Digest — 2025-08-07:

A simple shift in focus

Hotline 1998

Introducing Me!

About JC and this Blog

The ultimate energy limit that lasers will never surpass

How two freak accidents shaped human evolution

The importance of intuition and the limits of rationalism

The Best Leaders Edit What They Say Before They Say It

How Ambitious Entrepreneurs Can Use AI to Scale Their Startups

Potatoes are tomatoes! Ok not exactly, but scientists have worked out that...

My Recent Media Diet, the Resistance Edition

There’s a Bend It Like Beckham sequel in the works, says director...

The Bluesky Dictionary is tracking every single word used on the social...

Emily Wilson’s current project is translating The Odyssey (again). “I am doing...

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing. “The Nazi push alert was only possible...

Vintage Bike Tricks, Circa 1965

Tractor beams exist in the real world. They use ultrasound to hover...

From the Phonograph podcast, a look at the early days of 99%...

Why wildlife crossings and crucial for animals and humans: they embiggen habitats...

“New FBI data shows that both violent crime and property crime are...

Just fucking ship

Opus 4.1 Is An Incremental Improvement

Claude, GPT, and Gemini All Struggle to Evade Monitors

It's Owl in the Numbers: Token Entanglement in Subliminal Learning

Interview with Kelsey Piper on Self-Censorship and the Vibe Shift

Civil Service: a Victim or a Villain?

METR's Evaluation of GPT-5

hardmode-triangle-0

TUI version of dmidecode tool

Cursor CLI

Version Museum: visual history of popular websites and software

Jujutsu support in Reviewboard

Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems

Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language

HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

You don't really need monads

Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World

Live coding sucks

Nixpkgs module system config modules graph

More shell tricks: first class lists, jq, and the es shell

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.16

Who's Hiring? Q3 2025

Announcing Rust 1.89.0

Jepsen: Capela dda5892

GPT-5 is here

KomoDo, my first KDE app

We replaced passwords with something worse

Beloved Bother

The Enshittification of American Power

I Tracked a Wild Salmon From Sea to Plate — What I Learned Surprised Me

Has David Roche Cracked the Code? Or Is He Just Another Crackpot?

Replacement Windows to the Soul

Our Gut Feeling About Forests

Paradise Lost

Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices

Lists and Lists: Basics of Lisp through interactive fiction (1996)

Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs

PHP compile time generics: yay or nay?

People returned to live in Pompeii's ruins, archaeologists say

Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose

Lightweight LSAT

Foundry (YC F24) is hiring staff-level product engineers

The Inkhaven Blogging Residency

Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude

How to sell if your user is not the buyer

How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ

Infinite Pixels

Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big

Building Bluesky comments for my blog

Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster

Windows XP Professional

Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels

GPT-5 for Developers

Vibechart

Cursed Knowledge

OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card

Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security

Historical Tech Tree

Money

Money

How Can Math Protect Our Data?

How Fresh Fish From Monterey Bay Reaches School Lunch Trays

Follow-up to habit experiment №1: Analog evenings

Compounding luck

Cambodia, Thailand Agree to New Measures to Reinforce Border Ceasefire

Will US-India Defense Relations be Impacted by India’s Trade With Russia?

Assessing Religious Freedoms in Central Asia, USCIRF Delegations Visit Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

The Variables of OPCON: The ‘Control Rod’ Logic in Today’s ROK-US Alliance

Thailand’s Cabinet Approves Changes to Troubled Chinese Submarine Deal

Indonesia’s Recent Banking Boom, Explained

Will the Last Surviving Parent of a Japanese Abductee Get Closure?

Why Does Central Asia Need a UN Regional Center for Sustainable Development Goals?

Indonesian State Investment Fund to Pursue Railway Debt Restructuring

How Bangladesh is Beckoning South Korean Capital

How the Taliban is Building Its Future Army

Growing Use of Drones by Militant Groups in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

What Does the Decline of Agriculture Really Mean for Central Asia’s Stability?

