Digest — 2025-06-25:

David Deutsch: explanations

doing the rotten work (i'm the rotten work)

i used to be a blinkist user

the first days of summer

Just Grass

Learning JP #11 - Last exercise, bye routine!

JWST discovers how we’re able to see the Universe at all

CIA psychology: Ask questions that make people reveal everything

Paralyzed, Alana Nichols thought her athletic career was over. Then she changed her mind.

Deep listening: The 8 steps to revitalize any conversation

Does the evolution of reason undermine the belief in evolution?

Inside Collaborative Fund’s 4x DPI Fund I

The Low-Altitude Economy Is About War

Divinations of the First Light: A Cosmic Poem for the Vera Rubin Observatory

Set Your Committees Up for Success

Why Profits Follow Purpose

The Strategic Advantage of Tapping Freelancers

How to Stand Out in a Company’s Global Manufacturing Network

An Announcement from HBR On Strategy

5 Ways Cooperatives Can Shape the Future of AI

Star Wars Lofi, chill music from a galaxy far, far away to...

From Scientific American, a set of charts of vaccination recommendations for children...

Chris Ware Creates Stamps For USPS

Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization...

A recent trend in book cover design: “It tends to lay blaringly...

The Joy and Pain of Learning New Things as an Older Human

In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to...

How Christoph Niemann Uses AI in His Work

A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots...

What Was Jim Crow?

Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network....

Rethinking modular CSS and build-free design systems

New Paper: Ambiguous Online Learning

Lurking in the Noise

Melatonin Self-Experiment Results

What does 10x-ing effective compute get you?

A regime-change power-vacuum conjecture about group belief

Inspecting Service Traffic with mirrord dump

Scales as Multipermutations of 0 and 1 into Twelve Places

Interactive Handbook on Data Structures and Algorithms

Coding Independent Code Points (cICP) in PNG, explained

Docs for AI agents

Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux

OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter

Coding in a material world

What's new in Gleam 1.11

QEMU: define policy forbidding use of AI code generators

Deep down the rabbit hole: Bash, OverlayFS, and a 30-year-old surprise

Getting ready to issue IP address certificates

Web Embeddable Common Lisp

Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent

Printing the web: making webpages look good on paper

How to Write Compelling Release Announcements

Abusing copyright strings to trick software into thinking it's running on your competitor's PC

Build your first iOS app on Linux / Windows

Oprah Shamed James Frey. He’s Back Anyway.

At Jackie Robinson’s High School, Altadena Rebuilds After Fire

My Father Could Have Changed the World. Instead, He Changed Mine

It Was Already One of Texas’s Strangest Cold Cases. Then a Secretive Figure Appeared.

An Elephant’s Tusk Never Forgets

The Weird Cooling Effect of Wildfires

The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings

A literary magazine accessible only via telnet

Gradient Descent Visualiser

Show HN: AGL a toy language that compiles to Go

Community Is Motivation on Tap

Roblox's back end scales to 30M concurrent players and over 21M for a experience

Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?

CUDA Ray Tracing 2x Faster Than RTX: My CUDA Ray Tracing Journey

IBM's Dmitry Krotov wants to crack the 'physics' of memory

Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet

Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

Interstellar Flight: Perspectives and Patience

Iroh: A library to establish direct connection between peers

America’s incarceration rate is in decline

Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

LM Studio is now an MCP Host

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy

The Hollow Men of Hims

Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed

The Offline Club

What Problems to Solve (1966)

Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout

-2000 Lines of code

A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up

Hacking TLD EPP registry servers (2023)

Thick Nickels

Build your first iOS app on Linux / Windows

Managing Time When Time Doesn't Exist

Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Written in Rust

How to strike up a friendly conversation

Weree

What We’re Reading: Paint That ‘Sweats’ to Cool Homes

How Zohran Mamdani’s Big Goals Could Transform Life in New York City

Hard to predict

Cambodia’s Hun Sen Flouts ASEAN’s Doctrine of Non-interference

How to Engineer Global Dependence: China’s Formula for Building a Rare Earth Edge

Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index to be Implemented in Brazil

Can Malaysia Avoid Becoming a Loophole in the Global AI Ecosystem?

