Digest — 2025-09-05:

Society needs hope

Blogs are weird and I do not understand them

september 5 etc

I upgraded to Bear Blog lifetime today

Ask Ethan: Could “positive geometry” unlock the theory of everything?

Richard Reeves: Why working-class men are facing the sharpest decline

Protecting Your Team in a Toxic Organizational Culture

Does Bitcoin Belong on Your Balance Sheet?

Make Sure Your AI Strategy Actually Creates Value

Hiring Top AI Talent When You’re Not a Tech Giant

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children. “Florida is the first state...

The dialog modal ::backdrop, CSS variables, and Safari

How to make better AI art with current models

ICFP contest 2025

If I hear "design pattern" one more time, I'll go mad

X Design Notes: Unifying OCaml Modules and Values

Radicle 1.4.0 – Lily

Natural transformations as a basis of control

What are you doing this weekend?

Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

Dealing with cancel safety in async Rust

Type Checking is a Symptom, Not a Solution

Capitalization of Initialisms (2009)

stelvio: AWS for Python devs - made simple

Basecamp Campfire is now open source

Use singular nouns for database table names

SQL needed structure

NixOS is the endgame of distrohopping

Your mouse-free setups

Wolves in the Repository: A Software Engineering Analysis of the XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack

Ocean of Influence: Inside the Celebrity Boat Trip That Was All Over Your Feeds

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

These Early Humans Walked 8 Miles for the Perfect Rock

Here’s Why Binge-Watching Is Good for You

Cities Obey the Laws of Living Things

Our Dark, Unvaccinated Future

David Walker's Paper Clip Collection

Seedship – Text-Based Game

Learning the soroban as an adult (2022)

Dark Academia Grows Up

The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"

Jeena's Hyprland Demo

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

Contracts for C

Speed Brain: Helping web pages load faster (2024)

Truco and clones: the beginnings of Argentinian computer gaming

Esoteric Languages Challenge Coders to Think Way Outside the Box

What to do with an old iPad

The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire

Fantastic pretraining optimizers and where to find them

European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices

Quantum Mechanics, Concise Book

Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves

Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr

I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring – UX Design Engineer

Show HN: Open-sourcing our text-to-CAD app

Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?

I ditched Docker for Podman

MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS

My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4

Making a font of my handwriting

Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from 10/25/2025

The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

Coalition for Metabolic Health Launches with $50M

Forking Chrome to render in a terminal (2023)

Evolving the OCaml Programming Language (2025) [pdf]

Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector

Analog vs. Digital: The Race Is On To Simulate Our Quantum Universe

No One Has Time to Work on Your Project

The Process

The Spark: How Disaster Prep Can Bring Your Community Together

Self awareness and the luck-skill gap

Connecting Concepts of Dignity With Transnational Criminal Justice

Philippine Business Groups Call For Action on ‘Excessive’ Corruption

Closing the Loop on Transition Finance in Asia-Pacific

China’s Parade of Power

Thailand’s Parliament Elects Anutin Charnvirakul as Next Prime Minister

Mongolia Exits SCO Observer Status, Draws Closer to China and Russia

India-US Relations in the Shadow of American Decline

No, China’s Isn’t Leading an Anti-West Bloc

India’s Silent Drone Revolution

China’s Post-2018 Economic Statecraft: Sanctions, Countersanctions, and Export Controls

China-India: Transactional Thaw or Structured Détente?

President Lai Ching-te’s Catch-22

India, Japan Bolster Cooperation Amid China-US Rivalry

The Triumvirate’s Triple Win: What Xi, Putin, and Kim Each Gained in Beijing

Evergrande’s Delisting Exposes China’s Slow Bankruptcy Trap

Canadian Barrick Gold’s Gamble in Balochistan Meets a Violent Insurgency

China-Mongolia-Russia Agreement on Power of Siberia 2 Could Reroute Energy Trade

What Actually Mattered at China’s Big Military Parade?

[notes] Software, change, stability, imperfect markets…

[Exclusive] CRED takes on Jar with digital gold rewards and savings feature

Startup news and updates: daily roundup (September 5, 2025)

Law to regulate online gaming brought without heeding to any pressure: PM Modi

Girish Mathrubootham to exit Freshworks by December

Next gen GST reforms will set economy open and transparent: Sitharaman

Deeptech founders show optimism on funding, but talent and infra remain hurdles: Report

[Weekly funding roundup Aug 29-Sept 5] VC inflow shows a modest increase

Promote swadeshi products; every shop, house must have 'har ghar swadeshi' board: Modi

How Speedata Is Powering Next-Gen AI and Big Data With APU Chips

Veranda Learning to divest vocational training division after commerce arm

Uttar Pradesh Fast-Tracks Land Reforms to Power $1 Trillion Push

L Catterton’s India-focused consumer fund raises $200M in first close

India wants its AI talent back home. But they won't return easily, caution experts

