Digest — 2025-07-30:

Geographies of racial capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Why your vibe coded app only works in your head

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never comply

Why “vibe physics” is the ultimate example of AI slop

Leadership philosophy: Why Machiavelli’s “virtù” fits hand-in-glove with AI

Social media supercharged our disagreements. Could AI help us resolve them?

Most social trends aren’t what they seem

What makes a meme take off? The 3 rules of virality

A Vaccine for Anthropomorphism of AI

Android Unexpected Keyboard Review

The Right Way to Sunset a Project

4 Signs That Someone in Your Network Is Taking Advantage of You

3 Types of Executive Team Dysfunction

Note to self: spend some time checking out Tapestry, Iconfactory’s universal feed/social...

Someone Played a Perfect Game of Tetris

Zim&Zou’s ’80s-Inspired Paper Cassettes and Boombox Radiate with Color. Strange, now I...

Weird & Wonderful Historical Photos From the 20th Century

Covid safety measures drastically reduced flu deaths, but the fatality rate has...

A compilation of super hero landings from the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza. “Israel’s blockade of most food and...

“Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done...

Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. “Substack is primarily...

What order do web components instantiate in?

China proposes new global AI cooperation organisation

My Empathy Is Rarely Kind

Optimizing The Final Output Can Obfuscate CoT (Research Note)

The many paths to permanent disempowerment even with shutdownable AIs (MATS project summary for feedback)

Optimize CPU performance with Instruments

Activity Monitor Anatomy

RFC 862: Echo Protocol

Books about Lisp's "beauty"?

bookmarkfs: FUSE-based pseudo-filesystem for managing web browser bookmarks

Verified Assembly 2: Memory, RISC-V, Cuts for Invariants, and Ghost Code

Phoenix LiveView v1.1.0

Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work

The Hype is the Product

Emacs: The MacOS Bug

Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques

Flat design vs realistic (“skeuomorphic”) design

2000 words about arrays and tables

Crush: The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

always bet on text (2014)

I built my blog with C preprocessor macros

I want to defend Wayland here and explain a crucial piece that I think people are missing

You Are The BIOS Now: Building A Hypervisor In Rust With KVM

Writing memory efficient C structs

[RFC] Upstream target support for CHERI-enabled architectures

A Dive Into Open Chat Protocols

Winging It

What It Takes to Crew the Hardest Race on Earth

DOGE-Pilled

These “Junk” Proteins May Fuel Adaptation

Pedestrians Are Walking Faster

You Have Never Felt Climate Change Like This

What Poseidon Is Telling Us

The First Lunar Road Trip

From Whence Lightning

People Really Want to Be Good

The Ski Rental Problem

Mezzano, an operating system written in Common Lisp

Online Collection of Keygen Music

LangExtract: Python library for extracting structured data from language models

Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year

The tradeoff between human and AI context

What's Not to Like?

150 years of Hans Christian Andersen

Show HN: Sourcebot – Self-hosted Perplexity for your codebase

Pentagon Pizza Index

I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Show HN: An AI agent that learns your product and guides your users

The Preserving Machine by Philip K. Dick (1953)

The HTML Hobbyist (2022)

Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access

Show HN: Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing

Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption

Our $100M Series B

Problem solving often a matter of cooking up an appropriate Markov chain (2007)

Launch HN: Lucidic (YC W25) – Debug, test, and evaluate AI agents in production

A short post on short trains

Early universe's 'little red dots' may be black hole stars

Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes

Vibe code is legacy code

The math is haunted

Figma will IPO on July 31

Ollama's new app

Fast

M8.7 earthquake in Western Pacific, tsunami warning issued

How to alter the passage of time to feel fast or slow

How slow breathing calms down your brain

What Can a Cell Remember?

