Digest — 2025-08-30:

I sat down with Werner Vogels

Sobre (en)lutar

choosing to walk (away from AI)

make cool stuff

Wild gardening

Defensiveness does not equal guilt

Female sexual attractiveness seems more egalitarian than people acknowledge

60 U.K. Lawmakers Accuse Google of Breaking AI Safety Pledge

A type system for RCL (2024)

The rationale for the Nickel configuration language

Rust ints to Rust enums with less instructions

Bootstrapping a Forth for Art

Condor’s Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025

gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment available exclusively in GhostBSD as a community flavor

The Web We Lost (2012)

Triangle Grids

Are We Decentralized Yet?

10-20x Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End

Linus Torvalds marks bcachefs as "externally maintained"

Why I use Debian

NetSurf on reMarkable 2

Appealing the ban of user friendlysock

Niri v25.08

Ads Are a Positional Good

What Happens During Startup?

Man declares country in unclaimed pocket of land between Serbia and Croatia

University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms

Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy

Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine

LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords

The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters

Condor's Cuzco RISC-V Core at Hot Chips 2025

You Have to Feel It

Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything

The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

AI models need a virtual machine

Hurricane category 6 could be introduced under new storm severity scale

Why did books start being divided into chapters? A new history

Cognitive load is what matters

Pentagon Docs: US Wants to "Suppress Dissenting Arguments" Using AI Propaganda

Why Romania excels in international Olympiads

Brittle systems

Food bonus post

⌨️ Customizing the new keyboard

📝 Set git identity based on project-directory

Charm, creativity, community: Art and Charlie gallery carves out a unique cultural space

Ather Energy unveils new EL platform and new features, including pothole alerts, under AtherStack 7.0

Cognizant to deploy 1,000 context engineers to industrialise agentic AI

Khosla Ventures-backed Kognitos is betting on English as code to simplify enterprise automation

Rising chargeback fraud in India's digital economy and the merchant's defence

Reliance gets an AI unit; Building India’s forensic future

Tamil Awards Now A Days😂 #vikkals #comedy

Blastoff! SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites from California, nails landing

2025 Renault Kiger Variants Explained | Authentic, Evolution, Techno, Emotion

Volvo EX30 Minimalist Interior — Will you miss the buttons in EX30?

Brands For India 2 & India 3

Building To Sell? Here’s The Problem

How To Sell Your Startup Idea

Scientists find protein that can slow brain ageing

‘Puppy’ in custody: Delhi police arrest wanted ATM robber, auto-lifter

Modi, Japanese PM Ishiba take bullet train from Tokyo to Sendai

PM Modi leaves for China, to attend SCO Summit in Tianjin

Happydent revives its Cannes-winning ‘white teeth’ ad, this time with a message for all Indians

For Indian Mercedes, Pakistan Army Chief Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

LIVE: Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Tejashwi address public meeting in Arrah | Voter Adhikar Yatra

EC should move into BJP office, says Mahua Moitra, adds ‘BJP has become a temple to the corrupt’

PM Modi arrives in Tianjin, China. He will attend the SCO Summit

Are automatic cars Boring, Expensive and Thirsty? Busting automatic myths with the Škoda Kylaq.

Centuries before the Delhi Sultans, Shaivites wiped out Jain influence in medieval Karnataka

Chinese game of Mahjong finds its way to social circles in Mumbai, Delhi

LoP Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi offers candies to protesting BJYM workers with black flags

Op Sindoor also a story of self-reliant India, innovation of our scientists & youth: Rajnath Singh

Modi’s China visit, India’s vision after Trump tariffs, conflict in Gaza: ShekharSeSawal Ep28

Delhi: MPhil-PhD इन्क्रीमेंट वापस, University Teachers से लाखों की रिकवरी?