Why aggregation models are the future of flexible workspace distribution

Drones gain altitude under new GST reform

OYO posts Rs 200 Cr Q1 net profit as revenue jumps 47% YoY, occupancy improves

Motilal Oswal turns bullish on Swiggy, Eternal amid GST tailwinds

GST cuts and healthcare; Bridging language gaps with AI

GalaxEye wants to make Earth observation as reliable as GPS

Utho Cloud bets on sovereignty, cost savings to win India’s cloud market

From soaps to refrigerators, GST cuts promise to supercharge India’s consumption story

Building with no code: How Acies Consulting is redefining enterprise tech

AI in investment management: The game-changer for navigating India’s real estate sector

Storytelling with Stephen Wolfram: Stories From My Life

Definition of TOXIC Culture!

Onam Effects On Girls🥲😂😂 #vikkals #onam

Blastoff! SpaceX launches Starlink batch from Florida, nails landing on droneship

Tail of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS seen in time-lapse

Citroen Basalt X Launched — Gets All New Interior!

Here’s a bigger alternate to Nexon, XUV 3XO & other B2 SUVs — Would you pick it? #V3Cars #BasaltX

5 September 2025

Maruti Victoris Variants Explained w/ Expected Prices | Lxi, Vxi, Zxi, Zxi(O), Zxi+, Zxi+(O)

Don't Show This to Rust Programmers

How to invest in Real estate? |ft. @rk.ravikewalramani Indian Business Podcast

Mumbai’s Next Real Estate Jackpot

Chinese memes, videos & commentaries say 'Modi overshadowed other leaders at SCO'

India makes big gain in lowering infant mortality- Why it's significant I #InstantAnalysis

The desperate hunt for organ donors in India- Families fight red tape, distrust, ignorance

‘Europe's global ascendancy was a dark period in history’: Jaishankar at SAMHiTA conference

'Inaccurate & misleading'- India rejects Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro' comment over Russian oil

LIVE: Ministry of External Affairs Weekly Media Press Briefing

‘Committed to securing welfare of all Indians abroad’: MEA on anti-immigrant protests in Australia

Everyone wants a used BluSmart EV- it’s Delhi’s biggest fire sale

External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar meets Bhutan's PM Tshering Tobgay in Delhi

'Modi will be PM till 2034, followed by Amit Shah', says BJP MP Manoj Tiwari

'India's biggest challenge is the border dispute with China', says CDS General Anil Chauhan

What China's display of military might at Victory Day parade signal, & Xi's message to Trump

Weakened Dollar, Trump factor & geopolitics: Why countries are stocking gold, dumping US treasuries

‘Trump disappointed that India continues to import Russian oil’, says White House advisor

China shakes up Trump: massive parade with Putin, Kim, 26 world leaders & a NATO member by Xi's side

The Maharashtra Government’s Resolution Won’t By Itself do Much for Marathas by way of Reservations

Trump’s Vindictive, Clearly Has It in for India; We’re More Vulnerable Than We’ve Been for Some Time

Is Modi Finally Visiting Manipur? | The Wire Live

“Amjad Shawa: Gaza’s Deliberate Famine and the Fight to Survive” | Gaza Stories

Congress Alleges ‘Vote Theft’ in Uttarakhand Bypoll

Severe Water Scarcity in Gaza: Gaza Stories

Trump ने कैसे मोदी को GST बदलाव के लिये मजबूर किया, समझिये अंदर की बात | Arfa Khanum

Israel is using Aid as Weapon | Gaza Stories

Dire Times for Indian Diplomacy, Delhi HC Denies Anti-CAA Protestors' Bail | The Wire Wrap

S20 E17 - The Graham Norton Show | Full Episode | Keanu Reeves, Jamie Dornan, Whoopi Goldberg

How stablecoins are disrupting global finance

Skateboarder Rescues Three Abandoned Kittens On The Roadside | The Dodo

My Favorite Items For An Adoption Goodie Bag | The Pack

French Bulldog Found In A Crate In A Parking Lot Heals From The Inside Out | The Dodo

Cat Who Miraculously Cheated Death Twice Needs A Family | The Dodo

Guy Spots A Dog Stuck On Roof And Goes Into Action | The Dodo

Tiny Kitten On The Highway Gets Spotted By The Exact Right People | The Dodo

Family Brings Home A Puppy And A Baby At The Same Time | The Dodo

Tiny Ball Python Just Wants To Snuggle With His Mom | The Dodo

What Actually Mattered at China’s Big Military Parade?