What We’re Reading: What Americans Can Learn From German Prisons

Mostly unreasonable

The Clearing: Documenting Mother Nature in Cambodia

Imran Khan’s ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card

US Planned Ban on Chinese Technology in Undersea Cables: Implications for Southeast Asia

What the LDP-Komeito Defeat Means for Japanese Foreign Policy

South Korea’s Foreign Aid at a Crossroads Under Lee Jae-myung

Indonesia Signs Contract With Türkiye to Buy 48 KAAN Fighter Jets

Mahathir Mohamad, the Father of Modern Malaysia, at 100

Thai-Cambodian Ceasefire Continues to Hold, Despite Thai Claims of Violations

Interview: Bushra Zulfiqar on Child Trafficking in Asia

Albanese Wants International Cover Before Australia Recognizes Palestine as a State

The Historical Great Powers of Asia: Medieval West Asia

As Australia Eyes COP31, Climate Politics Heats up in the Coalition

The Elimination of Remonstrance: From Confucian Conscience to Organizational Discipline

Japan Unveils First Space Domain Defense Guidelines

PE/VC investments in India drop 19% to $26.4B in Jan-June

NKure Therapeutics: Revolutionising Cancer Care in India

Startup news and updates: daily roundup (July 30, 2025)

Eternal pegs 20% annual growth outlook for food delivery, doubles headcount

Deeptech startup CamCom Technologies partners with ERGO Group AG

ICICI Bank to charge payment aggregators for UPI transactions from August 1: Sources

MS Dhoni backs insurtech firm ACKO as investor, brand ambassador

Freshworks raises FY25 guidance on AI momentum, reports 18% rise in Q2 revenue

IPO-bound Zetwerk to raise Rs 600 Cr from co-founders via new entity

Africa’s Helios Climate and InfraCo Asia invest $60M in SUN Mobility

W Health Ventures launches $70 M second fund

Blinkit pilots prescription medicine delivery in select Bengaluru pin codes

Why Bajaj Allianz VPAY is the smart choice for modern vehicle owners

Heliware: Pioneering 3D Geospatial AI from India

AI is changing the game, but the human element still matters: Microsoft India Talent Acquisition Head

Lenskart eyes Rs 8,000 Cr IPO; Swiggy delivers annual report card

From finding courts to tournaments: The startup bringing order to India’s pickleball craze

Feeding focus: How AI-driven cafeterias are boosting productivity at work

Retraining Workers for the AI Economy

Live CEOing Ep 913: Language Design in Wolfram Language [Subscripted Variables, TakeUntil and More]

Business, Innovation and Managing Life (July 30, 2025)

After buying car - Indian Parents mentality #vikkals #comedy

Blastoff! Powerful NISAR Earth-observing satellite launched by India and NASA

Blastoff! SpaceX Falcom 9 launches 28 Starlink satellites from the Cape, nails landing

Gilmour Space's Eris rocket crashes during historic debut launch in Australia

Space Shuttle Discovery move to Houston would cost way more than allocated in bill

Investigating the extreme world of Death Diving

Kia Seltos vs Hyundai Creta | Sub Rs 15 Lakh Battle | Which Car Is More Value For Money?

Why Founders Make the Best Hires

Gurgaon's Real Estate Bubble

Jobs Come First, Real Estate Follows

DLF Camellias: Best Real Estate Project?

Feedback is a Gift, Not Attack

Placement Is The Real MBA Product

Man behind @OpenAI ft. Srinivas Narayanan

China is in 300% DEBT, is it a CRITICAL LESSON for India? ECONOMIC CASE STUDY

Real Experiences, Real Journalism – Batch 3 Student Share Their Journey at TPSJ

'...Sindoor toh ujad gaya logun ka': SP MP Jaya Bachchan questions the name 'Op Sindoor'

Lok Sabha LIVE | Parliament Monsoon Session

NASA-ISRO NISAR satellite onboard GSLV-F16 launched from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh

In Kashmir 'local terrorism has ended; only foreign terrorists remain,' JP Nadda in Rajya Sabha

'Total 30 people, including children, were stranded here': Survivor of MP's Shivpuri flood