Thailand’s Bhumjaithai Party Seeks Vote of No-confidence in PM After Cambodia Leak

Strategic Implications of the First China-Pakistan-Bangladesh Summit

Obscured by Geopolitics, Taiwan’s Constitutional Crisis Simmers in the Background

China’s Growing Nuclear Buildup and the Global Nuclear Outlook

What a Potential Travel Ban on Tuvalu Reveals About US Foreign Policy Under Trump

India’s Economic Growth Masks a Deeper Malaise

Before the US Realizes the Cost, China Is Rapidly Gaining Soft Power Ground

Labubu Plushies Aren’t Just Toys. They’re a Brand New Frontier for Chinese Soft Power.

North Korea and the Lasting Legacy of Kim Il Sung

Samriddh Kendra: Building Bharat’s Grassroots Fintech Revolution

India among global fintech hotspots, says World Economic Forum study

Tork: The Swadeshi Drink Bringing Bihar's Flavours Nationwide

Battery Smart raises $21M in ongoing Series B funding round

7 quick and simple ways to brighten your mood instantly

How Digital Labour Chowk Empowers India’s Daily Wage Workforce

NPCI's income rises 19%, profit jumps 42% in FY25

Indian tech startup funding slips to $4.8B in H1 2025: Report

Why TiDB is the ideal database for next-gen SaaS platforms

'Not going to wait and watch': Swiggy CEO on new opportunities in food delivery amid Rapido’s entry

Namma Yatri launches welfare trust for its Karnataka driver partners

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (June 25, 2025)

Rapido partners with Delhi Metro, ONDC to offer metro tickets in-app

Vaimanika Aerospace: Drone Innovation from Bihar to Bharat

Desua Public Library: Turning Rural Aspiration into Academic Opportunity

Fine jewellery brand GIVA raises Rs 530 Cr in Series C funding led by Creaegis

Don’t fear AI; it will soon be part of everything you do: Dell Technologies’ Vivekanandh NR on building an AI-first mindset

Financial access for blue-collar workers; Helping people reclaim their fitness

The Next Wave of D2C: How tech, data, and consumer shifts are redefining growth

Broking platform Sahi raises $10.5M in Series A funding from Accel, Elevation Capital

Odds Fitness is helping people reclaim their health with personalised plans

Cleaning solar panels with no water: Photom Technology’s robots are making it happen

Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs

Should small towns still have volunteer EMS?

Why are small towns losing emergency services volunteers? #shorts

If our mother becomes CM😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

Blastoff! SpaceX lauches Ax-4 crew to space station, nails landing in Florida

Blastoff! SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to complete doubleheader, nails landing

The 'Tan Mom' origin story

Kia Syros vs Mahindra XUV 3XO Sub Rs. 10 Lakh Battle | Which Car Is More Value For Money?

This Tiny UI Library in C is INSANE

@MarkRober NASA Engineer to YouTuber

@MarkRober on NASA, Apple & The Secret to 69.2 Million subscribers on YouTube ?

Logan's Prime Marketing Strategy

Creators Fail Without THIS One Role!

AI Will Reshape Global Power Forever

Mark Rober Loves "Jugaad"

Mark Rober’s Leadership Formula

3 Lessons India Can Learn From NASA

₹50 Lakh Jugaad Challenge for India!

Iran VIOLATES Ceasefire: Why Russia and China wont let IRAN Fall? | Geopolitical Case Study

‘Those who didn't participate in Indian independence movement are talking about saving Constitution’

‘Very proud’ of Israel and Iran for agreeing to ceasefire: says Donald Trump during NATO summit

“Dynastic parties are a curse to democracy”: BJP's Vinay Sahasrabuddhe on Emergency & its legacy

Axiom-4 Mission: From Delhi to Bengaluru, Indians rejoice as Shubhanshu Shukla heads to space

‘Unimaginable horrors’: Ashwini Vaishnaw as Union Cabinet passes resolution on Emergency

Axiom-4 lifts off with Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla: Why is the mission significant?