Day 2 of Maratha Agitation at CST: Manoj Jarange Leads Mumbai Protest | Ground Report

‘The Alternative to International Law Is What We Are Seeing Today in Gaza’ | Gaza Stories

How did China get ahead of India? | Cracknomics Ep 58

'In One Indian State, Tech Companies Gain, Elders Lose in ‘Cradle to Grave’ Digital Governance'

What EC's Resistance to Transparency Means For Fair elections In India| Janne Bhi Do Yaaron

Disenfranchisement Threat in Assam 'Infiltrator' Crackdown, Modi's Degree No-Show | The Wire Wrap

A Small Theory on Insomnia

We are all different - Walter Bodmer's 1984 Christmas Lectures 1/6

The spice of life - Walter Bodmer’s 1984 Christmas Lectures 2/6

Genetic engineering - Walter Bodmer’s 1984 Christmas Lectures 3/6

Bodies and antibodies - Walter Bodmer’s 1984 Christmas Lectures 4/6

Normal cells and cancer cells - Walter Bodmer’s 1984 Christmas Lectures 5/6

When will pigs have wings? - Walter Bodmer’s 1984 Christmas Lectures 6/6

Paul Rudd went full 'Basic Instinct' 🫢

Woman Designs Her 472 Sq. Ft SoHo Apartment Around Her Dog | Dodo Digs

Welcome To Dodo Digs | Dodo Digs

I Let My Cat Choose: Box or Bed? | The Pack

Little Girl Grows Up With Two Fluffy Bodyguards | The Dodo

When Your Dog Perfectly Matches Your Decor | Dodo Digs

Pittie Who Kept Crying In The Shelter Is SO Happy Now | The Dodo

The Ideal WFH Setup For You And Your Dog | Dodo Digs

Tiny Kitten Bosses Around His Four Great Dane Siblings | The Dodo

Dog With Cancer Checks Off Every Adventure On His Bucket List | The Dodo

Tiny Hissing Stray Kitten Becomes Best Friends With A Huge Dog | The Dodo

The Real Bengal Files | Jinnah’s Direct Action Day & Lessons Unlearnt From History | Akash Banerjee

"Marketcrafters" author Chris Hughes makes the case for government as a source of economic good

National parks bring in five times more visitors than Disney World? Take that, Mickey Mouse

Can Power Lines Really Light a Bulb in Your Hand?

Lawyer Ian Bassin says authoritarians throughout history have followed these 7-steps #TEDTallks

The AI That Can Read Your Mind, with Jean Remi King

Wife of a Gambler/Bookmaker-Nicole Bowyer

Matt B

The #1 Movie To Watch When You've Lost All Hope

Should I give him a Saturday off?

This Is What Happens After A Nuclear War.

This Changes How You See the Entire Guitar Neck

David Gilmour on his guitar style #davidgilmour #pinkfloyd #guitar #shorts

பெத்த புள்ளைய சந்தேகப் படுறீங்களா | Parithabangal #shorts

மது பிரியர்கள் பாவங்கள் | Parithabangal

Swayamvara | first move ep 9

Navika-Ranveer’s Awkward Podcast | Kalli Purie’s NDTV Rant | Godmen Take Over NDTV | TV Newsance 312

"हम किसी सरकार के खिलाफ नहीं हैं हम सिस्टम के खिलाफ लड़ रहे हैं."

Online gaming ban, Trump’s 50 per cent tariff on India | Chhota Hafta 552

Vantara विवाद में Supreme Court, RSS की शताब्दी और भारत की अर्थव्यवस्था पर अमेरिकी दबाव NL Charcha

Bihar SIR loopholes, Assam 3000-bigha land row, targeting of journos | Reporters Without Orders 381

Beavers aren't just cute! Learn more at the link in the description. 🦫 #NationalGeographic

To Catch a Smuggler: Drugs Across America | Season 5 MEGA EPISODE | National Geographic

We think the TikTok turned out pretty great 😉 #LimitlessWithChrisHemsworth

😌 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood #shorts

I Built the Most Cursed Kingdom in All of Medieval Times - Noble Legacy

Can you refuse to answer without a lawyer in India?

