypsi: A series of C compiler and assembly language cross compiler tool chains

Translate Fortran to C++ with AI and RAG

Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down

Principles for Building One-Shot AI Agents

Hydrogen vs. Battery Buses: A European Transit Reality Check

Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use (2019)

A high-throughput parser for the Zig programming language

Microsoft researchers developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs

Kotlin 101: Type Classes Quickly Explained

CVE Foundation

"Vivarium": The keeper of a lab's animals stumbles onto a secret [fiction]

RakuAST Grant Report

How Nintendo bled Atari games to death

OneSignal (YC S11) Is Hiring Engineers

OpenAI o3 and o4-mini

How a Forgotten Battle Created a More Peaceful World

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)

Damn Vulnerable MCP Server

Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)

An Interactive Introduction to Rotors from Geometric Algebra

US abruptly turns off funding for CVE program

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All the Bullshit

Flexport Is Hiring Software Engineers

How to be a resilient, adaptable leader

The Pour-igin of Species

Touch, Our Most Complex Sense, Is a Landscape of Cellular Sensors

What We’re Reading: A Living, Breathing Freeway Crossing for Wildlife

The essence of industrialism

Analyzing the PLA’s Early April Exercises in the Taiwan Strait

Thai Resort Island at the Center of a Simmering Territorial Dispute With Cambodia

‘Comrades and Brothers’: Is China Pulling Vietnam Back Into Its Orbit?

In Malaysia, China’s Xi Jinping Again Strikes Cooperative Note

Critical Minerals Add a New Dynamic to Pakistan-US Relations

The Trump Tariff Shock Should Push Indonesia to Reform Its Economy

Tariff Talks an Opportunity to Reinvigorate the Japan-US Alliance

How China’s Companies Are Responding to the US Trade War

The Big Lie: Being Pro-US Won’t Force China to Invade Taiwan

Trans-Afghan Railway: Will Uzbekistan Develop the Kandahar Route?

Trump’s Second Coming: Mongolia Watches the Chaos With Caution

Water for Peace: What Bangladesh Wants From the Ganga Water Treaty

China’s New Deep-Sea Cutting Tool Exposes Vulnerability of Undersea Cables

Through Climate Diplomacy, Nepal Sounds the Alarm on the Himalayas

How the CCP Is Reshaping Religious Order in China

Bangladesh Pokes India in the Eye; Delhi Hits Back

Cambodia’s Haunted Present: 50 years After Khmer Rouge’s Rise, Its Murderous Legacy Looms Large

The US Flip-flop Over H20 Chip Restrictions

Singapore Announces General Election to Take Place on May 3

MH370: The Devil Is In the Data

[elsewhere] True Myth Releases: 8.6, 9.0, and a New Docs Site!

[notes] Claude as a Better Grammarly?

[notes] Quoting Dan Moren on Apple’s Software

[library] no efficiency… very little scalability

Magma raises $5M in Series A led by Capria Ventures

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (April 16, 2025)

Sterling Accuris acquires Gujarat Pathology Lab to expand Ahmedabad network

BluSmart halts cab bookings in areas of Delhi NCR and Bengaluru

DLAI rebrands to Unified Fintech Forum as SRO race gets crowded

SaaS major Gupshup denies layoffs; affirms decline in workforce amid restructuring

Zepto changes parent entity's name ahead of IPO

The First-Ever Sperm Race in History to Raise Global Fertility Crisis Awareness

BharatPe's Trillionloans appoints Sandeep Singh as CEO amid leadership changes

Five self-help books Indian entrepreneurs swear by

Jaggi brothers to step away from Gensol following SEBI’s interim order

Krafton leads investment in JetSynthesys to fuel growth

Gensol's downfall: A case of diverting funds, defaulting on loans, and buying golf sets

1,000 Participants, 110 hacks, 24 hours of innovation: PhonePe Hackathon 2025

Vijay Shekhar Sharma forgoes 21M ESOPs, Paytm to incur Rs 492 Cr one-time expense in Q4 FY25

Crypto Scam Battle: How Binance and law enforcement are cracking down scams and frauds in India

VCs move pieces in the deeptech game; Making smartphones in India

‘Our DNA is heavily product-centric’: Indkal Technologies CEO on developing Acer devices in-house

