Digest — 2025-07-23:

Unboxing an antimonial cup

open source hackathon 2025

Optimizing Flappy Bird World Model to Run in a Web Browser 🐤

dear diary

mama i'm coming home

embarrassment is the price of entry

The incredible physics of quantum levitation

The genius guide to future-proofing your career

The public-private myth: Why religion can’t be kept behind closed doors

A Plasticity of Being: What a Rare Bird of Prey Reveals about the Deepest Meaning of Intelligence

Should Your Business Use a Generalist or Specialized AI Model?

Age Inclusion Is Your Company’s Next Competitive Advantage

How Leaders Undermine Their Own Authority

I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. “I came...

Author Kate Broad writes about the role of indie bookstores in a...

Insane Fictional Traffic Patterns

Trump Action Tracker. “Each action is mapped to one or more of...

Killing in the Name of a Terrible Holy Lie

Wilmer Chavarria, a US citizen from VT, was detained for many hours...

After Paramount cancelled the Late Show with Stephen Colbert after he criticized...

A lovely trailer for a documentary called The Nettle Dress. “Allan Brown...

In her last column for WaPo, columnist Catherine Rampell shares some advice...

Google and OpenAI Get 2025 IMO Gold

On "ChatGPT Psychosis" and LLM Sycophancy

A brief perspective from an IMO coordinator

Steering Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning

Unfaithful chain-of-thought as nudged reasoning

Building Systems, Simply

Using Radicle CI for Development

Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library

Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua

What is X-Forwarded-For and when can you trust it?

TrackWeight: Use your Mac trackpad as a weighing scale

NPM 'accidentally' removes Stylus package, breaks builds and pipelines

Extending Emacs with Fennel (2024)

Kernel

Branch Coverage Won't Prove The Collatz Conjecture

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)

Superfunctions: solve the "color" problem of Python

How we discovered, and recovered from, Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver

Computational Tyranny

The Promised LAN

What to expect from Debian/trixie

Developing our position on AI

Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2

You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed

Why Can’t Americans Sleep?

When Fact-Checking Meant Something

The Oldest Rock on Earth

Can You Name That Tune?

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

Inverted Indexes: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide (2023)

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event

Algos and Code Performance: Your Code Works but Can It Handle Real Traffic?

Shallow Water Is Dangerous Too

Millet mystery: Why staple crop failed to take root in ancient Japanese kitchens

Why is there a date of 1968 in the Intel Chipset Device Software Utility?

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them

Show HN: Apple Health MCP Server

Steve Jobs' cabinet

Running PostmarketOS on Android Termux proot without a custom ROM (2024)

AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more

Why Elixir? Common misconceptions

A diverse cast of rocky worlds around a small star revealed by astronomers

Tram Trains

FastVLM: Efficient Vision Encoding for Vision Language Models

Optery (YC W22) Is Hiring in Engineering, Legal, Sales, Marketing (U.S., Latam)

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom

I made Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right

Show HN: TheProtector – Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget

Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture

Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant

Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong

I drank every cocktail

US AI Action Plan

Building better AI tools

Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)

AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

CARA – High precision robot dog using rope

CAMARA: Open-source API for telecom and 5G networks

A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used

Why you can't color calibrate deep space photos

A detour home, through Portuguese

Testudo hermanni

The Cells That Breathe Two Ways

What We’re Reading: Homelessness in L.A. Is Finally Declining

Seeing the lottery

US Foreign Aid With Chinese Characteristics

Building the Sanctions Infrastructure the West Needs to Face China, Now

US, Indonesia Release Further Details of ‘Reciprocal’ Tariff Agreement

Trump Announces Trade Deal With Philippines, Small Reduction in Tariff Rate

Is the US About to Establish a Military Base in Thailand?

2 of President Lee Jae-myung’s Minister Nominees Withdrawn From Candidacy

China’s Enduring Trust in Russia: The Public Sentiment Behind an Unlikely Partnership

China Now Dominates Open Source AI. How Much Does That Matter?

China’s Progress Toward Military Supremacy

Hypersonic Arms in South Asia: Racing Toward Instability?

Is the Russia-India-China Troika Making a Comeback?

From Terrorists to Trading Partners: Smoothing Kazakh-Afghan Relations

[notes] CleanShotX: Another Example of a Good ‘Subscription’ Model

Google Play, Android fuel Rs 4 lakh Cr app revenue in India during 2024: Report

Paytm shares hit 52-week high as company swings to first quarterly profit

PayPal’s new platform lets UPI users buy from global retailers

Lenders to sell Good Glamm brands individually, ending group-level revival plan: CEO Sanghvi

Auxano Capital exits Wiom with 7x return via secondary sale

Myntra comes under FDI rules violation scrutiny; ED files case over Rs 1,654 Cr in violations

How to stop being like the 95% using the 3-month rule?

