Digest — 2025-05-13:

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INTRO

Do Something, Even When the Future's Still Loading

I wrote 100 blog posts in 100 days and I don’t know what to feel (Or: I know you don’t give a fuck, but I do)

Write to Your Past Self

It's 2025—Why Are Banks Still Getting Authentication So Wrong?

Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy ever

Team esteem: How to create “spirals of increasing cooperation”

Is English a “killer” language — or is it dying?

The David Perell interview: How to resonate in the “age of engagement”

Research: Gen AI Makes People More Productive—and Less Motivated

Unexpectedly Out of a Job? Here’s How to Bounce Back

To Drive Innovation, Create the Conditions for Serendipity

Mattel’s Barbie Playbook: Replicating Success Across the Company’s Portfolio

In Poland, We Know All About Fighting Illiberal Regimes. Here Are Our...

“Boredom: the great engine of creativity. I now believe with all my...

How Trump’s Anti-Trans Policies Mirror the WWII Persecution of Japanese Americans. “Of...

Scientist Kseniia Petrova came to US to study aging. In Feb, she...

I somehow missed this: after a federal judge in VT ordered her...

A Young Readers Edition of Ed Yong’s award-winning An Immense World is...

Eminem’s Lose Yourself, Sung by 331 Movies

“ICE has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished.” Reminder: ICE...

Forget Psychedelics. Everyone’s Microdosing Ozempic Now. (In Hollywood, at least.) “They are...

A cute Minecraft-y clicker game. Big plus: finishing it doesn’t take forever....

What I Learned at My First Tree-Climbing Workshop. “For many, climbing also...

How to tell if your site is gzipped

No-self as an alignment target

AI Doomerism in 1879

Too Soon

Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting Branch Predictor Race Conditions

Task estimation: Conquering Hofstadter's Law

LZEXE - executable file compression on MSDOS

How is Stack memory allocated when using 'push' or 'sub' x86 instructions?

A case for intransitive operator precedence (2019)

Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year

Cracking The Dave & Buster’s Anomaly

Experiment on your code freely with Git worktree

Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It’s on Fire

An accessibility update

Fx v36 - JSON terminal viewer

The first year of free-threaded Python

A programming language made for me

LibreWolf Browser

Writing that changed how I think about PL

Firefox moves to GitHub

The penultimate conditional syntax

Preventing outages with pkill's new --require-handler flag

Why do Saturation and Luminance go all the way to 240, but Hue goes only to 239? And why 239 anyway?

YS — YAML Done Wisely

The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch

Living With My Ex

Cringe! How Millennials Became Uncool

My Miserable Week in the “Happiest Country on Earth”

Sailing Weather Gets Weird

Feather Forensics Could Help Nab Poachers

Storm Chasers on the Hail Trail

Returning to My Roots in Hardware

What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

Material 3 Expressive

MCP: An In-Depth Guide (With Cloudflare, Sentry, GitHub, Cline)

Rustls Server-Side Performance

GTK Krell Monitors

Rolling Highway

When the Ground Thaws (2018) [pdf]

Variadic Switch

Changes since congestion pricing started in New York

NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software

Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges

Using obscure graph theory to solve programming languages problems

OpenTelemetry protocol with Apache Arrow

Cardiac: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation [pdf]

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

It Awaits Your Experiments

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

Fingers wrinkle the same way every time they’re in the water too long

PDF to Text, a challenging problem

Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)

Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM

Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode

Type-constrained code generation with language models

FedRAMP 20x – One Month in and Moving Fast

FastVLM: Dramatically Faster Vision Language Model from Apple

We can live well, even though we don’t have a higher purpose

Introducing The Quanta Podcast

In the Netherlands, Anyone Can Turn a Slice of Sidewalk Into a Garden

Energy and systems complexity

Central Asian Conference of Women Journalists Abruptly Cancelled in Dushanbe

Risk and Reward in Central Asia’s Critical Raw Materials Boom

Is ASEAN Falling Short, or Are We Expecting Too Much?

