Digest — 2025-07-31:

The story of Malcolm X

A film is a goodbye that never ends

Why are games scary?

war never changes

relapsed into social media

I got married yesterday!

Laniakea, our home supercluster, is already being torn apart

Anxiety gives you an advantage. Unlock it with neuroplasticity

On consciousness, AI, and panpsychism

Not just the Western Front: “Ring of Fire” rediscovers WWI’s global story

How to Be a Happier Creature

Why Leaders Should Bring Their Best Self—Not Their Whole Self—to Work

Keeping Morale Up During a Turnaround

Retaining Mission-Critical Team Members Through Layoffs

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent...

Side effect of the Tour de France: pro riders gobbling up all...

The End of America as a Center of Science

Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology. “It...

Bill McKibben: Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It...

Forthcoming book from Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun. “Energy from the...

Always Stand on the Side of the Egg

Motherfucking windfarms. In Europe, they’re called Royale with Breeze. (I stole that...

How to Upload an Image to a Bird

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US. “I did not...

Two of the most promiscuous snack brands, Oreo and Reese’s, are teaming...

Two Ways To Film The Same Scene

1787: “Caroline Lucretia Herschel became the first woman to receive a salary...

How to Leave Substack. “Unfortunately, Substack willingly platforms, and allows bad actors...

The Wirecutter’s list of the best canned cocktails. Very interested to hear...

The Weird Web

Building Black-box Scheming Monitors

Childhood and Education: College Admissions

I am worried about near-term non-LLM AI developments

Follow-up to "My Empathy Is Rarely Kind"

Community Contributions

Vanity import paths in Go (2019)

In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network

Schematra: Sinatra inspired Chicken web framework

Mounting The Atmosphere

Go Assembly Mutation Testing

PyPI Phishing Attack: Incident Report

What is gVisor?

Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

Local-first search. A tale of frustrated dreams, utopian user experiences and calculated tradeoffs

QUIC for the kernel

The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1

Sync primitives are Functionally Complete

You might not need tmux

Cracking the Family Codes

Dying for Gold: Who Killed the Miners of Buffelsfontein?

Mom on the Menu

A Glittering Cave Holds Ancient Stories

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals

Double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials

The Big Oops in type systems: This problem extends to FP as well

PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor

Super-resolution of Sentinel-2 images (10M –> 5M)

Ongoing Lean formalisation of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Remote hosting for your telescope

Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents

Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser

Kaizen (YC X25) is hiring engineers to build browser agents that work

Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market

Launch HN: Gecko Security (YC F24) – AI That Finds Vulnerabilities in Code

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided

Introduction to Computer Music

Show HN: Mcp-use – Connect any LLM to any MCP

Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering

MacBook Pro Insomnia

Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?

Releasing open weights for FLUX.1 Krea

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong

Slow

Paradise Lost

Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD

Jaywalking man

How to sharpen pencils

Can Citizen Scientists Avert Australia’s Biodiversity Crisis?

In theory…

France and New Caledonia Have Reached a Compromise. Will It Work?

Taiwan’s Military Reform Centers the Individual Soldier

The Pacific Is Drawing the Line at 1.5 Degrees of Warming

Modi Comes to Malé: ‘Neighborhood First’ Meets ‘Maldives First’

The US GENIUS Act and China: The Digital Currency Race

The Variables of OPCON: The History of the ‘Control Rod’ Logic

Myanmar Junta Introduces Severe Punishments For Those Obstructing Controversial Election

Philippines’ Marcos to Visit India as Navies Hold First South China Sea Exercise

China’s Export Control Playbook: More Than Just Rare Earths

Why India Must Accept Trump’s Offer of F-35 Combat Aircraft

Ahmede Hussain on Bangladesh After the Monsoon Revolution

The Quad in an ‘America First’ World

China’s New Regional Policy: A Challenge to the Indo-Pacific?

Bilateral Bonhomie During PM Modi’s Visit to the Maldives

Can the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Bring China and the US Together?