7 insightful books on anxiety, identity, and online chaos

Veranda Learning raises Rs 357 Cr via QIP

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

5 books to guide your fresh start after life falls apart

Amid the AI buzz, startups must focus on India’s ‘real big fundamental issues’: Google’s Preeti Lobana

Sikkim unveils India’s first digital nomad village in Yakten

Maruti Suzuki, DPIIT partner to support automotive, mobility startups

Winds of change: This startup is powering homes with rooftop turbine-powered electricity

Showroom B2B is using AI and experience centres to fix India’s broken fashion supply chain

Paytm earns a profit, finally; What lies ahead for Milky Mist

Priyanka Gill's lab-grown diamond startup Coluxe closes friends and family funding round

Live CEOing Ep 912: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Snap, BitCast and LetScope]

History of Science and Technology Q&A (July 23, 2025)

ஏன்டா இப்படி இருக்கீங்க 😂😂 #vikkals #shorts

என்னடா நீங்களே அடிச்சிக்கிறீங்க 😂😂 #vikkals #comedy

Blastoff! SpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS to study magnetic explosions, nails landing

Life on Tantra Island is wild

Renault Triber Ke New 15-inch …. Alloys?

One Project Changes City Prices

'Trump said this 25 times that he stopped OP Sindoor,' says Rahul Gandhi on Trump’s claim

Is the new Kia Carens Clavis be the electric vehicle India has been waiting for?

Scuffle breaks out between Jan Suraaj Founder Prashant Kishor & Bihar police

Noida STF busts illegal embassy running in Ghaziabad, one arrested

Trump accuses Obama of 'treason' in 2016 US election

'Pakistan requested ceasefire in May': Indian envoy Harish Parvathaneni

Indian firm sets eye on titanium & superalloys manufacturing- Dassault, Safran, BAE line up

What PM Modi's farewell message for former V-P Dhankhar reveals| #InstantAnalysis

Fact-checking Japan's jet engine 'offer' to India, US trade deal & Israel's strikes in Syria| Ep24

Significance of PM Modi's visit to UK & Maldives, Japan-US trade deal & China's exit bans

‘BJP is a government for the rich people & works for Adani’: Arvind Kejriwal in Gujarat

Gujarat ATS arrests 4 with links to AQIS

Dhankhar resignation: 4 hrs,3 impeachment motions before shock exit & PM’s ‘terse’ message for ex-VP

A Muslim woman is telling Ramayana, Mahabharata in Urdu. ‘Stories belong to all’

"Open Source is Pain" | The Standup

Billion Dollar Idea

Giving in to the AI Hype

Bihar's SIR - "Unconstitutional, Fraudulent, Like Notebandi... Votebandi is the Correct Name for It"

Why India’s New Data Protection Is a Threat To Independent Journalism

Election Commission के Supreme Court में सौंपे SIR के Affidavit में क्या लिखा हैं?

एनडीए सहयोगी जदयू के सांसद ने सरकार से पूछा- 11 साल में बिहार से कितनी नई ट्रेन चलवाईं

अंसारी और धनखड़ का फर्क जब इतिहास लिखेगा कहानी | Arfa Khanum

Hundreds of Bangla Speaking Migrant Workers Detained in "Holding Centres" Across Gurugram

Story of Detention of Bangla Speaking Migrant Workers in Gurugram | Ground Report

"Elections are being stolen in India. This is the truth!" - Rahul Gandhi

Supreme Court Has Let Down the Constitution in J&K Case, Says Former Home Secretary

The Real Reason You Hate Horoscopes

A Test to Work Out if You're a Good Person #animation #psychology #theschooloflife

Pedro Pascal was upstaged by Grogu 😅

The Graham Norton Show - Series 19 Episode 13 | Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones

Why is the UAE backing a genocidal militia?

Has the MAGA movement arrived in Japan?