Man accused of raping French woman in Udaipur arrested

‘The censorship had killed press freedom’: Journalist Rajat Sharma on Emergency

‘Emergency was murder of democracy. Congress never truly apologised for it’: BJP’s Prakash Javadekar

'Your leadership already produced $1 trillion in extra spending from European Allies since 2016'

Today’s India is chaotic & political — but free. 1975 wasn’t’: BJP’s Gopal Krishna Agarwal

‘Like Hiroshima’ says US President on American strikes on Iranian Nuclear sites

Told India & Pakistan ‘if you're going to go fighting each other, we're not doing any trade deal’

50 years of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, its unintended consequences & terminal decline of Congress

Iran, Israel & changed ME post-Oct 7 Hamas attack

'Thought it was coup'-Former IAS Officer Pradipto Ghosh recalls the night when Emergency was imposed

The Decline Of Usability

Israel Iran Ceasefire: अपने मकसद में फेल हुआ इज़रायल | Explainers By Ajay Kumar

BJP Came a Cropper in Bypolls, AAP Shows it Isn't a Pushover. What's Next?

The ceasefire will last, Iran will make a bomb, the holocaust doesn't excuse Israel's behaviour

LIVE: Samvidhan Hatya Divas Vs 'Undeclared' Emergency |Congress, BJP Spar On 50 Yrs of Emergency

चौंके Trump, जीत गये भारतीय मूल के ममदानी, New York के पहले मुस्लिम मेयर बन सकते हैं | Arfa Khanum

Dating when you've had a Bad Childhood #animation #love #relationships

Why Hurt People Hurt People

Steve Jobs' advice to PepsiCo CEO...

5 Brutal Truths Behind Becoming the First Immigrant Fortune-50 CEO

Former PepsiCo CEO: The Hidden Cost of Rising to the Top | Indra Nooyi

Denzel Washington's Mum is his partner in crime 😏

What has America gained from its strike on Iran?

Pet Safe Plants | The Pack

Ocean Photographer Can't Believe When He Spots A Rare White Baby Whale | The Dodo

Antisocial Orange Cat Falls In Love With A Black Stray | The Dodo

They Had No Clue What She Had Been Through | The Dodo

How To Keep Your Cat Safe In Your New Home | The Pack

Guy Saves A Blue Groper Trapped In A Tide Pool | The Dodo

Guy Saves A Blue Groper Trapped In A Tide Pool | The Dodo

Pittie Who's Jaw Was Wired Shut Can't Stop Cuddling Her Dog Brother | The Dodo

Lizard Goes To Walmart With His Mom | The Dodo

Woman Jumps Out Of Uber To Rescue An Opossum | The Dodo

After Iran-Israel Ceasefire - Will Gaza See Some Relief Or More Pain? | Akash Banerjee

The Breakup: Donald Trump & Elon Musk Edition | The Daily Show

AI has infiltrated education, and according to #LewisBlack, we’re all f**ked #DailyShow #AI

Do movies suck now? Nancy Kwan on the ways movies (and moviegoers) have changed since the 1960s

How to Design a Creative Life (w/ Debbie Millman) | How to Be a Better Human, a TED Podcast

What happens when video game communities go IRL? #TEDTalks

The Super Trick-Willianaire

Nalaya and Dime

We pulled a truck! My trainer is hard core!

We Turned the Mediterranean Into One Big Particle Physics Experiment

The Mystery Just Got Bigger: What are those particles in the Antarctic?

The Doors “Touch Me” Breakdown #thedoors #jimmorrison #song #shorts

How Do People NOT Know This About Pop Music?

This is my favorite part of the song!!! And it comes out tomorrow yayyyyyyy 😍😍😍

They Put Slavery on Trial

என்னது? Love பன்றால? #shorts | Parithabangal

आज फटे हुए दूध से बनाया दोपहर का ये नाश्ता😋 | Lunch Recipe | Chenna Nashta recipe

Iran पर हमला, भारत की दुविधा और Trump की बदमाशी | NL Tippani 241

Let’s Talk About: Trans Lives | COMING SOON!