Kyrgyz President Signs New Media Law, Making Registration Mandatory

Self-Help Groups Are Transforming Women’s Lives in India

Swindler or Scapegoat? Provisional Verdict Announced in Large-Scale Kazakh Embezzlement Case

Seoul’s Strategic Dilemma: Navigating a High-Stakes Summit With Trump

📇 Naming my devices

We are AI-first: Paytm CEO outlines vision for tech-driven future of payments

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (August 7, 2025)

BIDSO’s digital-first manufacturing platform is powering India’s next-gen toy supply chain

The Unfinished State: Sanjay Kumar Jha on Bihar's long road from collapse to confidence

BharatPe turns profitable in FY25, posts Rs 6 Cr profit before tax

Magnet squeeze halves Bajaj EV output in July; company targets six-month fix

MapmyIndia backs Zepto with Rs 25 Cr investment; valuation rises to $6.1B

Eternal gets Rs 1.34 Cr GST demand order for FY22, plans to appeal

Renee Cosmetics raises $30M in series C round at $200M valuation

SoftBank posts profit for second straight quarter as Vision Fund steadies

Woven by tradition: How Taavi is bringing India’s craft heritage into the present

SoftBank eyes India IPOs, fintech portfolio to revive Vision Fund 2

Pine Labs names Sameer Kamath as CFO ahead of IPO

Learn how to scale right at Lenovo’s upcoming webinar for growing businesses

Thyrocare chief Rahul Guha to lead PharmEasy parent as Siddharth Shah steps down

❤️9차 감자빵(구황작물빵 4종)공구중/ 댓글이벤트❤️

Live CEOing Ep 914: Design Review of Error Handling

History of Science and Technology Q&A (August 6, 2025)

நமக்கு எதுக்கு car 😂😂#vikkals #comedy

If Tamil Mothers Become CM😂😂#vikkals #comedy

Hair washing on space station demonstrated by NASA astronaut

Earth-facing sunspot blasts powerful M4.4-class solar flare

Nuclear reactor on the moon? Acting NASA chief explains

China's moon lander for crew run through touch down and take off tests

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is traveling at 130,000 mph! It's a new record!

Bare Knuckle Mother: Love and Violence (Full Documentary)

DON’T BUY These 7 Car Accessories — Total Waste Of Money

5 Must-Have Features for EVs — and the Kia Clavis EV Already Has Them! ⚡

India's Worst Health Crisis | Bharat Ek Khoj | Unfiltered by Samdish

'Voterlist is the property of India. EC refuses to give it to us': Rahul Gandhi

LIVE: 'EC colluding with BJP to steal elections,' Rahul Gandhi attacks EC and BJP

‘There are 11,965 duplicate voters': Rahul Gandhi accuses EC over ‘vote fraud’

‘EC doesn't give us electronic data. Because they don't want us to look carefully’: Rahul Gandhi

Visuals of Dharali village show washed-off houses after Uttarkashi flash floods

'US President Trump has attention seeking disorder'-Telangana CM Revanth Reddy|#OffTheCuffHighlights

'Elections are choreographed': Rahul Gandhi accuses EC of colluding with BJP

‘Excited & delighted to learn about President Putin's visit to India,’ says NSA Ajit Doval in Russia

'India’s export basket has no irreplaceables, it’s a vulnerability in Trump’s power politics'

LIVE: BJP National Spokesperson Dr. Sambit Patra holds press conference at BJP HQ, New Delhi

‘Names of even deceased are added to electoral rolls’: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Bihar SIR row

'We want J&K to become a state again as soon as possible': Omar Abdullah

150-175 people have been rescued,' say Army officials conducting rescue ops in Uttarkashi

NSA Doval meets Russian President Putin In Moscow amid Trump’s tariff war

Trump's tariff war on India in numbers: Which sectors will be worst-hit, when, what’s exempt & why

The Evolution of Programming | The Standup

Learn Rust with one Easy Trick

Modi's "Naya Kashmir": Six Years After the Revocation of Art. 370 | The Wire Live

Exam System बर्बाद क्योंकि 60% Wealth पर केवल 1% अमीरों का कब्जा। SSC protest। Economic Enquality

Predictive Policing in Delhi

"Rahul Gandhi is pro-OBC, PM Narendra Modi is anti-OBC" - Revanth Reddy

बीजेपी प्रवक्ता अब बनेंगी जजइंसाफ़ की कुर्सी पर राजनीतिक रंग क्यों ? | Arfa Khanum

Will Trump’s Tariffs Lead to More Violence in India?