From spray-and-pray to precision: VCs shift gears in deeptech playbook

Lab-grown diamond maker Jewelbox bags $3.2M to fuel retail expansion

This startup is streamlining textile sourcing and financing for small businesses

Live CEOing Ep 885: Design Review of Machine Learning Features continued

The weather loophole keeping this city sunny

Nee yellam ethuku CAK fan ha irukka #vikkals

Dei... enna da solreenga! 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Happy Journey ❤️ #vikkals

NASA's Lucy spacecraft to have close flyby with Asteroid Donaldjohanson, snap pics

Planet found in odd perpendicular orbit of 2 stars

China's Shenzhou 20 crew's Long March 2F rocket rolled out to the pad

How much should you tip for drinks? We asked bartenders

Indian Food Changed My Life! - Trevor Noah

'Not afraid of anyone. We are the target because we are relevant’: Robert Vadra on ED summon

Police detain Congress workers protesting against Centre, ED

LIVE: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi addresses district workers convention at Modasa, Gujarat

Hindus displaced from Bengal's Murshidabad following violence during anti-Waqf stir recount horror

New CERN finding pieces matter-antimatter puzzle: Here's why it is significant

India's first train to have an ATM onboard- Mumbai-Manmad Panchavati Express

Who's behind the Murshidabad violence over Waqf Bill? BJP says 'Mamata instigating riots'

The National Herald 'Scam' and what ED claims in its chargesheet against Sonia & Rahul Gandhi

West Bengal BJP Chief Sukanta Majumdar at Police HQ with victims of Murshidabad violence

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee meets Muslim clerics in Kolkata amid anti-Waqf protests

'Vendetta', says Congress after ED chargesheets Sonia, Rahul Gandhi in National Herald 'scam'

Mumbai Metro 2B commences trial runs between Mandale & Chembur

Farooq Abdullah never told me he wasn't against Article 370 abrogation',says ex-R&AW Chief AS Dulat

ThePrintAM: What’s the Gurugram land deal case in which ED questioned Robert Vadra?

The Best Programmers I Know - Prime Reacts

LIVE: Rahul Gandhi Begins Congress Reboot in Gujarat With ‘Sangathan Sirjan Abhiyan’

Censoring Caste Realities Will Kill the Soul of Phule’s Biopic: Kancha Ilaiah | The Wire

Farooq Abdullah Was Willing to Help Abrogate 370 but Wasn’t Consulted; Apologies if This Upsets Him

Adani पर तंज कसकर गुजरात में कांग्रेस की नई रणनीति पर क्या बोले Rahul Gandhi ? | Full Speech

Supreme Court Upholds Urdu signage | उर्दू को दोस्त बनाए, सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने दिया संदेश |The Wire Live

Modi जी ! मुसलमान पंक्चर-वाला नहीं, मेहनतकश-ख़ुद्दार हिंदुस्तानी है ! | Arfa Khanum

"दुलत के दावे एक सस्ता स्टंट हैं": Farooq Abdullah ने AS Dulat के Article 370 वाले दावे को झूठा कहा

Waqf पर मोदी का भड़काऊ बयान, Income का "बड़ा" हिस्सा छिपा लेते हैं अमीर

Why You Keep Having the Same Fight

John Krasinski has a very signature dance move 🕺

Could there be conflict over Antarctica?

Cash and checks: Argentina’s next IMF loan

Rescue Pittie Purrs When Mom Pampers Him | The Dodo

Tiny Kitten Gets Stuck In A Barn Wall — Watch Her Get Rescued | The Dodo

Rescue Pittie Purrs When Mom Pampers Him | The Dodo

Tiny Kitten Gets Stuck In A Shed Wall — Watch Her Get Rescued | The Dodo

Easy Homemade Dog Treats | The Pack

Emaciated Pittie Is Learning What Love Is Like | The Dodo

Emaciated Pittie Is Learning What Love Is Like | The Dodo

China’s DeepTech Vs India’s CowTech | Did BJP Unlock Any Ancient Secrets? | Akash Banerjee & Rishi

Nimesh Patel - Political Comedy, Fatherhood & Life on the Road | The Daily Show

Trump’s Tariffs Ruined America’s Reputation. Does Anyone Still Respect Us? | The Daily Show

Trump says he aced a cognitive test...but can he remember it?

