Digest — 2025-07-10:

Freedom over death

Ancient water clocks

On Doing Hard Things

Eggshell stickers

Welcome AI Crawlers

Being nostalgic for the past isn't the answer

Who are You Without the Next Thing to Do?

its ok to have a normal job

Jupiter endangers Earth, and may have extincted the dinosaurs

The Fermi Paradox has a terrifying answer: The Dark Forest

The hidden rules of business — according to nature

More people, more pollution? Dispelling an environmental myth

A Screenless Future

How Pop Mart Won Young Customers in a Fragmented Attention Economy

Research: The Gender Wage Gap Tipping Point

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment. “Instead of...

When Moderation Becomes Appeasement. “Because reactionary centrists do not really have values,...

What If You Replaced the Moon With a Black Hole?

“Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at the NY...

Craig Mod: Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses. When...

A New Genetic Map of Human Disease for the Past 37,000 Years

The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK for the first time...

No One Else Has a Bike Like Mine. “The most elaborately decorated...

New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source. “Sometimes all a sticky...

Shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Competition

The Art of Roland-Garros. Each year since 1980, the French Open has...

When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town. “More than 500 Lumbee...

The Best Stunts of All Time, Over Nearly 100 Years of the...

Short-wave radio: the original internet

White Box Control at UK AISI - Update on Sandbagging Investigations

Evaluating and monitoring for AI scheming

Generalized Hangriness: A Standard Rationalist Stance Toward Emotions

Lessons from the Iraq War for AI policy

what makes Claude 3 Opus misaligned

No, We're Not Getting Meaningful Oversight of AI

Jai Demo and Design Explanation

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

Monitoring my Homelab, Simply

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

Using fs_usage to see what files a process is using

Closures for Hare

Writing a very simple JIT Compiler in about 1000 lines of C

How to Observe

How to Save a Dog

Becoming Earth

The Menagerie Lurking in Rural America

The Geological Sublime

The Inner Worlds of Reptiles

How Waves Shape the Planet

Is the State of the World Causing You Pain?

How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs

Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser

A job queue in two lines of JavaScript

Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

The underground cathedral protecting Tokyo from floods (2018)

HNSW as abstract data structure: video intro to Redis vector sets

Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI [video]

Gun world

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?

In Search of Quietude

Albuquerque’s Route 66 Motels Are Turning Into Affordable Housing

Notes to myself

Cambodia’s Citizenship Bill Is a Dangerous Weapon in a Dictator’s Hands

Beware the ‘Diderot Effect’ of Southeast Asian Development

US Naval Revival in the Indo-Pacific Ramps Up

South Korean Banks, the EU, and the Failure of Microfinance in Cambodia

Australia and New Zealand Need to be More Vocal in Opposition to Trumpian Policies

Canada, Japan and Australia: Swing States or Pawns for China?

Philippine Senators Express Doubt Over Vice President Sara Duterte Impeachment Case

Japan-Canada Sign Security of Information Agreement

UK Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales to Make First Port Call in Japan

Between War and Peace: Redefining the SAF’s Role Beyond 60

What Russia’s Embrace of the Taliban Means for Afghan Women and the World

How Reslink is powering India’s clean future

In the Zomato, Swiggy vs restaurants war, it's a fight to the last rupee

LetsVenture rebrands to LVX to integrate private market offerings

No Swigato for small restaurants; Communication without spam

Azmarq helps businesses with omnichannel communication services that don’t spam

MS Subbulakshmi learning a Hindi Bhajan “Patitoddharini Gange” from her #guru Dilip Kumar Roy.

Kia Syros vs Tata Nexon: Sub Rs. 10 Lakh Battle | Which Car Is More Value For Money?

Nicholas Hoult Went A Bit Too Method On 'Skins' | Extended Interview | The Graham Norton Show

Man Pulls Bulldog Out From A Trash Container | The Dodo

Cat Demands To Go On Scooter Rides | The Dodo

Cat Demands To Go On Scooter Rides | The Dodo

Tiny Hairless Puppy Stops Traffic And Gets Rescued | The Dodo

Tiny Hairless Puppy Stops Traffic And Gets Rescued | The Dodo

Trump’s BBB Has Michael Kosta Ditching Hospitals & Gambling for Whaling & Guns | The Daily Show

Elon’s Grok Chatbot Turns Hitler & Marco Rubio Gets an AI Imposter | The Daily Show

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED

The stroboscopic effect and rolling shutter

What The Hell Is Wrong With Me?-Jamie

Which Animal Would Win In A Fight?

Has One Man Just Saved String Theory?

Nuclear kittens 🐈 💥 // POMPLAMOOSE (nouvelle version)

These are the newest oldest birds of prey

College Admission Paavangal | Parithabangal

Supabase Makes Backend Stupid Simple with GC, Independent SaaS Builder

Refactor Now or Regret it Later by GC, Indie SaaS Builder

From Fake Bagels to Real Backend, Wiring Supabase Auth in Bolt by GC, Independent SaaS Builder

Keep an eye out for an Aye-Aye!

Some Galaxies Move Faster Than the Speed of Light

Invisible Extinction From Space – Gamma Ray Bursts

What is the necessity of analysis? | Krishnamurti

Main Theme (From "The Pink Panther")

Domain-Driven Refactoring • Alessandro Colla, Alberto Acerbis & Xin Yao • GOTO 2025

Build and Deploy a Polished AI Project and Get Sales

From the Paralympics to training for space 🏃‍♂️

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

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

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

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

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

Who Were the First Americans? | Breakthrough: Earliest Americans

The Apollo 13 Disaster: A Real-Life Space Survival Story | Bright Now: Crisis On Apollo 13

Watch the full episode with English subtitles 😁🤣 | Who Made What 🧐

CPU Kernel Mode - Computerphile

Unlock Hip Flexor Tightness & Pain in 90 Seconds! In Bed

Sleep with Shoulder Pain

The Fermi Paradox has a potentially terrifying answer: The Dark Forest | David Kipping

Design Revolutionaries: How They Shaped the 20th Century

Rick Reacts His Favorite Instagram Musicians

Is The Fountain Of Youth Real? | Unexplained and Unexplored S1 E8 | Discovery Channel

What Can the UK Government Actually Afford? | BBC Newscast