As Israel Buries Gaza, How Should the World and India Respond? | Urdu Hai Jiska Naam

Live: Rahul Gandhi Targets Election Commission, Accuses It of Stealing Votes in 2024 Lok Sabha Polls

Trump’s Out to Break India’s Back but We Shouldn’t Retaliate for Now; This Will Have Lasting Damage

'Top RSS Leaders Planned Terror Blasts': Whistleblower Yashwant Shinde's Plea Rejected by SC

Explained: What Will a 50% Tariff on US Exports Mean for India?

राहुल गांधी का सबसे बड़ा पर्दाफ़ाश "वोट चोरी" पर चुनाव आयोग बेनक़ाब | Arfa Khanum

Bihar SIR & Citizenship: Is the ECI Overstepping its Jurisdiction? | Baat Bharat Ki

“Genocide is not Just an emotion topic,” Says Sabika Abbas

“How Should We Respond To What's Happening In Gaza?” Asks Arfa Khanum Sherwani

How does natural light affect jetlag? #bodyclock

Steve Jobs, a data leak and a very real call from U.S. Customs

Jamie Lee Curtis Hates Horror Movies | Extended Interview | The Graham Norton Show

Why is Donald Trump picking on Switzerland?

How influential is Nvidia's boss?

Trying a Designer Cat Tower | The Pack

Viral Trampoline Animal Videos Show How AI Can Go Really Wrong | The Dodo

Rescue Kitten Thinks Dachshund Is His Mom And Nurses On Her | The Dodo

Guy Off-Roading In His Jeep Spots A Skinny Pittie Puppy And Brings Him Home | The Dodo

Is This the Most Random Cat Obsession Ever? | The Pack

Rescue Kitten Thinks Dachshund Is His Mom And Nurses On Her | The Dodo

Rescued Beaver And Otter Are Totally Inseparable | The Dodo

Pool-Obsessed Dog Spends His Whole Summer In The Water | The Dodo

Scared Pittie Shakes In Shelter After Being Abandoned | The Dodo

Scared Pittie Shakes In Shelter After Being Abandoned | The Dodo

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

Couple Stays Behind In Ukraine To Care For Everyone's Pets | The Dodo

What TCS Mass Sacking Means For IT Sector? | Where Is India In The AI Race? | Akash Banerjee

A Deep Dive Into Trump's History with Epstein Pt. 2 | The Daily Show

Charlamagne Tha God on why MAGA’s assurances about Trump’s mental acuity should scare you #shorts

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka on how her turbulent upbringing inspired her comedy special, "Father"

What should you do if you accidentally cut off your finger? - Jason Hoellwarth

An Unexpected Plan for Peace in the Middle East | Nada Majdalani | TED

Hunny

A Life Unraveled-Denise

How Is Our Sense of Self Maintained Through Time?

Singing + Slime = my kind of therapy | #shorts #asmr #slime

At least we agree that @invisalign is the best way to prep him for high school! #InvisalignPartner

A.R.Rahman - The Wonderment Tour - Hollywood FL 🎸 #arrahman

One of the World’s Oldest Experiments is This Patch of Grass

A Nagasaki Survivor And Physician Recounts His Life's Work

Is It Time For A New Model Of The Universe? (Good Audio)

Are Cold Plunges Actually Good For You?

We Are Underestimating AI

Our Record Label Told Us These Legendary Producers Sucked

The Importance of Having a Reserve Currency

How to Build a Healthy Financial System

Why does this ice NOT float or sink?

திருத்த முடியாது திருத்த முடியாது இவங்கள திருத்தவே முடியாது | Parithabangal #shorts

सिर्फ 3 चीज़ों से ऐसे मलाईदार, मुँह में घुल जाने वाले लड्डू - रक्षाबंधन स्पेशल | Malai Laddu Recipe

Rock Tier List | football debate

"पाकिस्तान एक ऐसा देश है जिसके पास खोने को कुछ नहीं है."

“आज हम अपने लिए और टीचर हमारे लिए लड़ रहे हैं."

Uttarkashi में न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री: घटना स्थल से पहली Ground Report

क्या अमेरिका भारत के ऊपर ट्रेड पेनाल्टी लगा सकता है?