LIVE: NISAR mission launch | ISRO-NASA Satellite lifts off from Sriharikota

’Home Minister should resign. He is responsible,’ says Sanjay Raut on Pahalgam attack

‘25% tariff imposed on India is a little disappointing for us’: FIEO's Ajay Sahai

'We want our PM to come forward & say that Trump is saying rubbish': CPI(M) MP John Brittas

‘Our military is not prepared to take on Pakistan due to lack of adequate equipment’: Kapil Sibal

LIVE: Home Minister Amit Shah's speech in Rajya Sabha | Operation Sindoor | Pahalgam Attack

Rajya Sabha LIVE | Parliament Monsoon Session | Operation Sindoor | Pahalgam Attack

'Congress gave away PoK, BJP wIll get it back,' Amit Shah in Rajya Sabha on Operation Sindoor

‘Partially BRICS and partially trade,'says US Trump after announcing 25% tariffs & penalty on India

A high-profile brawl in Karnataka Bhavan & Yogi-Brij Bhushan meet fuels talks of ‘re-union’

Teaching vim to a popular girl | Prime Reacts

The Truth About The Tea App

Sanjay Singh Calls Modi ‘Avatar,’ Mocks BJP Ministers: Rajya Sabha Speech

“They Don’t Want the Truth to Come Out,” Kharge Corners PM over OP. Sindoor

Mallikarjun Kharge Hits Out at PM Modi: Rajya Sabha LoP's Full Speech

“BJP Remembers Nehru More Than The Congress,” Kanimozhi Slams BJP’s Obsession With Nehru

Bajrang Dal Intervenes, Nuns Jailed in Chhattisgarh: Oppn Alleges Fake Case | The Wire Live

India's Last Caste Census Failed. Is the New One Designed to Fail Too? | Book Shook

"Modi Didn’t Directly Say That Trump Was Lying," | Rahul Gandhi

चीन से डरे मोदी, देश ने चुकाई क़ीमत? राहुल के भाषण को समझना बेहद ज़रूरी है

“Are Poonch's People Worse Than Broken Glass?,” Manoj Jha Questions Doval’s ‘No Losses’ Claim

The Dangers of Missing a Sense of Self

Being Free #animation #theschooloflife #freedom

If Dwayne Johnson punches you? It might be worth it... ⌚️

The Graham Norton Show - Series 20 Episode 2 | Danny DeVito, Ewan McGregor, Sam Neill, Miranda Hart

Pittie Is Obsessed With His Wild And Crazy Uncle | The Dodo

On The Next Episode of Dodo Digs | The Dodo

Trying Out A Laser Toy For My Multi-Cat Household | The Pack

Architect Builds A Couch For His Dog | The Dodo

Stray Dog Runs After Woman's Car And Asks To Be Rescued | The Dodo

Pittie Is Obsessed With His Wild And Crazy Uncle | The Dodo

Woman Brings Home A Stray Dog Who Stole Her Food | The Dodo

Stray Dog Runs After Woman's Car And Asks To Be Rescued | The Dodo

Woman Goes To A 'Dumping Ground' For Dogs Every Day At 4 A.M. | The Dodo

Jenny Slate - The Power of Female Friendships & “Dying for Sex” | The Daily Show

Ronny Chieng Shares the Dumbest 911 Story You’ll Ever Hear | The Daily Show

These Republicans touting Trump's fitness are giving us Biden déjà vu

Trump unveils his new golf course in Scotland before returning to his side hustle as POTUS

Trump’s European Union tariffs are a game of “5D hitting yourself in the balls” #dailyshow #trump

Trump Bombarded by Epstein Q's in Scotland, MAGA “Caddies” Provide Cover Back Home | The Daily Show

Trump Invites Jesus to the Workplace & GOP Prays for a Tariff Rebate | The Daily Show

How to Have a Better Sense of Humor (W/ Dan Harris and Guests) | How to Be a Better Human | TED

You’re not that deep (and that’s OK) #TEDTalks

Navigating Life Alone-Alexandria

Jodie

Jacques Lacan ll லக்கான் விளக்கும் பின் அமைப்பியல் ll பேரா. இரா.முரளி

hail the spotify dj #artandcraft #animation #film #artanddesign #philosophy #spotify #boburnham

This song hits so deep, it begs for another perspective | #Eternity by @AlexWarren | #shorts

How Do The World's Most Powerful Computers Work?