[elsewhere] true-myth-zod v0.1.2

Govt aims to make Indian auto industry world's No. 1: Gadkari

Starlink granted satellite internet permit; spectrum allocation norms ready: Minister

AI to impact 1.8 Cr jobs in manufacturing, retail, education sectors by 2030: Report

US tariff to hit iPhone production expansion, electronics exports

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (July 31, 2025)

Cyber risk management firm SAFE raises $70M in Series C round

Data streaming firm Confluent to infuse $200M investment into global partner ecosystem

AI startup Metaforms raises $9M led by Peak XV Partners

Agnit Semiconductors Leads India’s GaN Innovation Wave

STAN bags $8.5M from Google’s AI Fund, Bandai Namco, others

IPV launches $110M global angel fund under GIFT City framework

Swiggy doubles losses in Q1, sees 54% growth in topline driven by Instamart

Neo Asset Management raises Rs 750 Cr in first close of Rs 2000 Cr secondary PE fund

Swiggy sticks to breakeven timeline for Instamart despite rising competition

Swiggy "actively re-evaluating" Rapido investment over food delivery conflict

PB Fintech Q1 net profit rises 40.6% YoY to Rs 84.59 Cr

From Job Seeker to Job Creator: How UP’s Youth Are Leading a Revolution

India projected to grow 6.4% in 2025 & 2026, reform momentum driving stable growth: IMF

AI is changing the hiring game; Swiggy’s Q1 FY26 results in focus

Towards a gridless future: How Quintinno Labs is powering the clean energy revolution from a car trunk

Swiggy Q1 preview: All eyes on quick commerce and profitability

Startups, lawsuits, and liability: Why insurance is no longer optional in 2025

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The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street

Video Generation as a Primitive

Karuppu Song Recording Session 😂✨ #vikkals #recordingsessions

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 walks out for pre-launch Tesla ride to rocket

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts enter the Dragon spacecraft after launch pad arrival

Scrub! NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 launch delayed by cumulus cloud

Blastoff! SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satelites from foggy Vandenberg, nails landing

SpaceX Starship single engine static-fire simulates in-space burn for flight 10

Watch live! NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 launch to the International Space Station

Why I quit working for the California prison system

Sales Is The Foundation of Success

Persuasion Isn’t Manipulation

@OpenAI VP on How AI Will Redefine Work ft. Srinivas Narayanan | Indian Business Podcast

What Sets Sam Altman Apart

Tools Amplify You, Not Change You

‘No proof that motorcycle used in Malegaon blast was Pragya Thakur's’: Lawyer Ranjeet Sangle

LIVE | Commerce Minister speaks in Lok Sabha | Parliament Monsoon Session | Trump Tariffs

'India will take all steps to protect national interest': Union Minister Piyush Goyal on US tariffs

'A slap on the face of those who called it saffron terror': Eknath Shinde on Malegaon blast verdict

No other city is like Gurugram—‘so mismanaged, yet so highly spoken of’

LIVE: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal speaks in Rajya Sabha | Trump Tariffs

2008 Malegaon blast: Why court acquitted all 7 accused and what next| #InstantAnalysis

'With Indus Water Treaty suspended, J&K may also see projects like Sardar Sarovar Dam':Omar Abdullah

'This is a verdict, not justice': Acquitted accused Sudhakar Chaturvedi on Malegaon blast case

Sunjay Kapur's sudden death & succession row at Sona Comstar. What's next for his mother, wife

Why NIA court acquitted Malegaon blasts accused & what it said

‘Had no idea Statue of Unity would be so magnificent’: J&K CM Omar Abdullah in Gujarat

Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin meets O Panneerselvam in Chennai

Op Sindoor success & takeaways-Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari (Retd) explains| #OffTheCuffHighlights

"We're spending India's budget on defence. It's sucking us dry": Mehbooba on Trump's economy remark

Dating App Doxes its Own Users

AI Goes NUCLEAR

The Real Target in Amit Shah’s Attack on Mamata Over Op. Sindoor are the Muslims of India

EC Bihar Poll List Revision Will Exclude 94 Lakh Voters, not 65, Could Hit 1.5 Crore: Yogendra Yadav

Framing the Media: Govt Policies, Law and Freedom of the Press in India, |Pamela Philipose

Watch How Dy Chairman Rejected All Notices To Discuss Bihar SIR Issue in Rajya Sabha

Malegaon Blast Case: Special NIA Court Acquits All Seven Accused | 'There is Suspicion But No Proof'

भारत पर Trump का क़हर, विश्वगुरु मोदी ख़ामोश क्यों ? | Arfa Khanum Sherwani

Heated Parliamentary Discussions on Pahalgam and a 25%+Penalty US Tariff on India | The Wire Wrap

What can dogs teach us about the microbiome?