An extraordinary relationship | Krishnamurti

The self always distorts | Krishnamurti

Ashish Vidyarthi | My National Award Story | Spoken Fest Mumbai 2025

Ashish Vidyarthi | My National Award Story | Spoken Fest Mumbai 2025

Reflecting over y=x | Transformations in the plane | Geometry (TX TEKS) | Khan Academy

Composing transformations | Transformations in the plane | Geometry (TX TEKS) | Khan Academy

Graphing a non similar pre-image algebraically

Playing an NM, FM, IM, and two GMs | Using the Clock as a Weapon #65

How to Draw A Black Cat in Watercolor

Why do cultures ululate? And is there a pattern to where people ululate?

Sitar Recital By Anupama Bhagawat Ji #sitar #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

Tabla Solo Snippet By Ishaan Ghosh #icmtabla #classical #music #shorts

He Shakha Odissi Dance By Nityanand Das & Bijay Kumar Das Video By Manas Babu #icmdance #icmtabla

Ghost Stories Episode 050 with @SureshNMenonOFFICIAL & You ?

Can Ola Electric be Helios Capital's next success?

How I Got 14% Better At Climbing

Seriously Hot and Seriously Hard! 🔥

I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin | Piano Cover + Sheet Music

Two spacecraft fly past Venus on the same day? 🛰️

Toxic chemicals found in cheap jewelry | DW Documentary

Stranded on Sri Lanka Island! | Dual Survival S4, E2, E3, E4, E5 | Discovery Channel

The Alien Sightings That Shook the World! | UFO Witness S1 E5, E6, E7, E8 | Discovery Channel

Beneath the Rock Lies Hidden Gold! | Gold Rush S7 E16, E20 | Discovery Channel

Gold Mining in Treacherous Waters! | Gold Rush White Water S1 E2 | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

🧊 Ancient Secrets Melting Away in Yellowstone #shorts #yellowstone

🏔️ Everest Isn’t Just Tall… It’s Growing! #shorts #everest

Try this easy Sharkara Varatti recipe at home this Onam, you’ll love it as much as we did 😋

We Tested the First-Ever Moon Truck

How to Draw a Three-Wheeled Truck from My Neighbour Totoro: Narrated Step by Step for Beginners

Ivanchuk Repels the English Opening, Hungarian Attack

World Champion Gukesh vs Top Polish Entreprenur Adam Mokrysz

The next superstar of Indian chess in the making | Pranav V leads Fujairah Superstars 2025

A stunning piece of calculation | Abhimanyu Mishra vs Raunak Sadhwani | Fujairah 2025

A game of full of emotions | Advik Agarwal vs Aarit Kapil | Under-11 Nationals 2025

Nihal Sarin's insane double rook endgame | 1st Fujairah Superstars

The support of Indian Railways in the lives and career of GMs and IMs

Fabi on Freestyle Chess opening discussions 🤯

Galouti Kebab है, Shami Kebab नहीं 😎 #galoutikebab #shamikabab #ranveerbrar

What I Use for Hand Arthritis Relief (Under $1)

Seated Hamstring Strengthening

18 and Sentenced to Life: A Prisoner’s Story

Patty Hearst: Kidnapped or Outlaw?

US court rules many of Trump's global tariffs are illegal | BBC News

'Get out more if my album cover upset you,' Sabrina Carpenter says. #SabrinaCarpenter #BBCNews

Russia launches 'massive' attack on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region | BBC News

'Releasing Football Manager 25 would have damaged us forever' | BBC News

Brothers set new record for 9,000-mile Pacific row. #Rowing #Scotland #BBCNews

Football Manager boss reveals why FM25 was cancelled. #FootballManager #Gaming #BBCNews

Bartering Monkeys Block Bridge Crossing | Hidden India | BBC Earth

My baby hears how his FATHER TALKS to me

The Seas Are No Longer Safe! || Kacper Piorun vs Nikolas Theodorou || Fujairah Global 2025

MY GENERATION IS THE RICHEST. #investing #longterminvestment #gold #stockmarket