7 अगस्त, 2025 : नोएडा फिल्म सिटी से आज का 'AQI' | Fight to Breathe

Uttarkashi | "नेता वोट लेते हैं, पर मुश्किल में छोड़ा अनाथ" | Ground Report

I Had No AI Experience And This Bootcamp Changed That - Jeff's Story

I Was Unemployed. Now I’m Building AI Projects - Chris's Story

Surreal Cartoon-Inspired Compact Paris Apartment, 45sqm/484sqft

Limitless with Chris Hemsworth | Season 1 Recap | National Geographic

Pilots Speak Out (Full Episode) | UFOs: Investigating the Unknown | National Geographic

Who were Larry Eyler's unidentified victims? #NamingTheDead

Federal law enforcement troops were the last thing New Orleans needed. #HurricaneKatrina

New Perseverance panorama shows clear skies on Mars | #Shorts #Mars #SpaceImages

You've Been Misled About The Water Cycle

Atana | Featuring Ranjani Radha V & Aathreyee Krishnaa K

Can dowry harassment cases be filed after 7 years?

Supreme Court orders Allahabad High Court to strip judge of criminal roster

LinkedIn profile and earlier paid alimony irrelevant now?

The law is not universal: what people forget across borders

He did not even know there was a case against him

POV: A Nuclear War Just Started

To understand I must look | Krishnamurti

I am not offering you anything | Krishnamurti

Little Rebellions - Love, Rules & Growing Up | #ManishaLakhe | #SpokenWord #Storytelling #SpokenFest

Little Rebellions - Love, Rules & Growing Up | #ManishaLakhe | #SpokenWord #Storytelling #SpokenFest

Witness how mobile ambulance in a Godda village is delivering healthcare doorsteps.

Indian man in Texas facing backlash after viral video showed him harassing an African American.

Parole Pe Parole: MSG Ram Rahim Gets Parole AGAIN To Celebrate Birthday ft. Medha | Jist

See what inspires students in Jharkhand’s Godda district to attend school.

Uttarkashi Villages Destroyed in seconds | No Lesson from kedarnath Disaster? | Jist

Viral video shows firefighters arriving at Texas home during havan, after neighbours reported smoke.

Failed the Easiest Test

Raise your hand if you have a cat that wakes you up in the middle of the night! #Cats #CatLife

All I can say is 👏👏👏👏👏!! #cats #catification #catlife #fun #playwithyourcat

The Specialist | Bahman Mohassess’ Enduring Legacy, with Ashkan Baghestani

I made a map of India during the Mahabharata!

Purbayan Chatterjee, Rhythm Shaw & Musicians #sitar #guitar #fusion #music #icmtabla #shorts

Abhang by Rasika Vartak Garud & Savani Talawalkar #icmvocal #abhang #bhajan #icmtabla #shorts

Mere Dholna Saragam By Anagha Sukhatankar #sitar #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Adnan Sami, Pt Naveen Sharma & Artists Amazing Jugalbandi #icmvocal #dholak #icmtabla #shorts

Kuchipudi Dance By Yamini Kalluri #icmdance

Kuchipudi Dance By Yamini Kalluri #icmdance #classical #dance #icmtabla #shorts

Is The Universe Already Dying?

2 All time high breakout after long consolidation in internet stocks?

Is it the end of free UPI?

How do the rich protect their wealth?

Some Principles From Real World Internal Developer Platform Engineering • Russ Miles • GOTO 2024

🧵 Cyclists, Shoelace Chain Link Hack! ⛓

Getting Dropped? You're Probably Making These Mistakes

Can a Mountain Biker Do A ROAD BIKE RACE? 🏁

Time Series Forecasting in Python – Tutorial for Beginners

Robots guided from space 🤖

கொசு மருந்து திருவிழா !! 😂😂

Karakuri puppets made in Japan | DW Documentary

Burnout - What are the warning signs? | DW Documentary

Scientists Discover How Fungus Creates Zombie Caterpillars

Dharali town devastated by flash floods in Kheer Ganga river

Planet Over Plastic | Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee INC 5.2 | Ep 09 The Sunita Narain Show

Trapped in the Rocky Mountains! | Dual Survival S2 E5 | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

Gold Rush: Parker’s Royalty Reckoning! | Gold Rush S6 E15 | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

There Is ZERO Room For Error | Bering Sea Gold S11 E3 | Discovery Channel

The Race That Writes Legends! | Street Outlaws S5 E20 | 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

தளபதி முதலமைச்சர் ஆனா எப்படி இருக்கும் | Thalapathy Vijay Political Movie

Buried Treasure Beneath a Kansas Cornfield | Curiosity Stream

Leftover sadham went and came back as corn cheese balls 😉 Which leftover should we cook next?