Family’s New House Comes With A Senior Pit Bull Tied Up In The Yard | The Dodo

Family’s New House Comes With A Senior Pit Bull Tied Up In The Yard | The Dodo

Cat Drinking From Dirty Puddle Has Cutest Meow | The Dodo

Cat Drinking From Dirty Puddle Has Cutest Meow | The Dodo

Guy Raises Two Baby Deer Until They're Ready To Be Freed Together | The Dodo

Guy Raises Two Baby Deer Until They're Ready To Be Freed Together | The Dodo

Tiny Puppy Who Can’t Stand On Her Own Learns To Run | The Dodo

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

Trump vs. Biden: Who's Losing It Faster? Charlamagne Tha God Investigates | The Daily Show

Why was "The Late Show" canceled? Jon Stewart has a few ideas

When Josh Johnson said he wanted something juicy, this is not what he meant

#Trump unsealed the #MLK files? He must really be in a bind if he's releasing more Black history

What drew Anthony Carrigan to playing Metamorpho in the new "Superman" movie? Pathos and an accent

Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show

Trump Dodges Epstein by Attacking Obama, Dropping MLK Files & Trying to Change Coke | The Daily Show

Why We Need to Rethink Fashion (w/ Diarra Bousso) | How to Be a Better Human

From The Frying Pan Into The Fire-Veronica

limerence pt 8 #crush #film #philosophy #love #podcast #arthistory

stendhal syndrome pt 6 #crush #film #philosophy #love #podcast #arthistory

Stonehenge Isn't A Henge (And Other Things You Didn't Know)

What The Sigma Is Algospeak?

The Leap: And Then The Sub Went Silent

Unexpected Result of NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Test

Ray Dalio's Update on U.S. Government Debt

The Invention of Capitalism in Building Powerful Empires

Here’s ​⁠@lauracahen & me in Paris singing “On est bien là” from the album “Photogénique” out now

The Colonial Mean Girl Who Almost Ended America

Tension ஆனா தேங்காய் அடி தான் | Parithabangal #shorts

मेरे बेटे के लिये आज बनाई यात्रा स्पेशल ये चटपटी और हल्की-फुल्की रेसिपी 😋 #papamummykitchen #recipe

ORIGAMI JABBA THE HUTT STAR WARS ORIGAMI TUTORIAL | HOW TO MAKE ORIGAMI STAR WARS - JABBA THE HUTT

STAR WARS ORIGAMI JABBA THE HUTT TUTORIAL | DIY JABBA THE HUTT ORIGAMI STAR WARS EASY TUTORIAL CRAFT

Bihar में Modi ji , चैनल पर अंजनाजी और दारू में चूहे | NL Tippani 245

पंजाब विधानसभा से पास हुआ विवादास्पद विधेयक

"बंबई आपको हिला के सीधा कर देती है." फैसल मलिक

Former Election Commissioner on why the Bihar voter roll revision so controversial

They have different jobs, but both face dangerous predators up close #TraffickedWithMarianavanZeller

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SHO ka Matlab kya hota hai? 😂 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

SHO ka matlab kya hai ? 😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood #shorts

DEEP! 😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood #shorts

Apni Had Mein Raho Pagal Aadmi! 🤣😭 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

How Marcello Mastroianni became the face of #ladolcevita

Demis Hassabis: Future of AI, Simulating Reality, Physics and Video Games | Lex Fridman Podcast #475

Wife ordered to tender apology to husband after he spent 109 days in jail

Is filing anticipatory bail after an FIR a mistake?

Live with death | Krishnamurti

Action | Krishnamurti

#OnlyWindowTakAashiqui | #ManuRishiChadha on Young #Love & #Purani #Dilli / #Delhi | #SpokenFest

#OnlyWindowTakAashiqui | #ManuRishiChadha on Young #Love & #Purani #Dilli / #Delhi | #SpokenFest

Was Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination an intelligence failure? | Jist

The Cyanide Capsule That Ended Every Interrogation | Jist

Inside Illegal Liquor Mafia of Madhya Pradesh ft. Medha | Jist

Did you know this fun fascinating cat fact about their collarbones? #Cats #CatFacts #CatLoversl

The Specialist | From Orsay to Auction: The Turbulent Journey of Vollard’s Gauguin

Esraj Tabla By Arshad Khan & Nishit Gangani #icmtabla #esraj #semiclassical #music #shorts

Soulful Singing By Kashish Mittal #icmvocal #gazal #icmtabla #music #shorts

Kathak Dance By Mitali Mukherjee #icmdance #icmtabla #classical #dance #shorts

Ustad Zakir Hussain Tabla Solo Snippet #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Raheshri Tillana By Abby V & Sukanya Varadharajan #icmvocal #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

How to Lose Weight & Keep it Off | Dr. Layne Norton & Dr. Andrew Huberman

When to Eat Protein for Better Muscle Growth | Dr. Layne Norton & Dr. Andrew Huberman

How to Lose Fat Quickly | Dr. Layne Norton & Dr. Andrew Huberman

The Most Tested, Safe, & Effective Sports Supplement | Dr. Layne Norton & Dr. Andrew Huberman