Mass Extinction Isn’t What We Thought

The Top 10 Records of This Century

Rick Beato Live Show Nashville 9/11 & San Francisco 9/25 #vanderbiltuniversity

Bringing Quantum to College Campus: A Conversation with John Kolb | Quantum in the Field

Ray Dalio Explains Money Vs Credit

The Trap That Killed Rasputin

Ladies Trend-அ ஏன்டா நீங்க பண்றீங்க | Parithabangal #shorts

१ बंच पुदीने से बनाएं बाजार जैसा चटपटा जलजीरा पाउडर आसानी से | Homemade Jaljeera recipe | Premix

सिर्फ 1/2 कप बेसन से बनाएं पनीर से भी सोफ्ट ये बरसात स्पेशल मसालेदार नाश्ता #recipe #indianrecipes

Origami Kunai – No Glue, No Cut | How to Make Origami Kunai Ninja Weapon From Paper | DIY Kunai

ORIGAMI KUNAI TUTORIAL - NO CUT, NO GLUE | DIY KUNAI FROM PAPER STEP BY STEP EASY ORIGAMI

जज्बाती अंकल, डंकापति, NDTV और Pappu Yadav | NL Tippani 246

Why did Jagdeep Dhankhar suddenly resign as Vice President?

Air India Plane Crash : जांच में छूट गए कई सवाल | NL Saransh

Operation Sindoor पर चर्चा का सार: क्रेडिट मोदी का, जवाबदेही Nehru की | Sansad Watch

Wander through the Streets of Italy with Stanley Tucci | ASMR & Stunning Scenery | Nat Geo

The ocean is experiencing mass extinctions and bleaching events, but there is still hope.

Sardar Ji Ki Cricket Theory! 😎🏏 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Show ke baad...😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood #shorts

You have been trained to look partially | Krishnamurti

#Falling in #Love (and Out) Through #Music | #PareshPahuja #Live At #SpokenFest Mumbai 2025

#Falling in #Love (and Out) Through #Music | #PareshPahuja #Live At #SpokenFest Mumbai 2025

Signs you need to take your cat to the vet! #cats #cathealth #cattips

Indian Version of Pride and Prejudice #prideandprejudice #keiraknightley #janeausten #bollywood

Violin Recital By Kamakshi Ambatipudi & Sindhu Rageswari #violin #carnaticmusic #icmtabla #shorts

Ganesh Iyer & Ed Sheeran Ghatam Instrument Magic #ghatam #classical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Kathak Dance On Inkem Flute Version By Mitali Mukherjee Bapat #icmdance #classical #dance #icmtabla

How to reduce your home loan interest?

Sri Lotus Developers IPO Review | Sri Lotus Developers IPO GMP, Business and more

Charles Humble Shares His Ideas about #RemoteWork

The Route For Si's 300KM Night Ride! 😦

Remaking the Middle East: Israel vs. Iran (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

Illegal neighborhoods?

Why Algorithms Work – Algorithm Analysis Deep Dive Course

Laptop warranty issue...🙄🙄

War in Sudan: Why a Nation Is Falling Apart - An online discussion by DW Documentary

Wars and their toxic legacy | DW Documentary

#simple and #minimal #shoonya #house #architecture #home #interiordesign #heat #sustainableliving

Can ICJ's landmark ruling save Small Island Developing States (SIDS) from climate catastrophe?

