Digest — 2025-08-28:

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No, theoretical physics isn’t broken; it’s just very hard

The history of natural selection, in 7 minutes

What the forest can teach us about resilience

The “Closure Machine”: How humans really see the world

How taming fire made us human

You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.

Kevin Kelly recently published a guide called “Everything I Know about Self-Publishing”....

Hear a Prehistoric Conch Shell Musical Instrument Played for the First Time...

Light pollution has lengthened birds’ days. “Their day is almost an hour...

A collection of kooky-but-rideable bikes (treadmill bike, pull-up bike, etc.)...

These contact lenses give their wearers the ability to see infrared light,...

A group of 15-20 families in South Portland, Maine have installed landlines...

Dan Wang on his forthcoming book, Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the...

Genuine human connection

Are They Starting To Take Our Jobs?

AI misbehaviour in the wild from Andon Labs' Safety Report

Von Neumann's Fallacy and You

Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns (1994)

Finding Bugs in a Coding Agent with Lightweight DST

The Basics of Anchor Positioning

Newton Data Storage

superfly: A compiler for a functional low-level language, targeting tiny computers

Optimising for maintainability - Gleam in production at Strand

Rupert’s property: cut a hole in a polyhedron big enough for an identical copy to slide through

Debian 13: My list of exciting new features

Printing labels via SSH with Raspberry Pi Zero and Nix

A flat monthly subscription to open-source LLMs

Tic-tac-toe meets Lean 4

Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

The Koka programming language

Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult

Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?

Block ads and trackers

Making Minecraft Spherical

Open Source is one person

I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS

You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome

Sometimes CPU cores are odd

My Father, Guitar Guru to the Rock Gods

The Salacious Middle Ages

Heart Attacks in Space

In the Land of the Eyeless Dragons

How to Run Across Death Valley in the Summer

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood

The ABC Programming Language

Python: The Documentary – An origin story [video]

PEZ Robo Dispenser Using Arduino

Ford and the Birth of the Model T

Bayes, Bits and Brains

Pong Clock

What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness

Every Industry Is an Overcrowded Airport Lounge Now

Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS

VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II

Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually

Speed-coding for the 6502 – a simple example

There Goes the American Muscle Car

Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents

Sometimes CPU cores are odd

RSS is awesome

Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?

AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study

Building your own CLI coding agent with Pydantic-AI

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)

My startup banking story (2023)

Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos

Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

Python: The Documentary

The National Design Studio is a scam

CDC officials’ resignation emails

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

Books that stayed - N°1

The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees

Understanding the Harm Teens Experience on Social Media

The Ancient Woodland Practice Boosting British Biodiversity

Introducing “Philosophy for Designers”

For people who don’t care that much

Afghan Refugees Return Home to a Dead-End Future

The World Cannot Afford to Forget the Human Cost of Nuclear Weapons

Who’s Coming to China’s 2025 Victory Day Military Parade?

Tajikistan Signs Onto Central Asian Friendship Treaty

China in MENA’s Strategic Security Calculus

Thai Authorities Release Woman Serving 43-Year Sentence For Royal Defamation

Another Thai Soldier Injured By Landmine Along Cambodian Border, Army Says

The Myanmar Military’s Airstrikes in Karenni State Demand An Urgent Response

The Gift of Sight: Seva Foundation’s Vision for Global Health

Would a Sino-Indian Détente Work?

Roads and High-Rises Have Made Himalayan Towns Prone to Disaster

Returnees Face Worsening Shortages in Afghanistan

Xi Jinping in Tibet: Decoding Internal Policy and External Signaling

South Korea Can’t Afford Another Climate Show

How India Helped Scuttle the Global Plastics Treaty

Pakistan’s Education Crisis

Asia Centre’s AI Hub: Advancing Democracy and Human Rights

The Blind Spots of Trump 2.0’s Indo-Pacific Strategy

Underground Mining Starts at Kyrgyzstan’s Infamous Kumtor Gold Mine

📚 Books through the ages

Startup news and updates: Daily roundup (August 28, 2025)

Pixxel, Dhruva Space launch satellites onboard SpaceX's rocket

Many success stories will come out of Bihar, says Minister Nitish Mishra, eyeing global recognition for startups