AI's dangerous mind games exposed #artificialintelligence

Taron Egerton Read Elton John's Diary | Extended Interview | The Graham Norton Show

Architect Builds A Couch For His Dog | Dodo Digs

Make The Switch To Cleaner Candles For Your Pets Today | The Pack

Welcome to Dodo Digs | The Dodo

Skinny And Timid Puppy Learns About Love From A Dachshund | The Dodo

Architect Designs The Most Dog-Friendly Coffee Table | The Dodo

Sad Pittie Puppy Completely Transforms And Gets Her Own Puppy | The Dodo

Skinny And Timid Puppy Learns About Love From A Dachshund | The Dodo

Guy Rescue Little Owl On The Side Of The Road And Brings Him Home | The Dodo

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

The Clearing: Documenting Mother Nature in Cambodia

India's Dangerous Love Affair With Babydoll Archi | Story That Rocked The Internet | Akash Banerjee

Alison Brie & Dave Franco - Physical & Emotional Codependence in “Together” | The Daily Show

Trump is fine being friends with a sex trafficker, but he draws the line at employee poaching

Pete Hegseth will not stand for people in the Pentagon leaking info to reporters – that’s HIS job

Get a load of these genes

EPA chief Lee Zeldin is telling the environment, "Hey girl, it just feels better without protection"

Joe Rogan: The Path to Roganlightenment | The Daily Show

Trump Asks Hegseth to Cool It With the Polygraphs & Kristi Noem Goes Horse Girl | The Daily Show

The Greek tragedy of Oedipus' daughter - Stephen Esposito

A Musical Duet with AI Herself | Todd Almond and Donna Murphy | TED

Zero gravity, infinite potential. #TEDTalks

Inside a $300 autoinjector

Why Uranium Enrichment is a Big Deal

Making a bomb? First, isolate Uranium 235 💥

Stripper vs. Hoe-Rose and Missy

Bringing an AB Murderer Into My Home-Coco

Shawn

One word stories… | #shorts #funny

The Mushroom That Caused a Terrifying ALS Outbreak

The Leap: Everything Else Is Boring

Nuclear Fusion Can Create Gold, Startup Claims

அப்படி தான் அந்த Discount-அ வாங்கணும்னா அது தேவையேயில்ல | Parithabangal #shorts

Trending Reels Paavangal | Parithabangal

The Holey Monster (with 934 faces) - Numberphile

EXCLUSIVE: India’s e-waste mirage, ‘crores in corporate fraud’ amid govt lapses and public suffering

Why did 'towering news personality' Navika not cover the Dharmasthala issue on her show?

July 31, 2025: Air pollution’s impact on water

The media is in crisis and only you can save it. Scan the QR code and pay to keep news free.

Why Software Engineers Must Learn AI in 2025 — Before It’s Too Late

Architect’s Own DIY Compact Paris Apartment, 39sqm/420sqft

Two Ways To Film The Same Scene (#2)

What's in the National Geographic August 2025 Issue? 🤔 #NationalGeographic

Paid content for @VisitAbuDhabiChannel

What's Freakier than Venom & Illusion? David Blaine Investigates! | FULL EPISODE | Nat Geo

Turkey’s Insane Naval Aircraft Carrier

Yala Padare | Featuring Adithyanarayanan S & Sandeep Ramachandran

Qawal ki Zindagi Kesay Guzarti Hai? 🤔 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Bachey kiyun nahi hue? 😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood #shorts

That killing laugh! 😂 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood #shorts

Criteria for Gang Databases #lastweektonight

Which One Are You?

You can’t argue with death | Krishnamurti

Jist reporter Mukul brings to light the alarming condition of Mumbai’s once-pristine Versova Beach.

Malegaon Blast Case Timeline & Final Verdict Explained

You won’t remember BUT we tried to make it unforgettable

No more camera bags.

This is too good not to share again! #cats #catification #playwithyourcat #catlife #teamcatmojo

Sathiya On Sitar By Rishabh Rikhiram Sharma #sitar #semiclassical #music #icmtabla #shorts

Savani Talawalkar Tabla Solo Snippet #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Kathak Dance By Garvita Sharma & Himanshi Gogini #icmdance #icmtabla #classical #dance #shorts

Detroit’s Tiny, Terrible Metro System

Legal hack to save tax on capital gain

Building Secure ReactJS Apps: Mastering Advanced Security Techniques • Jim Manico • GOTO 2024

The Cycling Adventure We Can ALL Have

Bring Back The Chain Hanger Stud? ⛓

Stage Invader VS Shoulder Barge! 🚲💪

Life is all about adventures DON'T MISS OUT! 🗺️

How do we keep an eye on Earth? 🛰️🛰️🛰️

An imbalance of executive power in the former East Germany | DW Documentary

Dr Shashi Tharoor's appearance the Week Education Conclave. New Delhi, 30 July 2025

