Digest — 2025-05-23:

The other Homo sapiens

Queen Elizabeth hospital reduces waiting times to a world-record low of 18 hours

Bridgetown renamed 'Miatown' in honour of Mia Amor Mottley

The Central Bank of Barbados stockpiles Lay's Chips ahead of the 20% tax hike on salty products

225. Misplaced my spark

Heartsick Radio circa 2003

Ask Ethan: Was the Universe “timeless” before the Big Bang?

Move your body, grow your brain: the science of hippocampal neurogenesis

Daniel Dennett’s 4 rules for a good debate

Owl Lake: A Vintage Treasure from Japanese Artist Keizaburo Tejima

How to Rescue a Failing Strategy

One Simple Way to Get Better at Reading Data

“Today, faced with a president who seemingly has no concern for constitutional...

The Problem with My City Is That It’s a City. “I moved...

Apple TV+ and filmmaker Rebecca Miller are doing a five-part documentary about...

Now on public display for the first time, at MoMA: a collection...

A new offering from Swiss hotels: Bees & Friends. “We’re welcoming bees,...

For They Shall Inherit

Work styles and ADHD

Reward button alignment

Learning (more) from horse employment history

Anthropic is Quietly Backpedalling on its Safety Commitments

Stuff I learned at Carta.

A brief history of JavaScript

A 10x Faster TypeScript

Indexing Hackage: Glean vs. hiedb

Forgotten APL Influences (2016)

FreeBSD Status Report 2025Q1

The shell and its problems in handling of whitespace (2023)

What are you doing this weekend?

The Copilot Delusion

Emacs dired-mode as a file manager

Those Stealthy Botnets

NixOS 25.05 released

Announcing TypeScript Native Previews

The GCC compiler backend can now fully bootstrap the Rust compiler

Why Algebraic Effects?

Configuring Jujutsu

Making Postgres distributed with FoundationDB

Fork Union: Beyond OpenMP in C++ and Rust?

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Our Narrative Prison

The Reenchanted World

The Epic Rise and Fall of a Dark-Web Psychedelics Kingpin

I Bought a Robot Cat for My Rabbit

What Birdsong Says About Motivation

Meet a Newly Discovered Cave Crustacean

New DSL "MassQL" lets scientists query mass spectrometry data

Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

Writing A Job Runner (In Elixir) (Again) (10 years later)

Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page

The metre originated in the French Revolution

Into The Tunnel: The secret life of wind tunnels

Show HN: GetStack.dev – Track GitHub open-source trends

Japan and the Birth of Modern Shipbuilding

Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site

How to live on $432 a month in America

Types of optical systems in a lens designer's toolbox (2020)

Caesar's Last Breath

A Bead Too Far: Rethinking Global Connections Before Columbus

Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025

UndoDB – The interactive time travel debugger for Linux C/C++ for debugging

Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app

Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments

A Formal Proof of Complexity Bounds on Diophantine Equations

Show HN: I built a more productive way to manage AI chats

Root for your friends

The world of Japan's PC-98 computer

Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation

Find Your People

Postgres IDE in VS Code

The voices that stick in our minds

What is déjà vu?

‘We Are the People of the River’

1,000 fans (which sort?)

Unraveling Mongolia’s Prime Minister Resignation Protests

How Vietnam’s Communist Party Manipulates History for Political Gain

The Time Is Right for Myanmar Dialogue, Malaysia’s Anwar Says

Thai Court Orders Former PM Yingluck Shinawatra to Pay Rice Scheme Damages

The Rumored Chinese Submarine Transfer from Thailand to Cambodia Is Unfounded

The Future of Decentralized Energy in Pakistan

Campaigning With a Bulletproof Vest: Political Violence and Polarization in South Korea

After Protests Force a Shake-up, Who Would Become Mongolia’s Next Prime Minister?

Could Trump’s Deals in the Middle East  Secure US Influence Against China?