Dig or Die in the Klondike! | Gold Rush S6 E10 | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Midwest Heat Meets West Coast! | Street Outlaws S5 E14 | 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

🧬 Are We Playing God? | De-Extinction #shorts #deextinction #curiosity

When Malayali tries Tamil Tongue Twisters 😂

Aatukal Paya without Aatukal 🤔😉 | #cookd

The TRUTH About Great Software Delivery (and Why You’re Missing It)

LeelaRookOdds Crushes Evil Genius Gujarathi

Chess Prodigy Erdogmus Hits 2823 Performance at 14!!

Freestyle Chess CEO Jan Buettner Reveals Next Big Event and New Format

The 3-fold repetition conundrum | Savva Vetokhin vs Anuj Shrivatri

The absolute thriller between Nihal Sarin (S8UL) and Arjun Erigaisi (Gen-G Gaming) | Esports WC 2025

Arjun "Madman" Erigaisi at the eSports World Cup | Repping Team Gen G Esports

Dreams Come True 🥹❤️🫶 #chess #gukesh #divyadeshmukh #praggnanandhaa #shorts

Divya is one of the greatest talents of this gen - Laura Unuk, Brand Ambassador, Ford Slovenia

Arjun Erigaisi of Gen G Esports storms through to the Quarterfinals! | Esports World Cup 2025

Queen Divya’s Grand Welcome in India 😍♥️🇮🇳 #chess #divyadeshmukh

Esports World Cup 2025 Day 3 | Magnus vs Nihal | Abdusattorov vs Firouzja | Hindi commentary

Nagpur Airport Goes Wild as GM Divya Deshmukh Arrives with the World Cup Trophy 🥶🔥

Grand reception of #divyadeshmukh #shorts

It's Go Time for Magnus!

Grandmaster Mind Games!

"Chess is BORING" Tyler1:

How I feel after a BRILLIANT move!

How Different Gamers Warm Up!

Chess Player Math 😆 Hikaru and Tyler1

Hikaru Calculated this Brilliant!

Ian tells Tyler1 to chill 😂

Anish Blunders his Queen!

ESPORTS WORLD CUP 2025: Magnus v. Nodirbek, Hikaru v. Sindarov & More Clash In Finals Day 1

Ye नहीं kiya, then वो paratha hi नहीं! #cookingtips #paratharecipe #ranveerbrar

Stiff Knee? Loosen It FAST with Heat! (TheraHeat Knee Brace)

Why do we all remember the same things differently?

The Lost Civilization of the Indus River: the Great Disappearance

Timelapse shows changing tide level amid tsunami warnings in Japan. #Tsunami #Japan #BBCNews

'Everyone was running' after Hawaii tsunami sirens, cruise passenger says. #Hawaii #Tsunami #BBCNews

Tsunami waves build in California as threat downgraded in Hawaii and Japan | BBC News

Sea lions dive into sea as earthquake hits Russia. #Russia #Earthquake #BBCNews

Ozzy Osbourne's cortege passes through Birmingham. #OzzyOsbourne #BBCNews

Ozzy Osbourne's family stop to read tributes in Birmingham. #OzzyOsbourne #BBCNews

Greece warns of ‘invasion’ as it halts asylum on Med route | BBC News

Earthquake in Russia was one of strongest ever recorded. #Russia #Earthquake #BBCNews

Families of Israeli hostages react to UK move to recognise a Palestinian state | BBC News

Fighter jet swerves to avoid birds near crowded beach in Gijón, Spain. #Spain #BBCNews

Donald Trump to hit India with 25% tariffs | BBC News

Flights resume after UK air traffic control issue but disruption continues | BBC News

Fans pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham. #OzzyOsbourne #BBCNews

Tsunami warnings across the Pacific | BBC Newscast

Tsunami: What footage is real and what's fake? #Earthquake #Tsunami #BBCNews

India says it killed militants who shot dead tourists in Kashmir | BBC News

Widespread tsunami warnings after magnitude 8.8 quake off Russia's east coast | BBC News

Babies always take after MAMMAS

New Parent PROBLEMS

No Cage Big Enough for the Armenian Lion

Youngest GM In The World Plays an Immortal Game Against a LEGEND

Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life

Let's Kill You a Billion Times to Make You Immortal