Understanding The Logic of Vietnam’s Reconciliation Policy

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Says It Will Conduct First-Ever Joint Exercise With South Korean Marine Corps

Don’t Be Fooled: The China-US Trade War Is Here to Stay

Thaksin Shinawatra’s Casino Gamble

Duterte Allies Perform Strongly in Philippine Midterm Elections

Malaysia’s PM Anwar Ibrahim Embarks on Second Visit to Russia

The Rise and Fall, and Rise Again, of Sea Ltd

Pakistan Comes Out Emboldened After Clashes With India

India-Pakistan Military Crisis: A Testing Ground for Chinese Military Hardware

Uzbekistan and Afghanistan: A New Era of Limited Recognition

After Last-Minute PPP Drama, South Korea’s Presidential Campaigns Officially Kick Off

North Korean Spy Arrest in China May Signal Beijing’s Unease over Growing Pyongyang-Moscow Ties

The Taliban’s Role in the Fragile Ceasefire Between India and Pakistan

Kazakhstan’s Slow Shift Away From Celebrating Victory Day

The 2nd Genocide of the Rohingya

[elsewhere] Infrastructure, Common Goods, and the Future of Open Source Software

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (May 13, 2025)

Flam raises $14M in Series A round led by RTP Global

Avior Aqua’s Nanobubble Tech: A New Era in Wastewater Treatment

Titan Capital: India’s sole representative on Business Insider’s top 100 early-stage investors list

Is AI Making Us Dumber and Underconfident?

Robotic bets and cautious crypto re-entry: 5 takeaways from SoftBank’s Q4 results

Let’sTalkSign: Bridging Silence with AI

From Garage to Glory: The Tiivra Motorcycle Gear Story

Google launches futures fund to support AI startups

Apple to launch AI tool in iOS 19 to boost iPhone battery life

Budgeting Beyond Basics: How to Finally Take Control of Your Money

IAMAI elects Billdesk co-founder M N Srinivasu as chairman till 2027

Adopt AI raises $6M in seed funding led by Elevation Capital

6 Essential Laws of Power Everyone Should Master in 2025

Amazon Prime Video to roll out ads in India

Top 10 startup founders to watch out for in 2025

How Iyaso is breaking the silence of stuttering with AI

Dharpan.ai’s smart mirrors are changing how India shops

DIY Thermal Image Camera?! #diy #arduino #esp32 #electronics #thermal #camera

Software Tools To Make Robots

Internal Agent Builder

Does your state have universal pre-K? #shorts

அம்மா என்னமா பண்ற 😥😂 #vikkals #shorts

Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starlink batch on booster's record-breaking 28th flight, nails landing

Liftoff! SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites from California, nails landing

Sun blasts powerful X1.2-class solar flare - See spacecraft views

SpaceX fires up Starship in preparation for flight 9

Here's the real reason why the BMW i5's headrest moves forward and backward! #V3Cars #BMW #i5

Here is the list of top 10 best-selling cars of April 2025! #V3Cars #Top10BestSellingCars

Maruti Suzuki Swift CNG Real-World Mileage!

I ported My Language to ARM CPU

J&K CM Omar Abdullah visits Pakistani shelling-affected area in Kupwaraomar out

Pahalgam justice isn’t about deaths or strikes. It’s in 2 women, 2 uniforms, 2 identities

PM Modi meets Indian Air Force warriors at Adampur base days after Operation Sindoor

PM Modi interacts with soldiers at Adampur air base after ceasefire

'Rattled with Op Sindoor, our enemy tried to attack this air base, but failed': PM at Adampur

'Not just terror camps, but even Pakistan air bases were destroyed', says PM Modi

Pakistan's drones, UAVs, missiles failed before our capable air defence

'India's Laxman Rekha against terrorism is crystal clear now', says PM Modi after Op Sindoor

'India won't tolerate any nuclear blackmail'- PM Modi's message to Pakistan from Adampur Air Base

'India should finish war with Pakistan once & for all', say residents of border villages in Akhnoor

'Our forces took winds out of Pakistan's nuclear blackmail':PM Modi's full speech at Adampur Base

LIVE: Ministry of External Affairs press briefing

PM Modi's stern warning as he fact-checks Pakistan by visiting Adampur & showing off S-400

What’s Modi signalling with IAF as audience, Adampur airbase as venue & S-400 missiles as backdrop

TDD: The Good, The Bad, and The Trash (The Standup)

The Lazies

To Effectively Fight Terror Modi Must Treat All Indians Justly; Godi Media “A Crime Against Country”

What Did Opposition Leaders Say After PM Modi’s Address to the Nation?