At Summit With GCC and ASEAN, China’s Maritime Ambitions Complicate Its Trade Alliance Plans

From Rhetoric to Reality: China-Russia Cooperation in the Arctic Accelerates

Amid the Devastating Cuts to US Aid, Can Australia Step up?

It’s Time for a New Global Arms Control Regime

Inside Kim Jong Un’s Threat Perception

XSLT 3.0 xsl:iterate instruction use cases and examples

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2025 Program Announced

Wellington Management gets CCI nod to acquire stake in Porter

Ola Electric begins deliveries of Roadster X, prices start at Rs 99,999

Teach Us App: Digitising Indian Colleges at Rs 1 Per Student

AI hallucinates less than humans now, says Anthropic CEO

SEBI issues revised FAQs to ease account opening for differently-abled individuals

Zepto Cafe temporarily shutters 44 cafes amid supply chain constraints

JyoSH AI: Revolutionising Cotton Farming with Robotics and AI

Six-member board to regulate payment systems: RBI notification

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (May 23, 2025)

OpenAI to launch iPod-sized AI device: Reports

[Weekly funding roundup May 17-23] VC inflow remains steady

Farm-to-consumer startup Otipy shuts down; employees, customers seek clarity

​Inside Flipkart’s big bet on quick commerce and why Kabeer Biswas calls it a 'brutal' business

OpenFX raises $23M in seed round from Accel, NFX, Lightspeed Faction

Milky Mist converts name to public entity ahead of market debut plans

GCCs in India are driving global innovation agenda: experts

Accelerated by NVIDIA Inception Program Meetup: Experts decode the mindset, models, and moves that will define India’s AI leadership

10 entrepreneurs transforming markets with game‑changing solutions

Why Prosus is optimistic about edtech; Mamaearth’s profit shrinks

Snowberry brings Korean Bingsu to Indian streets

Hiring freshers: This startup is solving for campus placements with AI

*How much do you make 2021*

Why Roast Levels Are Disappearing from Coffee Bags 😱☕

That's why Hot Pockets (used to) have crisping sleeves!

How I Do More by Doing Less

AI Apps Are Broken — Here's How To Fix Them

What's in Trump's big bill

கோபத்திலும் காதல் 😂😂 #vikkals #love

'Violent' galactic merger captured by ESO telescopes

Watch live! SpaceX to launch Starship on 9th flight test

Blastoff! SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, nails landing

Portrait or Landscape – What’s Your Style?

Maruti Brezza vs Tata Nexon | Sub Rs 10 Lakh Battle | Which Car Is More Value For Money?

OMG: Ye Bhi Mera India? Inside the Extraordinary African Village of Gujarat

Gautam Adani pledges Rs 50,000 crore of investment across Northeast for the next 10 years

Mukesh Ambani Congratulates PM Modi and Armed forces for Operation Sindoor

'Every terrorist activity in the world has some link in Pakistan,' JD(U) MP Sanjay Kumar Jha

'Empower, act, strengthen and transform:' says PM Modi at Rising North East investors summit

'It is good thing that he (Rahul Gandhi) will visit Poonch to express his sympathies with people'

'Reservation is required in private sector,' says Union Minister Chirag Paswan

‘We attacked the terrorists but Pakistan reporded by attacking civilians,’ says Union HM Amit Shah

FirstPersonSecondDraft | Tales of dead men, corpses floating down rivers & vigilantism in Sri Lanka

What does Moody's credit rating downgrade mean for US & the world?

Violent heart of Sri Lanka

Germany backs India's right to defend itself from terrorism: EAM S Jaishakhar

Trump decision on Harvard cruel, arbitrary and profoundly damaging | #snapopinion

Medieval Kashmir was confidently multicultural. And dazzled the world with art and ideas

Will never give in to nuclear blackmail, and India will deal with Pakistan purely bilaterally'

Showdown buzz in Bangladesh as Army Chief rejects Rakhine corridor, presses Yunus for early polls

Lt Gen. Kalkat & Op Pawan in Sri Lanka's Jaffna

India’s Maoist belt & killing of top man Basavaraju

India’s Reaction to Turkey is Understandable, But we Should Not Give Up on Diplomacy with it

India is Becoming a Nation of Duffers and We’re Evolving Back to the Neanderthal Stage: Avay Shukla

Trump VS Harvard : What Does Revoking of Visa mean for 788 Indians and other foreign students ?