Simple Step-by-Step Breakdown to Build a Workflow in N8N with Maksym, Fullstack AI Engineer

Paid content for @debeers.

Stryker: the US Army's Supercharged Infantry Carriers

Bangali Pakistani BHAI BHAI ? 😍🤔 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Interview 😂🔥 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood

AI Slop & Meta #lastweektonight

Through a screen darkly | Krishnamurti

Tum Samjhati Achhi Lagti Ho | #AzharIqbal | #Love #Shayari | #SpokenWordPoetry | #SpokenFest Mumbai

Tum Samjhati Achhi Lagti Ho | #AzharIqbal | #Love #Shayari | #SpokenWordPoetry | #SpokenFest Mumbai

Orbit, Solar, Immense | Vocabulary | Khan Academy

Recently, Voyage | Vocabulary | Khan Academy

Exploration, Identify, Expand | Vocabulary | Khan Academy

Main Title And First Victim (From "Jaws" Soundtrack)

India Readies For 2-Front Nuke War | InFocus Episode 31 | Jist

DUSU President Exposes Scam In DU’s Ph.D. Admissions.

What do you think, Team Cat Mojo: does YOUR cat miss you when you’re gone? #cats #catlife #catovers

🚨 Calling all cat parents! #cats #churu #catcarrier #cattips

The Specialist | Beyond Black: Pierre Soulages’ Market Turning Point, with Grégoire Billault

The Specialist | The Chicken Cup: Mankind’s Most Faked Object, with Nicolas Chow

The Specialist | Jenny Saville and the Art of the Sale, with Ottilie Windsor

The Specialist | A Masterpiece by Kandinsky: a Story of Restitution, with Helena Newman

The Specialist | The Untold Story of the Shredded Banksy, with Alex Branczik

The Specialist | Clyfford Still: The Mission to Establish a Museum, with Lisa Dennison

The Specialist | The Rediscovery of Rubens’ The Massacre of the Innocents, with George Gordon

The Specialist | The Cabinet Detective of Urbino, with Mario Tavella

Shree Ram Chandra Kripalu Bhajan By Lata Mangeshkar Ji 🙏✨ #icmvocal #icmtabla #bhajan #shorts

Carnatic Rhythm In Drum By Michael Joe Francis ❣️✨#drums #icmtabla #fusion #music #shorts

Mesmerizing Performance By Dhruti & Dhanvi Athreya Sisters❣️✨#icmdance #icmvocal #icmtabla #shorts

How to Improve Serotonin Levels for Depression | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Simple Tool to Boost Heart Rate Variability (HRV) | Dr. Andrew Huberman

3 stocks broke out to their all time high

3 Fundamentally undervalued stocks worth researching in 2025?

Architecture Isn’t Kubernetes • Diana Montalion • GOTO 2024

Liftoff of Axiom Mission 4 with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski

Docking of Axiom Mission 4 with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski

The beginning of Ignis Mission | Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski

பெட்ரோல் போடும் போது வெடித்த கார்?

How a village in Senegal is using solar energy to bring itself into the modern age | DW Documentary

Invisible damage: From stratosphere to marine life, impact of ongoing wars pervasive & long-term

Shawn’s Last Dive Before Disaster! | Bering Sea Gold S11 E8 | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

3 Men vs 3 Bears. Who Will Dominate? | Man vs Bear S1 E3 | Discovery Channel

பிரபு நெப்போலியன் வடிவேலு சிறந்த படம் | Prabhu Vadivelu Super Hit Full Movie

பிரபு நெப்போலியன் வடிவேலு சிறந்த படம் | Prabhu Vadivelu Super Hit Full Movie

பிரபு நெப்போலியன் வடிவேலு சிறந்த படம் | Prabhu Vadivelu Super Hit Full Movie

ரீமா உனக்கு வேற வேலை இல்லையா Psychological Thriller | Gayatri Rema, Prasanth Srinivasan | DD Movies

