Digest — 2025-07-21:

Humanlike?

Great art explained: José María Velasco

taking the scenic route

An Experiment in Creative Ex-Lax

What we’ve learned after 35 years of NASA’s Hubble

Manage your emotions, in 9 minutes

Founders: The hiring strategy that can turn scrappy to stellar

Is this acre in England really American territory?

Pay Off Mortgage Or Invest?

New Research on How Layoffs Affect the Labor Market

A Data-Based Approach to Delegating

Doing Business in China: The Risks and Rewards

A remake of The Thomas Crown Affair with Michael B. Jordan, Danai...

“Terrible night’s sleep? Here’s how to make it through the day…” Maybe...

Intricate Drawings by Shunshun

Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book is both a memoir and a novel,...

“The Alamo announced Friday a whimsical and nostalgic new addition to its...

How to Flood-Proof a Hurricane-Prone Florida Town

Gregor Formanek is likely the very last SS guard of a concentration...

When the Icebergs Came to Town

A look at 40 years of Rembrandt self-portraits. “Rembrandt documented his face...

The Most Observed Plants & Animals in Each US State

How to automatically create a release for a pull request using a bash script

[Fiction] Our Trial

Monthly Roundup #32: July 2025

HRT in Menopause: A candidate for a case study of epistemology in epidemiology, statistics & medicine

GDM also claims IMO gold medal

Detecting High-Stakes Interactions with Activation Probes

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Call for Translators (for Supplementary Materials)

Plato's Trolley

Deeper theories of program design

Sapling

Garbage Collection for Systems Programmers (2023)

Dissertation Typesetting Considerations

Working on a Programming Language in the Age of LLMs

Jujutsu For Busy Devs

Is there any good onboarding SaaS tool for iOS apps?

Tools of the Trade

Hollywood’s Being Reshaped by Generative AI. What Does That Mean for Screenwriters?

What Happens Once We Spot the Asteroid That Will Hit Earth?

Puzzled

The Two Lives of William Woods

The “We Evolved to Eat Meat” Argument Doesn’t Hold Up

Anteaters Have Evolved More Than a Dozen Times

The POSIX specification of vi

Writing is thinking

Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager

Why concatenative programming matters (2012)

Low-Temp 2D Semiconductors: A Chipmaking Shift

Covers as a way of learning music and code

RE#: High performance derivative-based regular expression matching (2024)

I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data

Positron – A next-generation data science IDE

China develops new method to mass-produce high-quality semiconductors

Can Dave Hurwitz Save Classical Recording?

Hegel Dust

Computational complexity of neural networks (2022)

HTTP/1.1 Must Die – The Desync Endgame Begins

iMessage integration in Claude can hijack the model to do anything

Log by time, not by count

Agents built from alloys

Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map

How to anticipate and cope with mania

AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.

A Sequoia Forest Grows in Detroit

Resilience is a practice

China Issues Diplomatic Protest Over Philippines’ Engagement With Taiwan

What’s Holding Back ASEAN on Renewable Energy?

Bureaucratized Confucianism: How Tradition Became a Tool of Control in China

China’s Fast-Shrinking Central Military Commission: Implications for the PLA

Hindi vs Marathi and the Contest Over Indian Identity

Between Sectors, Between Worlds: The Significance of Seasonal Labor in India

Between Partnership and Primacy: Australia’s Diplomatic Posture in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

The Philippines-US Relationship Is Tested as President Marcos Visits Washington

France, Mongolia Expand Civil Security and Emergency Response Cooperation

The LDP Bears Responsibility for Japan’s Populist Surge

The ICC Wants to Arrest Taliban Leaders Over Their Mistreatment of Women. Will It Matter?

Who Will Rule Crypto? The China-US Battle for Global Financial Leadership

Hun Sen’s Facebook Photos

Elemental 6.6.0 and 7.2.0 have been released

Inside Infibeam’s AI ambitions; Redefining tech services with AI

Eternal Q1 preview: Strong GOV growth for Blinkit, Zomato even as take rate plateaus

How Flyers Soft is redefining tech services with AI-powered accelerators

How urban cooperative banks can crack the offline merchant acquiring code

Will American colleges survive Trump? | The Gray Area

Dark Truth of Gurgaon Real Estate Ft. Vishal Bhargava | Indian Business Podcast

No, you don’t need a lobotomy | Ethan Kross

Ryan Gosling owes Meryl Streep 🥹

The Graham Norton Show - Series 19 Episode 12 | Dwayne Johnson, Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum

Barn Cat Chooses This Woman To Be His Mom | The Dodo

Best Way to Trim Your Dog’s Nails at Home | The Pack

Barn Cat Chooses This Woman To Be His Mom | The Dodo

Skinny Mama Dog Chained Up With Her Puppies Gets A New Life | The Dodo

Stray Dog Keeps Showing Up On Their Porch — Then He Brings A Kitten | The Dodo

Stray Dog Keeps Showing Up On Their Porch — Then He Brings A Kitten | The Dodo

Are these folks excited about Elon Musk's America Party? No. They are not

Nick Offerman is no mathematician, but Trump's cuts to national parks aren't adding up

The Inside Story of Notre-Dame’s Incredible Reconstruction | Philippe Villeneuve | TED

A Paranoid Schizophrenic On Skid Row-Nicole

Concert Version of Ghanan Ghanan | Hariharan, KS Chitra, Sadhana Sargam , Aslam Khan | A.R.Rahman

ORIGAMI DRAGON FROM PAPER TOWEL | HOW TO MAKE ORIGAMI FROM PAPER TOWEL | EASY ORIGAMI WORLD DRAGON

Marcello Mastroianni: a life lived beautifully

Debt payoff | Loans and debt | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

Contracts | Scams & fraud | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

Consumer loan laws | Loans and debt | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

Careers and education unit overview | Teacher resources | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

Budgeting and saving unit overview | Teacher resources | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

Taxes you pay | Taxes and tax forms | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

Financial goals unit overview | Teacher resources | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

LoneWolf League: GAME 8

Stop Paying for Free Monads • Mark Hopkins • YOW! 2016

Germany: Violence against women - Causes, consequences and ways forward | DW Documentary

SUBLIME ENDGAME MAGIC | Magnus Carlsen vs R. Praggnanandhaa | Freestyle Chess 2025

Rare Six Minor Piece Endgame - WIM Gulenay Aydin vs IM Marco Materia

A stunning victory | Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen | Freestyle Chess 2025 Las Vegas

Beautiful Family Moment in Chess ♥️♥️ #chess

Levon wins it all in Vegas, Hans second and Magnus third | FreeStyle Chess

The Real Buttermilk?

Hip Exercise- Leg Swing

Concorde Air Crash: What Went Wrong?

ஆடி பாவங்கள் | Parithabangal

हर बरसात में यह गोते लगाने लगता है गुड़गांव उर्फ गुरुग्राम उर्फ मिलेनियम सिटी

Finding Gold In Treacherous Waters | Bering Sea Gold S12 E8 | Discovery Channel

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas: HANS v. LEVON In GRAND FINAL & Magnus v. Hikaru For 3rd Place!