Supreme Court’s Gag Order on Prof Mahmudabad: Ensuring Order or Stifling Dissent? | The Wire Live

Modi Says 'Hot Sindoor' Flows in his Veins, SC Says Ashoka Univ Prof's FB Post 'Dog Whistling'

What Does a Record-Breaking 96% Decline in FDI Reveal About the Economy, Politics, and Society?

Gravity - the internet's most asked questions - with Claudia de Rham

Brits Always Bring The Best Laughs On The Graham Norton Show

Does Vladimir Putin want a peace deal?

Stray Pittie Cries Outside Their Door To Be Let In From The Cold | The Dodo

Mama Squirrel Adopts Orphaned Baby | The Dodo

Which Cat Puzzles Are The BEST | The Pack

Bobby Flay Cooks A Meal For His Dream Date | The Dodo

Bobby Flay Cooks A Meal For His Dream Date | The Dodo

Bobby Flay On Why He Went On This First Date | The Dodo

Stray Pittie Cries Outside Their Door To Be Let In From The Cold | The Dodo

Bobby Flay Is The Ultimate Cat Dad | The Dodo

Sad Shelter Cat On The Euth List Turns Into Scruffy Little Lion | The Dodo

Testing Dog Seat Covers For Your Car | The Pack

Dawn Staley - “Uncommon Favor” & Making Her Own Coaching Philosophy | The Daily Show

America Has a Self-Deportation Option and Al Madrigal Can’t Wait! | The Daily Show

Are Republicans really offering Joe Biden sympathy if it's followed up with "but?"

Cutting food stamps to pay for tax cuts? Can Trump's bill get any more cartoonishly mean?

Does Trump realize yelling at people isn't considered a "pep talk?"

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes House, Takes From Poor, Gives to Rich | The Daily Show

A Photographer and a Brand Builder on Confidence | TED Intersections Season 2 Premiere

Do the robot — literally. #Tech #Robots #TEDTalks

Your Smartwatch is even more incredible than you think

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Three Levels of Earth Orbit

The Relapse-Charlie

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

AI in Physics (and pineapple on pizza) - Sixty Symbols

#Sakkarakatti - #AudioCD - #ARRahman #Chinmayi - #PhysicalMedia #Collection 💿

5 Bad Health Science Takes

The Science Of That Big Stunt From The New ‘Mission: Impossible’

Meet A Pioneer Of Modern Weather Prediction

Nuno Bettencourt talks about his favorite album #guitar #queen #brianmay #shorts

How I Use A.I. to Make Decisions

Brain Kalakki with Kaber Vasuki | Plip Plip

அது எதுக்கு உங்களுக்கு வாங்க போவோம் | Parithabangal #shorts

ORIGAMI TIE INTERCEPTOR STAR WARS TUTORIAL | HOW TO MAKE ORIGAMI STAR WARS TIE FIGHTER INTERCEPTOR

Reclaiming Bharat: 'संभावित हार से बचने के लिए नॉन बायोलॉजिकल का दांव चला' | Promo-2 | NL Interviews

स्टूडियो में बैठकर शोरगुल नहीं ग्राउंड जीरो से हकीकत और हालात की बात

Modi युग की राजनीति: कल्ट, चुनाव और चुनौती | Reclaiming Bharat | Ashutosh | NL Interviews

PM Modi claimed that Pakistan promised to end terror. Is this true?

Inside Renovated 2 Bedroom Flat in Sydney #nevertoosmall #shorts

How Two Sydney Creatives Transformed Their Small Apartment, 55sqm/592sqft

She's all business at the stove.