"How to Survive the Broligarchy" writer Carole Cadwalladr on AI's intellectual property free-for-all

What is actor Christopher McDonald's biggest theater pet peeve? Phones going off during the show

Commander-In-Beef: Trump Faces Off Against the Media, Zelenskyy, Harvard & More | The Daily Show

A Traditional Job Isn’t the Only Path to Success | Anuj Tanna | TED

A little trust in strangers could be your shortcut to stronger connections #TEDTalks

How Will New Tech Shape Your Life? A Roboticist + a Political Strategist Answer | TED Intersections

Choosing The Street Life Over My Kids-Nikki

Katrina

Jodhaa Akbar - Unreleased Song - A.R.Rahman | Ashutosh Gowariker | Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai

How Does Lava Make Perfect Hexagons?

After CDC Director Is Ousted, More Senior Officials Resign

NOW It's Personal: The UMG Drama Continues

What is a Turing Machine? #computerscience #science

Basics of Quantum Error Correction I: Correcting Errors with the Shor code: John Watrous | GQSS 2025

How The Economic Machine Works Part 3

என்னத்த சொல்ல எல்லாம் நடிப்பு! | Parithabangal #shorts

Origami Batarang Easy Tutorial – Design by Jeremy Shafer | How to Make Origami Batman From Paper

EASY ORIGAMI BATARANG TUTORIAL | HOW TO MAKE BATMAN ORIGAMI DC STEP BY STEP | BATMAN PAPER ART CRAFT

प्रधानमंत्री को बधाई देने में 8 करोड़ 81 लाख रुपये उड़ा दिए गए. #nltippani

Central Cottage Industries Emporium : कारीगरों और कर्मचारियों पर संकट | Ground Report

पेट्रोल में #Ethanol मिलाने से गाड़ियां होंगी फ्यूल-फ्रेंडली या इंजन की सेहत बिगड़ेगी?

On Reflections of a Home Left Behind

The Thursday Murder Club, Azul, chat with Dhadak 2 director | Awful and Awesome Ep 393

"बच्चों से बात करके मुझे एहसास हुआ कि हिंदुस्तान अभी ज़िंदा है."

Scandinavian-Japanese Inspired Compact Paris Apartment #nevertoosmall #shorts

How did anyone survive the eruption of Mount Vesuvius? 🌋 #Pompeii #NationalGeographic

Investigating America's Bloodiest Battle (Full Episode) | Buried Secrets of WWII | Nat Geo

Exploring Canada's Eastern Seaboard: Matrilineal Legacies | National Geographic

David Blaine Teaches Chris Hemsworth a Lesson in Pain Management | National Geographic

Chris Hemsworth learns pain management from David Blaine, a lesson he (and we) won't forget! 😬

Hurricane Katrina survivors' dangerous walk to safety #RaceAgainstTime #HurricaneKatrina

Vintage NASA: Voyager’s 1990 ‘Family Portrait’ News Conference

Revealing Voyager's "Pale Blue Dot" and "Solar System Family Portrait" (1990) | #space #history

Draining The Oceans Is HARD

Namaste, Salaam & Sarcasm with INDIAN POLITICIAN 🤣 | Moin Akhtar | Anwar Maqsood | Loose Talk

Special Talent hai! 🤫 #comedy #loosetalk #moinakhtar #anwarmaqsood #shorts

Stunning Spacious Single-Level Tiny Home is the Perfect Sanctuary

Why calling your spouse a “Narcissist” won’t help

Why business needs a little naivety

A mind free to look | Krishnamurti

What is chastity? | Krishnamurti

The Krishnamurti Podcast - Ep. 276 - Krishnamurti on Stillness

Here’s what Shabd sounds like behind the scenes. 🎙️

Area of regular polygon given radius | Geometry (TX TEKS) | Khan Academy

Composite area related to circles

Area between sector and triangle

🎈🔥 How do hot air balloons float? It’s not magic—it’s thermodynamics!

Inside Delhi Flood Crisis ft. Mukul | Jist

'Teachers also learn from their students' Manoj Jha's take on Student - Teacher relationship

Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar ‘pressured’ IPS officer to stop action against illegal excavation.

'The opposition was small during Nehru's time, but he sat and listened to every single one of them.'

Patna Waalon Ne Khol Di Bihar Ke Politics Ki Poll ft. Ankit | Bihar Elections | Jist

Do YOU have pet insurance? Tell me about it in the comments! #pets #petinsurance #cathealth #cats

Soulful Classical Gayan By Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan Part 2 #icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music

Tabla Solo Snippet By Ojas Adhiya

Mohe Panghat Pe By Shubhra Agnihotri & Sangita Agnihotri #icmvocal #icmtabla #classical #music

Is The Universe Actually Two-Dimensional?

3 All Time High breakout stocks after long consolidation

Does India have the Highest Income Tax?

Effective Code Reviews with Conventional Comments • Paul Slaughter & Adrienne Braganza

Have You Ever Quit When It Matters Most? Why I've Lost My Motivation.