IN-SPACe transfers five ISRO technologies to Indian firms to boost indigenisation

"Companies look for builders, not developers": Quickhyre AI's Dhanraj G on AI reshaping hiring

TransBnk raises $25M from Bessemer, 8i, Accion and others

Science meets law: How Dr. GK Goswami is building India’s forensic future

HCLTech, Pearson India and MeitY Startup Hub team up to promote entrepreneurship among youth

Building With GenAI? Here’s Why Regulated Data Needs a New Playbook

FanCode to wind down ecommerce vertical, to focus on core content segment

GST reform to offset growth drag from 50% reciprocal tariff: BMI

Dealing with rare earth magnets supply shortage on daily basis, volumes hit: TVS

Enabling India’s GCC momentum with future-ready workspaces

Flipkart expands supply chain network ahead of festive season

Beatoven.ai launches fully licensed generative AI music model

Prosperr.io: Simplifying Finance for Young Professionals and Businesses

PayGlocal helps Indian merchants scale globally with an India-focused cross-border payment solution

Festive season fuels white collar hiring; Solving Goa’s taxi woes

From designers to influencers: India’s festive rush fuels scramble for white-collar gig talent

AI won’t make coding obsolete. It will make it universal.

Wildfires are now year-round. Here’s what you need to do to protect yourself and your home. #shorts

Girl Friends Before & After Hair Cut 💇🏼‍♀️😐| #vikkals #shorts

Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on rocket's record-breaking 30th flight

Whoa! See SpaceX Starship lift off from beneath in launch mount view

Watch Starship's Indian Ocean splashdown in epic SpaceX Flight 10 video

How aerogel can make the ocean drinkable

Tata Punch vs Hyundai Exter Sub Rs. 10 Lakh Battle | Which Car Is More Value For Money?

3D Software Rendering in 2025

Between The Seasons: Stories From A South African Childhood - What Now? with Trevor Noah Podcast

China’s Lithium Monopoly

AI Startups Are Today’s Gold Rush

Selling a Startup: Myth vs Reality

Merit, diversity important while deciding SC appointment, not just seniority: Justice Oka

Himachal Pradesh's Chamba sees devastation after flash flood, debris enters homes

'National Herald looks like an open and shut case, 2G case was finished, coal scam came to an end'

Drone visuals of the damages in Jammu due to floods as a result of heavy rainfall

How IAS Officer Inderjit Singh brought down Lucknow’s garbage mountains & led city’s clean makeover

Arvind Kejriwal attacks Congress, calls it ‘most compromised party’

Indian Army shares video of a rescue in Gurdaspur, Punjab, amid flash floods

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on whether there are any differences between RSS and BJP

'Humare yahan mat bhed ho sakta hai par mann bhed nahi hai,' says RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat says the Sangh had protested against partition

LIVE: Mohan Bhagwat holds press conference at '100 Years of Sangh Journey - New Horizons'

Mohan Bhagwat on why doesn't RSS support other political parties besides the BJP

'If I am accusing the Prime Minister of being a 'vote chor', why is he quiet about it?

'No Hindu can believe that Islam will ever cease to exist in India,' says RSS

Faith & nationalism, Muslims & who’s Hindu: Mohan Bhagwat presents RSS 2.0 at 100, buries 75-yr row

India has nothing to gain by escalating tariff conflict with US: Member, PM Economic Council

50% US Tariff Hits Hard: India’s Carpet & Shoe Industries in Crisis | Trump vs Modi | Bunkars

Lest We Forget: A National People’s Conclave on 5 Years of Pandemic

SC Allows Govt To Monitor Social Media, PM Modi Escapes RTI Clutch On BA Degree | Baat Bharat Ki

Is Trump Waging a War Against Indian Farmers ?