The perfect pizza looks like this 🤤 #TucciInItaly

Aik Baap ki FARYAD 'MUST WATCH' 🥺 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Paaro 😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood

Learn ENGLISH Please 😭🙏🏻 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood

Modern Off-Grid Tiny House Powered by Recycled EV Car Batteries

What is the origin of all this? | Krishnamurti

Is it possible to not record pleasure? | Krishnamurti

I'm joining Chessiverse!

Sanjeev and Siddharth explore why entrepreneurs must take the leap

Nanie heard “no climbing” and took that personally.😼 #thefloorislava #cats #catlovers #teamcatmojo

Truth Hurts: From Conflict to Connection, with Dr Julia Ebner

Sarangi Recital By Ustad Sabir Sultan Khan ❣️✨ #sarangi #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Hindustani Gayan By Shavani Shende ❣️✨ #icmvocal #icmtabla

Guess The Name Of This Marvelous Voice ❣️✨ #icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Hindustani Gayan By Shavani Shende ❣️✨ Part 2 #icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Một Khu Vườn Mới Tại Nơi Mới | A New Garden in a New Place

DIY Gifts for people you hate .. ft. @CyrilDAbs [ original vid by @ restoration.magic on insta ]

John Reflects

John's Theme

Race Against Time

The Temple

The Heavies Arrive

Surreal Shoot-Out

Kill Or Be Replaced

We Have Visitors...

Stalked

He Means Business

Final Confrontation

John Traps His Man

Stock Market Live: Nifty nears 25k again; ITC & Infosys lead gains | Key results to track today

Reducing EMI vs Loan Tenure After Part-Payment

From XP to TCR & Limbo • Kent Beck & Daniel Terhorst-North

Early Days of Agile Development & Is Design Dead? • Martin Fowler & James Lewis • GOTO 2024

2Up TT GCN Challenge! 🔥

Can You Get This Beautiful Experience For Less Than $500?

Laid off but not afraid with X-senior Microsoft Dev MacKevin Fey [Podcast #173]

The new face - The hyaluron beauty hype | DW Documentary

Top Jaw-Dropping Space Events! | NASA’s Unexplained Files | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

The Most Ruthless Rush for Gold! | Gold Rush: Winter’s Fortune | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

குள்ளன் ரொம்ப சேட்டைக்காரன் Pandiarajan, Gautami | Comedy Thriller | DD Movies

குள்ளன் ரொம்ப சேட்டைக்காரன் Pandiarajan, Gautami | Comedy Thriller | DD Movies

குள்ளன் ரொம்ப சேட்டைக்காரன் Pandiarajan, Gautami | Comedy Thriller | DD Movies

குள்ளன் ரொம்ப சேட்டைக்காரன் Pandiarajan, Gautami | Comedy Thriller | DD Movies

குள்ளன் ரொம்ப சேட்டைக்காரன் Pandiarajan, Gautami | Comedy Thriller | DD Movies

குள்ளன் ரொம்ப சேட்டைக்காரன் Pandiarajan, Gautami | Comedy Thriller | DD Movies

Mishra | Rakesh Chaurasia & Purbayan Chatterjee | Music of India

Tabla vs Mridangam 🔥 A Rhythmic Duel You Must Hear

Here is an interesting way to use Cookd Chettinad Masala! Make Maanga Pickle!

Why Engineers and Architects See Software Differently

AI Sandbagging - Computerphile

Can You Live Underwater?

SATHURANGAM Episode - 8 | Tamil Rare Serial | Family Drama | #cmm #tamilserialshortclip

Carlsen Crushes MVL's Light-Squares in 24 Moves

Unknown stories of Ian Nepomniachtchi and Magnus Carlsen!