பிரபு நெப்போலியன் வடிவேலு சிறந்த படம் | Prabhu Vadivelu Super Hit Full Movie

India’s Ancient Drum Still Rules the Stage

This spider is bigger than your hand 🕷️😱 #shorts #LastEden #DanONeill

What powers a hurricane? 🌪️🔥 - Just one thing: warm ocean water. #shorts #hurricane

Batman makes Biryani with Cookd 😝🤩

Manage Your Technical Debt LIKE THIS, & Thank Me Later

First Images From New World's Largest Camera

Sitaare Zameen Par and censorship #satyajitray #hirakrajardeshe #sitaarezameenpar

Kasparov’s Rossolimo Crushes Kramnik in 26 Moves with 97% Accuracy

No JOKE! Pragg vs Rapport is WILD

Arjun Erigaisi pushes his kingside pawns without a care in the world vs Sindarov | UZChess Cup 2025

Nodirbek Abdusattorov cannot believe what just happened | Nodirbek vs Nodirbek | UZchess Cup 2025

15-year-old boy checkmates 66-year-old GM! | Viresh Sharnarthi vs Raset Ziatdinov | Mumbai GM

Heartbreak of the Champion 😔♥️ #chess #chessgame

GAME OF THE YEAR!! | Praggnanandhaa vs Richard Rapport | UZChess Cup 2025

UZCHESS CUP 2025 Round 8 | Arjun vs Pragg, Abdusattorov vs Nepo, Aravindh vs Rapport

Arjun takes out his Gandeevam! | Shamsiddin vs Arjun Erigaisi | Uzchess Cup 2025

Magnus Carlsen SHOWS the FIRST CHESS OPENING TRAP that He EVER LEARNED

10 Most Played Moves? Ft. Julien Song

1 Tadka = 2 dishes 😋 #NewRecipeUp #daltadka #aloosabji #ranveerbrar

How to Make Walking Harder (and More Effective)

CIA psychology: Ask questions that make people reveal everything | Andrew Bustamante

I was paralyzed at 17. I won gold seven years later. | Alana Nichols

Understanding the planck length ft. Brian Cox

Ukraine's Forgotten War | A year on the Frontline in Donbas

President Trump insists Iran's nuclear sites 'obliterated' despite intelligence report | BBC News

UN condemns Gaza aid 'death trap' as dozens reported killed by Israeli fire | BBC News

Sexcam industry recruited us while we were schoolgirls, say models. #BBCNews

Lorry driver trapped in cabin after China bridge collapse. #China #BBCNews

Nato boss commends 'daddy' Trump's handling of Israel-Iran conflict. #Nato #Trump #BBCNews

Iran executes three men accused of spying for Israel | BBC News

Nato set to agree big spike in defence spending at 'historic summit' | BBC News

410 Palestinians killed since GHF took over aid distribution in Gaza, UN says. #BBCNews

Nato members confirm defence and security spend to hit 5% of GDP by 2035 | BBC News

BBC reports from Iran on ceasefire deal with Israel | BBC News

Donald Trump asks BBC Ukrainian reporter about her family at Nato summit | BBC News

Myroslava Petsa was asked about her husband on the frontline. #Ukraine #Trump #BBCNews

Has Donald Trump changed NATO and European defence forever? | BBC Newscast

BREAKING: Leaked US intelligence says Iran’s nuclear plans “likely only set back months” | BBC News

Living Side By Side With Elephants in Sri Lanka 🐘💚 #Guardians #Elephants #Shorts

Exploring the Secret Lives of Forest Animals | BBC Earth

A Game That Has it All || Nodirbek Yakubboev vs Nodirbek Abdusattorov || 2nd UzChess Cup 2025

Tilt is For The Weak || Nodirbek Abdusattorov vs Parham Maghsoodloo || 2nd UzChess Cup 2025

Why are People so Obedient? - Compliance and Conformity