Gaza Deserves Our Solidarity, Not Hate: VK Tripathi

Ri Science Podcast: Is data failing us? - with Grace Huckins

Austin Butler Will Always Be Elvis | Extended Interview | The Graham Norton Show

Guy Finds An Injured Baby Bird And Briefly Becomes His Dad | The Dodo

My Cats Became Pet Parents! | The Pack

This Dog's Cat Sister Had Kittens - And He's OBSESSED | The Dodo

Tiny Feral Kitten Won't Leave Her Emotional Support Chickens | The Dodo

World's Smallest Cats Reunites With Mom | The Dodo

Bird Couple Keeps Visiting Guy's Balcony For The Sweetest Reason | The Dodo

Dog Goes Bananas When Julie Andrews Comes To Visit | The Dodo

Limping Stray Pittie Finally Gives In And Lets Himself Be Rescued | The Dodo

Understanding Society’s Greed To Escape The Bakasura Trap #devduttpattanaik #akashbanerjee #hinduism

Colonialism in 2025 was not on our bingo board #DailyShow #JordanKlepper #Trump

Eleven years ago today, Barack Obama wore a tan suit, the biggest scandal in presidential history

Why are there so many different kinds of dogs? - Kathleen Morrill Pirovich

A Practical Guide to Taking Control of Your Life | Cate Hall | TED

Is It A Comet or Alien Technology?

Newton’s "God of the Gaps" Fallacy

👽Alien Search The Ocean Analogy You NEED to Hear!

Healing From Childhood Trauma-Seth (update)

Kelly

Asking my husband to finish my sentence…he didn’t disappoint 😂 | #shorts #comedy

The Sahara Used To Be Green.

I tried Vibe Physics. This is what I learned.

10x Tourist

Success IS NOT What you Think it Will Be

✨Peace turned into 2M plays, 2 million emotions.✨ #OhGodBeautiful’s first single #VenumMachaPeace

அட்டூழியத்தை பாத்திங்களா எல்லாம் நேரம்😒 | Parithabangal #shorts

Justice for Ved

what's your name?

Why honesty in writing is trust, and why sexuality is political in India

Playful Design on a Budget in Small Barcelona Apartment, 52sqm/559sqft

DNA testing reveals the truth, for better and for worse. #NamingTheDead

Wild Places & Culinary Gems of Canada’s East Coast | National Geographic

Worst Case Scenario (Full Episode) | Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time | National Geographic

Lost in the Jungle | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films

Is it possible for a flamboyance of flamingos to be even more flamboyant? 🤔 #NationalGeographic

Kapustin Yar: Russia's Area 51

Mohana | Featuring Harini Darbha & Mruduravali Darbha

Jutt James Bond 😂 | Funny Babies | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

No TIT why TAT? 😌 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood #shorts

Would You Upload Your Mind?

Fragments can’t make a whole | Krishnamurti

Four cities. One season.A homecoming built by Spoken, held by you.

Dividing line segments on number line | Coordinate geometry | Geometry (TX TEKS) | Khan Academy

Triangle altitude equation | Coordinate geometry | Geometry (TX TEKS) | Khan Academy

“I’ll just need to cover the mortgage, right?” Not quite. In Part 2, we will break it down.

If you’re dreaming about your first place, our free Financial Literacy course has you covered.

Khan Academy for Parents Overview

Khan Academy for Parents - What is Khanmigo?

How to Create a New Parent Account on Khan Academy

Navigating the Parent Dashboard

What to Do When Your Child is Stuck

In or out?😅 #jordindian

Don’t Go To Vaishno Devi, High Alert Issued | Jist

Ladki hokar ye sab kaam kyun karna hai.." SSC protester shares parents’ taunts.

Teacher at SSC Protest: Why We Crossed the Limit?

The “Everyday Camera” Myth.

@bustersworld4 this is too funny! 😂 #buster #funny #dogs #reaction #funnydogs

Classical Gayan By Amaan Mohd #icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Tabla Solo By Little Artist Mansirat Kaur #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Bharatanatyam Dance By Sarayu Vittal #icmdance #bharatnatyam #classical #dance #shorts

JSW Steel vs Tata Steel - Who's better?