These humble media personalities would like you to know they went to Harvard

The Trump admin is smearing Kilmar Abrego Garcia with a reminder that Bin Laden was a father, too

Jon Stewart on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation and How Trump Fails to Deliver | The Daily Show

Harvard Rejects Trump Order, SCOTUS Gets Left on Read & Md. Sen. Takes Rescue Vacay | The Daily Show

The Key to Navigating Change With Confidence | Kristy Ellmer | TED

What does a future where AI agents rule the internet look like? #TEDTalks

TONIGHT! 🎟️StarTalk Patreon Members Get FREE Front Row Seats!

Redemption For a Junkie Scumbag Lying Thief-Cameron

Questions about Black Holes - Sixty Symbols

0/10 Do Not Recommend 🚫 | #shorts

Why On Earth Did We Think Urine Was Sterile?

The Navajo Researcher Reviving A Desert Peach | A New Dino With Blade-Like Horns

Join SciFri for a Live Event on the Future of Science Reporting

Hans Zimmer on the relationship between composer and editor #filmscore #filmcomposer #shorts 

Beato and Fantano Square Off

Can all computers take advantage of quantum computers?

How Quantum Teleportation Really Works

To Understand the Present, You Must Understand The Past

இவரு பெரிய Captain Vijayakanth | Parithabangal #shorts

डंकापति के दरबार में Hindu शर्बत, Hindu गांव और Hindu अख़बार | NL Tippani 232

The change in Indore: ‘More and more Muslim kids targeted’

Tucci in Italy | Official Trailer | National Geographic

David Blaine reflects on the most stressful kiss of his life. #DavidBlaineDoNotAttempt

Happy Birthday, Joyal! ❤️🎂 | MFPA | Joyal Biju

mfV 78 dishwasher rules disagreement

How to Escape a Rip Current

Saramathi Featuring Vivek Moozhikulam & Adhithya Anil | MadRasana Duet

Punjabi Filmon ka Romance 🙄🙊 | Must Watch | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Golden Boy 😭 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

"Khatam hogaye" was personal 😭 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar

Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking | Lex Fridman Podcast #465

Can I transfer property to my mother so wife cannot claim?

Sending money to account of parents so wife cannot

Why your job and salary are a problem in divorce

Fish Doorbell #lastweektonight

To be aware, choicelessly | Krishnamurti

New City, New Heart | Vanika Sangtani on Love & Loneliness | Hindi Poetry | Spoken Fest Mumbai 2024

What does it mean to start over in a city that doesn’t even know your name? #spokenfest #spokenword

Surface tension | Middle school chemistry | Khan Academy

List iteration | Intro to CS - Python | Khan Academy

Fall Of BluSmart: Founders Accused Of 260 Crores Fraud | Jist

Let’s just say, there was one My Cat From Hell case I’ll never forget…#cats #catbehavior

Bharatnatyam Dance By Ananya Shanbhag ❣️✨#icmdance #bharatnatyam #classical #dance #shorts

Sarod Recital By Ustad Amjad Ali Khan & On Tabla Gulam Sarwar 🙏✨#classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Gensol engineering share latest news! #shorts

Can IndusInd Bank recover?

Groww TV Live | Stock Market Recovery: Temporary Bounce or Lasting Trend?

BRAND NEW Colnago V5RS! #globalcyclingnetwork #gcn

Don't Miss GCN Show Ep. 640 #gcn #globalcyclingnetwork

🚴It's AN ARREST! 👮‍♂️

Data Engineering with Python and AI/LLMs – Data Loading Tutorial

Child labor in the cocoa industry | DW Documentary

The scale of #medog #hydropower plant in #china #climatechange #waterconservation #brahmaputrariver

Biggest Reveals in Unexplained and Unexplored! | Unexplained and Unexplored | Discovery Channel

A remarkable example of modern engineering I Engineering Wonders: Pamban Bridge

Sinister Theft at Blind Frog Ranch! | Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch | Full Episode | Discovery