RSS, BJP and the Language of 'Raja-Praja': A Threat to Democracy?

Modi Govt Must Take Rahul Gandhi Seriously, He Had Warned On Pak-China Alliance: Pravin Sawhney

How the stars made us - with Roberto Trotta

Paul Rudd Was Nearly Fired Over A Prank | Try Not To Laugh Pt. 9 | The Graham Norton Show

Trump visits Saudi Arabia: how has the country changed?

Couple Left The City So Their Dog Could Have More Friends | The Dodo

Huge Cat Who Couldn't Roll Over Learns To Swim | The Dodo

Huge Cat Who Couldn't Roll Over Learns To Swim | The Dodo

Couple Left The City To Give Their Dog A Better Life | The Dodo

Crow Can't Wait For His Brother To Come Home From Kindergarten | The Dodo

Crow Can't Wait For His Brother To Come Home From Kindergarten | The Dodo

TDS & HeadCount Take On Uncontested Races With InDecision: Take a Seat | The Daily Show

Gen. Stanley McChrystal - Reflecting "On Character: Choices that Define a Life" | The Daily Show

The Trump administration is slowly moving up the "9/11 Evil Power Ranking" list

Jon on Trump’s new flying f**k palace from Qatar: I would steam the s**t out of those carpets

Trump is going to lower drug prices "mathematically?" Is there any other way to do it? #dailyshow

The clever trick used by sports betting apps - Shannon Odell

Parkour! How the Sport Keeps Your Body and Mind Fit | Taylor Lynn Carpenter | TED

Brian Keating on Losing the Nobel Prize & Origins of the Universe

What REALLY Made the #BigBang Bang? 🤯

A Life On Drugs-Stephen AKA “Riggy Marz”

10 Unsolved Cryptic Messages and Codes

“Caccaanuuut meeelllk” featuring a banana | #shorts #funnyvideos

Ponni Makalae | Malayankunju | Unreleased Malayalam Song | KS Chitra | A.R.Rahman

Chhaava (Unreleased Track) | Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra from Background Score | A.R.Rahman

The Place Where You Can Touch Two Continents

Designing Hyperrealistic Body Parts, From Eyeballs To Placentas

New Renewable Unlocked: Researchers Generate Electricity From Rain

Mike McCready and Stone Gossard switching parts #guitar #guitarist #pearljam #shorts 

Understanding Major and Minor Modes — In 30 Minutes

Understanding Major and Minor Modes — In 30 Minutes

The Time the United States Ran Out of Money

If you record Jack standing near a microphone it really fills out the space.

நீ பொண்டாட்டி தாசன் தான ?| Parithabangal #shorts

War = Mazaa?

Is Arnab's mimicry of Bilawal Bhutto better than his nightly mimicry of journalism?

A crossover episode on free speech | Hafta x South Central feat. @KunalKamra!

Time to fact-check TV news' claims on Operation Sindoor...

‘पाकिस्तान मुर्दाबाद’ से ‘नरेंद्र मोदी जिंदाबाद’: ऑपरेशन सिंदूर को लेकर कर्तव्य पथ पर तिरंगा यात्रा

Behind the Lens with Bertie Gregory | Secrets of the Penguins | National Geographic

Coding, Growth Mindset, and Rubber Ducks?

The Perfect Stealth Boat...that the US Navy Didn't Want

The wigs of Nicole Kidman

Legal advice on the power of manifestation

Trump & Dolls #lastweektonight

Must the psyche everlastingly go on? | Krishnamurti

Indian Army’s New Operation Launched In Kashmir ft. Medha & Mukul | Jist

When it comes to breakfast, cats do not believe in being fashionably late. 😹 #cats #reaction

Tricks, Trolls, and LOLs: Comedy’s Crash Course in Spotting Lies

Bansuri Vadan By Pt Parvin Godkhindi ❣️✨ Part 2#flute #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Sanware By Abby V & Mayuri Saha Jugalbandi ❣️✨#icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #shorts