Heartbreak on the last move | GM Varuzhan Akobian vs IM Divya Deshmukh | Sharjah Masters 2025

Guys this is Anish Giri 2.0 loading | Maghsoodloo vs Anish Giri | Sharjah Masters 2025

"Sagar is my spiritual coach!" - Anish Giri | Leads the Sharjah Masters 2025

"I would do well in higher-level events!" | Serbian GM Aleksander Indjic co-leads Sharjah Masters

Nodirbek's pawns just keep rolling | Abdusattorov vs Iniyan | Sharjah Masters 2025

She is the current world #2 in under-10 | Meet the super-twins of the chess world

Magnus Carlsen vs MVL | GOAT vs the French Legend | Chess.com Classic Finals

Volcano vs Chess: Anand's 40+ Hour Road Trip to World Championship | Chess Legends Episode 1

An unbelievable resignation by Hikaru Nakamura against Carlsen

Praggnanandhaa's remarkable insights into his Superbet Chess Classic 2025 win in Bucharest

MVL's UNBELIEVABLE Streak to Set Up Rematch vs. Magnus 🤯

Opponent Never Saw This Move Coming

MAGNUS vs. MVL!! Chess.com Classic 2025 Grand Final | Will MVL Repeat History?

MAGNUS SACRIFICES HIS KNIGHT AND FINDS THE CHECKMATE IN 8!

This 1200 Sq Ft Compact Bengaluru Home Feels Spacious & Airy (House Tour)

Trees Sliced Through| Official Promo #buildofy #architecture #home #tour #gujarat #reels #shorts

Best Exercise for Shoulder Pain? #shoulderpain #rotatorcuff #stretchingexercises

The memory-enhancing effects of movement, backed by science | Wendy Suzuki: Full Interview

What is emergence?

25 Surgeries to Remove His Neo-Nazi Tattoos | Erasing Hate

Northern Ireland: The IRA Resurgence

Rapper Kid Cudi testifies at Sean "Diddy" Combs' trial about Molotov cocktail attack. #BBCNews

US President Trump blocks Harvard from enrolling foreign students | BBC News

Elden Ring movie to be made by Ex Machina director Alex Garland. #EldenRing #Gaming #BBCNews

Donald Trump's ‘white genocide’ in South Africa claims fact-checked | BBC News

Moment Titan sub imploded, killing all on board, captured on support ship. #Titanic #BBCNews

Titan submersible footage captures moment of implosion | BBC News

What is the Chagos Islands deal between UK and Mauritius? | BBC News

Australian politician signs off career with a 'shoey'. #Australia #BBCNews

US President Trump threatens 50% tariffs on EU and 25% on iPhones | BBC News

UN warns Gaza aid ‘nowhere near enough’ | BBC News

The UK, France and Canada have condemned Israel's expanded offensive in Gaza. #BBCNews

Iran and US resume nuclear negotiations in Rome | BBC News

Man in Norway wakes up to find huge ship in his garden. #Norway #BBCNews

Why has migration to the UK dramatically fallen in the last year? | BBC Newscast

BBC exclusive Arne Slot interview: Excuses “are for teams that don’t win the League” | BBC News

Are restaurants obligated to give free gravy with porotta and beef fry?

Gonna miss my BABY BUMP

Boyfriend learned the SAMBA EMOTE

"The Death of the Half-Hearted King" || MVL vs Hikaru || Champions Chess Tour 2025

"The King Who Forgot How to Lose" || Magnus vs MVL || Champions Chess Tour 2025

The Logistics of Fruit

HARD truths before switching to Go

Product Managers have gone too far! 🙄

Gravity might be a force after all

First Update From Dianna

Dictionaries | Intro to CS - Python | Khan Academy

Pushing Boulders (From “Superman: The Movie”)

Jonathan's Death (From “Superman: The Movie)

The Flying Sequence (From “Superman: The Movie")

Superman - Main Theme (From “Superman: The Movie”)

March Of The Villains (From “Superman: The Movie”)

The Prison Yard And End Title (From “Superman: The Movie")

Love Theme From Superman (From “Superman: The Movie”)

The Planet Krypton (From “Superman: The Movie")

Leaving Home (From “Superman: The Movie”)

Turning Back the World (From “Superman: The Movie")

Flying To Lois (From “Superman: The Movie)

Custom gene editing is here… and it just saved this baby’s life! 🧬👶