Alkyl Amines vs Balaji Amines

@thedrlambda8148 on How to Improve your Approach to Developing

Si On The LIMIT Of HIS Finland Epic! 😨

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: David French (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Peter Keisler (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Norman Eisen (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Mike Davis (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Steve Bannon (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: John Yoo (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Susan Davis (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Jane Mayer (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: J. Michael Luttig (interview) | FRONTLINE

Trump's Power & the Rule of Law: Temidayo Aganga-Williams (interview) | FRONTLINE

Learn TypeScript – Crash Course for Beginners

Are fish smarter than we thought? | DW Documentary

Renowned #journalist Atul Deulgaonkar talks about the #heat in #latur #heatindex #drought

#pune #urbanheat due to #building materials #architecture #climatechange #globalwarming #heatwave

Ek Tha Raja with Akul Tripathi – Bharat Ke Rakshak | 7th August | Promo | Discovery Channel

Battle of the Street Beasts! | Street Outlaws S5 E9 | Discovery Channel

Hunter's Sudden Stand Against Todd Reaches Boiling Point | Gold Rush S6 E4 | Discovery Channel

தளபதி முதலமைச்சர் ஆனா எப்படி இருக்கும் | Thalapathy Vijay Political Movie

தளபதி முதலமைச்சர் ஆனா எப்படி இருக்கும் | Thalapathy Vijay Political Movie

தளபதி முதலமைச்சர் ஆனா எப்படி இருக்கும் | Thalapathy Vijay Political Movie

தளபதி முதலமைச்சர் ஆனா எப்படி இருக்கும் | Thalapathy Vijay Political Movie

தளபதி முதலமைச்சர் ஆனா எப்படி இருக்கும் | Thalapathy Vijay Political Movie

🐊 The “death roll” isn’t just terrifying—it’s genius. #shorts #deathroll #crocodile

Bakery style pudding cake 😋 ungalukku pudikkum ah? Comment la sollunga 😁

The Manager Who Almost Made Me QUIT Being A Software Developer

The ISS Is Crashing Into The Ocean

Polgar's King's Indian Defense Breaks Carlsen

How well does Vidit Gujrathi know Bobby Fischer?

Koneru Humpy and Divya Deshmukh's Semi-Finals test | India vs China | FIDE World Cup 2025

Did you recognise #gukesh ? #shorts

Fascinating Endgame | 2618 Grandmaster plays Two Knights vs Pawn - FM Apaar Saxena vs GM Warmerdam

The brilliance of Magnus Carlsen against Hikaru Nakamura | Las Vegas Freestyle Chess 2025

Koneru Humpy vs Lei Tingjie | Divya Deshmukh vs Tan Zhongyi | Game 2 | Women's World Cup Semifinals

Divya Deshmukh creates history | Beats Tan Zhongyi and Qualifies to FIDE Candidates 2026

Praggnanandhaa CHILLING in Las Vegas 😎♥️🤝 #praggnanandhaa #chess #lasvegas

Grandmasters TEACH You Chess Openings Like You're FIVE!

Levon Aronian is the CHAMP

Perfect Aloo Gobhi Adraki tips 😋 #aloogobikisabzi #cookingtips #ranveerbrar

Fix Poor Posture With A Doorway

Is your job limiting your potential? | Josh Bersin for Big Think+

3 doctors explain how to reframe your trauma, anxiety, and internal dialogue

Iran Between God and the Bomb

Two dead and two injured after shooting in Northern Ireland | BBC News

AI deepfake porn ‘humiliated’ ex-British MP. #BBCNews

Protests in Ukraine against new anti-corruption law | BBC News

Gazan student: ‘I am starving and suffering from memory loss’ | BBC News

UN urges Taliban to release British couple | BBC News

Where has rent gone up the most in the UK? #BBCNews

Surviving roommate of murdered students address Idaho killer in court | BBC News

It is one of the most infamous moments in heavy metal music. #BBCNews

Bryan Kohberger given four life sentences for Idaho murders | BBC News

Ozzy Osbourne's gaming cameos #OzzyOsbourne #RockBand #BBCGaming #BBCNews

Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change. #ClimateChange #BBCNews

Israeli aid system ‘inhumane, ineffective, and dangerous', says UK representative to UN | BBC News

Couple walk down flooded aisle to get married. #BBCNews

Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change | BBC News

Are protests putting Ukraine's President Zelensky under pressure? | BBC News

Our baby is so SPOILED

Brad Paisley on Vox Amps #guitar #guitarist #bradpaisley #shorts 

Moscow's Immense Secret Subway

Digital payment methods | Consumer credit | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

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

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

Amortization schedules and time to pay off | Loans and debt | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

Real world: SMART goals