Sensex falls, Nifty sees profit booking; Interest rate-sensitive sectors feel the heat

Best way to get Unlisted Company Financials FAST

Ethics in AI's Wild West: Biases & Responsibilities • Michelle Frost & Hannes Lowette • GOTO 2025

Dead Hang Challenge, How Long Can YOU Do? 👀⏳

Is Bike Envy Ruining Your Riding? | GCN Show Ep. 644

'Dereliction of duty' - ASL Video Podcast | Breakdown Ep. 3

How 2015 changed the space industry

How 2015 changed the space industry

கொடூரமான Bhojpuri Movie😱 No Logic Scenes🤣 Indian Movies Funny Fight Scenes Troll | Bhojpuri, Tamil

A tough business - The oyster farmers of Arcachon | DW Documentary

Scientists Create Word's First Universal Antivenom

#india introduces new #genomeediting #rice varieties #agriculture #grain #waterconservation

Guardians of the Line of Control 🇮🇳🛡️

The Tank Just Got Wilder! | Shark Tank | Promo | Discovery Channel

Smoke Vent Disaster Strikes at Blind Frog Ranch! | Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch | Discovery Channel

The Final Gold Chase in Brazil! | Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Strings and Skins: A Darbar 2018 Duet | Music of India

Tribal Sovereignty Explained: Ep 2 of Crash Course Native American History

Hash Collisions & The Birthday Paradox - Computerphile

Funny conversation Hero And Heroin In First Night SATHURANGAM Episode - 1 | Tamil Serial #cmm

SATHURANGAM Episode - 5 | Tamil Rare Serial | Family Drama | #cmm #tamilserialshortclip

CONTROL is KEY! | Hourly SuperBlitz Arena [271]

How did he Fumble the Win? IM Ajay Karthikeyan v Shourya Paul

How does Fabiano Caruana want to be remembered as?

Not overdoing is also a skill - IM Anuj Shrivatri vs GM Karen Grigoryan

18-year-old top Iranian Grandmaster leads the Asian Individuals | Daneshvar Bardiya

Even Nihal Sarin blunders in time trouble | Nihal vs Lobanov | Asian Individuals 2025

How to become a Chess Player in 5 days? 😱♥️ #chess #gukesh #praggnanandhaa

Exposing the King just like that | WGM Mobina Alinsab vs WGM Swati Ghate | Asian Individual Women

Duda vs Pragg, Alireza vs Gukesh | Superbet Classic 2025 | Round 6

Alireza vs Pragg, So, Wesley vs Gukesh | Superbet Classic 2025 | Round 7

कभी ना बनाई होगी ऐसी कच्चे आम &आलू की सब्जी | Aloo Aam Sabji | Mango Potato करी | Chef Ranveer Brar

This Courtyard Home in Coimbatore Merges Luxury with Nature (House Tour)

How power works in America

The benefits of moderation

Gost Town’s checkpoint (Hebron)

The Last Drive-In That Won't Die

Dogs With a Mission | From therapy to everyday companionship

Rapper Tory Lanez was stabbed 14 times in a California prison. #ToryLanez #USA #BBCNews

Donald Trump arrives in Saudi Arabia for first major trip of second term | BBC News

Pharmaceutical company share prices fall following Trump order | BBC News

Marks & Spencer says customer data stolen in cyber attack | BBC News

Handshakes galore as Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman greet officials. #BBCNews

Israel denying food to Gaza is 'weapon of war', UN Palestinian refugee agency head says | BBC News

The Philippines president and his vice-president are now in a power struggle. #Philippines #BBCNews

Zelensky to meet President Erdogan in Turkey | BBC News

Why is Kim Kardashian giving evidence in court in Paris? #KimKardashian #Paris #BBCNews

What’s in the US-Saudi arms deal? | BBC Newscast

UN aid chief demands action to prevent Israel committing genocide in Gaza | BBC News

Cheeky Bird Steals To Impress | 4K UHD | BBC Earth

30 SECONDS!: Alireza vs Gukesh || Superbet Chess 2025

Program design: flight delays | Intro to CS - Python | Khan Academy