👀 What A Legendary BIKE! 🚲

Why the current moment is bigger than the invention of electricity | Peter Leyden

Somewhere Only We Know - Keane | Piano Cover + Sheet Music

One of Germany's biggest environmental scandals | DW Documentary

Albania's mysterious North | DW Documentary

Anumita Roychowdhury about the excitement of 1992 #climatechange #negotiation #rio #earth #summit

Surviving in Jungle | Dual Survival S4 E6 | Discovery Channel

Into the Wild for Alaskan Gold! | Gold Rush S1 E6 | Full Episode | Discovery Channel

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

பெண் போலீஸ்க்கு கஷ்டமான யார்டா போறாது | வடிவேலு குஷ்பூ Movie

Bageshwari | Meeta Pandit | Music of India

Outnumbered 5 to 1: Henry V Inspires His Men #shorts #speech

Young Henry V Faces His First Test as King #shorts #HenryV #king #shorts

Giant King Crabs Take Over the Ocean | Real-Life Alien Invasion

The U-455 Wreck: A Gruesome Mystery Beneath the Sea #shorts #U455 #uboat

The Deadly Fate of Germany’s Mediterranean U-Boats #shorts

Be part of the next-gen masala brand! 🤩Into retail sales? Apply now! WhatsApp "Job” to 9884344221

How Generative AI Video Works - Computerphile

This New Device Might Save Your Life

Turkish Prodigy Erdogmus Battles World Champion Gukesh

When the World Champion puts his trust in Caro Kann | Bacrot vs Gukesh | Grand Swiss 2025

Fearless Divya Deshmukh vs Super Tricky Abhimanyu Puranik | Grand Swiss 2025

Praggnanandhaa's incredible defensive skills | Pragg vs Jeffrey Xiong | FIDE Grand Swiss 2025

Free premium membership to the ultimate chess video portal | ChessMood

FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 | Round 2 | Gukesh, Vidit, Pragg, Arjun, Nihal, Divya, Anish

Interstellar deleted scene feat Anish Giri #shorts

When Vaishali beat Dutch no.1 Eline Roebers in just 22 moves | FIDE Grand Swiss 2025

Praggnanandhaa gets black pieces for game one | FIDE Grand Swiss Opening Ceremony

14-year-old Yagiz STRESSES Magnus Carlsen OUT 😭

AI or REAL? Hikaru and Gotham Guess!

Duck Chess Championship 2025: Will The Players Swim Along Or Quack? ft. Rosen, Minh To, Rahimpour

Can Hikaru And GothamChess BEAT Our AI or REAL?!

Best Mixed Veg Curry | ऐसे बनाएँ मिक्स वेज करी | Unique Drumstick recipe | Chef Ranveer Brar

Kitchen lessons are Life Lessons 😎 Happy #TeachersDay to all 😊

The Back Brace That Does More Than Support

Richard Reeves: Why working-class men are facing the sharpest decline | Full Interview

Could asteroid mining lower competition? | Brian Cox

A Wealthy Woman Vanishes... the Only Clue, a Mysterious Ransom Note

Mohammed bin Salman, Prince of The Saudis

Kremlin tells BBC foreign troops in Ukraine would be a 'danger' | BBC News

Three Brits killed in Lisbon funicular crash, say Portuguese police | BBC News

Travis Kelce talks about engagement to Taylor Swift. #TravisKelce #TaylorSwift #BBCNews

Thailand names third prime minister in two years | BBC News

The Duchess of Kent dies aged 92 | BBC News

Can Trump send National Guard troops to Chicago? | BBC News

US Senator claims eating radioactive shrimp will make you look like 'alien from Alien'. #BBCNews

Leading AI boss warns about risks of the technology | BBC News

UK safe and Ukraine war "a disaster for Russia" says outgoing military chief | BBC News

Reform UK must be ready for 'early' election, Nigel Farage says at party conference | BBC News

Does China want Russia to win the war in Ukraine? | BBC Ukrainecast

Angela Rayner resigns sparking major UK government reshuffle | BBC Newscast

Donald Trump rebrands Department of Defense as Department of War | BBC News

Chicago braced for National Guard as Donald Trump vows crime crackdown | BBC News

🔴 LIVE: A Journey Through Japan | BBC Earth

Guardians: Saving Earth's Most Endangered Animals - FULL DOC | BBC Earth

CONTACT (backyard radio telescope part II)

When AUNTIE visits our baby

when your baby loves MOVEMENT

Clash of the Prodigies || Gukesh vs Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş || FIDE Grand Swiss 2025

Get Ready For NiTal Sarin

The Wonderment Tour 2025 | North America | A R Rahman

Is your steak really dead?

Why Are Kittens Born So Helpless? | #DeepLook #Shorts #kittens