Real-World Java • Victor Grazi, Jeanne Boyarsky & Barry Burd • GOTO 2025

What They Don’t Tell You About High Carb Fuelling

A tropical paradise turned nuclear graveyard | DW Documentary

TikTok, China and the fear of digital propaganda | DW Documentary

Scientists Develop Gel for 2x Faster Healing

33 years after the Earth Summit in Rio, Brazil | Carbon Politics E04

Chasing the UFO in Orbit! | NASA’s Unexplained Files S1 E3 | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

McKinley Creek: Gold or Grave! | Gold Rush: White Water S1 E1 | Discovery Channel

Storm Rising Over the Rocky Mountains! | Gold Rush S7 E14, E15, E16, E17 | Discovery Channel

Snails Hunting Fish! | #DeepLook #Shorts

🔥 Yellowstone’s Melting Ice is Revealing Ancient Secrets #shorts #yellowstone #secrets

Breakfast kadai takeover with Cookd Tiffin Sambar masala! 🤩🙌

CPU Summary - Computerphile

Wesley So is the 2025 Sinquefield Cup Champion!!

The intense Blitz Game between Praggnanandhaa vs Caruana | Sinquefield Cup 2025 Playoffs

When you go all out to attack Ivanchuk's King

Converting Tiny Edges into victory | CM Aarit Kapil vs Aaryan Mehta | U-11 Nationals 2025

Roman Shogdzhiev vs Faustino Oro | The clash from the future | 1st Fujairah Global Masters

This is what absolute top class blitz is all about | So vs Praggnanandhaa | Sinquefield Cup 2025

The aura of Vasyl🙌 #shorts

IM Himal Gusain finishes ahead of 13 GMs to win 37th All india Inter Railway Individual Championship

56-year-old Vasyl Ivanchuk crushes his opponent in 36 moves | 1st Fujairah Global Superstars

"Oh My God" | Gukesh exclaims after his game against Levon Aronian | Sinquefield Cup 2025

Sinquefield Cup 2025 Round 9 | Praggnanandhaa vs Aronian, Gukesh vs Caruana

Magnus Reacts to the GOAT

Lei Tingjie Doesn't CARE about the Prize 🥶

#1 to #5 in the WORLD!

New Best Opening Just Dropped!

Perfect Medu Vada batter tips #cookingtips #meduvada #ulundhuvadai #ranveerbrar

Dhakkan का भी logic hai! #cookingtips #ranveerbrar

Shoulder Pain? Diagnose & Treat It Yourself!

Kneeling Midback Stretch

The history of natural selection, in 7 minutes | Paul Nurse

Hunted Online: the War Against Women

Nepal: Teetering on the Devil’s Path | Deadliest Journeys

Wait until you hear Earth's LOUDEST animal

Kim Jong Un to join Putin and other leaders at China military parade | BBC News

Three children among 14 dead in Russian attack on Ukrainian capital Kyiv | BBC News

F1's Lando Norris said gaming is a break from a stressful life. #Formula1 #BBCNews

Politicians brawl in Mexican Senate after tense debate. #Mexico #Senate #BBCNews

FBI investigates Minneapolis school shooting as anti-Catholic hate crime | BBC News

Woman says Chinese student predator raped her hours before second attack | BBC News

Famine in Gaza 'manmade crisis' says statement by all UN Security Council members but US | BBC News

Sister of Nepalese man taken hostage in Gaza speaks out publicly for first time | BBC News

Will Russia's latest attacks derail western peace efforts in Ukraine? | BBC Ukrainecast

Spain and Portugal wildfires drive worst EU season on record | BBC News

Hoarding: How it impacted my life | BBC Ideas

The Himalayan Predator That Eats Bones to Survive | Hidden India | BBC Earth

Justice BV Nagarathna's dissent on Justice Pancholi elevation should be made public: Justice Oka

SC orders probe after NCLAT member alleges judge from higher judiciary attempted to influence him

Justice AS Oka and Senior Advocate Muralidhar on Live Tweeting

Newborn father tries mothers PUMP

PREGNANCY PRECAUTIONS with boyfriend

First Time ALONE with our baby! | Aileen and Deven Vlogs

The UNDISPUTED Lord of Chaos || Wesley So vs Praggnanandhaa || Sinquefield Cup 2025

Learn To Fight Like Bobby Fischer

Simulating Phase Change | Guest video by Vilas Winstein

Her Tiny Home is a Showstopper! 😍 #tinyhouse #tinyhousetour

I was HOT 😡