Lemon Pepper Eggs in Just 10 Minutes – Quick, Easy, and Delicious! 🍋🥚

Leela Chess Zero is UNSPORTSMANLIKE

Leela Chess Zero Slays KomodoDragon

Is Tweeting the reason of success for Anish? | Anish Giri at the eSports World Cup 2025

Nihal Sarin "I'm hoping to win the tournament" | Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025

Gukesh arrives in Poland for his match against Duda

16-year-old Jakub Seemann becomes the latest Grandmaster of Poland

Super GM Vidit Gujrathi takes on the Positional Chess Challenge in an aeroplane

Akhil Anand, son of Vishy and Aruna Anand's beautiful exhibition - Morphogenesis

Wei Yi "Classical Chess is still the main thing for me" | Repping Weibo Gaming at eSports World Cup

Gukesh "My Dream is to be a good person" | A wholesome conversation with the world chess champion

The battle begins in Chennai! | Starting moments of Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025

Chennai Grand Masters 2025 | Round 1 | ft. Arjun Erigaisi, Anish Giri, Vidit, Nihal

Fans meet top Chess players at Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025

Chess stars assemble in Chennai 🔥 💪 #chessbaseindia #chessplayer #chennai

Only a Chess GENIUS Would See This

Fabi Finds CHECKMATE - Without a BOARD

Describing Anish Giri in one word...

WSCC 2025: Ju Wenjun vs. Anastasia Avramidou! Ro16

Find the BRILLIANT Move! #1

WSCC 2025: Kateryna Lagno vs. Aleksandra Maltsevskaya! Ro16

Samosa Dough tips #samosarecipe #Chaatrecipe #cookingtips #ranveerbrar

Why is Rabodi special? #rajasthanifood #rabodi #ranveerbrar

More House | Official Promo #buildofy #architecture #hyderabad #home #tour #telangana #reels #shorts

Best 5 Body Weight Exercises for Age 70 Plus

Advanced Balance Exercise

Sarah Paints The Last Living Passenger Pigeon!

Learn these 3 triggers to have more productive arguments | Jefferson Fisher for Big Think+

How 2 freak accidents shaped human evolution | Sean B. Carroll Segment

The Last Days Of Yuri Gagarin | Multilingual documentary

Anthony Weiner: the Rise and Collapse of a Political Star

Anne & Mary Boleyn: Loved, Slandered and Killed

What if you add up every drop of water on Earth?

Twenty killed after trucks overturn in Gaza, Hamas-run civil defence says | BBC News

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts again. #Volcano #Eruption #BBCNews

RFK Jr cancels $500m funding in mRNA vaccine developments | BBC News

More than 100 people missing after flash floods in India. #India #Asia #BBCNews

Deadly wildfire sweeps through southern France causing “unprecedented catraphophe” | BBC News

Donald Trump’s global tariffs take effect | BBC News

Trump and Putin to meet in coming days, Kremlin aide says | BBC News

What are US nuclear submarines capable of? | BBC News

Kirsty Wark on exposing Gregg Wallace on MasterChef | BBC Newscast

Grand Theft Auto icon could be missing from GTA VI. #GTA6 #Lazlow #BBCGaming #BBCNews

First migrants detained under 'one in, one out' deal with France | BBC News

Man accused of feeding women to pigs walks free. #SouthAfrica #BBCNews

'Fake nurse' arrested in the US after seeing more than 4,000 patients. #Florida #BBCNews

Israel's PM Netanyahu says Israel intends to take full control of all of Gaza | BBC News

Small dog chases bear from Vancouver home. #Pomeranian #Canada #BBCNews

Why fungi are fantastic! 🍄 | BBC Ideas #facts #science #fungi

Bison Calf vs Wolf Pack: Can the Herd Save Him in Time? | BBC Earth

No mentioning by Senior Advocates at Supreme Court from August 11

Newborn PARENTS be like

Treating pregnancy LABOUR LIKE VACATION

How a baby is with their GRANDPARENTS

Like Gladiators in The Arena || Daniel Naroditsky vs Magnus Carlsen || Titled Tuesday 2025

Surprising a World Champion Goes Wrong

Beat The London System! || Learn The Ultimate Defense (PART 2)