Scientists Create Supermaterial to Replace Plastic

#courtyarddesign of #shoonya #house #architecture #home #sustainableliving

Massive earthquake hits Russia | Tsunami warnings across the Pacific region

India’s Deadliest Airline Crash | Air India 171 Declassified | Promo | Aug 4, 9PM | Discovery

The Great Survival Face-Off! | Dual Survival S2 E1 | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Raw Horsepower & Underground Racing Drama | Street Outlaws S5 E15 | 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

Raag Megh | Pandits Sajan & Rajan Mishra | Music of India

The Ocean’s Strangest Alliance 🌊 #shorts #coralreef #curiositystream

When life gives you lemon, make kulukki sharbath 😉 Partnered with Xtcy

Chess Master solves chess puzzles (2078-2243)

What a fighter! | S8UL Nihal through to the Quarterfinals of Esports World Cup 2025

Shocking mouseslip decides Armageddon! | Nodirbek vs Jan-Krzysztof Duda | Esports World Cup

Can this GM from Erode score the biggest win of his career? | P. Iniyan vs Jan Malek

Arjun eliminates Nepo, moves to the Semifinals of Esports World Cup 2025!

Grand Finale : Magnus vs Firouzja | Fight for 3rd Place : Arjun vs Hikaru| Hindi commentary

"Magnus Carlsen is my biggest inspiration" - Nihal Sarin after his Quarter finals with Carlsen

Esports World Cup 2025 Day 2 | Can Nihal Sarin reach top 8? | Hindi commentary

Beautiful Gesture by Divya Deshmukh 🥹♥️ #chess #divyadeshmukh

When Chess Players RAGE 💥

Never give the GOAT a chance 🐐

Magnus is NOT Nervous at all

Magnus on his Rivalry with Hikaru!

Magnus vs. Hikaru Game 1 Ending!

Magnus SHUSHES the Crowd!!

MAGNUS QUIETS THE CROWD IN INTENSE MATCH WITH HIKARU | Esports World Cup

HIKARU vs. MAGNUS ARMAGEDDON in ESPORTS WORLD CUP SEMIFINAL!

ESPORTS WORLD CUP 2025: Hikaru, Fabiano, Nodirbek & Ian Fight For Playoffs | Groups A,C&D Day 2

Hikaru Calculates with his FINGERS

Ojas 24 | Official Promo #buildofy #architecture #tamilnadu #reels #shorts #home #traditional #earth

Vertigo Self-Treatment, 90% Successful (Positional Vertigo or BPPV)

Exercise To Reduce High Blood Pressure

Anxiety gives you an advantage. Unlock it with neuroplasticity | Wendy Suzuki

Being Gay in the Most Oppressive Countries

Migratory birds in flight | Amazing views from a microlight | 4K Documentary

How Chaos (and Lava Lamps) Protect the Internet

Aid cuts will push Nigerians into arms of Boko Haram militants, UN warns | BBC News

Wednesday fame was overwhelming, says Jenna Ortega | BBC News

Wednesday cast on what scares them the most. #Wednesday #Netflix #BBCNews

Donald Trump threatens India with ‘penalty’ over Russia ties | BBC News

British 999 call handler’s voice cloned by Russian network using AI | BBC News

Nigeria's women footballers promised $100,000 each after Wafcon win. #Nigeria #Wafcon #BBCNews

Donald Trump envoy meets Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu | BBC News

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos. #Tattoos #Archaeology #BBCNews

Fighting the crime gangs taking over the UK high streets | BBC News

British 999 call handler's voice cloned by Russian network using AI. #Russia #AI #BBCNews

Scandalous: Phone Hacking On Trial | BBC Documentary

The tech helping to complete La Sagrada Familia | BBC News

2,500-year-old Siberian ‘ice mummy’ had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals | BBC News

Trump v Carney (Again) | BBC Newscast

Trump condemns 'disgusting' Russian attacks on Ukraine and confirms sanctions threat | BBC News

Is there really a mathematical formula for a beautiful face? | BBC Ideas

Piglets vs Piglets in the Hidden Milk Wars | BBC Earth

Taunting wife for complexion not cruelty under Section 498A: Bombay High Court

Malegaon Blast: NIA court acquits all accused, including Pragya Singh Thakur, Col. Purohit

The NEWBORN TRENCHES are real

Our babys face looks just like HIS FATHER

Magnus Accidentally Premoves The Top Engine Move

The Falcon Hunter

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