Elephantastic Hearing | #DeepLook #Shorts

சந்தோசம் சோகம் ரெண்டும் இருக்கும் படம் | Murali Vadivelu Super Hit Comedy Full Movie

சந்தோசம் சோகம் ரெண்டும் இருக்கும் படம் | Murali Vadivelu Super Hit Comedy Full Movie

சந்தோசம் சோகம் ரெண்டும் இருக்கும் படம் | Murali Vadivelu Super Hit Comedy Full Movie

சந்தோசம் சோகம் ரெண்டும் இருக்கும் படம் | Murali Vadivelu Super Hit Comedy Full Movie

சந்தோசம் சோகம் ரெண்டும் இருக்கும் படம் | Murali Vadivelu Super Hit Comedy Full Movie

சந்தோசம் சோகம் ரெண்டும் இருக்கும் படம் | Murali Vadivelu Super Hit Comedy Full Movie

Salesman before CEO🔥

TDD Is TOO HARD… Unless

Shortest Path Algorithm Problem - Computerphile

What Does A Black Hole Really Look Like?

என்ன பொண்ணு பக்க வராங்க | Rajadhi Raja Movie Scenes | Rajinikanth, Radha#ytshorts

Ramarajan Mass Intro Scene From - Nenjamundu Nermaiyundu | Ramarajan Rupini

Ju Wenjun | 5-time Women's World Chess Champion!!

Zhu perseveres, Divya destroys! | Highlights of Day 2 of the Pune FIDE WGP

A Rollercoaster Same Color Bishop Endgame - IM Ayush v Nithin

When India no.1 takes on India no.3 | Koneru Humpy vs Vaishali R. | FIDE WGP Pune

Threefold Repetition claim interrupts Bishop and Knight Checkmate

This bar in Paris is sure to make you fall in love with chess | Blitz Society!

When the top seed faces the bottom seed | GM Koneru Humpy vs IM Salome Melia | Pune FIDE WGP

The delayed vlog of epic dance of chess players at the wedding of Vidit and Nidhi!

Biggest Chess Tournament in the World 💀🔥 #chess

This restaurant in Paris is owned by a 7-time French Champion | ft. Almira Skripchenko's Cellar

The MOMENT Ju Wenjun BECAME the WOMEN’S WORLD CHESS CHAMPION for the 5th TIME 🔥

Me 16 Moves Into a Normal Chess Game:

3000 PEOPLE will PLAY CHESS in THIS HUGE PLAYING HALL 😳🔥

Choose this mango for Aam Panna #aampanna #cookingtips #ranveerbrar

Planks for Every Level (Beginner to Advanced) #plank #exerciseprogression #corestrength

How can we communicate with alien life and the future?

How a metal box reshaped our world | American Boxed In

Stalin, The Red Terror

Youth Leader Mark Collett : ‘I’m Proud to Be a Nazi’

Dangerous Roads: 150,000 Deaths a Year | India’s Road Crisis

The Hidden Side of Animal Transport

Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump in first speech since leaving White House. #BBCNews

Inside Bangladesh’s secret prisons hidden in plain sight | BBC News

China appoints new trade envoy amid US tariff war | BBC News

El Salvador's leader will not return man deported from the US in error | BBC News

What do students make of Donald Trump’s $2bn funding freeze on Harvard University? #BBCNews

Sudan’s paramilitaries declare rival government | BBC News

UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex | BBC News

US and Iran set for more nuclear talks in Rome | BBC News

By Azura! Oblivion remastered is reportedly dropping next week. #ElderScrolls #BBCNews

German doctor charged with murder of 15 patients | BBC News

The UK Supreme Court backs 'biological' definition of a woman | BBC Newscast

Boyfriend tries PREGNANCY WORKOUT

Boyfriend watching MEN be like

Ju Wenjun vs Tan Zhongyi || GAME 9 || Women's World Championship (2025)

There's No Bishop Pair Like Ivanchuk's Bishop Pair!

Nadaan Parinde | The Wonderment Tour @ARRahman

The Wonderment Tour tickets are live now. @ARRahman #shorts

Can You Control Lightning with Sound?

MIT Economist on Finance, AI, and Human Behavior